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September 19, 2014, 7:35 AM

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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 …

iFixit:

iPhone 6 Teardown — Double the iPhone, double the teardown! With the iPhone 6 Plus laid out for inspection, we turn our attention to the smaller iPhone 6—though at 4.7", it's still a giant among iPhones. What was so big that Apple couldn't fit it into the familiar form factor?

More: 9to5Mac, NFC World+ and MacNN

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, ZDNet, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, TechSpot, USA Today, PandoDaily, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, Mashable, Gigaom and Business Insider

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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: Fortune, New York Times, DISPLAYBLOG, Re/code and Associated Press. Tweets: @benioff

Oracle:

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

More: AdExchanger, ValueWalk, VatorNews, CNBC and Talkin' Cloud

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: The Verge, Gigaom, The Register, Ubergizmo, Android Police, SlashGear, AndroidOS.in, AndroidGuys, CNET, DISPLAYBLOG, Gizmodo, Engadget, Ars Technica, PhoneArena, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google and Android Central. Tweets: @hannifakhoury

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

iOS 8 on iPhone 4S: cramped screen and 50% more time to do the same tasks compared to iOS 7 — iOS 8 on the iPhone 4S: Performance isn't the (only) problem — The iPhone 4S. I remember when this was the one that made my old phone feel slow. — iPhones have about a year to be top-of-the-line.

More: Computerworld, iJailbreak, Tech Times, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, InvestorPlace, DISPLAYBLOG and Gotta Be Mobile

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, Re/code, Tech Times, GeekWire, Engadget, VatorNews, ZDNet, TechSpot, VentureBeat, CRN, KING-TV, Bloomberg, bizjournals, Electronista, Ars Technica, PC World, The Register, TechCrunch and NBC Bay Area

Catherine Mayer / TIME:

Bono says U2 and Apple working on new digital music format — Exclusive: U2 and Apple Have Another Surprise for You — The four members of the legendary Irish band tell TIME about another new album in the works—and its secret Apple project that might just save the music industry

More: Gizmodo, Forbes, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, RAIN News, Engadget, Mashable, iMore, hypebot, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac, PadGadget, iLounge, App Advice, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, MacRumors, Business Insider, TUAW, Slate, Digital Trends, TechHive, Marco.org and Re/code. Tweets: @om

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: TechSpot, DailyTech, ZDNet and Pocket-lint

Sean Buckley / Engadget:

Nvidia unveils new flagship GeForce GTX 980 and 970 desktop GPUs based on Maxwell architecture — NVIDIA's latest GPU crams 4K images on 1080p displays — Back in February, NVIDIA trotted out the very first desktop GPUs to feature its new Maxwell architecture: the GeForce GTX 750 and 750i.

More: VentureBeat, The Verge, Inquirer, PC World, AnandTech, HotHardware.com News, GameSpot, GameSpot, Gizmodo, IGN, Electronista, PC Gamer, Digital Trends, ExtremeTech, CNET and PC Gamer

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: Insights, Tapjoy Blog, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Computerworld, GSMArena.com, Business Insider and SlashGear. 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 and App Advice

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.

More: Guardian, Computerworld, PandoDaily, Tech Times, The Daily Dot, PC Magazine, Engadget, GeekWire, SlashGear, PC World, VentureBreak, Ars Technica, Gigaom, TIME, AllFacebook, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat and Marketing Land

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: VentureBeat and Bloomberg. Tweets: @pjoshiny

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.

Ellen Huet / Forbes:

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus come with anti-theft feature Activation Lock on by default — How Apple Made Your iPhone 6 Much Less Likely To Be Stolen — To you, your new iPhone 6 looks like a gleaming sheet of technological magic — but to a thief, it looks like a shiny, worthless brick.

More: MacDailyNews and App Advice

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, Tech Times, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, Tech Insider, The Drum, Trusted Reviews, Entrepreneur, Inquirer and Marketing Land

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: SAP News Center, SAP, Tech Trader Daily, Concur Blog, eWeek, The Register, bizjournals, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, ZDNet and Seeking Alpha

Tweets: @bradwindecker, @marshallk and @geekwire

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, Guardian, 9to5Google, CNET and Gigaom. Tweets: @johnpaczkowski. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

PayPal Here Arrives On Android Tablets — PayPal Here, the company's dongle-based mobile payments solution, is now available for Android tablets, the company announced this afternoon — a move that will address a large and growing swath of the tablet market.

More: PayPal Forward, The Next Web and 9to5Google

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: Help Net Security, Guardian, Techdirt, MacNN, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo and ZDNet

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 …

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