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September 17, 2015, 5:55 PM

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Lauren Goode / The Verge:
Amazon announces updated Fire TV with Alexa and 4K support for $100, Fire TV Stick and voice remote bundle for $50, all shipping in October  —  Amazon's answer to Apple TV: a Fire TV box with Alexa and 4K video support  —  Last week Apple sucked up most of the air in the tech press with its newest gadgets …
Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:
Amazon announces $50 7" Fire tablet, available in a six-pack for $250, and updated versions of Fire HD 8, HD 10, Kids Edition tablets, all shipping in October  —  Amazon introduces a slew of cheap tablets starting at $50, upgraded Fire TV  —  New devices include a bargain basement 7-inch tablet, as predicted.
Andy Mitchell / Facebook Media:
Facebook launches Signal, a discovery and curation tool for journalists to find and embed content from Facebook and Instagram  —  Introducing Signal for Facebook and Instagram  —  We've heard from journalists that they want an easy way to make Facebook a more vital part of their newsgathering …
Susan Decker / Bloomberg Business:
Federal appeals court rules Apple was entitled to block Samsung from using Apple's patented slide-to-unlock, autocorrect, and quicklinks features  —  Apple Wins Ruling to Force Samsung to Change Products  —  Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling that may force Samsung Electronics Co …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Independent publishers are collateral damage in the war over ad revenues between Google, Apple, and Facebook  —  Welcome to hell: Apple vs Google vs Facebook and the slow death of the web  —  So let's talk about ad blocking.  —  You might think the conversation about ad blocking …
Cade Metz / Wired:
Software needed to run every Google internet service spans 2B lines of source code, all in a single repository available to all 25K engineers  —  Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It's All in One Place  —  How big is Google?  We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Carly Fiorina's record as CEO at HP assailed during second Republican debate  —  Trump and Fiorina pummel each other over business record  —  The two CEOs on the Republican debate stage — Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina — took turns thrashing each other's business records …
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Husain Sumra / MacRumors:
T-Mobile and Sprint to Start Selling Apple Watch on September 25  —  While T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced last week that the carrier would begin selling the Apple Watch he did not provide a specific release date.  MacRumors has learned that T-Mobile will begin selling the Apple Watch on September 25.
Bloomberg Business:
Amazon advises its Webstore users to switch to Shopify before Amazon shuts down Webstore; Shopify shares surge 24%  —  Shopify Surges as Much as 24% After Partnership With Amazon  —  Amazon advises merchants to move to Shopify's retail software  —  Stock had already increased 70 percent since going public
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Snapchat signs one-year deal with NFL, will curate Live Stories including league and fan content; both Snapchat and NFL will sell ads and split revenue  —  Snapchat Inks NFL Deal to Bring Football Into Its Live Stories  —  Are you ready for some football?  Snapchat is!
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Malicious Cisco router backdoor found on 79 more devices, 25 in the US  —  SYNful Knock implant appears to be much bigger than first reported, researchers say.  —  The highly clandestine attacks hitting Cisco Systems routers are much more active than previously reported.
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Larry Dignan / ZDNet:
Adobe reports better-than-expected Q3 earnings of $174.5M, revenue of $1.22B on subscription growth amid exec changes  —  Adobe's Q3 shines, Creative Cloud hits 5.3 million subs amid exec changes  —  Adobe's Creative Cloud hits its stride and the Marketing Cloud also delivers as the company's outlook and third quarter were strong.
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Marco Arment launches Peace, a $2.99 privacy-focused content blocker for iOS 9 that uses Ghostery's robust tracker database  —  Introducing Peace, my privacy-focused iOS 9 ad blocker  —  Running the Ghostery browser add-on in my Mac browsers has been illuminating:

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