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Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:

Updating to iOS 9 and El Capitan partially mitigates AirDrop exploit on iOS and OS X; otherwise disable AirDrop until patch issued — One Great Reason To Update To iOS 9 - A Nasty Silent AirDrop Attack Is In Town — It's another big Apple AAPL -0.04% launch week with iOS 9 landing today …

More: Threatpost, Wired, BGR, Telegraph, Tech Times, Cult of Mac, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, Tech Insider, The Stack and Business Insider. Tweets: @jabolins

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

iOS 9 review: great multitasking support for newer iPads, searchable Settings, proactive Siri not as useful as Google Now — iOS 9, thoroughly reviewed — Apple gives the iPad a lot of love as iOS goes back into spit-and-polish mode. — iOS 8 wasn't the smoothest operating system rollout in Apple's history.

More: iMore, 9to5Mac, iMore, Search Engine Land, CNET, VentureBeat, Macworld, The Verge, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, ABC News, BGR, The Tech Report, CIO.com, MacRumors, Tech Times and OMARCAST

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases iOS 9 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch; many users reporting issue downloading the update — Apple releases iOS 9 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch — here's a full walkthrough of all the new features — After a few months in beta, Apple has today released iOS 9 to the world …

More: BGR, iMore, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Next Web, The Verge, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, O'Grady's PowerPage, Reuters and CNET. Thanks:@apollozac

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:

iOS 9 review: requires 1.3GB free space to install compared with iOS 8's 4.58GB; focuses on efficiency, not innovation — iOS 9 Review: An Upgrade That Will Save You Time — Efficiency tweaks make Apple's latest upgrade worthy—even if they were borrowed from Google, Samsung and Microsoft

More: AnandTech, MacStories, The Verge, Computerworld, BGR, The Overspill, International Business Times, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Tech Insider, Pixel Envy and NEWS.com.au

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Apple Delays Release Of watchOS 2 Due To Bug — Apple has delayed the release of watchOS 2, which was expected to be available today to owners of the Apple Watch. — “We have discovered a bug in development of watchOS 2 that is taking a bit longer to fix than we expected,” an Apple spokesperson told TechCrunch.

Re/code:

Sources: Apple acquires mapping analytics and visualization startup Mapsense for $25M-$30M — Apple Acquires Mapsense, a Mapping Visualization Startup — Apple's steady stealth campaign to rival Google in maps continues apace. This month, the company acquired Mapsense …

More: MacRumors, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, Seeking Alpha and iPhone in Canada Blog

Kashmir Hill / Fusion:

How to create a fake business with 19K Twitter followers, great Facebook and Yelp reviews, and an impressive online reputation in a few hours for less than $100 — I created a fake business and bought it an amazing online reputation — If you live in the Bay Area and have looked …

Tweets: @yelp and @kevinroose

Wall Street Journal:

Didi Kuaidi and Lyft in discussions with India's Ola and Singapore's GrabTaxi to expand ride share alliance internationally — Uber Rivals Form International Alliance — San Francisco's Lyft, China's Didi agree to allow their apps to work in respective countries

More: Business Insider, The Hill, Engadget, Wired, Fast Company, tech.co and TechNode

Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch:

Didi Kuaidi confirms $100M investment in Lyft; companies will share riders across countries

More: Lyft Blog, New York Times, The Next Web, CNET, CNNMoney, Tech in Asia, USA Today, Business Insider, VentureBeat, The Verge, Reuters, Re/code, Bloomberg Business, Financial Times, BuzzFeed, Entrepreneur and Phys.org

Paul Mozur / New York Times:

China asks US tech firms to pledge compliance for questionable practices including sharing user data and intellectual property — China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance From U.S. Tech Firms — HONG KONG — The Chinese government, which has long used its country's vast market as leverage …

More: GeekWire, International Business Times and Fortune

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Ahead of IPO Prep, Jack Dorsey Is Telling Key People He Won't Give Up Square CEO Role — It's looking more and more like Jack Dorsey is going to have two CEO jobs for the foreseeable future. — Dorsey — who is the CEO of Square as well as the interim CEO of Twitter …

More: Business Insider, Seeking Alpha and SFist

Diane Bartz / Reuters:

US Department of Justice approves Expedia's acquisition of Orbitz for $1.3B after six month investigation; EXPE up 5.6% in after-hours trading — Expedia, Orbitz win U.S. approval to merge — Online travel company Expedia Inc, the world's largest online travel services company by bookings …

Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:

French ride-hailing startup BlaBlaCar raises $200M from Insight, Lead Edge, and Swedish firm Vostock, at a valuation of about $1.5B — BlaBlaCar Valued at $1.5 Billion After New Funding Round — Fundraising at ride-sharing service signals growing activity for Europe startups

More: New York Times and Tnooz

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:

AT&T won't throttle unlimited data in congestion until users hit 22GB, an over 4x increase — AT&T today has revealed a slight change to how it is handling throttling users grandfathered into unlimited data plans. Up until today, AT&T has throttled unlimited data users when they hit 5GB of usage and are in a congested area.

Bloomberg L.P.:

Twitter and Bloomberg sign licensing deal increasing Twitter data available in terminals and offering a curated feed of financial tweets — Bloomberg and Twitter Sign Data Licensing Agreement — Bloomberg adds enhanced custom alerts and tools to its Twitter offering

More: TechCrunch and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

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