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Robert Sullivan / Vogue:

A Rare Look at Design Genius Jony Ive: The Man Behind the Apple Watch — How Apple's under-the-radar design genius, Jonathan Ive, has found the way to our hearts. — I first catch sight of Jony Ive across the Apple campus, in a plain Dodger-blue T-shirt and white painter's pants, in conversation, nodding.

Bloomberg:

Apple to add gold color option to new 9.7" iPads this month, launch 12.9" model next year — Apple Said to Add Gold Option to IPad to Goose Sales — Apple Inc. (AAPL) will add a gold color option for its full-size iPads in an effort to boost a category that's posted declining shipments this year …

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

At the 11th hour, Verizon decides to cancel its controversial throttling plans — Verizon's “network optimization” policy would have restricted speeds for its heaviest unlimited data users when the LTE network was congested. But Big Red is now nixing the controversial plan.

More: Verizon Wireless Promotions, The Verge, CNET, PC World, AppleInsider, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Android Police, BGR, Ars Technica, iMore, DailyTech, iDownloadBlog.com and SlashGear

Parmy Olson / Forbes:

Finding Alibaba: How Jerry Yang Made The Most Lucrative Bet In Silicon Valley History — Jerry Yang is giving a quick tour of the conference room at his private investment firm in Palo Alto, Calif. It's dotted with gifts and photos from his 20 years in Silicon Valley.

More: SiliconBeat and Re/code. Tweets: @dhh, @jeffweiner, @forbestech, @john_ryu, @erichippeau, @amir, @christianhern and @forbes

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

This Is The Motorola Nexus 6: A 5.9" QHD Display, 3200mAh+ Battery, Dual Front-Facing Speakers, And More — If you've been keeping up with any tech blogs over the past couple of weeks, you know that the next Nexus phone has been a hot topic. We saw rumored specs and rumored hardware photos …

Ian Kar / Bank Innovation:

Sources: Apple Pay to be included in iOS 8.1, scheduled to be released October 20 — Apple Pay to Be Included in iOS 8.1, Sources Confirm — Based on multiple sources close to Apple, Bank Innovation has learned that iOS 8.1 will include Apple Pay, and the current expected timetable for the public release is schedule for October 20.

More: 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog and Business Insider

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Facebook to refine process of authenticating names; CPO apologizes to LGBT community — Facebook clarifies real name policy amid LGBT protests — Drag queens will be able to post under their stage names, the company says — Facebook said today it would build new authentication tools …

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft launches Sway, a new Office application for creating elegant interactive presentations on the web, now available in preview — Microsoft adds new Sway presentation application to the Office family — Summary: Microsoft's Sway presentation application, available starting today in preview form …

More: Office Blogs, The Verge, BetaNews, eWeek, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Engadget, PC World, The Next Web, CITEworld, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Neowin, WebProNews, Mashable, Windows Phone Central and WinBeta. Tweets: @sway

Bloomberg:

Box Said to Delay IPO Until 2015 Amid Market Volatility — Box Inc., the cloud-storage provider that filed for an initial public offering in March, will postpone its market debut, which probably won't happen until 2015 because of volatile market conditions, people familiar with the matter said.

More: Gigaom, Business Insider and Seeking Alpha

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Ron Miller / TechCrunch:

StackEngine Emerges From Stealth, Adds Operational Layer To Docker — StackEngine, a startup out of Austin, TX, emerged from stealth today with $1M in seed funding and a product that gives operations and IT staff a way to manage Docker containers, providing the operations side of the house some control over Docker instances.

More: VentureBeat, ZDNet, InfoWorld, Data Center Knowledge, bizjournals, PE Hub Blog, The VAR Guy, Forbes and insideHPC

Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

Your move, AWS and Microsoft: Google's cutting basic cloud compute prices 10 percent — Google's taken another whack at compute pricing; expect Microsoft and Amazon Web Services to respond. — Once more into the fray: Google is cutting price on Google Compute Engine instances by about 10 percent across regions and all types.

