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September 18, 2014, 11:55 PM

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Bloomberg:

Larry Ellison steps down as Oracle CEO, appointed CTO, chairman; Mark Hurd and Safra Catz now co-CEOs — Oracle's Ellison Steps Down as CEO, Replaced by Hurd and Catz — Oracle Corp.'s Larry Ellison stepped down as chief executive officer of the software maker he founded …

More: Re/code, All Oracle Press Releases, The Verge, VentureBeat, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, PC World, USA Today, PandoDaily, ZDNet, Fortune, Bloomberg, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Mashable, Business Insider, Gigaom and TechSpot

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Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:

Some say Larry Ellison's new role is merely a title change, a point that Oracle's statement partially confirms — Larry Ellison steps down as CEO of Oracle but remains in charge — Larry Ellison, a Silicon Valley pioneer known as one of its most flamboyant and aggressive leaders …

More: New York Times and Re/code. Tweets: @dkberman and @benioff

Oracle:

Oracle reports Q1 earnings of $2.2B, or 48 cents a share, on revenue of $8.6B

More: VatorNews, CNBC, Business Insider and Talkin' Cloud

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft cuts 747 employees in Washington state, 2,100 worldwide; closing Silicon Valley research lab — Microsoft to close Microsoft Research lab in Silicon Valley — Summary: Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley, with about 50 employees, is one of the casualties of Microsoft's latest round of 2,100 job cuts.

More: Reuters, ZDNet, Tech Times, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Re/code, PC World, VatorNews, SocialTimes, TechnoBuffalo, bizjournals, CRN, TechSpot, The Register, KING-TV, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Electronista, Neowin, Mashable, Ars Technica, WinBeta, Engadget, NBC Bay Area and Seeking Alpha

Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Newest Androids will join iPhones in offering default encryption, blocking police — The next generation of Google's Android operating system, due for release next month, will encrypt data by default for the first time, the company said Thursday, raising yet another barrier to police gaining access …

More: CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, Android Police, 9to5Google, Wall Street Journal, AndroidGuys, The Verge, PhoneArena, Android Central, Ars Technica and BuzzFeed. Tweets: @hannifakhoury

iFixit:

iPhone 6 Plus Teardown — Over the years, we've seen the iPhone evolve—and grow. It began as just the iPhone. Soon it learned how to 3G, it gained an S (it would lose and gain this every other year), and it even learned to read fingerprints. Years of hard work and dedication …

More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Mac Blog, iMore, AppleInsider, Macfixit Australia Blog, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac and TUAW

Erich Owens / Facebook:

Facebook to place posts about trending topics and posts with fresh engagement higher in News Feed — News Feed FYI: Showing More Timely Stories from Friends and Pages — Our goal with News Feed is to show everyone the right content at the right time so they don't miss the stories that are important to them.

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:

Alibaba Raises $21.8 Billion in Initial Public Offering — The Alibaba Group, the Chinese Internet juggernaut, will raise nearly $21.8 billion in its initial stock sale, people briefed on the matter said on Thursday, as investors flocked to buy a piece of the company that is poised …

More: Reuters, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, PE Hub Blog and Gigaom. Tweets: @pjoshiny

John Cook / GeekWire:

SAP buying Concur Technologies for $8.3 billion — SAP is buying Bellevue-based Concur Technologies in deal valued at $8.3 billion, a 20 percent premium over the Sept. 17th closing price. Founded in 1993, Concur successfully transformed itself into a software-as-a-service company …

More: Tech Trader Daily, SAP, Concur Blog, The Register, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Seeking Alpha and TechCrunch

Tweets: @bradwindecker, @marshallk and @geekwire

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

iOS 8 Adoption Off To A Slower Start Than iOS 7, Say Multiple Usage Trackers — The iOS 8 installation spike is high, but lower than it was for iOS 7 last year, according to numbers from a variety of mobile OS usage monitoring platforms. Chitika, Tapjoy, Mixpanel and Appsee all show adoption numbers that …

More: Tapjoy Blog, Insights, Digital Trends, PCMag Australia Feed, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, TUAW, GSMArena.com, Computerworld, TechnoBuffalo, Re/code, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Mashable and CNET. Tweets: @jasoncross00

Alex Hern / Guardian:

iOS 8's 2GB download caused UK internet traffic to surge by 60%, despite slow uptake

More: Fiksu, 9to5Mac, BuzzFeed, BGR, ReadWrite, App Advice, Cult of Mac and MacRumors

