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August 8, 2015, 10:35 AM

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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 …

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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

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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business:

Twitter Board Said to Consider Shuffle Including Costolo Exit — Twitter Inc.'s board is a considering a shakeup that may involve the departure of former Chief Executive Officer Dick Costolo, people with knowledge of the matter said. — The changes, which could be announced when the company names …

More: Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Tech Times and International Business Times. Tweets: @sarahfrier

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 …

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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.

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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 …

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 …

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

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: Tech Times, CNET, The Hill, CIO.com, SC Magazine, Consumerist, Reuters and ValueWalk. Tweets: @jordanr1000

Lance Whitney / CNET:

Microsoft releases Translator, an app that translates typed or spoken words in 50 languages, for iOS, Android, Apple Watch and Android Wear — Microsoft challenges Google with its own translator app — The new app is covering all the bases, launching for iOS, Android and even the Apple Watch and Android Wear smartwatches.

More: Microsoft Translator Team Blog, TechnoBuffalo, TrustedReviews, TechRadar.com, The Verge, The Next Web, Droid Life, FierceMobileIT News, MobileBurn.com, iDownloadBlog.com, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, Fortune and Ubergizmo

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: Fast Company, Motherboard and PCMag Asia Feed

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