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August 28, 2014, 2:05 PM

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Christina Bonnington / Wired:

Our Sources Say the Next iPhone Will Include NFC Mobile Payments — Platforms like Google Wallet, Isis, and Square have been around for years, while Apple has remained curiously silent on the mobile payments front. Well not anymore. — The company's next iPhone will feature its own payment platform …

More: The Verge, Engadget, ZDNet, VentureBeat, CNET, ZDNet, AppleInsider, Business Insider, MacRumors, BGR, 9to5Mac, iMore, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ubergizmo, ParisLemon, Cult of Mac, Neowin, Patently Apple, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Electronista, iLounge, Mashable, Seeking Alpha and Gizmobic

Tweets: @stevecheney, @markgurman and @harrymccracken

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:

Apple announces special event for September 9 with tagline “Wish we could say more” — Apple announces special event for Sept. 9 — Apple on Thursday sent out invitations to a special event being held on Sept. 9, 2014 at 10:00 am. — Typically Apple's events are held either …

More: 9to5Mac, Re/code, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iMore, MacRumors, Financial Times, Guardian, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, GeekWire, CNET, Gigaom, TechCrunch, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNBC, Touch Arcade and MacStories

Tweets: @inafried, @monkbent, @mattbuchanan, @tim and @jyarow

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple builds a hidden structure at Flint Center, site of Mac unveiling, ahead of Sept. 9 event — Apple Building Massive Structure at Flint Center for iPhone 6 Event — Apple today issued invitations for its upcoming iPhone 6 event on September 9, which is also said to include its much-anticipated wearable device.

More: The Loop, GeekWire, The Verge, PC World, Tech Trader Daily, iMore, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacNN, IntoMobile, Cult of Mac, Electronista, Technology Personalized and Geeky Gadgets

Mike Isaac / New York Times:

IFTTT raises $30M from Norwest Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz to integrate with internet-connected hardware — With $30 Million More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things — One ambitious start-up wants to reroute the plumbing of the consumer Internet.

More: Gigaom, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and SlashGear. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

JPMorgan and four other US banks hacked this month, gigabytes of data including account information stolen — JPMorgan and Other Banks Struck by Hackers — A number of United States banks, including JPMorgan Chase and at least four others, were struck by hackers in a series of coordinated attacks …

More: Bloomberg, Ars Technica, The Register, Computerworld, Forbes, USA Today, TechSpot, Bloomberg, FierceCIO News, theWHIR.com, Washington Post, Guardian, Fortune, Reuters, Bloomberg, BGR, Telegraph, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Help Net Security, ZDNet, Gizmodo, NBC News and Business Insider. Tweets: @akianastasiou

Bloomberg:

Deutsche Telekom Said Open to T-Mobile Talks at $35/Share — Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE) is willing to negotiate a sale of its T-Mobile US Inc. (TMUS) unit, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., if an offer values the business at $35 a share or more, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

More: Tech Trader Daily, TmoNews and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @emilychangtv

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

Leap Motion Hooks Up to Oculus for Controller-Free Virtual Reality — Earlier this year, Facebook turned “Oculus” into a household name by betting $2 billion that virtual reality is ready for prime time. — One problem with that vision, as we've written before, is that there's no clear standard …

More: Leap Motion Blog, PC Magazine, The Verge, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Gigaom, Engadget, TechCrunch and SlashGear

Surface Blog:

Surface Pro 3 now available in 28 markets around the world — The next 24 hours are huge for Microsoft and Surface fans everywhere. Starting just minutes from now in New Zealand, retailers and resellers in 25 additional geographies will begin selling Intel® Core™ i3 …

More: GadgeTell, BetaNews, Techie News, SlashGear, WinBeta, Ubergizmo, Windows Phone Central, TechCrunch, Neowin, WinBeta, The Next Web and Engadget

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Ticket Search Engine SeatGeek Raises $35M Round From Accel And Some Big-Name Athletes — SeatGeek, a company that bills itself as “the web's largest ticket search engine”, is announcing that it has raised $35 million in Series B funding. — The round brought was led by Accel Capital …

More: Re/code, ChairNerd, VatorNews, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, PE Hub Blog, hypebot and BetaBoston. Tweets: @nathanchubbard

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft integrates OneDrive for Business into main OneDrive for Android app, iOS app gets native search — Microsoft today announced updates to its OneDrive apps for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. The biggest changes are being made on Google's mobile platform, but users of the other two platforms …

More: OneDrive Blog, The Verge, CITEworld, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Android Police, PC World, TechCrunch, BetaNews, GeekWire, Engadget, Gigaom, Ubergizmo, SuperSite for Windows and Mashable. Tweets: @carnage4life

Reuters:

Exclusive: Microsoft CEO Nadella to visit China amid antitrust probe - source — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella is set to visit China in late September, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, as the Chinese government conducts an antitrust investigation …

More: GeekWire, SiliconBeat, Associated Press, CNET, International Business Times, Seattle Times blogs, Neowin, Windows Phone Central, Softpedia News, ZDNet and WinBeta

Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:

IBM launches Watson Discovery Advisor, a cloud service for researchers to analyze data and get research ideas — IBM Sees Broader Role for Watson in Aiding Research — Watson, the IBM system that won “Jeopardy,” has shown promise in answering some kinds of questions.

More: eWeek, Inquirer, VentureBeat, The Register, Engadget, A Smarter Planet Blog, CloudWedge, Bloomberg, Reuters and ZDNet

Alex Karpenko / Instagram Engineering:

Instagram describes the tech behind Hyperlapse and its image stabilization algorithm, Cinema — The Technology behind Hyperlapse from Instagram … - We request frames from the decoder at the new playback rate — We simultaneously kick off the Cinema stabilizer on a background thread …

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @dujkan

Bloomberg:

Profile: Lee Jae Yong, Samsung's heir apparent and the man credited with forging a relationship with Apple — Samsung Low-Profile Heir Poised to Succeed Father Seen as ‘God’ — When Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) Chairman Lee Kun Hee toured his factories, the preparations were worthy of a head of state.

More: Re/code, iPhone in Canada Blog and Business Insider

Tweets: @whatthebit, @simoncywong, @ek_obrien, @wilsonleeflores, @fredojardias, @ghimhehsuhng, @davidmmerritt and @lmoliva_

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Desire 510 has 64-bit hardware, but 32-bit software; needs 64-bit Android L, due later this year — First 64-bit Android phone has no 64-bit software — When Apple launched the iPhone 5S with a 64-bit processor, it sent the rest of the spec-obsessed SoC world on a race to catch up.

More: PhoneNews.com and Inquirer

Joshua Ho / AnandTech:

HTC Desire 510: a budget smartphone with 1.2 GHz Snapdragon 410 SoC, 4.7" FWVGA display

More: Know Your Mobile India, bgr.in, Tom's Hardware Guide, PR Newswire, 3g.co.uk, TechRadar.com, NDTV Gadgets, The Verge and Phandroid

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