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September 13, 2014, 11:15 PM

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Bill Rigby / Reuters:
Source: Microsoft will announce $2.5B deal to buy Minecraft maker Mojang on Monday  —  Microsoft needs Minecraft to boost mobile ambitions  —  (Reuters) - Microsoft's impending purchase of Mojang, the Swedish developer with 100 million players of its open world Minecraft game …
Mat Honan / Wired:
A requiem for the click wheel iPod, discontinued after almost 13 years  —  On Death and iPods: A Requiem  —  Have you ever loved a car?  Maybe it was an old truck you drove for hundreds of thousands of miles, or maybe it was your very first car: where you had your very first beer and your very first kiss.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Product Hunt Raises $6 Million From A16Z  —  Product Hunt, the aggregation site that many people consider a direct competitor to TechCrunch and other tech blogs due to its ability to surface new tech products and startups, has raised a hefty series A, we're hearing.
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
Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:
Public version of Google Chrome for Mac will go exclusively 64-bit in November  —  Last month Google released a 64-bit version of the Chrome browser for OS X on its developer channel.  However, this version of the app has not yet been made available to the general public.
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 …
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.
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” …
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 …

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