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September 20, 2013, 5:15 PM

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Apple: Demand for New iPhones Has Been “Incredible” — Apple said that Friday that it is sold out of some iPhone 5s models amid what it described as “incredible” demand. — “Demand for the new iPhones has been incredible and we are currently sold out or have limited supply of certain iPhone 5s models …

More: Forbes, Betabeat, Business Insider, iMore, AppleInsider, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Yahoo! News, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, everythingiCafe and IntoMobile

Tweets: @laurengoode and @rachelmetz

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

Apple CEO Tim Cook and SVPs Phil Schiller and Eddie Cue are at Palo Alto Apple Stores greeting iPhone buyers — Readers and Tweeters are reporting that Apple CEO Tim Cook is at the just upgraded Palo Alto Apple Store greeting new iPhone 5S and 5C buyers. Cook spoke highly of the new design …

More: TechCrunch, ZDNet, iMore, Globe and Mail, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com and I4U News

Tweets: @julipuli, @vadimspivak and @mattkellerabc7

Juro Osawa / Digits:

Apple Suppliers to Boost Gold iPhone Production — In Hong Kong, it's all about the Gold iPhone 5S. — Apple Inc. has asked its suppliers to increase production of the gold-colored iPhone 5S by an additional one-third after seeing strong demand, people familiar with the situation said.

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

iPhone 5C and 5S go on sale with gold in short supply (update) — Apple's latest iPhones are now on sale online worldwide and at retail stores across Europe and Asia, with a US retail launch scheduled for 8:00AM local time. If you're looking for a gold iPhone 5S, however, you may leave the Apple Store disappointed.

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iPhone 5s gets extended shipping times in Asia, Australia, and Europe as sales begin worldwide

More: Computerworld, Digits, InfoWorld, Ars Technica, Gotta Be Mobile, Los Angeles Times, Softpedia News, The Verge, TUAW, I4U News, IntoMobile, Business Insider, The Register, TechEye, ZDNet and Phones Review

MarketWatch:

Blackberry announces 4,500 layoffs, quarterly $950M loss, new enterprise focus — BlackBerry Announces Preliminary Second Quarter Fiscal 2014 Results and Provides Business Update — Company expects GAAP net operating loss of approximately $950 million to $995 million …

More: AllThingsD, BGR, Business Insider, New York Times, Engadget, CNBC, The Verge, Bloomberg, ReadWrite, ZDNet, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, Globe and Mail, Salon and ParisLemon

Tweets: @jonerlichman, @gaberivera, @nytimesbits, @asymco, @mattbuchanan, @johnpaczkowski and @stroughtonsmith

Nancy Gohring / CITEworld:

BlackBerry, in desperation, is giving up on consumers again

More: Guardian

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft: Phablets are Windows RT's future — Summary: The possible convergence between Windows RT and the Windows Phone OS may be closer than many thought, based on new hints from Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting. — The question arises again and again: Why is Microsoft continuing …

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, GeekWire, LiveSide.net, Softpedia News, GigaOM, Engadget, Neowin, Yahoo! News, InfoWorld, WindowsObserver.com, BGR, The Tech Report, PandoDaily, Engadget, WinBeta, pocketnow.com, TechEye and WMPoweruser. Tweets: @ngreader

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Ballmer calls Google a ‘monopoly’ that authorities should control — While Microsoft unveiled its new Bing logo and design this week, CEO Steve Ballmer opted to highlight his concerns over Google's business practices yesterday. During a presentation at Microsoft's financial analysts meeting …

More: Marketing Land, WMPoweruser, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, TechSpot and Inquirer. Tweets: @coreyspitzer

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

No Update on Microsoft CEO Search, but Company Divides in Five New Business Segments

More: The Verge, Reuters, The Atlantic Wire, ReadWrite and CITEworld

Tweets: @thurrott and @inafried

Scott Buscemi / 9to5Mac:

Apple TV 6.0 released with iTunes Radio, AirPlay from iCloud, iTunes Music Store, more — Everyone's favorite hockey puck “hobby” has received a huge software update today. Apple TV 6.0, which has been in beta testing since June, brings with it iTunes Radio, AirPlay from iCloud …

