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September 13, 2014, 3:15 PM

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Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:
Tim Cook on Charlie Rose: no plans for social networking; Apple's top competitor is Google  —  Tim Cook says Apple could have made a bigger iPhone ‘years ago’  —  Apple CEO tells Charlie Rose the company's been patient  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company could have made a larger iPhone long ago …
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Since Supreme Court's Alice decision, 11 lower court rulings have invalidated software patents  —  Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court  —  The Supreme Court's June ruling on the patentability of software — its first in 33 years — raised as many questions at it answered.
More: IPWatchdog.com, Techdirt and Patently-OTweets: @skupor
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple Pay Details: Apple Gets 0.15% Cut of Purchases, Higher Rates for Bluetooth Payments  —  Apple's ambitious new mobile payment initiative, Apple Pay, was announced on Tuesday during the company's iPhone event.  Many questions still linger about the service, but information is beginning …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple Users Download Free U2 Album Two Million Times  —  Some of you do not want the U2 album Apple is giving away.  But lots of you were willing to download it.  Or, at a minimum, your iPhones and MacBooks did.  —  iTunes users have downloaded more than 2 million copies of “Songs of Innocence” …
New York Times:
JPMorgan hack investigation finding dozens of the company's servers breached over two months; one source says SSNs and account data not stolen  —  After Breach, JPMorgan Still Seeks to Determine Extent of Attack  —  The headache caused by the attack on JPMorgan Chase's computer network this summer may not go away anytime soon.
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
Accessory makers hit delays as iPhone 6 production eats up Lightning connector supplies  —  Record shipments of Apple's new iPhone 6 models unveiled this week might mean more headaches for companies building accessories with Apple's Lightning connectors.  Several sources tell us in the lead …
More: TechnoBuffalo and UbergizmoThanks:@markgurman
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Glympse Keyboard launches for Android to help you share your location from any app  —  Glympse has long since cemented its position as one of the most popular real-time location-sharing apps for mobile.  —  If you're new to it, it works like this: you decide which of your contacts can see where you are …
Fortune:
Square raises $100 million at $6 billion valuation  —  Payments company Square has raised $100 million in new funding at a valuation of nearly $6 billion, according to a Delaware filing obtained by VCExperts.com and shared with Fortune.  —  The San Francisco-based company issued 6.4 million …

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