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September 21, 2013, 4:43 AM

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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: ZDNet, CBS Los Angeles, TechCrunch, The Verge, ABC News, Betabeat, Globe and Mail, Gotta Be Mobile, AppleInsider, CITEworld, iDownloadBlog.com, Digits, iMore, MacNN, I4U News, NBC Bay Area, Fortune and 9to5Mac

Tweets: @julipuli, @vadimspivak and @mattkellerabc7

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, BBC, New York Times, Wired, Bloomberg, Reuters, TechSpot, VatorNews, IntoMobile, PhoneNews.com and MobileSyrup.com

Nancy Gohring / CITEworld:

BlackBerry, in desperation, is giving up on consumers again

More: Guardian and ZDNet. Tweets: @dannysullivan

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

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, Ars Technica, The Switch, 9to5Mac, Hillicon Valley, MacRumors, Computerworld, Associated Press, ZDNet and Electronista

Tweets: @lessien, @rhh and @qthrul

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 …

More: Inside Facebook

Linda Sandler / Bloomberg:

Lawsuit alleges LinkedIn breaks in to external email accounts to collect email addresses — LinkedIn Customers Allege Company Hacked E-Mail Addresses — LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD), owner of the world's most popular professional-networking website, was sued by customers alleging it appropriated …

More: Mashable, The Huffington Post, Ubergizmo and Los Angeles Times

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Another iOS 7 Bug Lets Anyone Make Calls From Locked iPhones—And This One Has No Quick Fix — Apple has yet to fix one nasty bug in the lockscreen of iOS 7, and the next one has already appeared. — On Friday, Karam Daoud, a 27-year old Palestinian living in the West Bank city of Ramallah …

More: Security Watch, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, AppleInsider, App Advice, Geek.com, InfoWorld, Engadget and FierceMobileIT News. Thanks:@lainnafader

Nathan Vardi / Forbes:

The Return Of The Hot IPO: FireEye and Rocket Fuel Shares Explode — The initial public offerings of FireEye and Rocket Fuel exploded on Friday as investors seemingly transported back to 1999 and furiously bid up the shares of of the two companies. — Shares of FireEye …

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

DealBook:

FireEye Prices I.P.O. at $20, Beating Heightened Expectations

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @danprimack

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Verizon FiOS Expands Mobile TV Support To Android & iPhone, Now Lets You Watch Live TV Outside The Home — For the first time ever, customers of Verizon's FiOS TV service are being allowed to watch live television on their mobile devices when they're out of their homes, and disconnected from their home's Wi-Fi network.

More: The Verge, SlashGear, Engadget and GigaOM

Christopher Mims / Quartz:

Siri is just the start; Multipath TCP will improve connection reliability for more apps over time — Apple's iOS 7 includes a surprise: a ticket to the next generation of the internet — For five years, researchers have toiled over an obscure bit of fundamental internet infrastructure …

More: AppleInsider, Olivier Bonaventure, Electronista, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News and Olivier Bonaventure

Tweets: @toddheberlein and @networkingnerd

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: The Verge, Engadget, SlashGear, ReadWrite, AllFacebook, Betabeat, Electronista and GigaOM. Tweets: @techreview. Thanks:@tsimonite

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, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, Macgasm, Deadline.com, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, TUAW, Marketing Land, New York Times, WebProNews and The Next Web

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

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: Ubergizmo, SiliconBeat, ReelSEO Video Marketing, Pocket-lint, Search Engine Watch, The Verge, Engadget and AllThingsD

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: SlashGear, Yahoo! News, Marketing Land, TechSpot, WMPoweruser, ReadWrite, Softpedia News, Inquirer and 9to5Google. Tweets: @coreyspitzer

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft: Phablets are Windows RT's future

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

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