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September 20, 2013, 7:30 PM

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Apple: Demand for New iPhones Has Been “Incredible” — Apple said that Friday that it is sold out of some iPhone 5s models amid what it described as “incredible” demand. — “Demand for the new iPhones has been incredible and we are currently sold out or have limited supply of certain iPhone 5s models …

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Apple CEO Tim Cook and SVPs Phil Schiller and Eddie Cue are at Palo Alto Apple Stores greeting iPhone buyers — Readers and Tweeters are reporting that Apple CEO Tim Cook is at the just upgraded Palo Alto Apple Store greeting new iPhone 5S and 5C buyers. Cook spoke highly of the new design …

More: TechCrunch, ZDNet, Betabeat, CITEworld, The Verge, Digits, iMore, Globe and Mail, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, I4U News and MacNN

Tweets: @julipuli, @vadimspivak and @mattkellerabc7

Juro Osawa / Digits:

Apple Suppliers to Boost Gold iPhone Production — In Hong Kong, it's all about the Gold iPhone 5S. — Apple Inc. has asked its suppliers to increase production of the gold-colored iPhone 5S by an additional one-third after seeing strong demand, people familiar with the situation said.

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

iPhone 5C and 5S go on sale with gold in short supply (update) — Apple's latest iPhones are now on sale online worldwide and at retail stores across Europe and Asia, with a US retail launch scheduled for 8:00AM local time. If you're looking for a gold iPhone 5S, however, you may leave the Apple Store disappointed.

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iPhone 5s gets extended shipping times in Asia, Australia, and Europe as sales begin worldwide

More: Computerworld, Digits, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, Graham Cluley, Los Angeles Times, Gotta Be Mobile, TUAW, I4U News, IntoMobile, The Register, TechEye, ZDNet and Business Insider

Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:

Apple TV 6.0 released with iTunes Radio, AirPlay from iCloud, iTunes Music Store, more — Everyone's favorite hockey puck “hobby” has received a huge software update today. Apple TV 6.0, which has been in beta testing since June, brings with it iTunes Radio, AirPlay from iCloud …

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, BGR, VentureBeat, iMore, Gizmodo, Macgasm, AppleInsider, Engadget, TechSpot, internetretailer.com, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Electronista, The Next Web, Softpedia News, TUAW and The Mac Observer. Thanks:@swb1192. See also Mediagazer

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft: Phablets are Windows RT's future — Summary: The possible convergence between Windows RT and the Windows Phone OS may be closer than many thought, based on new hints from Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting. — The question arises again and again: Why is Microsoft continuing …

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Register, GeekWire, Softpedia News, LiveSide.net, GigaOM, Neowin, WindowsObserver.com, Yahoo! News, Engadget, InfoWorld, The Tech Report, PandoDaily, WinBeta, pocketnow.com, Engadget, The Atlantic Wire, TechEye, WMPoweruser and Electronista. Tweets: @ngreader

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Ballmer calls Google a ‘monopoly’ that authorities should control — While Microsoft unveiled its new Bing logo and design this week, CEO Steve Ballmer opted to highlight his concerns over Google's business practices yesterday. During a presentation at Microsoft's financial analysts meeting …

More: BGR, Marketing Land, ReadWrite, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Inquirer, WMPoweruser and 9to5Google. Tweets: @coreyspitzer

BlackBerry Press Room:

Blackberry announces 4,500 layoffs, quarterly $950M loss, new enterprise focus — BlackBerry announces preliminary second quarter fiscal 2014 results and provides business update — Company expects GAAP net operating loss of approximately $950 million to $995 million …

More: AllThingsD, New York Times, BBC, Wired, CNBC, The Verge, VatorNews, Bloomberg, ReadWrite, VentureBeat and PhoneNews.com

Nancy Gohring / CITEworld:

BlackBerry, in desperation, is giving up on consumers again

More: Guardian, ZDNet and Tech Trader Daily

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Twitter, First Tweet About Visiting Palo Alto Apple Retail Stores — Apple CEO Tim Cook has apparently joined Twitter with the username @tim_cook, with fellow Apple executive Phil Schiller retweeting him as a means of verification. The account was first created back in July, but today saw Cook's first tweet.

More: 9to5Mac, Marketing Land, New York Times, Business Insider, PC Magazine, ReadWrite, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, AppleInsider, Deadline.com, Macgasm, Mercury News and WebProNews

Tweets: @tim_cook, @tristanwalker, @stevestreza and @stevestreza

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Chipworks: Apple's A7 Chip Made By Samsung, M7 Co-Processor By NXP — Here's a bit of supply chain nerdery for you on the iPhone 5s front. Teardown experts Chipworks have uncapped Apple's A7 processor and discovered that it is indeed still made by Samsung.

More: Chipworks Blog, iFixit, The Register, BGR, AllThingsD, MacRumors and Digits

Olivier Bonaventure:

Siri on iOS7 found communicating with Apple servers using Multipath TCP, an extended networking protocol

More: Quartz, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, ITworld.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and Electronista. Tweets: @toddheberlein

Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:

Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts — Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts — A technique called deep learning could help Facebook understand its users and their data better. — WHY IT MATTERS

More: ReadWrite, Engadget, Motherboard, AllFacebook and Betabeat. Tweets: @techreview. Thanks:@tsimonite

DealBook:

FireEye Prices I.P.O. at $20, Beating Heightened Expectations — FireEye, a provider of cybersecurity software, priced its initial public offering on Thursday at $20 a share, handily beating expectations. — Earlier this week, the company raised its price range to $15 to $17 a share.

More: Business Insider

Nathan Vardi / Forbes:

The Return Of The Hot IPO: FireEye and Rocket Fuel Shares Explode

More: TechCrunch, Reuters, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and silicontap.com

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Vevo Will Block YouTube's Offline-Video Viewing Feature — Music video service Vevo, which is one of YouTube's top content suppliers, will not be allowing users to watch its videos through YouTube's mobile apps if they're not connected to the Internet. — A new feature for YouTube mobile apps …

More: The Verge, Ubergizmo, ReelSEO Video Marketing, Pocket-lint and Engadget

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Here's How YouTube's Offline Videos Will Work (Memo)

More: SiliconBeat

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Facebook Engineering and Products VP Greg Badros to Leave Company — Greg Badros, Facebook's vice president of engineering and products, plans to soon leave the company, AllThingsD has learned. — Facebook confirmed Badros's departure in a brief statement: “Greg was a valuable member of Facebook's team …

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Surface 2 launch: What to expect — Summary: Microsoft is readying its next-generation Surface tablets and peripherals for launch on September 23. Here's what we know (and think we know) on specs, pricing and availability. — On Monday, September 23, Microsoft will be launching …

More: The Verge, BGR, WinBeta and Surface-Evangelist. Tweets: @maryjofoley

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Senator Al Franken voices privacy concerns over Apple's Touch ID in letter to Tim Cook — Apple has gone out of its way to emphasize the secure, locked down nature of its Touch ID fingerprint scanning system, but Senator Al Franken still believes the technology “raises substantial privacy questions.”

More: Al Franken, support.apple.com, Ars Technica, Computerworld, Hillicon Valley, MacRumors, Associated Press and ZDNet

Tweets: @qthrul, @lessien and @rhh

AllThingsD:

How Can You Miss Us If We Won't Go Away? — First things first: We're keeping the Steelcase hot-seat red chairs. Forever. In fact, we own quite a few now. — And we'll still be scooping and reviewing all things digital right here, at this Web address, for a few more months.

More: Quartz, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Silicon Valley Watcher, Venture Capital Dispatch, Talking New Media and WebProNews

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