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September 10, 2013, 1:40 AM

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Kevin Weil / Twitter Blog:

Driving mobile advertising forward: welcoming MoPub to the Flock — We're excited to announce that we've agreed to acquire MoPub, a mobile-focused advertising exchange. MoPub's technology lets mobile application publishers manage their inventory and optimize multiple sources of advertising …

More: MoPub, GigaOM, NYT Bits, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Internet2Go, ZDNet, Mashable, ITworld.com, The Next Web and Forbes

Tweets: @adambain, @adambain, @adambain and @adambain

TechCrunch:

Twitter Buys MoPub For $350M To Up The Ante In Mobile Advertising — MoPub, a startup that helps mobile publishers manage their ad inventory, has been acquired by Twitter, giving the social network another route into building its advertising business, specifically on moble platforms.

More: Los Angeles Times, Forbes, stratechery, Digiday, AdExchanger, Business Insider and Digits. Tweets: @michaelshafrir

Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal:

Apple's Latest iPhone Puts Focus Back on Fingerprint Security — SAN FRANCISCO—Apple Inc.'s latest product launch could breathe new life into a technology that failed to take hold the first time: fingerprint scanners. — Placing a finger on a computer or smartphone has long been proposed …

More: AppleInsider, The Verge, The Atlantic Wire, VentureBeat, CNET, MacRumors, Business Insider, everythingiCafe, iPhone in Canada Blog, PhoneArena, Cult of Mac and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @monkbent

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, and wildcards for tomorrow's Apple event — With Apple's media event scheduled for tomorrow, we have rounded up what Apple is likely due to introduce. We previously published a round-table of 9to5Mac author hopes for the event, but this roundup will focus on our specific expectations for the keynote address.

More: The Verge, Chitika Online Advertising …, AppleInsider, Mercury News, iMore, Gizmodo, Business Insider, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Yahoo! News, IntoMobile, Yahoo! News and Yahoo! News

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

Thinking about iPhone Pricing

More: AllThingsD, Daring Fireball, iPhone in Canada Blog, ParisLemon, TechCrunch and CE: The Magazine. Thanks:@monkbent

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft holding Surface 2 event on September 23rd in New York City — Microsoft is preparing to launch its next-generation tablets at an event in New York City on September 23rd. The software maker has emailed press invites to the media today, asking them to save the date for a Surface event.

More: ReadWrite, Touch Arcade, The Mac Observer, Examiner, PC Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, WinBeta, Digits, LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch and Business Insider

Tweets: @cwgabriel and @tomwarren

Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:

Surface 2: no “RT” branding, Tegra 4, 1080p, possible white model — Surface 2 Details Emerge — Surface RT no more, but still Windows RT on the inside where it counts — Less than a week after the first report about the next generation Surface Pro 2 tablet …

Ann-Christine Diaz / AdAge:

Apple Hires Creatives in Major Marketing Department Expansion — Move Comes Amid Industry Trend of More Marketers Bringing Agency Services In-House — Apple is looking for a few good creatives as it works to bring more of its advertising and marketing in-house.

More: Co.Design, PhoneArena, iMore, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, Mobile Marketing Watch, TUAW, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, Business Insider and MacNN

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

Arrington to grill Valley leaders at TechCrunch Disrupt over silence and complicity with NSA — (Trying To) Face Down The Evil At TechCrunch Disrupt — I'll be on stage in just a couple of hours at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. I'm interviewing a lot of people over the next three days …

More: TechCrunch, DailyFinance.com, TechCrunch and Valleywag

Tweets: @tcdisrupt and @caseynewton

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Crypto prof asked to remove NSA-related blog post — Matthew Green is a well-known cryptography professor, currently teaching in the computer science department of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Last week, Green authored a long and interesting blog post about the recent revelations …

More: Techdirt and ProPublica. Tweets: @matthew_d_green and @jschmeling

Nadia Damouni / Reuters:

Microsoft urged to put Ford Motor Co-CEO Alan Mulally, CSC CEO Mike Lawrie on CEO shortlist — Exclusive: Microsoft urged to put Mulally, Lawrie on CEO shortlist — (Reuters) - At least three of the top 20 investors in Microsoft Corp want a turnaround expert to succeed Steve Ballmer …

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

PayPal Debuts Its Newest Hardware, Beacon, A Bluetooth LE Enabled Device For Hands-Free Check Ins And Payments — One of David Marcus's biggest challenges when taking on the role of President of PayPal was extending the platform into point of sale, and making it easier to pay with PayPal than swiping your credit card.

