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September 24, 2012, 2:45 PM

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Apple:

iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales Top Five Million — Apple® today announced it has sold over five million of its new iPhone® 5, just three days after its launch on September 21, and more than 100 million iOS devices have been updated with iOS 6, the world's most advanced mobile operating system. iPhone 5 …

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Tweets: @asymco and @benedictevans

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple's 5 million iPhone 5 sales: What analysts are saying — First weekend sales set a record, but Wall Street found them disappointing — FORTUNE — Smartphone sales, like presidential debates, are a game of expectations — although in the case of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 5, it's one the analysts played but the not the company.

More: ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors, Business Insider, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, Know Your Cell, Redmond Pie and iDownloadBlog.com

Wall Street Journal:

Apple Gave Few Phones to Other Retailers — Apple Inc.'s AAPL -1.35% new iPhone 5 remained a hot item following the sales kickoff Friday, with customers flocking to stores to buy the new handset. But they seemed to have little luck finding the gadget at the Silicon Valley company's retail …

More: 9to5Mac, CNET and The Tech Block

Graham Spencer / MacStories:

Apple: iPhone 5 Sales Top Five Million Over Opening Weekend, 100 Million iOS Devices Updated To iOS 6

More: Examiner, Reuters, Know Your Cell and nbcnews.com. Tweets: @viticci

New York Times:

Foxconn Plant Closed After Riot, Company Says — SHANGHAI — Foxconn Technology, a major supplier to some of the world's electronics giants, including Apple, said it closed one of its large Chinese plants early Monday after police were called in to break up a fight among factory employees.

More: ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, M.I.C. Gadget, Forbes, TechSpot, Hillicon Valley, Gothamist and The Verge

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Apple supplier Foxconn: Production will resume tomorrow

More: MacRumors, The Next Web, Fortune, PC Magazine, The Tech Block, iPhone in Canada Blog and blog.chron.com

CNN:

Facebook raises fears with ad tracking — By Emily Steel in New York and April Dembosky in San Francisco — (Financial Times) — Facebook is working with a controversial data company called Datalogix that can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those products in stores.

More: The Verge, Inside Facebook, The Atlantic Wire, Mashable!, Pulse2 Technology …, madisonian.net, Marketing Land, City A.M., WebProNews and dailywireless.org

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Beloved email client Sparrow will get yet another post-acquisition update to support iPhone 5 — The much-loved email client Sparrow will be getting another compatibility update, adding support for the iPhone 5′s larger screen. The news came from a tweet by Sparrow founder Dom Leca today.

More: 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @domleca

David Breger / LinkedIn Blog:

Introducing Endorsements: Give kudos with just one click — On LinkedIn, you have many smart, talented, and skilled professional connections. Starting today, we are introducing Endorsements, a new feature that makes it easier to recognize them for their skills and expertise.

More: Marketing Land, ZDNet, Business Insider, The Next Web, TechCrunch, MarketingVox News & Trends, Mashable! and Computer Business Review

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Google shares hit all-time high — (Reuters) - Google Inc shares set an all-time high on Monday, with the Web giant's reliable advertising business back in vogue among Wall Street investors disenchanted with younger social media companies. — The stock reached $747.84 around noon eastern time …

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Google, VentureBeat and The Tech Block

Iain Marlow / Globe and Mail:

Flatlining user base spells end of RIM's growth story — A decade after Research In Motion Ltd. introduced its first smartphone, the tribe of BlackBerry users has stopped growing. — RIM is in the midst of a long-running slump in sales, but despite that, it has still managed to sell enough devices …

More: Betabeat, Ars Technica, SlashGear and WebProNews

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Apple warns ex-MobileMe users with 20GB free iCloud storage of ‘downgrade’ coming Sept. 30 — Apple has begun sending last-minute reminders to users currently enjoying 20GB of free iCloud storage, warning that from September 30, it will downgrade their accounts unless they take action.

More: CNET, Daring Fireball, TUAW, App Advice and Macgasm

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Intel Confirms Medfield x86 Chips Don't Support LTE Yet — But Says It Won't Be Long Coming — Intel's second bite at the smartphone market has been more akin to a gentle nibbling around the edges. At the end of last year the chipmaker teased a smartphone reference design running its Medfield x86 Atom SoC.

More: TechSpot, AndroidGuys, GSMArena Blog, Android News, Rumours …, Engadget and Gizmodo UK

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple TV updated to iOS 5.1, bringing Shared Photo Streams, AirPlay broadcasting and more — Apple has updated the Apple TV software to version 5.1, bringing along with it support for the new Shared Photo Streams introduced in iOS 6, as well as iTunes Account Sharing and other goodies, reports MacRumors.

More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, MacRumors and iDownloadBlog.com

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Groupon Has Bought Restaurant Reservations And Discount Provider Savored — Groupon continues its acquisition march to beef up its service and take itself beyond daily deals. Today it announced that it has bought Savored, a restaurant reservations and discount meal provider.

More: Business Wire, Forbes, The Next Web, AllThingsD, The Savored Blog and Groublogpon

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Frustrated with poor mobile sales, publishers blame ad agencies — Publishers are seeing mobile audiences growing fast - but revenue is yet to catch up, and it's the ad industry taking the blame. — Mobile makes up a fifth of reader traffic for 87 percent of publishers …

More: The Register and Beyond Search

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

eBay Debuts Setify, Its Own Pinterest-Like Tool To Share Collections Of Items — eBay has just debuted a new tool, called Setify, which allows users to basically allows people to create collections of items on eBay. — Setify, which is in private beta (but you can request an invitation) …

More: eBay Ink

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Facebook Mobile Payments Via Carrier Billing (And Bango) Now Live In U.S., UK And Germany — Another step ahead for Facebook's strategy to make more money out of its mobile business: the company is now accepting mobile payments for its mobile web service via carrier billing in the U.S. …

More: digitaltrends.com, The Next Web, CNET, VatorNews, AllFacebook, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Bango Newsroom, GigaOM, fiercemobilecontent.com and Inquirer

Rachel Metz / Technology Review:

Even Sleeping Smartphones Could Soon Hear Spoken Commands — Nuance is working with chipmakers on technology that would enable “persistent listening” apps. — Speech recognition software company Nuance is working with chip makers on how to build a chipset for a mobile device that would let users …

More: The Verge, TechSpot, DailyTech, Techland and Gizmodo

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Source: Apple Aggressively Recruiting Ex-Google Maps Staff To Build Out iOS Maps — Apple is going after people with experience working on Google Maps to develop its own product, according to a source with connections on both teams. Using recruiters, Apple is pursuing a strategy …

James Glanz / New York Times:

Data Centers in Rural Washington State Gobble Power — QUINCY, Wash. — Set in the dry hills and irrigated farmland of Central Washington, Grant County is known for its robust harvest of apples, potatoes, cherries and beans. But for Microsoft, a prime lure was the region's other valuable resource: cheap electrical power.

More: Forbes, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld, dailywireless.org, The Verge and Softpedia News

Paul Sloan / CNET:

Facebook's stock falls as Zuckerberg effect wears off — Shares of Faceboook are getting slammed today, reversing the rally that began after the CEO gave an upbeat talk. Barron's says the stock is worth $15. — Looks like the Facebook pessimism has returned.

More: bizjournals and Forbes. Tweets: @eldon

Peter Svensson / Associated Press:

Verizon says iPhone 5 won't be ‘relocked’ — You are here — Home » Verizon Communications Inc » Verizon says iPhone 5 won't be ‘relocked’ — NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon Wireless said Monday that it won't prevent its version of the iPhone 5 from being used on AT&T's network.

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