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October 13, 2014, 12:50 PM

Top News

Apple:
iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus Arrive in 36 More Countries and Territories This Month  —  Apple's Fastest-Ever iPhone Rollout Includes India, Mexico, South Korea & Thailand  —  Apple® today announced that iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, the biggest advancements in iPhone history …
John Paczkowski / Re/code:
No Retina MacBook Air at Thursday Apple Event  —  // HAPPENING TODAY  — Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference kicks off in San Francisco.  — The November issue of Vogue China hits newsstands with Apple's iWatch on its cover.  —  Retina MacBook Air Rumors to Continue for Foreseeable Future
Matt Clinch / CNBC:
Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb blames Apple for the country's credit rating downgrade  —  How Apple prompted this country's downgrade  —  Finland's Prime Minister Alexander Stubb says the iPhone killed the once-dominant Nokia and the iPad killed the country's paper industry …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple Pay setup detailed & retailers begin training as service launches at Apple HQ  —  The launch of Apple Pay, Apple's NFC and Touch ID-based mobile payment solution, is upon us.  Apple has begun preparing for the launch by kicking off Apple Pay training programs for its own group …
Fred Pals / Bloomberg:
Dutch police arrested, will fine four drivers in Amsterdam for using Uber app to provide taxi services  —  Dutch Police Arrest Drivers Using Uber App in Amsterdam  —  Dutch police arrested four drivers in Amsterdam early Sunday after they were found to be improperly using the Uber app for taxi services …
More: Engadget and Gigaom
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Reddit's general manager Erik Martin departs following $50M raise  —  One of Reddit's longest employees, Erik Martin, has decided to depart from his position as general manager after six years with the company.  —  Martin, who made the news official in a tweet this morning …
More: The Verge
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Snapsaved confirms their site was breached, 500 MB of Snapchat images affected, no personal info leaked  —  Third-party Snapchat site claims pics were hacked from server  —  Developers behind Snapsaved.com, which stores Snapchat pictures, claim user photos were stolen …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Delivery Hero Buys Brazil's Subdelivery As It Beefs Up In Asia And LatAm  —  Delivery Hero, the startup that is now valued at over $1 billion and is raising a lot of cash to compete heavily against the likes of Just-Eat and FoodPanda in the food delivery market outside the U.S. …
Tor Ekeland / Wired:
US should follow UK and Ireland in meting out punishment to hackers that is proportional to the harm they cause  —  America Must End Its Paranoid War on Hackers  —  “How did you get caught?”  I ask Darren Martyn, aka Pwnsauce, the former member of LulzSec.  —  “Bad Opsec.  Really, really bad Opsec,” he says.
Wall Street Journal:
Ireland Considers Closing Corporate-Tax Loophole  —  Multinationals Gird for Possible ‘Double Irish’ Changes; Google, Facebook Would Be Affected  —  Multinational companies are bracing for their last serving of the “Double Irish.”  —  Ireland is expected on Tuesday to announce changes …
More: Guardian

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