More: PayPal: Forward, Digits, SlashGear, VentureBeat, eBay Inc, The Next Web, Engadget and GigaOM

Tweets: @joshelman and @gusfuldner

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google+ Launches Embeds, Starts To Highlight WordPress.com And TypePad Authors Who Sign In With Google+ In Search Results — Starting today, Google+ users will be able to embed their posts anywhere on the web. The new feature provides its users with the code needed to embed posts …

More: Google+ Developers Blog, The Verge, PC Magazine, Search Engine Land, Engadget, The Next Web, Marketing Land, Forbes, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat and ReadWrite. Thanks:@sethjs. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Glass update adds photo/screenshot Vignettes feature, YouTube videos in search results, and sound search

More: Google Glass, Geek.com, Engadget, 9to5Google and AllThingsD

Spiegel Online:

iSpy: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data — The US intelligence agency NSA has been taking advantage of the smartphone boom. It has developed the ability to hack into iPhones, android devices and even the BlackBerry, previously believed to be particularly secure.

More: Techdirt, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, CNET, PC World, iDownloadBlog.com, SiliconBeat and iClarified

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

NSA spies reportedly exploited iPhone location bug not fixed until 2011

More: Examiner. Tweets: @csoghoian

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:

LinkedIn CEO: We're aiming for 3B profiles and a map of the world's economy — SAN FRANCISCO — Today, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner spoke about his company's future, and his vision is absolutely huge in the scope of its ambition. — “Our longer-term vision is ... to build the world's first economic graph …

More: TechCrunch, ZDNet and CITEworld

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:

Moto X ‘Lazy Phone’ ads highlights ‘no touch’ interface, quick look camera — LOL. Great new ads by Motorola highlights the abilities of the Moto X to respond to voice commands without touching the device. Two more goodies below showing the shake to camera and quick look features. Both are great.

More: The Official Motorola Blog, The Verge, GigaOM, AdAge, Engadget, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Beat, 9to5Google, IntoMobile, Android Community, BGR, Softpedia News, Droid Life and TmoNews

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

New Nexus 7 32GB with LTE now available on Google Play in the US for $349 — Google promised a version of its Nexus 7 (2013) with LTE would be available in a few weeks, and today is the day. Those interested can pick up the 32GB tablet with a T-Mobile SIM (and 2GB of data service for one month) …

More: TmoNews, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, IntoMobile, The Next Web and Electronista

Alan Buckingham / BetaNews:

Roku brings video streaming to Android — So, you got that new Android phone that's capable of taking HD video, but your friends and family really do not care to watch your cinematography skills on a five-inch screen. The good news is that you may just have a certain streaming set-top box sitting right …

More: The Next Web, The Verge and TechHive

Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM:

Udacity teams up with Google, AT&T and other tech giants for Open Education Alliance — Udacity and other massive open online course (MOOC) providers may have mixed support among academics, but the Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup sure has a lot of allies in Silicon Valley.

More: Udacity Blog, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Engadget and VentureBeat

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Wilocity delivers 4K video over WiGig wireless home networking at blazing speeds — Two tech firms are demonstrating that they can deliver 4K video over a wireless network within the home at super-fast speeds. — Wilocity — Wilocity board — Wilocity and DisplayLink said they can demonstrate …

More: PC World, SlashGear, dailywireless.org, FierceBroadbandWireless News and Softpedia News

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic Recording — It's not just planar NAND that's running into physical limits lately. According to Seagate, its latest 1TB platter 3.5" drives have shrunk read/write heads as small as they can physically go.

More: Electronista and TechSpot

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 8.1 now available on MSDN and TechNet following developer complaints — Microsoft is reversing course today, allowing developers to download a final copy of Windows 8.1 ahead of its October 18th release. After originally announcing the finalization of the OS update last month …

More: Steve Guggenheimer, The Windows Blog, Ars Technica, ZDNet, The Register, gHacks Technology News, Ubergizmo, Engadget, AllThingsD, Business Insider, BetaNews, eWeek and TechCrunch

Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:

The Cloud Era Begins for Enterprise Tech — Let's say it: Last summer was the beginning of the end for the old guard in what is still the biggest part of technology - business spending on everything from servers to software. This fall begins a new competition for the hearts and minds of corporate customers.

Tweets: @benioff

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Cota By Ossia Aims To Drive A Wireless Power Revolution And Change How We Think About Charging — Wireless power. It's less sci-fi sounding than it once was, thanks to induction charging like that based on the Qi standard, but that's still a tech that essentially requires contact, if not incredibly close proximity.

More: Engadget. Tweets: @westonbetts. Thanks:@mjburnsy

Steven Musil / CNET:

BlackBerry said to ax dozens of jobs from US sales force — Embattled handset maker cut as much as half its sales force, according to published reports. — BlackBerry laid off dozens of people from it US sales force in another wave of layoffs at the embattled handset maker on Monday, according to published reports.

More: Digits, Cantech Letter, The Next Web and Investor's Business Daily

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