More: The Next Web, GeekWire, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, ZDNet, Forbes, VentureBeat and WebProNews

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Microsoft Says Free Windows Has Helped Woo 50 New Phone and Tablet Makers — Microsoft said it has attracted a number of new partners since offering Windows free for devices with screens smaller than nine inches. — Windows chief Terry Myerson said Tuesday that 50 new companies …

More: GeekWire, eWeek, ZDNet, FierceWireless, WMPoweruser, WinBeta, Gigaom, Neowin and Windows Phone Central

Nicole Lee / Engadget:

ARM attempts to speed up ‘internet of things’ adoption with new platform — It's the year 2014, and we've yet to have our flying cars and commuter jet packs. But we do have a glimpse of the future with the advent of the “internet of things.” It's essentially the idea of connecting everyday objects …

More: The Next Web, Gigaom, PC World, CNET, ZDNet, The Register, The Tech Report and Mashable

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Houzz Raises $165M Series D Funding Round Led By Sequoia To Fuel International Expansion — Houzz, the fast-growing home-remodeling site, today announced that it has raised a $165 million Series D round led by Sequoia Capital, one of its early backers. Existing investors Oren Zeev …

More: Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Reuters, PE Hub Blog and Forbes

John Graham-Cumming / CloudFlare:

Inside Shellshock: How hackers are using it to exploit systems — On Wednesday of last week, details of the Shellshock bash bug emerged. This bug started a scramble to patch computers, servers, routers, firewalls, and other computing appliances using vulnerable versions of bash.

More: FireEye Blog and The Verge

Thornton McEnery / Crain's New York Business:

NYC launches Digital.nyc, an online hub for the city's tech ecosystem, powered by IBM and Gust — City launches website to connect investors, techies — Digital.nyc will offer information for startups looking for investors, venture capitalists looking for the next big thing, and professionals hoping to land a job or take a class.

More: The Next Web, USA Today, eWeek, NY Daily News, TechCrunch, City of New York, Thoughts on Cloud, JP Updates, Gothamist, CNNMoney.com, VentureBeat and ZDNet

Loek Essers / Computerworld:

Google removes news snippets for some German sites after publishers sought cut of ad revenue — Google bows to pressure, removes news snippets from German search results — In a move to minimize legal risks, Google has stopped showing news snippets and thumbnails for some well-known German news sites in search results.

More: The Next Web

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Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

‘Twilight’ Will Be Revived via Short Films on Facebook — LOS ANGELES — Two years after Lions Gate released the fifth and supposedly final installment of its “Twilight” movie series, the studio has devised an unusual franchise-rekindling effort — and it may hold clues about Facebook's future in Hollywood.

More: The Technology Chronicles, AllFacebook, Variety, Inside Movies, Rolling Stone, CNNMoney.com, Daily Mail, Michael Roston, Guardian and Tubefilter

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Jeffrey Burt / eWeek:

Like Amazon, Rackspace patched and rebooted servers to fix Xen hypervisor flaw this weekend — Rackspace Joined Amazon in Patching, Rebooting Cloud Servers — Rackspace, like cloud competitor Amazon Web Services, was forced to reboot some of its servers after patching them to fix …

More: The Official Rackspace Blog, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Gigaom, Data Center Knowledge, PC World, Ars Technica, Talkin' Cloud and Datacenter Dynamics

David Harris / bizjournals:

Twitter to invest $10M in MIT social media research lab — Social media giant Twitter will invest $10 million over five years to support the newly launched Laboratory for Social Machines at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the aim of analyzing various trends across social media.

More: newsoffice.mit.edu, BetaBoston, The Next Web, The Boston Globe and Boston Magazine

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Comcast launches cloud DVR in San Francisco, lays foundation for a set-top box-free future — Comcast customers in the Bay Area now have two DVRs available to them: One in their living room, one in the cloud. Eventually, the one in the living room will disappear.

More: USA Today, The Verge, Multichannel News, PC World and The Technology Chronicles

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