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Matt Townsend / Bloomberg:

Apple has also reached a deal with Visa and MasterCard for its mobile wallet — Apple Said to Team With Visa, MasterCard on IPhone Wallet — Apple Inc. (AAPL) plans to turn its next iPhone into a mobile wallet through a partnership with major payment networks, banks and retailers, according a person familiar with the situation.

More: AppleInsider, BGR, Telegraph, Guardian, TechSpot, Mobile Industry Review, Gizmodo, Engadget, iMore, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Geeky Gadgets, SlashGear, NEWS.com.au, PC Pro, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog and TIME

Tweets: @joannastern, @howardlindzon, @chriswelch and @greyham

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Apple partnering with American Express to let iPhone 6 owners use their phone to pay for goods in physical stores — Apple Working With American Express on iPhone 6 Mobile Payments — Apple has reached an agreement with American Express to work together on its new iPhone payments system …

More: Business Insider, AppleInsider, The Verge, Digital Trends, TIME, IntoMobile, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, Cult of Mac, CNET, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, The Register, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, MobileSyrup.com, iMore and App Advice

Tweets: @delrey, @simonkhalaf, @howardlindzon and @mdudas

Thanks:@srikardr

John Paczkowski / Re/code:

Veteran Tech Journalist Anand Shimpi Headed to Apple — Anand Lal Shimpi, the editor and publisher of the well-regarded AnandTech site, is going to work at Apple. — An Apple rep confirmed that the company was hiring Shimpi, but wouldn't provide any other details.

More: 9to5Mac, Electronista, TechCrunch, Gigaom, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, The Verge, Geeky Gadgets, MacRumors, SlashGear, Softpedia News and iPhone in Canada Blog

Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @anandshimpi, @carnage4life, @phonewisdom, @siracusa and @reckless

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Anand Shimpi stepping down as Editor in Chief of AnandTech and retiring from tech publishing — The Road Ahead — Both of my parents were teachers, and for as long as I can remember they both encouraged me to do something in life that would help others.

More: iPhone Hacks, Forbes, App Advice, TechCrunch, AnandTech and The Tech Report

Tweets: @anandshimpi, @panzer, @fromedome, @anildash, @monkbent, @fxshaw, @om, @benbajarin, @anandshimpi, @danielpunkass, @tomkrazit, @ryan, @monkbent, @stevesi, @tomwarren and @siracusa

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Uber and Lyft are becoming indistinguishable commodities to riders and drivers both — Uber and Lyft Have Become Indistinguishable Commodities — If you need a ride, pull out your phone and load up the Lyft app. Or try Uber. Really, it doesn't matter which you pick.

More: Salon and Wired. Tweets: @rsg, @daiwaka, @fazz, @abrams, @counternotions, @caseynewton and @samfbiddle

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

How Lyft evolved from Zimride and pioneered the peer-to-peer ride-sharing model

William A. Radasky / IEEE Spectrum:

Digitally controlled infrastructure is increasingly vulnerable to electromagnetic weapons — Electromagnetic Warfare Is Here — A briefcase-size radio weapon could wreak havoc in our networked world. In the 2001 action movie Ocean's Eleven, criminals use an electromagnetic weapon to black out a portion of Las Vegas.

Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

In E-Sports, Video Gamers Draw Real Crowds and Big Money — A video game tournament in Seattle in July. Pro gaming, called e-sports, is becoming a lucrative worldwide spectator sport. — Credit: Stuart Isett for The New York Times — SEATTLE — A bewitching creature — half woman …

More: New York Times and The Verge. Tweets: @levie. See also Mediagazer

Re/code:

Apple has considered a $400 price for its wearable device, with some models priced lower — Apple Has Considered $400 Price for Wearable Device — Apple executives have discussed charging around $400 for the company's new wearable device. — Pricing has yet to be finalized for the forthcoming product …

Mark Wilson / Co.Design:

75% Of Ikea's Catalog Is Computer Generated Imagery — You could have fooled us. Wait, actually, you did. — The best special effects are often the ones you never notice—which may make Ikea the most skillful special effects studio in the world. The Swedish furniture company …

Dom Esposito / 9to5Google:

Android Wear powered Sony SmartWatch 3 and ‘SmartBand Talk’ with curved e-ink display launching at IFA 2014 — IFA 2014 is right around the corner and we're expecting to see quite a bit of tech launched during the show. Sony is in attendance this year and their official press event is scheduled to happen on on Sept. 4th, 2014.

More: Electronista, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, IntoMobile, Geeky Gadgets, Xperia Blog, Connectedly and MobileSyrup.com. Thanks:@llsethj

Dom Esposito / 9to5Google:

Sony's Xperia expected announcements at IFA: Z3 flagship phone, Z3 Compact, low-cost E3 phone, and waterproof Z3 Tablet Compact

More: BetaNews, Pocketnow, Gearburn and IntoMobile. Thanks:@steqheu

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Nude celebrity picture leak looks like phishing or email account hack — Apple's iCloud service may have been the source of the photos but security experts think password hacks are likely explanation — The leak of pictures and, allegedly, videos of Jennifer Lawrence by an unknown hacker has security experts - and Apple - puzzled.

More: BuzzFeed, ZDNet, The Next Web, BGR, Mashable, Gizmodo, The Huffington Post, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Verge, The Independent, CounterMeasures, Geeky Gadgets, Graham Cluley, cloudcomputing-news.net, NEWS.com.au and Ubergizmo

Tweets: @nikcub, @swiftonsecurity, @swiftonsecurity and @nikcub

Ted C. Fishman / Chicago Magazine:

A history of Motorola: how interdivisional fights starting in the '80s nearly doomed the company — What Happened to Motorola — On the 18th floor of the Merchandise Mart, in a soaring two-story space underneath a vast industrial-looking stairway, a small crowd of business types, pols, and journalists gathers.

More: 9to5Google, The Verge and Engadget

Tweets: @trengriffin, @ossij and @stevesi

Thanks:@srikardr

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

With its own livestreaming technology and popularity with big Twitch users, Google doesn't need to own Twitch — Google doesn't need Twitch for game streaming — When it comes to the game and e-sports streaming scene, Twitch is the 800-pound gorilla. But when it comes to online video as a whole …

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