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September 23, 2014, 1:00 AM

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Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate:

iPhone 6 Plus display is “best performing smartphone LCD we ever tested”, iPhone 6 “very good” — iPhone 6 Display Technology Shoot-Out — Introduction A key element for a great Smartphone has always been a truly innovative and top performing display …

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Joshua Ho / AnandTech:

iPhone 6/6 Plus beat competition in browser and GPU benchmarks, web browsing battery life test — iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus: Preliminary Results — While we're still working on the full review, I want to get out some preliminary results for the iPhone 6.

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Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors:

iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Capable of Faster Charging Using iPad 2.1A Adapter — Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus ship with higher capacity batteries that deliver exceptional battery life, but as pointed out by iLounge and MacRumors forum members, the two new iPhone models can also charge significantly faster …

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Apple won't shut down the Beats Music streaming service, but the Beats Music brand may change — Apple's Beats Music Brand May Go Away. Apple's Beats Music Service Is Sticking Around. — Earlier this year, Apple bought Beats Music and Beats Electronics for $3 billion.

More: The Register, Ubergizmo, Mashable and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @llsethj

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Beats Music brand will be shut down, product could be rolled into iTunes — Apple Plans To Shut Down Beats Music — Apple will discontinue the streaming music service Beats Music it acquired in May, according to five sources, including several prominent employees at Apple and Beats.

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Apple sells over 10M iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units in three days after launch, beating 9M iPhones sold in the same period last year — First Weekend iPhone Sales Top 10 Million, Set New Record — Apple® today announced it has sold over 10 million new iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models …

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

iOS 8 adoption hits 30% after first weekend of iPhone 6 sales, iPhone 6 usage outpaces 6 Plus

More: AppleInsider, Mashable, Computerworld, Mercury News, BGR, Ubergizmo, Gotta Be Mobile, DISPLAYBLOG, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, Business Insider and iLounge

Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:

Google selects HTC to make its upcoming 9-inch Nexus tablet — HTC Returns to Tablets with Google Nexus Partnership — After disappointing sales of the Flyer tablet in 2011, HTC's executives said they'd swear off making tablets until they found a compelling reason to try again. — They have one now.

More: The Verge, Tech Times, Droid Life, Tech2, AndroidGuys, AnandTech, DailyTech, GadgeTell, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, HotHardware.com News, TechHive, Android Central, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo and GeekWire

John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog:

Buying into murky Alibaba is buying into a corrupt government that's excluded US companies — Thoughts On Alibaba — The post Thoughts On Alibaba appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. — A caveat before I think out loud, quite possibly getting myself into a running battle I know I can't win …

More: DISPLAYBLOG. Tweets: @mhelft, @pennockd, @mattrosoff, @jjhikes, @bryce and @arrington

Elzio Barreto / Reuters:

With $25B raised, Alibaba IPO ranks as world's biggest after underwriters sell 48M more shares

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Eric Schmidt says Google will cut ties with ALEC because group is lying about climate change — Google will stop supporting climate change science deniers, calls them liars — Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. — JD Lasica — Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today said it was a …

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

HBO, Amazon Prime and Broadband for $40 a Month at AT&T — It's still nearly impossible to get HBO, or any other pay-TV channel, without subscribing to a pay-TV package that gives you a bundle of channels, whether you want them or not. — But the people who sell you TV are starting to tinker with the model, at least at the margins.

More: DSLreports, Variety, GeekWire, CIO.com, StreetInsider.com, The Verge, Gizmodo and Wired

Kim Zetter / Wired:

MIT students behind Bitcoin mining tool Tidbit fight New Jersey subpoena demanding source code — MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code — Four MIT students behind an award-winning Bitcoin mining tool will face off against New Jersey state authorities …

More: Boston Magazine. Tweets: @josephzhou

Jackgmarch Com / Jack March:

Source: 12″ Macbook Air has thinner fanless design, reversible USB Type C, no MagSafe — Exclusive: 12″ Macbook Air Design Details — You may remember a report from last week claiming that the MacBook Air was going to arrive in Space Grey, Gold, & Silver colours and launch in Mid 2015 …

More: MacRumors, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, InvestorPlace, Gotta Be Mobile, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, Electronista, MacDailyNews and SlashGear

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Say hello to Talko: Ray Ozzie's startup wants to reinvent the phone call, starting with an iPhone app — What has Ray Ozzie been focusing on since leaving his position as Microsoft's chief software architect? Here's the answer. A new app and online service called Talko …

More: Re/code, Medium, Engadget, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, ABC News, CNET, New York Times, The Verge, TechCrunch, Fast Company, The Next Web, Medium, Medium and Wired

Tweets: @toddbishop, @erickschonfeld, @ev and @rozzie

Thanks:@johnhcook

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Adobe Acquires Photo-Editing Platform Aviary — Aviary just announced that it has been acquired by Adobe. — Aviary offers a software development kit to developers who want to add photo-editing capabilities to their apps. Aviary has also created apps of its own, which it says have been …

More: Aviary Blog, Adobe, Adobe Featured Blogs, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Android Police and Electronista

Tweets: @om and @inakib

Melissa Eddy / New York Times:

2,000 Amazon workers from 4 distribution centers in Germany walk off the job in wage dispute — Amazon Workers Walk Off the Job in Germany Over Wage Dispute — BERLIN — Amazon employees in Germany, frustrated by the company's refusal to hold wage talks, walked off their jobs Monday …

More: Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, Fox Business, BBC, Agence France-Presse, DW.DE and The Register

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:

Red Hat CEO announces a shift from client-server to cloud computing — Summary: In other words, Red Hat is moving from Linux to OpenStack as its primary breadwinner. — Red Hat is in the midst of changing its image from a top Linux company to the future king of cloud computing.

More: Red Hat and The Register

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:

Lyft scales back its Lyft Plus service, offering concessions to drivers who bought customized $34K SUVs to participate — Lyft Plus changes upset some drivers — Some early drivers for Lyft Plus, which Lyft started in May as a premium and larger-capacity ride service …

More: SFist, Valleywag and bizjournals

Brandon Hill / DailyTech:

A Year After It Was First Announced, PlayStation TV Headed to U.S. for $99 — PlayStaton TV will be available October 14 — Sony first announced the PlayStation Vita TV settop box over a year ago in Japan. The tiny device is roughly comparable in concept and scope to the Roku 3 and Amazon Fire TV.

More: Business Insider

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Yahoo buys its first startup from India, cloud docs specialist Bookpad in an undisclosed deal — India looks like it has netted its third notable startup exit this year, after Yahoo swooped to purchase Bookpad, a one-year-old company that hosts cloud-based documents, according to local media.

More: The Economic Times, TechCrunch, Times of India, CNET, ZDNet, Electronista, tech.co, theWHIR.com, Gigaom and MediaNama

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

AT&T, Chernin buy majority stake in Fullscreen YouTube network, valuing it between $200-300M — AT&T & Chernin Buy Fullscreen, the Big YouTube Video Network — Otter Media, the Web video joint venture between AT&T and the Chernin Group, is confirming its deal to buy a controlling stake in Fullscreen …

More: Fullscreen, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, FierceOnlineVideo News, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Gigaom, Mashable, Wall Street Journal and Tubefilter

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