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September 30, 2014, 11:20 AM

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eBay Inc:
eBay Inc. to Separate eBay and PayPal into Independent Publicly Traded Companies in 2015  —  American Express executive Dan Schulman joins PayPal immediately as President and CEO designee for PayPal post-separation  —  eBay Inc. President and CEO John Donahoe and CFO Bob Swan to oversee separation …
Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
What the eBay Split Means for PayPal  —  PayPal hasn't aged so gracefully, but eBay's decision to spin it off next year could give it renewed life.  —  There are plenty of questions remaining about the plan to remake PayPal as its own public company, but one thing seems likely …
Tom Fairless / Wall Street Journal:
EU Believes Apple's Irish Tax Deal Breached Rules  —  European Union Comments Outline Reasons Why it Opened an In-Depth Investigation  —  BRUSSELS—European Union regulators said Tuesday they believe that tax deals granted to Apple Inc. in Ireland constitute illegal state support for the U.S. company …
Apple:
iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus Available in China on Friday, October 17  —  Pre-orders Begin Friday, October 10  —  Apple® today announced that iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, the biggest advancements in iPhone history, will be available in China beginning Friday, October 17 from the Apple Online Store …
Paul Carsten / Reuters:
New York Times:
Netflix, Weinstein Co. to simultaneously release “Crouching Tiger” sequel on Netflix and IMAX  —  With ‘Crouching Tiger’ Sequel, Netflix Takes Aim at Hollywood  —  In a first deal of its kind, Netflix and the Weinstein Company said Monday that they planned to release next year's sequel …
Giulio Minotti / Phonebloks Blog:
Project Ara to use modified Android L, allowing all but CPU, display modules to be hot-swapped  —  PROJECT ARA NEWS  —  Paul Eremenko recently announced interesting news on Project Ara.  The most significant concerns its market launch in early 2015.  The first fully functional prototype …
Lauren Goode / Re/code:
Intel's Basis Takes Second Stab at Health Watch, With Peak  —  Another day, another new wrist-wearable in gadgetland.  But this one sounds ... pretty compelling.  —  Basis, the Intel-owned maker of a health-tracking watch called the B1 Band, is introducing a new high-quality wristwatch …
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Bug in iOS 8's “Reset All Settings” appears to be erasing all iWork documents in iCloud Drive  —  Bug in iOS 8's ‘Reset All Settings’ Option Also Erases iCloud Drive Documents  —  It appears that there may be a serious bug with the “Reset All Settings” option in iOS 8 …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iOS 8.1 Carries Hidden Settings for Apple Pay, References Touch ID Support for iPad  —  The first beta of iOS 8.1 seeded earlier today has not yet revealed a significant number of changes visible to regular users, but developer Hamza Sood has managed to uncover several interesting hidden settings and strings from the new version.
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Judge Rules Against Grooveshark in Copyright Infringement Case  —  In the music industry's second big legal victory in a week, a federal judge in New York ruled on Monday that Grooveshark, an online music service long vilified by the major record companies, infringed on thousands of their copyrights.

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