More: AllThingsD, The Verge, BGR, VentureBeat, iMore, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Engadget, The Next Web, TechSpot, internetretailer.com, Electronista, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Softpedia News, TUAW and The Mac Observer. Thanks:@swb1192. See also Mediagazer

Olivier Bonaventure:

Siri on iOS7 found communicating with Apple servers using Multipath TCP, an extended networking protocol — Apple seems to also believe in Multipath TCP — Multipath TCP is a TCP extension that allows a TCP connection to send/receive packets over different interfaces.

More: Quartz, AppleInsider, ITworld.com, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista and iMore. Tweets: @toddheberlein

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Chipworks: Apple's A7 Chip Made By Samsung, M7 Co-Processor By NXP

More: Chipworks Blog, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Digits, Macworld, Geek.com and 9to5Mac

iFixit:

iPhone 5s Teardown

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Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Twitter, First Tweet About Visiting Palo Alto Apple Retail Stores — Apple CEO Tim Cook has apparently joined Twitter with the username @tim_cook, with fellow Apple executive Phil Schiller retweeting him as a means of verification. The account was first created back in July, but today saw Cook's first tweet.

More: Business Insider, PC Magazine, ReadWrite, AppleInsider, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, AllThingsD, Mercury News and WebProNews

Tweets: @tim_cook, @stevestreza, @tristanwalker and @stevestreza

Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review:

Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts — Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts — A technique called deep learning could help Facebook understand its users and their data better. — WHY IT MATTERS

More: ReadWrite, Engadget, AllFacebook, Betabeat and Motherboard. Tweets: @techreview. Thanks:@tsimonite

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Vevo Will Block YouTube's Offline-Video Viewing Feature — Music video service Vevo, which is one of YouTube's top content suppliers, will not be allowing users to watch its videos through YouTube's mobile apps if they're not connected to the Internet. — A new feature for YouTube mobile apps …

More: The Verge, Ubergizmo, Engadget, Pocket-lint and ReelSEO Video Marketing

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Here's How YouTube's Offline Videos Will Work (Memo)

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's Surface 2 launch: What to expect — Summary: Microsoft is readying its next-generation Surface tablets and peripherals for launch on September 23. Here's what we know (and think we know) on specs, pricing and availability. — On Monday, September 23, Microsoft will be launching …

More: BGR, The Verge, WinBeta and Surface-Evangelist. Tweets: @maryjofoley

DealBook:

FireEye Prices I.P.O. at $20, Beating Heightened Expectations — FireEye, a provider of cybersecurity software, priced its initial public offering on Thursday at $20 a share, handily beating expectations. — Earlier this week, the company raised its price range to $15 to $17 a share.

More: Business Insider

Nathan Vardi / Forbes:

The Return Of The Hot IPO: FireEye and Rocket Fuel Shares Explode

More: VentureBeat and silicontap.com

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Senator Al Franken voices privacy concerns over Apple's Touch ID in letter to Tim Cook — Apple has gone out of its way to emphasize the secure, locked down nature of its Touch ID fingerprint scanning system, but Senator Al Franken still believes the technology “raises substantial privacy questions.”

More: Al Franken, support.apple.com, Computerworld, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Hillicon Valley, Associated Press and ZDNet

Tweets: @rhh and @lessien

TechCrunch:

Microsoft May Pay Up To $200M For SF's Secretive Osterhout Design Group In A Wearables Bet — Google may have glasses and Apple may be rumored to be making a smart watch. Now Microsoft may be effectively buying itself a wearables play by paying up to $200 million for a trove of assets …

More: The Verge, Computerworld and SlashGear

AllThingsD:

How Can You Miss Us If We Won't Go Away? — First things first: We're keeping the Steelcase hot-seat red chairs. Forever. In fact, we own quite a few now. — And we'll still be scooping and reviewing all things digital right here, at this Web address, for a few more months.

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Tweets: @delrey, @reckless, @counternotions, @stevenlevy, @dannysullivan and @mikeisaac

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