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September 29, 2014, 11:40 AM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Retina iMacs with OS X Yosemite in late testing within Apple, could launch soon — A new line of iMacs with ultra high-resolution Retina Displays is in late testing stages within Apple, according to our sources who have used the future desktop computer. While the machine will sport …

More: Jack March, The Verge, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Business Insider, MacRumors, iMore, Gotta Be Mobile, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, Geeky Gadgets, MacDailyNews and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @marcoarment

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Facebook Will Use Facebook Data to Sell Ads on Sites That Aren't Facebook — Investors and analysts spent years clamoring for Facebook to start up an ad network, and earlier this year it obliged them. — And now Facebook is rolling out another one. — Caveat — this isn't an ad network in a formal sense.

More: New York Times, Telegraph, PandoDaily, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Engadget, Gizmodo, Shelly Palmer and CNET

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Facebook Relaunches Atlas Ad Platform With Cross-Device Targeting And Offline Sales Tracking

More: Atlas Solutions, Marketing Land, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Search Engine Land, Fortune, Wired, ZDNet, Tech Times, Inquirer, WebProNews, Marketing Land, TIME, VatorNews, stratechery and memeburn

Tweets: @sfiegerman, @pkafka, @pkafka and @pkafka

Matthew Prince / CloudFlare:

CloudFlare launches Universal SSL for free, doubling the number of encrypted websites to 4M — Introducing Universal SSL — The team at CloudFlare is excited to announce the release of Universal SSL™. Beginning today, we will support SSL connections to every CloudFlare customer …

More: Ars Technica, TechCrunch, PC World and The Verge. Tweets: @mattcutts. Thanks:@eastdakota

Keiko Morris / Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft to open flagship store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan sometime in 2015 — Microsoft to Open Fifth Avenue Store — Flagship Store to Take Over Fendi Space — Microsoft Corp.'s first Manhattan flagship store is coming to Fifth Avenue. — The software company confirmed …

More: The Official Microsoft Blog, CNET, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Neowin, The Verge, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, Digital Trends, Mashable, Gizmodo, Geeky Gadgets, Business Insider and Windows Phone Central

New York Times:

Gray market for iPhones in China dries up, driving iPhone 6 price down from $1960 to $1060 — Glum Sign for Apple in China: Smuggled iPhones Go Begging — HONG KONG — When Apple's latest iPhones went on sale this month in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York, among the hip urbanites …

More: AppleInsider, CNET, The Register, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac and Business Insider

AppleInsider:

European Commission seeking retroactive tax windfall from Apple Inc subsidiary in Ireland — The European Commission is expected to release a report this week alleging that Ireland provided illegal “state aid” to Apple when it set tax rates for the company in 1991 and 2007 …

Josh Horwitz / Tech in Asia:

Mobile messaging app FireChat flares up in Hong Kong amid Occupy Central protests — Last night marked a historic moment in Hong Kong as peaceful demonstrators fell subject to police aggression. Under the banner of Occupy Central, tens of thousands of locals (organizers say 60,000 …

More: Gizmodo, New York Times, BBC and Wall Street Journal. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Vlastelica / Reuters:

Instagram reportedly blocked in China amid Hong Kong protests

More: The Verge, BBC, Washington Post, TechSpot, PandoDaily, Mashable, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, memeburn, ZDNet, Gizmodo, VentureBreak, CNET, Business Insider, NBC News, Digital Trends and Vox

Larry Seltzer / ZDNet:

Shellshock makes Heartbleed look insignificant — Summary: The new vulnerability in the Bash shell is the worst we've seen in many years. No software on critical systems can be assumed as safe. — Somehow there always seems to be another Internet security disaster around the corner.

More: FireEye Blog, InfoWorld, ReadWrite, TrendLabs Security … and SecurityWeek

Kyle Russell / TechCrunch:

Shyp Launches In New York City, And Miami Is Next — On-demand shipping startup Shyp is now officially expanding beyond San Francisco, launching its service in New York City after just a few weeks in private beta. In addition, the company is today announcing that its service will land in Miami …

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @hunterwalk

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

With Perspective From Both Sides of His Desk, F.C.C. Chairman Ponders Net Neutrality — WASHINGTON — As a lobbyist for the cable and wireless industries, Tom Wheeler played a role in shaping almost every major telecommunications policy and innovation over the last three decades.

Laura Lorenzetti / Fortune:

Instagram founder Kevin Systrom joins Wal-Mart's board — Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom will join Wal-Mart's board of directors as its 15th member, effective Monday. — He won't be the lone tech executive either: Systrom joins Yahoo YHOO CEO Marissa Mayer as a board member of the world's largest retailer.

More: Re/code, Business Insider, Bloomberg, The Republic, twst.com, RTTNews and Mashable

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