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Portrait of Padmasree Warrior, chief technology officer of Cisco at Cisco in San Jose, Calif. on Feb. 26, 2009. (Josie Lepe/Mercury News)
Portrait of Padmasree Warrior, chief technology officer of Cisco at Cisco in San Jose, Calif. on Feb. 26, 2009. (Josie Lepe/Mercury News)
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Here s what s on the Thursday menu.

ICYMI: Bloomberg reported that external candidates for Twitter CEO include former Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior and CBS Interactive s Jim Lanzone. The company s board is meeting today. Also, Twitter has restructured the product team.

Beyond Moore s Law: Intel invests $50 million in quantum-computing partnership with a Dutch university.

More from the Apple Watch watch: China is buying about one-fifth of the world s Apple Watches, according to one research firm s calculations.

After Google s announcement this week that it will penalize sites with unwieldy please install our apps messages as not mobile-friendly, some competitors say the company is trying to discourage the use of mobile apps. (New York Times, paywall)

Google is expected to unveil its newest Nexus phones at an event Sept. 29, according to CNet.

HP seeking to sell cyber security unit TippingPoint, Reuters reports.

ICYMI: Avid Life Media, the parent company of Ashley Madison, also secretly ran an escort website, according to a Daily Dot report.

It must be logo week, because Verizon unveiled a new checkmark logo Wednesday. (And of course T-Mobile CEO and provocateur John Legere had something to say about it.)

And in case you re keeping track, Google s August self-driving report said one of its cars got in an accident in Mountain View on the 20th.

 

Photo: Padmasree Warrior, then-chief technology officer of Cisco, at the company s headquarters in San Jose on Feb. 26, 2009. Bloomberg is reporting she may be a candidate for the Twitter CEO job. (Josie Lepe/Mercury News)