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September 6, 2013, 8:55 PM

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Amir Efrati / jessica lessin:
Exclusive: Amazon Wants To Offer Its Smartphone for Free.  Who Will Follow?  —  Which technology giant will be the first to offer a free smartphone?  Amazon.com Inc. is making a play.  —  In a previously unreported move, the online retailer and Kindle maker is considering introducing …
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Techmeme is now writing its own headlines  —  Right now there's a headline on Techmeme written by our news editors.  Our more familiar readers know why this is noteworthy: from the time we launched in 2005 until yesterday, our content consisted entirely of quotes.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple Won't Introduce New Apple TV Box Next Week, Will Upgrade Software  —  There are very, very good odds you're going to hear about new iPhones at Apple's event next Tuesday.  —  But if you're looking for a new Apple TV, you're going to be disappointed.  —  Despite speculation …
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple's OS X Mavericks release planned for end of October  —  Apple plans to release its next Mac operating system, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, at the end of October, according to sources with knowledge of the launch plans.  —  This comes despite claims and speculation that Apple will release OS X Mavericks …
Wall Street Journal:
Apple Plans to Ship Less-Expensive iPhone to China Mobile  —  Move Signals a Long-Awaited Deal Is In Place  —  Apple Inc. is preparing to ship iPhones to China Mobile Ltd., people familiar with the matter say, an indication that a long-awaited deal between the two companies is in place.
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Google tells Washington Post it's stepping up encryption rollout between data centers  —  Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying  —  Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world, in a bid to thwart snooping by the NSA …
Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:
Judge lays down Apple's punishment in ebooks case.  It's largely in line with what the feds wanted  —  After weeks of back-and-forth between the Department of Justice and Apple, the federal judge overseeing the ebooks antitrust case issued an injunction against Apple in a filing released Friday.
Brad Molen / Engadget:
LG Nexus 5 with LTE makes probable appearance in FCC (update: 5-inch display, Snapdragon 800)  —  The oft-rumored Nexus 5 is turning into quite a riddle.  If you've been following the saga, there has been no shortage of drama in recent memory.  Most recently we saw a Google employee snapping pictures …
Paul Graham / Y Combinator:
YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too  —  We just opened applications for the winter 2014 Y Combinator batch, and we're happy to announce that there's something new this time: an application form for nonprofits.  We're going to start including nonprofits in every YC batch.  We'd been thinking about this for a while.
More: PandoDaily and The Next WebTweets: @marshallk
Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:
Thanks to a new chip, the Galaxy Note 3′s huge screen won't kill its battery  —  The charge on the Galaxy Note 3 is going to last a lot longer than you think - and not just because of the slightly larger battery Samsung is shipping with the handset.  Buried within the radio guts …
More: eWeek, Geek.com and TechHiveThanks:@kfitchard
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