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Apple:
Angela Ahrendts to Join Apple as Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores  —  Apple® today announced that Angela Ahrendts, CEO of Burberry, will be joining Apple in a newly created position, as a senior vice president and member of our executive team, reporting to CEO Tim Cook.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Apple Announces October 22 Event: “We Still Have a Lot to Cover”  —  Apple this morning distributed invitations to a special event at which it's expected to unveil the next iterations of the iPad and iPad mini.  And it's to be held on October 22, just as AllThingsD said it would.
Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google:
Google Watch is happening soon, heavy into Kit Kat/Google Now functionality  —  I recently heard word that Google was putting the finishing touches on a Watch product.  Details are slim but the person seemed to think that Google Now functionality would be at the center of the product.
Washington Post:
NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally  —  The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials …
Reid Hoffman:
LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs  —  At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs.  It doesn't matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we're considering an investment, or whether we're casually meeting for the first time.
More: Fortune.  Tweets: @reidhoffman
Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:
HTC to make future Amazon phones, according to report  —  Rumors of an Amazon smartphone have circulated for well over a year now, but a new report out today says that the retail giant will use HTC to make its upcoming devices.  Three different smartphones are said to be in development …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Supercell Dominates The Realm: Game Maker Sells A 51%, $1.53B Stake To SoftBank and GungHo Online  —  Another big move for Softbank into the gaming world, and a massive investment for Finnish gaming juggernaut Supercell: the company is selling a 51% stake for $1.53 billion to Japan's SoftBank …
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Vimeo PRO gets 1TB of storage, unlimited HD plays, support, and more for $199/ year in plan refresh  —  Vimeo is updating its premium-tier service in a way that it claims will put “more power in the hands of creative professionals and businesses.”  Starting today, Vimeo PRO subscribers …
Bonnie Cha / AllThingsD:
Sony's Latest Xperia Phones, SmartWatch 2 Launch in U.S.; No Carrier Announcements Yet  —  After making the rounds in Europe and Asia, Sony announced today the U.S. availability of its Xperia Z Ultra and Xperia Z1 smartphones, and the SmartWatch 2.  But a word of caution: If you're eyeing one of these phones, it's going to cost you.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Android 4.4 KitKat will let you choose your own default texting app  —  Android users will be able to choose third-party apps to handle their text messaging by default when the operating system's next big update, version 4.4 KitKat, eventually launches.  On its developer blog …
Mikael Ricknäs / PC World:
VMware acquires Desktone, makes network virtualization generally available  —  VMware continues to push its plan to virtualize the whole data center, with the general availability of its network virtualization platform, and desktops too with the acquisition of desktop-as-a service company Desktone.
Christopher Heine / Adweek:
Foursquare Ads Are Now Available for All Businesses  —  Foursquare is rolling out its self-service ads for all companies after letting some 800 merchants test the platform in the last two months.  The New York-based social-mobile firm has 1.5 million businesses using its free platform …
Mariella Moon / Engadget:
T-Mobile to replace grandfathered plans with new rates  —  Many loyal T-Mobile customers will have to kiss their grandfathered plans goodbye.  That's because the carrier is sunsetting legacy plans and moving subscribers to new ones, Big Magenta has confirmed to Engadget.
Antoine Gara / TheStreet.com:
Irish Budget Proposes End to Apple Tax Shelter  —  Stock quotes in this article: AAPL, GOOG, MSFT  —  NEW YORK TheStreet — The Irish government said on Tuesday that it will consider eliminating a treatment that allows firms such as Apple (AAPL) to be taxed as a “stateless” …
Serena Ng / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon cuts costs by shipping directly from warehouses of P&G and other key suppliers  —  Soap Opera: Amazon Moves in With P&G  —  E-Commerce Giant Sets Up Shop Inside Warehouses of Suppliers TUNKHANNOCK, Pa.—Atop a hill at the end of a road called P&G Warehouse Way sits a warehouse stocked …

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Axios:
Sources: WH officials believe NYT's Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their upcoming book Regime Change

Marah Eakin / Current:
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Gary Baum / The Hollywood Reporter:
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