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September 27, 2013, 6:30 PM

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Samantha Murphy Kelly / Mashable:

Apple Feature to Turn MLB Stadiums Into Interactive Playgrounds — Major League Baseball is launching a major initiative to make attending games at stadiums a completely interactive experience for fans. — Taking advantage of Apple's iBeacon indoor mapping, a new feature in iOS 7 …

More: AppleInsider, GigaOM, iClarified, iLounge, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, iMore, 9to5Mac, App Advice, TUAW, MacNN and Stuart Henshall

Russell Holly / Geek.com:

Google Glass XE10 update to finally open the door to Glassware apps — Google Glass is about to get one of its biggest updates yet. That's right, Glass is finally getting the long-awaited ability for users to install third party apps. — Google's wearable computer has improved dramatically since …

More: GigaOM, Android Authority, SlashGear, SlashGear, Android Community and 9to5Google

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft now wants to buy your iPhone for at least $200 — After offering at least $200 for an iPad, Microsoft is now looking to buy iPhones for the same price or more. The company's latest promotion at its Microsoft Stores, which was previously rumored, will run until November 3rd …

More: The Register, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Windows Phone Central and Ubergizmo

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft expanding Office's reach with ‘Reader’ for Windows 8 and ‘Lens’ for Windows Phone — Microsoft is building another Office Windows 8-style application. Sources familiar with Microsoft's Office plans have revealed to The Verge that the app, codenamed Office Reader …

More: WindowsITPro, The Next Web, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Pureinfotech Newsletter, WinBeta, Electronista and WMPoweruser

David Meyer / GigaOM:

Samsung: We don't region-lock our phones (apart from when you first activate them) — Samsung shed further light on its region-locking policies on Friday, explaining that the locks only affect users the first time they activate the handset. The manufacturer also said the locks apply …

More: The Register, Digital Trends, ExtremeTech, Mashable, ZDNet, Inquirer, Yahoo! News, Guardian and Softpedia News. Tweets: @gigaom

VentureBeat:

Google Glass competitor ships 50K devices, takes Intel investment, hints at Apple connection — Google Glass competitor Recon, which sells the Recon Jet heads-up display and bills itself as the Google Glass for athletes and professionals, has secured an investment from Intel Capital.

More: AllThingsD, eWeek, CNET, Glass Almanac, ZDNet, bit-tech.net and MacDailyNews

Paul Thurrott / WindowsITPro:

Delta to Distribute Surface 2 to Pilots — Original plan was to use the Nokia Windows RT tablet — Delta will distribute Microsoft Surface 2 tablets to its pilots and not Nokia's “Sirius” tablet as originally planned. The move comes in the wake of a deal to distribute Nokia Lumia 820 smart phones …

More: The Verge, GeekWire, AppleInsider, Engadget, SlashGear, Examiner, Cult of Mac, Softpedia News, iClarified, Windows Phone Central and WinBeta

Bloomberg:

HTC to Sell Back Stake in Beats Electronics for $265 Million — HTC Corp. (2498), the Taiwanese smartphone vendor whose stock has plunged 90 percent since 2011, is selling its remaining stake in headphone maker Beats Electronics LLC for $265 million. — HTC will close the sale …

More: Wall Street Journal, DealBook, Engadget, The Verge, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, WMPoweruser, Macgasm, GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Straits Times, Android Beat and hypebot

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Apple's German patent suit shut down by a 2007 video of Steve Jobs — A German court has declared an early Apple photo-management patent invalid because of evidence in a video in which Steve Jobs presented the original iPhone back in January 2007. — Apple had won injunctions against both Samsung …

More: FOSS Patents, Computerworld, PC Magazine, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, TechEye, MacNN, TUAW and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @wimbet

Walter Frick / Harvard Business Review:

If Crowdfunding is the New Day Trading, Look Out — Paul Volcker famously said the only financial innovation to improve society in recent memory was the ATM. Not everyone agrees. In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued …

Tweets: @harvardbiz. Thanks:@wfrick

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Received 37,196 Gov Requests For Data Impacting 66,539 Accounts In First Half Of 2013 — Today Microsoft reported the number of data requests it received from various law enforcement agencies around the world in the first half of (calendar) 2013: 37,196. Those requests dealt with, at most, 66,539 accounts.

More: The Verge, The Register and ZDNet

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple hires director of design at Nike's research and development unit — Apple hires one of Nike's top Fuel Band designers to work on wearable devices — Apple has lured away top Nike design director Ben Shaffer, according to a source at Nike with knowledge of the details behind Shaffer's departure.

