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September 9, 2014, 1:30 PM

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Apple:

Apple live stream of its media event at the Flint Center in Cupertino, viewable in Safari — September 2014 Special Event — Our live broadcast begins at 10 a.m. PDT. Follow along and share your favorite moments from today's #AppleLive event. Live streaming video requires Safari 5.1.10 …

More: 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, iMore, The Verge, ParisLemon, MacRumors, Business Insider, Fortune, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, BetaBoston, iPhone Hacks, PopWatch, Mashable, OK! Magazine OK!, Touch Arcade, MACé" blog and TIME. Tweets: @tomwarren

The Verge:

Live blog: Apple expected to unveil new iPhones, wearables and more — Live from Apple's iPhone 6 and iWatch event — Hey there! We'll be live from Cupertino on September 9th, beginning at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Come back then! It's gonna be a wild one.

More: Ars Technica, The Verge, New York Times, CNET, 9to5Mac, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, TechCrunch, iMore, Ars Technica, Telegraph, Engadget, Gear Live, Boing Boing, The Next Web and PadGadget. Tweets: @tim_cook

Chris Velazco / Engadget:

Meet the iPhone 6 Plus and its 5.5-inch, 1080p Retina Display HD

More: Engadget

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Apple's iPhone 6 with a 4.7-inch display is here

iFixit:

Motorola Moto 360 Teardown — Motorola Moto 360 Teardown Hello Moto! After months of speculation and publicity, Motorola has finally released their flagship smartwatch, the Moto 360. Join us as we disassemble it and answer the one question Motorola dares not ask.

More: Inquirer, TechHive, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, The Verge, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Electronista, Android Central, SlashGear, DisplayBlog, Softpedia News, Pocketnow, Droid Life, Geeky Gadgets and Wearable Tech Insider

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Nancy Pelosi urges FCC to reclassify broadband as a utility — A good number of politicians have recently made statements in favor of net neutrality, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is going further than most of them today and asking that the Federal Communications Commission reclassify broadband …

More: Nancy Pelosi, BetaNews, The Hill, DSLreports, TechSpot, Softpedia News, NEWS.com.au, Electronista, Deadline, NationalJournal.com, Nextgov, Free Press Blog and DisplayBlog. Tweets: @qthrul

Brendan Sasso / National Journal:

Netflix to Join ‘Internet Slowdown’ Protest Over Net Neutrality

More: motherboard.vice.com, Variety and Multichannel News. Tweets: @nationaljournal. See also Mediagazer

David Kravets / Ars Technica:

Comcast Wi-Fi serving self-promotional ads via JavaScript injection — Comcast has begun serving Comcast ads to devices connected to one of its 3.5 million publicly accessible Wi-Fi hotspots across the US. Comcast's decision to inject data into websites raises security concerns and arguably cuts …

More: InfoWorld, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Washington Post, Electronista, DSLreports, Techdirt and PandoDaily

Tweets: @dsilverman and @marshray

Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Nest Finally Works With Control4, Crestron, RTI And URC Home Automation Systems — Today, at CEDIA EXPO 2014, Nest made the day of every home automator installers and retailers everywhere: Nest finally works with the major players in home automation, Control4, Crestron, Remote Technologies Incorporated …

More: Nest, The Verge, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Gigaom, Gizmodo, Engadget, SlashGear and Connectedly

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Rakuten Buys Ebates For $1 Billion — Rumors have been swirling around Japan's Rakuten, which has been in discussions with rebate website operator Ebates.com, regarding a potential acquisition deal. That deal is now official, as the company announced today it has agreed to acquire Ebates for $1 billion.

More: Rakuten, Inc.Press Releases, Reuters, VatorNews, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Computerworld, internetretailer.com, Bloomberg, New York Times, The Next Web, Reuters, ZDNet, Gigaom and GeekTime

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Amazon Fire Phone's $200 price cut is just one more sign of its dismal market performance — Amazon Cuts Struggling Phone's Price to 99 Cents — SAN FRANCISCO — Sixty thousand people vied to attend the unveiling of Amazon's first smartphone in late June.

