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September 16, 2013, 7:25 PM

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter iOS Redesign Focuses on Streams, Media, TV and Photos  —  Twitter has lots of users.  It wants a lot more.  —  That is, in part, why it is planning a massive overhaul of its mobile apps, designed to make the service more appealing to mainstream users.
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Google Acquires Bump for at Least $30M  —  Google has acquired the mobile startup Bump.  A source close to the transaction said it was worth at least $30 million, and perhaps as much as $60 million.  —  Bump had raised about $20 million from backers including Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz …
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors  —  And Microsoft's days of major Linux contributions have come to a halt.  Google and Samsung have become increasingly frequent contributors to Linux, and each is now among the top 10 companies sponsoring the open source kernel …
Matt Rosoff / CITEworld:
Box Notes takes on Google Docs with a web beta for collaborative, lightweight file editing  —  Box joins the crew of companies trying to disrupt Microsoft Office  —  You knew it had to happen.  —  A year ago, file storage and collaboration service Box hired Sam Schillace …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple Stores to show off iPhone 5s Touch ID feature using demo app  —  One of the cornerstone features of Apple's upcoming iPhone 5s is the Touch ID fingerprint scanning system.  The feature allows an iPhone 5s user to unlock their iPhone or authenticate iTunes/App Store/iBooks downloads …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Facebook And Internet.org Detail “1000X” Technologies They Hope Will Bring Earth Online  —  Air Traffic Control, HipHop, WebP, and Supplemental Downlink are some of the futuristic technologies that Facebook and its Internet.org partners will deploy to bring the Internet to the five billion people still not connected.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon  —  Gabe Newell speaking at LinuxCon today.  —  Linux Foundation  —  Gabe Newell, the co-founder and managing director of Valve, said today that Linux is the future of gaming despite the minuscule share of the market it has today.
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Pandora could raise $279.4M with sale of 10M in common stock  —  Streaming music service company Pandora Media is selling 10 million shares of common stock, which could net it about $230.8 million at $23.99 per share, according to an SEC filing released today.
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:
AT&T & T-Mobile preorders for Galaxy Note 3/ Galaxy Gear kick off Sept. 18 … AT&T has announced today in a tweet that preorders for the new Galaxy Gear smartwatch, which will act as a companion to the new Galaxy Note 3, will go up for preorder starting Wednesday, September 18.

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