More: PC Magazine, Fast Company, iMore, Fast Company, BGR, GigaOM, Engadget, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Verge, Highsnobiety, Pocket-lint, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, Yahoo! News, iDownloadBlog.com, pocketnow.com, TechnoBuffalo, Electronista, App Advice and iLounge

Tweets: @markgurman and @austincarr

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Liftopia, An E-Commerce Platform For Ski Resorts, Raises Additional $5 Million — Last year, online ski marketplace Liftopia, which previously focused on offering skiers discounted lift tickets, launched an e-commerce platform for the ski resorts themselves called “Cloud Store by Liftopia.”

More: VatorNews, GeekWire, Venture Capital Dispatch, Skift and silicontap.com

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Intel Pushes Internet TV Launch to 2014 as It Seeks Partners: Source — Netflix among potential partners with desired ‘synergies’ the chipmaker has approached — Intel's launch of an over-the-top TV service that would compete with cable and satellite giants will be delayed until 2014 …

More: VentureBeat, DSLreports, SiliconANGLE, The Tech Report, Business Insider, Mashable, PC Magazine, SlashGear, PC Pro and Engadget

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Ballmer bids tearful farewell to Microsoft, promises it will ‘deliver the next big thing’ — Microsoft's Steve Ballmer bid farewell to employees today at his final company meeting as CEO. After announcing his intentions to retire within the next 12 months, Ballmer's speech today was clearly an emotional moment for him personally.

More: GeekWire, ZDNet, BBC, Betabeat, SiliconBeat, Gizmodo UK, The Register, memeburn, WindowsObserver.com, MacDailyNews, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, MSDN Blogs, The Next Web, Reuters, GigaOM, GeekWire, Digits, The Atlantic Wire and Datamation.com

Tweets: @karaswisher, @stevekovach, @ftrain, @siracusa and @tomwarren

Thanks:@jimmyjonesboy

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft will increase Windows 8′s and Windows 8.1′s app roaming limit from 5 to 81 devices on October 9 — Microsoft today announced it is increasing the app roaming limit on Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 from five to 81 on October 9. This means you'll be able to install the same app …

More: The Windows Blog, The Verge, TechCrunch and ZDNet

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Airbnb Victory In NYC: Environmental Control Board Reverses $2,400 Fine On Renting Out A Room In An Apartment — A big regulatory victory for Airbnb today: the company has managed to win an appeal in New York City over a fine against a host called Nigel Warren, whose landlord was fined $2,400 …

More: The Next Web and AllThingsD

Associated Press:

France sanctions Google for breaking privacy rules — PARIS — France says it will fine Google (GOOG) more than $400,000 for breaking rules on data privacy. — The French agency that regulates information technology says Google hadn't satisfactorily responded to its June decision giving …

More: The Verge, Engadget, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Electronista and Bloomberg

Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:

China approves plans to lift 13-year ban on the sale of video game consoles — China has officially approved plans to lift a 13-year ban on the sales of video game consoles in the country, heralding in a huge market for game console developers such as Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.

More: Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, The Verge, Polygon, Tech in Asia, Benzinga, WebProNews, ITworld.com, Softpedia News and AllThingsD

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

BlackBerry Reports $1.6B In Revenue And A $965M Loss In Q2 2014 — Things have been looking awfully bleak for BlackBerry lately, and today the company revealed just how rough things have gotten in its newest earnings release. In fiscal Q2 2014, BlackBerry raked in a measly $1.6 billion in revenue …

More: Marketwired, Reuters, InfoWorld, Computerworld, BGR, AllThingsD, Wall Street Journal, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, Globe and Mail, Engadget, Electronista, ZDNet and AllThingsD

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Unmasking the trolls: FTC announces investigation into “patent assertion entities” — The Federal Trade Commission on Friday called for public comments on a proposed investigation into approximately 25 “patent assertion entities,” — more commonly known as patent trolls — and how they affect innovation and competition.

More: Federal Trade Commission, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Verge, bizjournals, Patent Law Blog and InfoWorld

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Facebook is tweaking its News Feed ads algorithm to consider user feedback, including what you report or hide — Facebook today announced it is tweaking its News Feed algorithm in the coming weeks to show fewer annoying and irrelevant ads. Specifically, the company says it is placing …

More: Facebook Newsroom, Digits and Computerworld

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