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September 6, 2015, 2:40 PM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iPhone 6s to have ‘3D Touch’ three-level, next-gen Force Touch interface  —  One of the cornerstone features of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, to be announced next Wednesday, is a screen based on the Force Touch technology from the latest MacBook trackpads and the Apple Watch.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Comcast tests letting Florida customers pay an extra $30 per month to avoid 300GB data cap  —  New Comcast innovation: A $30 charge to eliminate your data cap  —  Florida data cap trial limits users to 300GB unless they pay extra each month.  —  Comcast has unveiled a new $30 charge …
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Hachette, HarperCollins Publishers, and Simon & Schuster report declining revenues on ebooks after winning the right to set prices in deal with Amazon  —  E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contracts  —  E-book revenue is falling, and some people in the publishing industry say it is partly …
Bruce Einhorn / Bloomberg Business:
ZTE nearly doubles its US smartphone marketshare to 8% in the past 15 months through low-cost offerings, ranking it as the fourth largest smartphone maker in US  —  The Cheap Phones Quietly Winning the U.S.  —  China's once-embattled ZTE almost doubled its share in 15 months
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Robert Cookson / Financial Times:
YouTube to allow third parties to track and verify video ad views by the end of the year  —  YouTube to provide viewer data to advertisers  —  YouTube is preparing to allow companies to independently verify what proportion of the adverts they place on the video platform can be seen by viewers.
Alex Wagner / PhoneDog.com:
LG V10 leaks, said to have 5.7-inch display with auxiliary ‘ticker’ screen  —  The Samsung Continuum launched on Verizon in 2010 with a unique feature: a secondary ticker display beneath its main display.  We never saw a second Continuum, but new leaks have suggested that LG may be prepping a new device in the same vein.

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