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September 23, 2014, 2:20 PM
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Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:
iPhone 6 costs an estimated $200 to $247 in parts and labor to build, 6 Plus $216 to $263; profit margins 69-70%; Samsung supplies 40% of A8 chips  —  Teardown Shows Apple's iPhone 6 Cost at Least $200 to Build  —  Apple spends $200 to $247 in parts and labor to build an iPhone 6 …
Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors:
Some iPhone 6 Plus Owners Accidentally Bending Their iPhones in Pockets  —  As highlighted in a few reports shared in the MacRumors forums, a small but growing number of iPhone 6 Plus owners have reportedly bent their phones after carrying the devices in their pockets just days after launch.
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal:
SquareTrade breakability tests show iPhone 6/6 Plus are the most durable iPhones yet  —  iPhone 6 Is the Most Durable iPhone Yet, Says Insurer  —  The new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus may be the largest iPhones Apple has ever made, but they're also the toughest, according to SquareTrade, a gadget insurer that publishes a “breakability” index.
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 …
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:
Home Depot's former security architect was convicted of sabotaging his ex-employer's network  —  Home Depot's former security architect had history of techno-sabotage  —  “We sell hammers” was the justification Home Depot managers gave for cheaping out on security to IT employees.  —  WestportWiki
More: PandoDaily.  Tweets: @casio_juarez
Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:
Radius Raises $54.7 Million to Improve Sales Leads Using Big Data … Marketing automation software, which delivers sales prospects to customers, has generated some big companies-last year, Marketo Inc. went public and has a market cap of $1.26 billion, and HubSpot Inc. filed in August to raise up to $100 million in an IPO.
iClarified:
Apple Announces iOS 8 Adoption Has Already Reached 46%  —  Apple has announced that iOS 8 adoption has already reached 46%.  First spotted by iClarified, Apple quietly revealed the statistic on its App Store Distribution page.  —  The company says iOS 8 adoption reached 46% on September 21, 2014.
Ellen Huet / Forbes:
Eduardo Saverin Leads $14 Million Funding Round For Silvercar, An Audi Airport Rental Startup  —  Billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has found a new place to focus his entrepreneurial energies: airport car rentals.  Audis, specifically.  —  Saverin led a $14 million Series B round …
More: TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal.  Tweets: @bupbin
John Brownlee / Co.Design:
iPod Mastermind Tony Fadell On The Death Of The iPod: “You Can't Get Too Nostalgic”  —  After 13 years, the iPod Classic is dead.  Google's Tony Fadell tells us what killed the iPod, and why we shouldn't be bummed about it.  —  What does it feel like to lose your design child?
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Israel's ironSource Raises $85M to Bolster Mobile App, Software Distribution Power  —  One area that Israel's tech scene has always done exceptionally well in is ad tech.  So it's not terribly surprising that one of its startups would quietly do a $85 million mega-round.
Cromwell Schubarth / bizjournals:
Aussie startup Invoice2Go raises $35M led by Accel, moves to Palo Alto  —  Aussie startup moves to Palo Alto, hires ex-eHarmony CEO and raises $35M  —  Australian mobile B2B startup Invoice2Go's first venture round is a big one, in more ways than one.  —  The 10-year-old Sydney company founded …
Zach Rodgers / AdExchanger:
Millennial Media To Buy Nexage, Mobile SSP And Exchange, For $108M  —  Millennial Media needed a good story around programmatic, and now it has one.  —  The publicly-traded mobile ad tech platform has signed an agreement to buy mobile exchange player Nexage for $107.5 million in cash and stock.

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Financial Times:
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