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September 17, 2013, 2:50 PM

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Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:

Apple testing iOS 7.0.1, preparing iOS 7.1 - iPhone 5s supply ‘severely constrained’ — It's no secret Apple is working on newer versions of iOS 7 even before iOS 7 is released to the public. We're able to confirm this two ways: one is through multiple sources of ours and the second is, well, because we have one.

More: AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, Benedict Evans, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, InvestorPlace, pocketnow.com and Yahoo! News. Tweets: @markgurman

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Apple quiet on iPhone 5c pre-orders as stock price slides — Apple is clearly positioning the upcoming iPhone 5c as its next smartphone for the masses. The colored, plastic device is the first thing you see when visiting Apple.com or the company's iPhone page.

Nathan Olivarez-Giles / The Verge:

Google is done selling the Nexus 4 in the US — The Nexus 4's run in Google Play is now over. On Monday, Google's online storefront sold out of the 16GB version of the flagship phone in the US, and a trusted source with knowledge of the company's plans tells The Verge that this marks the end for the LG-built device.

Matt Brian / Engadget:

Apple offering ‘last compatible version’ of iOS apps for older hardware — With iOS 7 arriving tomorrow, Apple is extending some love to the owners of older iOS devices that have been left behind. New compatibility features, first spotted on Reddit, will now kick into action if you attempt …

More: Richter's Rants, The Next Web, The Verge, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, ReadWrite, GigaOM, Lifehacker, VentureBeat, iMore, pocketnow.com, Macgasm, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleTell, App Advice, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear, TechCrunch, MobileBurn.com, Softpedia News, TUAW, MacNN and iLounge. Tweets: @cpytel

Jamie Rigg / Engadget:

Amazon adds AirPlay streaming, IMDb integration to Instant Video iOS app — There are many ways to get a leg-up in the online content war, and one of them is to make sure your services are easy to use with competitor hardware. To that end, an update to the Amazon Instant Video app for iOS …

More: The Verge, GigaOM, Inside Mobile Apps, TechCrunch, iMore, VentureBeat, TechHive, MacRumors, TechSpot, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, IntoMobile, AppleInsider, MacNN and TUAW. Tweets: @reckless

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

As Amazon Preps Its Apple TV Killer, It Plays Nicely With Apple TV

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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Initiates Massive $40 Billion Share Buyback Program — Shortly before market opening, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced a new massive buyback program as well as a dividend increase. The new buyback program comes after the expiration of a previous $40 billion program that is set to expire on September 2013.

More: Microsoft, BBC, GeekWire, CNNMoney.com, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Forbes, VentureBeat, Electronista, ZDNet, Bloomberg and Softpedia News

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Bing gets a new logo and modern design to take on Google — Microsoft's Bing search engine is getting a new look. A year in the making, Bing is dropping its curly blue logo for a modern design that closely matches the rest of Microsoft's recently redesigned product branding.

Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD:

New Google Wallet App Moves Past NFC and to All Major Carriers. iPhone Version on Tap? — Google is launching a new version of its Google Wallet app for Android today and there are some big changes. — Most notably, the app will now be available on all Android devices running version 2.3 …

More: Google Commerce, Ars Technica, TechHive, SiliconBeat, Computerworld, GeekWire, Internet2Go, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo and Softpedia News

Alistair Barr / USA Today:

Google looking to replace third-party cookies with new anonymous identifier AdID — Google eyes big change in online tracking for ads — Google is developing an anonymous identifier for advertising, or AdID, that would replace third-party cookies as the way advertisers track people's …

More: Marketing Land and ECPM BLOG. Tweets: @csoghoian

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit — Most business owners sued by patent trolls don't talk about it to anyone other than their lawyer; a typical response is to cross one's fingers and hope the problem goes away. It won't, of course.

More: TechCrunch and Softpedia News. Tweets: @jeffjarvis, @dangillmor and @cdixon

Associated Press:

Experts see potential perils in Brazil push to break with US-centric Internet over NSA spying — RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous …

More: Gizmodo, Examiner and Web Host Industry Review

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

“That's The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Heard Of.” — When Twitter broke the news last week about its forthcoming IPO, I got a bit sentimental. In 2006, when Twitter was entering the world as a side project of the podcasting startup Odeo, I had just left my first “career” in the film industry to try to make it in the tech industry.

Tweets: @jbruin, @heif and @dtrinh

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

YouTube starts testing Chromecast support for third-party websites — YouTube quietly started to add support for Chromecast to its embedded web player, allowing users of Google's TV dongle to beam videos displayed on third-party websites straight from their browser to their TV.

More: SlashGear, WebProNews, ReelSEO Video Marketing, Softpedia News and Engadget

Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits:

Tiger Global and Iconiq Capital invest $75M in WordPress.com creator Automattic — Tiger Global Ups Investment in Creator of WordPress.com — Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic, doesn't feel any pressure to take his Web publishing company public. — With friends like Tiger Global Management, why would he?

More: Matt Mullenweg and AllThingsD. See also Mediagazer

Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:

Facebook and Twitter Blocked Again in Iran After Respite — TEHRAN — Internet users in Iran lost access Tuesday to Facebook and Twitter, a day after they were surprised to find that they could get on the sites without having to evade a government's firewall that had blocked direct access to the Web sites for years.

More: Quartz, The Verge, Reuters, Digits, Associated Press, Reuters, CNET, AllThingsD, BBC, Reuters, Hillicon Valley, AllFacebook, Nextgov, WebProNews, T3 News, SocialTimes, Valleywag, Mashable, Business Insider, Digits, GigaOM, BuzzFeed, ABC News, TechCrunch, Nextgov and The Verge

Tweets: @israelinusa and @washingtonpost

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