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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft set to unveil Windows 9 on September 30th — Microsoft is planning to unveil its Windows 8 successor next month at a special press event. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the software maker is tentatively planning its press event for September 30th …

Reuters:

Report: eBay telling candidates for PayPal CEO role it may spin off the unit as early as next year — EBay considering spinning off Paypal - report — (Reuters) - EBay Inc is considering spinning out its fast-growing payments unit PayPal as soon as next year, news website The Information reported, citing sources.

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Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat:

Product Hunt raises $1M seed funding, launches iOS app — Silicon Valley darling Product Hunt gets $1M, launches app for its tech-fanatic community — Two days ago, Product Hunt, one of the buzziest communities in recent times, graduated from the most highly-regarded accelerated program around, Y Combinator.

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Ben Sisario / New York Times:

SoundCloud to incorporate ads, allow artists to collect royalties, prepares to introduce paid subscriptions — Popular and Free, SoundCloud Is Now Ready for Ads — SoundCloud is the ubiquitous wild child of the digital music world. Without paying artists or record companies …

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Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

The state of Android updates: Who's fast, who's slow, and why — Android 4.4, KitKat was released on October 31, 2013, or at least, that's what you can say about one device: the Nexus 5. For the rest of the ecosystem, the date you got KitKat—if you got KitKat—varied wildly depending on your device, OEM, and carrier.

More: Guardian, 9to5Google and BGR

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Xamarin raises $54M in funding to bring Microsoft's programming language to other platforms — Xamarin, the San Francisco-based company that allows developers to code applications for a variety of different platforms using Microsoft's C# programming language, announced today that it has raised a $54 million Series C round of financing.

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Nick Bilton / New York Times:

At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another — There are two disciplines in which Silicon Valley entrepreneurs excel above almost everyone else. The first is making exorbitant amounts of money. The second is pretending they don't care about that money.

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Robert McMillan / Wired:

Security researcher claims over 30% of all mobile spam messages are sent through iMessage — Apple's iMessage Is Being Taken Over by Spammers — Apple's iMessage system is a great way to send texts from phone-to-phone without the paying fees to your mobile carrier.

More: AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, Softpedia News, IT World Canada, 9to5Mac, iPhone, blog.chron.com, TechSpot, MacRumors, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista and MacDailyNews

Kyle Russell / TechCrunch:

Square Announces Analytics Tools For Merchants — With competition in mobile payments heating up, Square continues to expand its offerings for small businesses to other areas where local merchants are missing out compared to big retailers and franchises. — Today the company …

More: VentureBeat, ZDNet, SiliconBeat, squareup.com, CITEworld, Town Square, Mashable, Washington Post, The Next Web and Payments News

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Felicis, Horizons Ventures Pour $3 Million Into The Vessyl Smart Cup — Mark One, the company behind the Vessyl smart cup, has today closed a $3 million seed round co-led by Felicis Ventures and Horizons Ventures — The Vessyl is a cup that tracks your liquid consumption throughout the day …

More: VentureBeat, Business Insider, SlashGear, Wearable World News, Re/code, PE Hub Blog and Crowdfund Insider

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple talked HealthKit with insurance companies UnitedHealth and Humana — Bloomberg's Adam Satariano has an interesting profile out this morning regarding the usage of wearable fitness devices in work environments. The report says that some companies are offering devices, such as the FitBit …

More: Bloomberg and MacRumors

Matthew Miller / ZDNet:

T-Mobile will give you a year of unlimited LTE data if your friends convert from Sprint, AT&T, or Verizon — T-Mobile offers a year of unlimited LTE to those who throw Sprint friends a lifeline — Summary: T-Mobile is serious about taking the third place spot away from Sprint …

More: Newsroom, The Next Web, VentureBeat, The Verge, Gizmodo, CNET, DSLreports, Windows Phone Central, Droid Life, TmoNews and Gotta Be Mobile

Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security:

Report: Most popular Android apps in Google Play store open users to man-in-the-middle attacks — Most popular Android apps open users to MITM attacks — An analysis of the 1,000 most popular free Android apps from the Google Play store has revealed a depressing fact …

More: FireEye Blog, BGR, TechSpot, SecurityWeek, FireEye Blog and The Register

Tweets: @virusbtn and @csoghoian

William Alden / New York Times:

Events app DoubleDutch raises $19M series D from Peter Thiel's Mithril and Silicon Valley Bank — Peter Thiel's Mithril Invests in DoubleDutch, an Events App — It has become a common refrain among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs: We didn't need to raise money, but we did anyway.

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog and Forbes

Carolyn Giardina / Hollywood Reporter:

Jaunt Aims to Kick-Start Hollywood Virtual Reality With $27.8 Million in New Funding — “We think over next few years, as the technology becomes available, virtual reality will see mass adoption,” says co-founder Jens Christensen — Jaunt — a Palo Alto-based startup that is developing hardware …

More: Gigaom, bizjournals and Variety

James Kendrick / ZDNet:

Citrix and Google partner to bring native enterprise features to Chromebooks — Summary: Enterprise capabilities of Chromebooks just got a lot better with new software by Citrix. — James Kendrick — Chromebooks are making inroads into the education sector, and a push is coming …

More: Gigaom, TechCrunch, eWeek, Mashable and Business Wire

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