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John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:

Sources: Apple to hold an event on September 9 to unveil new iPhones, iPads, and Apple TV — Apple's Fall iPhone Event To Be Held Sept. 9 — Oh, one more thing: Apple TV. — BuzzFeed/ Warner Bros. — Apple hasn't yet officially announced its annual fall media event …

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Verizon eliminates subsidized phones and contracts, offers 4 plans with 1-12GB of data for $30-80 per month and a $20 per month smartphone access fee — Verizon kills off service contracts, smartphone subsidies — In a radical shift, the company will only offer new plans …

More: Verizon Wireless, Re/code, TechCrunch, BGR, ABC News, Pocketables, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, BetaNews, SiliconBeat, Engadget, InvestorPlace, Android Authority, Macworld, TechSpot, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Seeking Alpha, TmoNews, MacRumors, Tech Insider, 9to5Google, PhoneDog.com, iPhone Hacks and The Wirecutter

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Bloomberg Business:

Square IPO bankers make preparations in case Jack Dorsey leaves to be full-time Twitter CEO — Dorsey's Dilemma: Running Twitter Seen Complicating Square IPO — Jack Dorsey, co-founder and interim CEO of Twitter Inc. and founder and chief executive officer of Square Inc. Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg

More: TechCrunch, tech.co, VentureBeat and Business Insider

Tweets: @sacca, @davidbyttow, @mdudas, @sarahfrier and @ow

Daniel Veditz / Mozilla Security Blog:

Firefox file-stealing exploit found in the wild, Mozilla issues security update patching the vulnerability — Firefox exploit found in the wild — Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched …

Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

Sources: European Commission failed to find evidence of collusion between Apple and major music labels to quash free music streaming services — EU Finds No Evidence of Apple and Music Labels Colluding to Kill Free Music — The European Commission failed to find evidence of collusion among …

More: VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider and iMore. See also Mediagazer

Thomas Mulier / Bloomberg Business:

NPD: Apple helped US watch sales fall 14% in June, the biggest drop in seven years — Apple Helps Push U.S. Watch Sales to Biggest Drop in Seven Years — U.S. watch sales fell the most in seven years in June, one of the first signs Apple Inc.'s watch is eroding demand for traditional timepieces.

More: AppleInsider, internetretailer.com, TechCrunch, Office Blogs, PCMag Asia Feed, Wearable Tech Insider, bizjournals, iPhone in Canada Blog, TIME, International Business Times and Patently Apple

Emily Dreyfuss / Wired:

LG joins Samsung and Google in committing to monthly security updates for its devices — Big Android Makers Will Now Push Monthly Security Updates — The Stagefright bug has quickly frightened cell phone manufacturers into action. It's been just over a week since researchers alerted …

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Dozens of retailers, including Home Depot and Amazon, pull more than 100 brands from Jet.com, after it placed links to their sites without permission — Jet.com Runs Into Turbulence With Retailers — Home Depot, L'Oreal and others pull brands from new discount website

More: PCMag Asia Feed, Motherboard and Fast Company

Tweets: @mdudas and @bgurley

Bloomberg Business:

American Airlines, Sabre Said to Be Hit in Hacks Backed by China — A group of China-linked hackers that has mowed through the databanks of major American health insurers and stolen personnel records of U.S. military and intelligence agencies has struck at the heart of the nation's air-travel system …

More: CNET, The Hill, CSO, SC Magazine, Consumerist and ValueWalk. Tweets: @jordanr1000

Ellen Huet / Forbes:

Sidecar, trailing behind Uber and Lyft, becomes mainly a delivery service for other businesses — Sidecar Puts Passengers Aside, Pivots To A Mostly-Deliveries Company — The U.S. ride-hailing market may have room for two players, but apparently not for three.

Tweets: @sunilpaul

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Maps adds Night Mode to iOS, providing a darker color scheme for directions at night — Google Maps' “Night Mode” Feature Makes It Easier To Navigate In The Dark — A new update to the Google Maps iOS application promises to make it easier to navigate when it's dark outside …

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Twitter hires developer of popular Android Twitter app Falcon, Joaquim Vergés — The developer of the best Android app for Twitter works for Twitter now — The man behind one of Twitter's best third-party Android clients has been hired by Twitter itself.

More: BetaNews, Engadget, Android Police, Android Central, Android Beat and Android and Me

Tweets: @joenrv, @joenrv, @joenrv and @caseynewton

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