More: Business Insider and Gizmodo. Tweets: @carnage4life

Jarah Euston / Flurry Insights:

Phablet install base doubles in one year to 6% of all phone and tablet users — The Tides Turn for the Phablet's Popularity — The press is buzzing that Apple may unveil a phablet-sized iPhone 6 on September 9th. Six years ago, who would have guessed that an extra inch of screen space could cause so much commotion?

More: Business Insider, DisplayBlog, ZDNet, Yahoo, Marketing Land and Gigaom. Tweets: @brianshall

Alice Truong / Fast Company:

Isis-affiliated Twitter account calls for assassination of Twitter employees, Twitter investigating — A now-suspended Twitter account seemingly affiliated with the extremist group ISIS has been calling for the assassination of employees who work at the social network.

More: Vocativ, The Hill, Mashable, Washington Post, The Wire, Firstpost, SFGate Blog and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Jon Southurst / CoinDesk:

Hacker Hijacks Satoshi Nakamoto's Email, Threatens to Reveal All — The bitcoin world is abuzz with speculation some of Satoshi Nakamoto's online accounts have been compromised, concerned a hacker could potentially access information concerning the bitcoin creator's true identity or use …

More: Wired, Pastebin, SourceForge, ReadWrite, PandoDaily, Guardian, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, ITProPortal, Mineforeman, Softpedia News, Engadget, P2P Foundation, Business Insider, CIO.com, The Next Web, Mineforeman and Gawker. Tweets: @petertoddbtc

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

With a Big Push From Facebook, Facebook Video Is Booming. Heads Up, YouTube. — Do you like watching videos on Facebook? — You're not alone. And you're going to be seeing a lot more of them. — That's the word from Facebook, which is excited about the rapid uptake of its new …

More: Facebook, USA Today, ReelSEO Video Marketing, DisplayBlog, Guardian, Digiday, Facebook, Marketing Land, Inside Facebook, WebProNews and The Daily Dot. See also Mediagazer

Wall Street Journal:

Taboola Seeking to Raise $75 Million to $100 Million in Roadshow—Sources — An Israeli-owned content-marketing company is hoping to attract investors as content recommendation increasingly bites into traditional display banner advertising. — Taboola Inc., based in New York but founded …

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

Twitch CEO: “Entire Website” Is a Native Advertising Hub, Not a Store — Twitch is already good at selling people on games, but it's not interested in selling the games directly. — That's the word from CEO Emmett Shear, asked at TechCrunch Disrupt about how the company plans to integrate with its new owner Amazon.

More: GamePolitics blogs, Guardian, ReadWrite, Gamasutra, Engadget, CNET, GeekWire and The Next Web. Tweets: @petersontee

Agam Shah / PC World:

Intel wants to modernize data centers with new Xeon server chips — Intel has designed its latest server chips to provide the building blocks to modernize “legacy data centers” by providing more processing cores, throughput and power-saving features. — The Xeon E5-2600 v3 chips …

More: Intel Newsroom, ZDNet, Softpedia News, AnandTech, Gearburn, Tech Times, Bloomberg, Maximum PC, The Register, PC Magazine, CRN, PC Pro, Tom's Hardware Guide, HotHardware.com News, CIO.com, Gigaom, eWeek and Wall Street Journal

Barry Levine / VentureBeat:

Verizon plans to create a sharing platform for virtually anything — not just cars — The “sharing economy” is now moving into the “sharing services economy.” — This morning, Verizon Enterprise Services announced its “Auto Share” service, enabling any car company to become a Zipcar.

More: Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, Wireless Week, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, AndroidHeadlines.com, Light Reading and Gigaom. Tweets: @marshallk. Thanks:@harrisonweber

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