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August 28, 2014, 3:15 PM

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Christina Bonnington / Wired:

Our Sources Say the Next iPhone Will Include NFC Mobile Payments — Platforms like Google Wallet, Isis, and Square have been around for years, while Apple has remained curiously silent on the mobile payments front. Well not anymore. — The company's next iPhone will feature its own payment platform …

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:

Apple announces special event for September 9 with tagline “Wish we could say more” — Apple announces special event for Sept. 9 — Apple on Thursday sent out invitations to a special event being held on Sept. 9, 2014 at 10:00 am. — Typically Apple's events are held either …

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple builds a hidden structure at Flint Center, site of Mac unveiling, ahead of Sept. 9 event — Apple Building Massive Structure at Flint Center for iPhone 6 Event — Apple today issued invitations for its upcoming iPhone 6 event on September 9, which is also said to include its much-anticipated wearable device.

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Mike Isaac / New York Times:

IFTTT raises $30M from Norwest Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz to integrate with internet-connected hardware — With $30 Million More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things — One ambitious start-up wants to reroute the plumbing of the consumer Internet.

More: Gigaom, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and SlashGear. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Bloomberg:

Deutsche Telekom Said Open to T-Mobile Talks at $35/Share — Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) is willing to negotiate a sale of its T-Mobile US Inc. (TMUS) unit, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., if an offer values the business at $35 a share or more, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

More: CNET, Tech Trader Daily, Ubergizmo, Seeking Alpha and TmoNews. Tweets: @emilychangtv

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

JPMorgan and four other US banks hacked this month, gigabytes of data including account information stolen — JPMorgan and Other Banks Struck by Hackers — A number of United States banks, including JPMorgan Chase and at least four others, were struck by hackers in a series of coordinated attacks …

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

Leap Motion Hooks Up to Oculus for Controller-Free Virtual Reality — Earlier this year, Facebook turned “Oculus” into a household name by betting $2 billion that virtual reality is ready for prime time. — One problem with that vision, as we've written before, is that there's no clear standard …

More: Leap Motion Blog, Gizmodo, The Verge, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Gigaom, Engadget, TechCrunch and SlashGear

Reuters:

Microsoft CEO Nadella to visit China amid antitrust probe: source — BEIJING/SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella is set to visit China in late September, the company said on Thursday, as the Chinese government conducts an antitrust investigation into the world's largest software company.

More: SiliconBeat, GeekWire, Re/code, Associated Press, Reuters, International Business Times, CNET, Seattle Times blogs, Electronista, ZDNet and WinBeta

Surface Blog:

Surface Pro 3 now available in 28 markets around the world — The next 24 hours are huge for Microsoft and Surface fans everywhere. Starting just minutes from now in New Zealand, retailers and resellers in 25 additional geographies will begin selling Intel® Core™ i3 …

More: GadgeTell, BetaNews, Techie News, SlashGear, WinBeta, Ubergizmo, Windows Phone Central, TechCrunch, Neowin, WinBeta, The Next Web and Engadget

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Ticket Search Engine SeatGeek Raises $35M Round From Accel And Some Big-Name Athletes — SeatGeek, a company that bills itself as “the web's largest ticket search engine”, is announcing that it has raised $35 million in Series B funding. — The round brought was led by Accel Capital …

More: Re/code, Forbes, VatorNews, ChairNerd, SeatGeek, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, BetaBoston, PE Hub Blog and hypebot. Tweets: @nathanchubbard

Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:

Apple updates HealthKit privacy rules to keep your health data out of the hands of advertisers — Ahead of the September 9 event, Apple has updated its HealthKit privacy policy for developers to keep user data out of the hands of advertisers and data brokers.

More: Financial Times

Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:

IBM launches Watson Discovery Advisor, a cloud service for researchers to analyze data and get research ideas — IBM Sees Broader Role for Watson in Aiding Research — Watson, the IBM system that won “Jeopardy,” has shown promise in answering some kinds of questions.

More: eWeek, VentureBeat, Inquirer, CloudWedge, Bloomberg, A Smarter Planet Blog, The Register, Engadget, Reuters and ZDNet

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft integrates OneDrive for Business into main OneDrive for Android app, iOS app gets native search — Microsoft today announced updates to its OneDrive apps for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. The biggest changes are being made on Google's mobile platform, but users of the other two platforms …

More: OneDrive Blog, The Verge, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, CITEworld, PC World, TechCrunch, GeekWire, BetaNews, Engadget, Gigaom, IntoMobile, SuperSite for Windows and Mashable. Tweets: @carnage4life

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Desire 510 has 64-bit hardware, but 32-bit software; needs 64-bit Android L, due later this year — First 64-bit Android phone has no 64-bit software — When Apple launched the iPhone 5S with a 64-bit processor, it sent the rest of the spec-obsessed SoC world on a race to catch up.

More: PhoneNews.com and Inquirer

Joshua Ho / AnandTech:

HTC Desire 510: a budget smartphone with 1.2 GHz Snapdragon 410 SoC, 4.7" FWVGA display

More: Gigaom, Know Your Mobile India, bgr.in, Tom's Hardware Guide, PR Newswire, 3g.co.uk, TechRadar.com, NDTV Gadgets, The Verge, Phandroid, GSMArena.com, 9to5Google, PC World and DailyTech

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