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September 19, 2013, 1:10 PM

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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 …
USA Today:
Jony Ive: The man behind Apple's magic curtain  —  The reclusive and prolific Jony Ive, the man behind the Apple iPod, meets with USA TODAY for a rare interview about Apple's once and future mission  —  CUPERTINO, Calif. - The man who designed the iPod ponders the question with furrowed brow.
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 …
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?
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 …
Zach Honig / Engadget:
Google Wallet finally makes its iOS debut, sans NFC  —  Hey iPhone users, Google Wallet is here!  The payments app has finally arrived for iOS devices, bringing with it transfers to friends, loyalty card tracking and nearby offers.  Tap-to-pay is notably absent, as iOS devices don't support NFC …
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.
DealBook:
Nokia's Former Chief to Collect $25.5 Million From Microsoft Deal  —  It was Stephen Elop who, as Nokia's chief executive, deepened the Finnish telecommunications firm's ties to Microsoft by agreeing to bind itself to the Windows Phone operating system.  —  Now that Microsoft is buying full control …
Mahesh Sharma / TechCrunch:
Deliv Raises $6.85 Million To Bring Same-Day Delivery To A Store Near You  —  Investors have recently piled millions into same-day delivery startups such as New York's Zipments and San Francisco's PostMates, and now Palo Alto firm Deliv has become the latest beneficiary …
Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Simplenote reborn: the first great notes app is back  —  A brand new vision for iOS, Android, Mac, and web  —  Mike Johnston had an itch.  —  Simplenote, his once-beloved note-taking app, had been gathering dust for the better part of two years.  Johnston had been spending …
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: Softpedia News, The Verge, Mashable and Cult of MacTweets: @panzerThanks:@panzer
PC World:
Device-spanning Ubuntu Touch OS gets October 17 launch date  —  The audacious Ubuntu Edge smartphone crowdfunding experience may be dead, but the dream of merging phone and PC lives on.  Ubuntu Touch, the form factor-spanning mobile operating system intended to power the Edge …
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 …
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Watch Mark Zuckerberg Talk With Atlantic Editor in Chief James Bennet  —  Below, you can watch the full video of Atlantic Editor in Chief James Bennet's interview with Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder and CEO of Facebook, at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. Full editorial coverage is available …
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.
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 …
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.
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