Apple Is Said to Cut iPhone 5C Orders  —  Move Raises Concerns About Demand, Pricing Strategy for Low-Cost Device  —  A customer looks at an Apple iPhone 5c at a store in Palo Alto, Calif., on Sept. 20.  Bloomberg News  —  HONG KONG— Apple Inc. has notified its two assemblers …

Square Cash lets anyone with a debit card send money instantly over email  —  What if sending money was as simple as sending an email?  —  That's the premise of Square Cash, launching today for all debit card users in the US, using any email service.  To use Square Cash …

Twitter headed to New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ‘TWTR’  —  Summary: The move to the NYSE is quite the contrast to Facebook's tumultuous public launch on the Nasdaq.  —  Twitter has filled in another blank as it goes through the legal process to become a publicly traded company.

Intel says hardware bargains to multiply this fall: $99 tablets, $299 Haswell laptops, $349 2-in-1 hybrids  —  Nov. 12 - 13, 2013  —  Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich said he expects bargains galore this holiday season as computermakers take advantage of the latest Intel Haswell and Bay Trail microprocessors.

Many of the most-pirated movies aren't available for legitimate online purchase  —  Why does movie piracy persist after years of efforts to stamp it out?  A new website called PiracyData.org suggests a simple explanation: people pirate movies because they don't have the option of paying for a legitimate copy online.

Dave Morin Laid Off 20 Percent of Path Employees Today  —  Dave Morin's social networking app Path laid off 13 employees today, which represents 20 percent of the company's staff.  A spokesperson for the company confirmed the layoffs, saying, “We're working to realign the company to support continued innovation and Path 4.0.”

Aviate: an always-changing, intelligent home screen for Android  —  What if Google Now was made of the icons on your home screen?  —  “We want to connect people to personalized information at the moment it's useful,” reads the mission statement of Aviate, a replacement launcher for Android available today in private beta.

HP Chromebook 11 Review  —  We're in the midst of a netbook renaissance.  Armed with lighter weight OSes, faster hardware and a better appreciation for what matters in a consumer device, OEMs are giving the concept another try.  —  Just like before, we'll see solutions based on Windows as well as open source OS alternatives.

Google Fiber now explicitly permits home servers  —  Google Fiber's terms of service caused some controversy in July when Google found itself defending the legality of a ban on servers.  After a complaint, Google told the Federal Communications Commission that its clause stating that …

Why It's So Difficult to Climb Amazon's Corporate Ladder  —  Inside the Internet juggernaut Amazon.com (AMZN), there's near constant pressure to perform.  In dozens of interviews ranging over two years for my book, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon …

News Flash: Oracle Still Hates Open Source Software  —  It's no wonder that Google, Red Hat and others have been abandoning Oracle's most visible open-source project, MySQL.  After all, Oracle has a highly conflicted relationship with open source.  Nowhere is this conflict more apparent …

Apple seeks to broaden U.S. import ban against Samsung through Federal Circuit appeal  —  The import ban Apple won in August against Samsung's Android-based devices infringing certain patents has just entered into force, and meanwhile Apple is trying to broaden its victory.

Exclusive: Greenwald exits Guardian for new Omidyar media venture  —  (Reuters) - Glenn Greenwald, who has made headlines around the world with his reporting on U.S. electronic surveillance programs, is leaving the Guardian newspaper to join a new media venture funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar …

Microsoft is not killing the Windows Phone back button  —  Recent rumors suggest that Microsoft may be planning to kill off the back button in Windows Phone 8.1.  While the requirement for a hardware back button will likely be dropped, sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed …

Kindle Fire HDX 7" Teardown  —  Take a look, it's in a book—an eBook that is—the Teardown Rainbow!  We're moving on over to the next tablet in Amazon's new Kindle line-up; get ready for some mad knowledge.  Hankering for more tasty tidbits?  Find some bite-sized trivia on our Twitter …

Apple and China  —  From a recent story in Want China Times, “Two Percent of China's Public Consumes One-Third of World's Luxury Goods”: … When the iPhone 5C came out last month and was not “low cost”, many took it as a sign that Apple was somehow ignoring China.

Apple releases new Java update, uninstalls Apple-provided Java applet plug-ins  —  Apple has released Java for OS X 2013-005, which “delivers improved security, reliability, and compatibility for Java SE 6″.  The update is available in the Mac App Store.

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” …

3D printing gets metal with European Space Agency's AMAZE project  —  If you're invested in the future of 3D printing, the London Science Museum was the place to be today, as the European Space Agency and its partners hosted a consortium to celebrate the launch of the AMAZE project.