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September 28, 2013, 9:00 AM

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Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Exclusive video: Steve Ballmer's intense, tearful goodbye to Microsoft — Outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has always been a speaker and performer like no other — his absolute enthusiasm for his company is electric in person, turning ordinary corporate events into raw displays of emotion …

More: GeekWire, I4U News, iClarified, WinBeta, Softpedia News, SiliconBeat, Los Angeles Times, Betabeat, BBC, Business Insider, memeburn, Datamation.com, GigaOM, The Register and MacDailyNews

Tweets: @tomwarren, @markgurman, @jbenton and @ftrain

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Apple to pay $40 to iPad 3G owners shut out of all-you-can-eat data plans — Apple and AT&T are set to resolve a long-running class action suit over the companies' decision in June, 2010 to end unlimited data plans for the iPad 3G tablet. — In a ruling issued this week in San Jose …

More: SlashGear, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, Electronista, I4U News, MacRumors and App Advice

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Dianne Feinstein Accidentally Confirms That NSA Tapped The Internet Backbone — It's widely known that the NSA has taps connected to the various telco networks, thanks in large part to AT&T employee Mark Klein who blew the whistle on AT&T's secret NSA room in San Francisco.

More: Schneier on Security. Tweets: @pierre and @ggreenwald

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: I4U News, The Register, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Windows Phone Central and ZDNet

Christina Farr / VentureBeat:

Palantir just raised a massive $196M, filing shows — Palantir investor Peter Thiel speaking to a roomful of interns at the San Francisco Exploratorium. — Shadowy data-mining startup Palantir closed over $196 million in funding, according to an SEC filing.

More: Computerworld, TechCrunch and Mercury News. Tweets: @startupljackson. Thanks:@chrissyfarr

Eric Pfeiffer / Yahoo! News:

Iranian President Rouhani takes to Twitter after phone chat with Obama — Describing his phone conversation with President Obama as “historic,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took to Twitter on Friday with a series of a fascinating messages that stunned and encouraged many foreign policy observers.

David Nakamura / Post Politics:

White House: Yes, we noticed @HassanRouhani's Twitter feed

More: New York Magazine, The Lede, The Atlantic Online, Mashable and PandoDaily

Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Says Iran Hacked Navy Computers — WASHINGTON—U.S. officials said Iran hacked unclassified Navy computers in recent weeks in an escalation of Iranian cyberintrusions that target the U.S. military. — The allegations by U.S. officials, coming as the Obama administration ramps up talks …

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, Computerworld, Softpedia News, SlashGear and The Daily Caller

Tweets: @gorman_siobhan and @julianbarnes

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: Engadget, AppleInsider, I4U News, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, GigaOM, iLounge, Cult of Mac, iMore, TUAW, MacNN, Stuart Henshall, App Advice, 9to5Mac and MacRumors

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

Feds Targeted Snowden's Email Provider the Day After NSA Whistleblower Went Public — When on June 9 Edward Snowden stood up in Hong Kong and revealed himself to the world as an NSA whistleblower, the Justice Department wasted little time in targeting his email provider.

More: The Verge and SlashGear. Tweets: @kpoulsen

Phone Arena:

ABI Research: Android taking over the tablet market from iOS — According to ABI Research, there has been a change in the global tablet market. The Apple iPad, which has been credited with creating the tablet category with the launch of the OG version in 2010, has “passed the baton to the Android ecosystem …

More: NBCNews, ABI Research and WebProNews

Ryan Faas / CITEworld:

Apple's new licensing for apps gives it a huge enterprise advantage — One of the biggest iOS 7 advances for enterprise environments is Apple's new volume licensing model. The new model is a massive step forward and arguably is the most significant enterprise advance that Apple has made in iOS 7.

More: iMore. Tweets: @orege. Thanks:@ryanfaas

Andrew Goldfarb / IGN:

Valve Announces Steam Controller — “A different kind of gamepad.” — Valve has announced Steam Controller, “a different kind of gamepad.” — The controller features two circular trackpads. As explained by Valve, “Driven by the player's thumbs, each one has a high-resolution trackpad as its base.

More: Wired, The Verge, The Next Web, AnandTech, DVICE, Giant Bomb, Steam Universe, Gamasutra, TechSpot, ExtremeTech, TIME, Mashable, SlashGear, Polygon and Kotaku

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

Evernote teams up with Saleforce.com on collaboration app — Evernote wants to entrench its note-taking and sharing application more in businesses and hopes that a new Salesforce.com version will help it do so. Evernote for Salesforce, which debuts Friday at the Evernote Conference …

More: Evernote Blog, CITEworld, 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 Airbnb Public Policy Blog, The Verge, GigaOM, CNNMoney.com, Forbes, The Next Web and AllThingsD

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