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Apple's “warrant canary” disappears, suggesting new Patriot Act demands — Apple included language in its first Transparency Report to say that it had not been subject to a Section 215 Patriot Act request. That language is now gone. — When Apple published its first Transparency Report …

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, MacNN, Techdirt, Boing Boing, MacDailyNews, ZDNet and 9to5Mac

Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:

Uber's financing program connects auto lenders and drivers who want to purchase cars — Uber banks on world domination — The story line about Uber these days usually involves a fight: Uber scuffling with German regulators, who banned one of its car services nationwide …

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Home Depot: 56M Cards Impacted, Malware Contained — Home Depot said today that cyber criminals armed with custom-built malware stole an estimated 56 million debit and credit card numbers from its customers between April and September 2014. That disclosure officially makes the incident the largest retail card breach on record.

Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors:

iOS 8 Keyboards Climb to Top of App Store Charts — With yesterday's launch of iOS 8, devices running the new operating system are now able to install third-party keyboards that work on a systemwide basis. Most of the major keyboard makers were ready for the launch, introducing iOS 8 versions …

More: SwiftKey, BuzzFeed, Geek Beat, InvestorPlace, Geek.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider and MacStories

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

New third-party iOS 8 keyboard Keymoji translates text into emojis as you type

More: Laughing Squid, The Daily Dot and MacRumors. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal:

Apple Relied on Its Own Network for Part of the iOS 8 Upgrade — The roll-out of Apple 's new mobile-operating system Wednesday was the first time the company used its proprietary data distribution infrastructure, also called a content-delivery network, for such a large-scale deployment.

More: DeepField, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider and App Advice

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft's next version of Office includes a Clippy-like helper and a very dark theme — Microsoft is busy preparing a “Windows Technical Preview” for later this month, but the software maker is also privately testing an “Office Technical Preview” for the next version of its popular Office suite.

More: ZDNet, TechSpot, DailyTech, Pocket-lint, Computerworld, PC Advisor, Inquirer, Ubergizmo, WinBeta and Softpedia News

Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:

Amazon pays $4.6M for top level domain name “.buy”, outbidding Google — Wow: Amazon.com buys .Buy for $4.6 million, .Tech sells for $6.8 million — Amazon.com paid $4.6 million to win rights to .buy top level domain name, but that wasn't the most expensive TLD auction on Wednesday.

More: The Next Web, CNET, The Verge, Inquirer, The Drum, Trusted Reviews, TechSpot, Marketing Land, Entrepreneur, Tech Insider, Geek.com, WebProNews, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, Gizmodo and Electronista

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

CloudFlare CEO shares details on how encrypted sessions work with Keyless SSL — In-depth: How CloudFlare promises SSL security—without the key — CloudFlare has developed a way to separate SSL from private crypto keys, making it easier for companies to use the cloud to protect their networks.

More: CloudFlare, Wired, eWeek, TechCrunch, InfoWorld, Forbes, Bloomberg, Tech Times and Gigaom

AFR:

Apple head of retail Angela Ahrendts visits flagship store in Sydney as new iPhones go on sale in Australia — Fun, phones and fights as Apple opens the doors for iPhone 6 sales — Apple stores across the country opened at 8am to the customary sounds of cheers from Apple staff and rush …

More: ZDNet, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Sydney Morning Herald, BGR, NEWS.com.au, USA Today and CNET

Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom:

Twitpic says it was acquired and will no longer be shutting down, but doesn't name buyer — Twitpic says it's getting acquired but it won't say by whom — The official Twitpic account just tweeted that the company isn't shutting down after all. It's being acquired, although the tweet didn't specify what company is saving the day.

More: PandoDaily, The Next Web, CNET, The Verge, Computerworld, App Advice, GeekWire, Engadget, Electronista, Gizmodo and VentureBeat. Tweets: @twitpic. See also Mediagazer

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

YouTube will spend millions to fund and promote new shows from popular creators — YouTube Takes Out Checkbook Again, Pays Its Stars to Make Videos — The world's biggest video site is paying people to make videos. Again. — YouTube is planning to invest millions in some of its biggest stars …

More: YouTube Blog, CNET, 9to5Google, Gigaom and The Next Web. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski. See also Mediagazer

Gina Hall / The Wrap:

Former owner of MySpace, Brad Greenspan, sues NewsCorp, Google, and IAC, alleging collusion in 2005 sale — Google, NewsCorp Slapped With Lawsuit Over MySpace Sale — Brad Greenspan claims MySpace should have been valued at $32 billion at the time of the 2005 sale, instead of $580 million

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