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September 19, 2013, 9:55 AM

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Sam Grobart / Businessweek:

Apple Chiefs Discuss Strategy, Market Share—and the New IPhones — Apple's doomed. — This is what you hear and read. Sure, it was a hell of a run—iPhone, iPad, all that—but it's about to end, and fast. If you need any proof, just look at China: the world's largest smartphone market …

More: DailyFinance.com, The Verge, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Daring Fireball, 9to5Mac, GigaOM, Softpedia News, MacDailyNews, MobileSyrup.com and Mashable

Tweets: @tim, @chrisnuttall, @jimaley, @danieleran, @benedictevans, @charlesarthur and @ajs

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple CEO Tim Cook Says The Windows/Mac Comparison To Android/iOS Doesn't Fit — In a new interview published by Businessweek this morning, wherein Sam Grobart sits down with Apple CEO Tim Cook, and SVPs Craig Federighi and Jony Ive, Cook comments on a number of things …

More: Business Insider

Brad Reed / BGR:

Apple CEO Cook: ‘We never had an objective to sell a low-cost phone’ — Tim Cook is sorry if you're disappointed that the iPhone 5c isn't a budget phone aimed at consumers in emerging markets but he never meant to give you the impression that it would be. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek …

More: Yahoo! News

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

HP fills out its tablet lineup with four Android slates and two Windows models — When HP announced its first Android tablet, the Slate 7, we were surprised (and a little disappointed) to see the company attacking the low end of the market. Where were the high-end tablets, we wondered?

More: LAPTOP Magazine, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Verge, AndroidHeadlines.com, Gotta Be Mobile and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @m4tt

Dann Berg / The Verge:

HP's new gesture-control laptop is the first with Leap Motion — Touchscreens are now fairly standard in Windows 8 notebooks, but HP's new Envy 17 Leap Motion SE has integrated yet another type of input: touchless. The Envy has Leap Motion's gesture recognition technology built directly into the palmrest …

More: Engadget, PC World, Gizmodo, LAPTOP Magazine, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, San Francisco Chronicle, The Next Web, The Technology Chronicles and Electronista

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Apple Reinvents Its Wheel With iOS 7, Takes Developers Along For The Ride — Today brings the release of the most dramatic iOS update that Apple has ever made. More people will experience this change in a shorter period of time than at any point in computing history.

More: Cult of Mac. Tweets: @panzer. Thanks:@panzer

Chris Welch / The Verge:

iOS 7 now available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

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David Pierce / The Verge:

iOS 7 review: a new look or a new beginning?

More: SiliconANGLE, The Register, Ars Technica, MacRumors, TechHive, 9to5Mac, LAPTOP Magazine and TUAW. Tweets: @davezatz

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Before and after: The best iOS 7 app redesigns (Updating)

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BBC:

Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85 — Hiroshi Yamauchi, the Japanese businessman credited with transforming Nintendo into a world-leading video games company, has died aged 85. — Mr Yamauchi ran the firm for 53 years, and was its second-largest shareholder at the time of his death.

More: Digits, The Verge, Gamasutra, WebProNews, MTV Multiplayer and destructoid. Tweets: @zeigor

Will Connors / Wall Street Journal:

BlackBerry to Slash Its Workforce by Up to 40% — TORONTO—BlackBerry Ltd. is preparing to make deep staff cuts by the end of the year via layoffs that could cost up to 40% of its employees their jobs, people familiar with the matter said. — The layoffs will cut across all departments …

Google:

Google announces Calico, a new company focused on health and well-being — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - September 18, 2013 - Google today announced Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.

