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September 16, 2013, 11:30 PM
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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 …
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.
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 …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla postpones Metro Firefox release to late January  —  Slower development pace leads to new launch forecast for touch-ready Windows 8 browser  —  Mozilla last week said that slower-than-expected progress on Firefox for Microsoft's Windows 8 “Modern” user interface (UI) …
More: ZDNet and WinBeta
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.
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 …
Don Clark / Digits:
IBM Again Pledges $1 Billion to a Linux Effort  —  Linux continues to dominate data centers.  IBM wants more of that action to take place on its hardware.  —  The computer giant on Tuesday plans to pledge that it will spend $1 billion over four or five years on Linux and related open-source technologies …
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
FTC to take closer look at “native advertising” trend  —  Over the last year, media and marketing types have been repeating the term “native advertising” until they're blue in the face and now it looks like people are finally paying attention — including the good folks at the Federal Trade Commission.
Brian Roemmele, / Quora:
What is Apple's new Secure Enclave and why is it important?  —  ·clave noun \en-klv, än-klv\ : A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.  A Seven Year Apple Odyssey That Ended At The Enclave With the September 10th, 2013 announcement [1] …
More: Daring Fireball.  Tweets: @anildash
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.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Two months later, Yahoo relaunches ecommerce app platform Lexity as Yahoo Commerce Central  —  Yahoo today announced it has rebranded and relaunched Lexity as Yahoo Commerce Central.  The company is calling the new service “your one-stop shop for simple, affordable, and effective tools for your store.”

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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett fires an experienced editor overseeing 26 community newspapers for “sharing proprietary information” with a “competing media company”, which was Poynter

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
WBD reports a $86M profit in Q1 for its DTC unit, which includes streaming, up from $50M in Q1 2023, and 99.6M streaming subscribers, up from 97.7M in Q4 2023

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Vice Media plans to create a joint venture with Savage Ventures, which will invest “tens of millions of dollars”, to relaunch its sites, including Vice.com

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