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Apple:
iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales Top Five Million  —  Apple® today announced it has sold over five million of its new iPhone® 5, just three days after its launch on September 21, and more than 100 million iOS devices have been updated with iOS 6, the world's most advanced mobile operating system. iPhone 5 …
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Riot breaks out at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant, reportedly over guards beating up a worker  —  News just came in that workers at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant have started a riot in the wee hours in China, and that police forces are on site to control the crowd.  While the motive isn't clear …
New York Times:
Foxconn Factory in Taiyuan, China, Is Closed After Worker Riot  —  Foxconn Technology, a major supplier to some of the world's electronics giants, including Apple, said on Monday that it had closed one of its large Chinese plants early Monday after police were called in to break up a fight among factory employees.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Source: Apple Aggressively Recruiting Ex-Google Maps Staff To Build Out iOS Maps  —  Apple is going after people with experience working on Google Maps to develop its own product, according to a source with connections on both teams.  Using recruiters, Apple is pursuing a strategy …
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Apple Maps: Damned If You Do, Googled If You Don't
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
What Will Marissa Do?:  Mayer to Reveal Strategy to Troops This Week  —  On Friday, I began a series about the various and sundry things new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was up to at the Silicon Valley Internet giant.  —  First up was a look at how she is zeroing in on improving its troubled search efforts …
CNN:
Facebook raises fears with ad tracking  —  By Emily Steel in New York and April Dembosky in San Francisco  —  (Financial Times) — Facebook is working with a controversial data company called Datalogix that can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those products in stores.
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
New Zealand Prime Minister orders enquiry into “unlawful” spying of Kim Dotcom  —  The Kim Dotcom saga continues to unfold in New Zealand after the country's prime minister ordered a full enquiry into claims that the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) unlawfully spied on the Megaupload founder.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Facebook Mobile Payments Via Carrier Billing (And Bango) Now Live In U.S., UK And Germany  —  Another step ahead for Facebook's strategy to make more money out of its mobile business: the company is now accepting mobile payments for its mobile web service via carrier billing in the U.S. …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Intel Confirms Medfield x86 Chips Don't Support LTE Yet — But Says It Won't Be Long Coming  —  Intel's second bite at the smartphone market has been more akin to a gentle nibbling around the edges.  At the end of last year the chipmaker teased a smartphone reference design running its Medfield x86 Atom SoC.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Frustrated with poor mobile sales, publishers blame ad agencies  —  Publishers are seeing mobile audiences growing fast - but revenue is yet to catch up, and it's the ad industry taking the blame.  —  Mobile makes up a fifth of reader traffic for 87 percent of publishers …
Steven Johnson / New York Times:
The Internet?  We Built That  —  Who created the Internet and why should we care?  These questions, so often raised during the Bush-Gore election in 2000, have found their way back into the political debate this season — starting with one of the most cited texts of the preconvention campaign …
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Samsung begins Galaxy S III Android Jelly Bean rollout, starting in Poland  —  Having teased its release over the past few weeks, Samsung has begun rolling out official Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) updates via its KIES software and over-the-air, with Polish device owners becoming the first users …

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