TIME:

Google vs. Death

More: TIME, Valleywag, Search Engine Roundtable, Wired, CNNMoney.com, InfoWorld, AndroidHeadlines.com, Betabeat, Pocket-lint, The Atlantic Wire, Android Authority and TechHive

Tweets: @levie, @fmanjoo, @paleofuture, @levie and @carr2n

Donny Halliwell / Inside BlackBerry:

BBM Available for Android on September 21 and iPhone on September 22 — That's right BBM fans — the iconic mobile social network will begin rolling out for Android and iPhone customers around the world from September 21. Soon, you'll be able to easily connect with friends on different platforms.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Gartner: 102B App Store Downloads Globally In 2013, $26B In Sales, 17% From In-App Purchases — Ongoing trends in smartphone adoption — which this year finally outnumbered the amount of non-smartphones getting purchased — will drive 102 billion app store downloads this year …

More: Gartner, eWeek, ZDNet, The Next Web, Guardian and memeburn

Bloomberg:

Staples, RadioShack Yank Amazon Lockers from Stores — Staples Inc. (SPLS) and RadioShack Corp. (RSH) have removed Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) lockers from their stores after the partnership failed to meet expectations. — The retailers began testing a system last year in which Amazon shoppers …

More: The Verge, GigaOM, Electronista, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Digits, SlashGear and GeekWire

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft now offers up to $350 in iPhone/iPad trade-in promotion, adds Android and BlackBerry devices — Microsoft ups the ante on its iPhone, iPad trade-in promotion — Summary: A new Microsoft Corporate Buyback promotion, seemingly open to anyone, allows users to get up to $350 to use …

More: MSDN Blogs, Digital Trends, InvestorPlace, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser, The Next Web and WinBeta

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Despite Google's protests, the MPAA still says Search is a pirate's paradise — The MPAA isn't buying Google's argument that search isn't keeping pirate sites in business, and now it says it has the data to prove it. Today, the organization published a report analyzing how people got to a series of infringing sites.

More: Inquirer, Guardian, Digits, Softpedia News, Disruptive Competition Project, Search Engine Land, Deadline.com and Wall Street Journal. See also Mediagazer

Douglas MacMillan / Tech Deals:

Decade-Old StumbleUpon Finds Profits in the Mobile Era — Since StumbleUpon debuted more than a decade ago, the online bookmarking service has never had its breakout Facebook or Pinterest moment. The startup quietly chugged along with a loyal fan base and steady sales trickle.

More: Marketing Land

Matt McGee / Marketing Land:

Google Glass Not Expected To Reach Europe For Years — Google's slow rollout of Google Glass, not to mention one big technical challenge, means it'll be years before the device is available publicly in Europe. — That's what two reports are saying after Google hosted a show-and-tell about Glass in Brussels on Monday.

More: ZDNet, BetaKit, Digital Trends, Real Time Brussels, AndroidHeadlines.com, EurActiv and Softpedia News

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Killer app: why do anonymous Q&A networks keep leading to suicides? — Ask.fm could have learned from Formspring's mistakes — but didn't — Teens bullied through an anonymous question-and-answer site. A spate of suicides among the young people who used it.

Tweets: @krelnik

Josh Lowensohn / CNET:

Apple quietly doubles cellular app download limit to 100MB — Users can now download over-the-air iTunes and App Store content up to 100MB in size, up from the previous 50MB limit. — Alongside iOS 7's arrival today, Apple has quietly doubled the size of apps users can download while away from Wi-Fi.

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, TUAW, PhoneArena, TechCrunch, Engadget, Touch Arcade, MacNN and Gizmodo. Tweets: @applespotlight

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Dish wins again: federal judge in New York refuses to ban Hopper — Judges aren't buying the broadcasters' argument that Hopper ad-skipping tech violates their copyright — Dish and the company's Hopper DVR won another important round against the top broadcasters today.

More: Hollywood Reporter, Techdirt, GigaOM, Electronista and DSLreports. See also Mediagazer

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Ex-Facebookers' Mobile App, Shadow Puppet, Brings Voice Narrative to Photo Sharing — A picture, it has been said, is worth a thousand words. — But what if sometimes that isn't enough? — This occasional deficiency of sorts is the proposition behind Shadow Puppet …

More: SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, TechCrunch and Forbes. Thanks:@davedonohue

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