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September 8, 2014, 7:20 AM

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Ian Kar / Bank Innovation:

iPhone and “iWatch” NFC payments to use tokenization technology, prefered by banks for its security benefits — Apple to Use NFC, Tokenization in Payments, Sources Say — Apple will be utilizing near field communication (NFC) technology and tokenization technology in the new iPhone 6 …

More: Business Insider, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice and The Daily Dot

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Disney stores add NFC credit card readers and Apple stores upgrade iBeacons ahead of iPhone launch — Apple and Disney Stores upgrading iBeacons and NFC scanners ahead of iPhone 6 launch — Apple and longtime partner Disney this week are bolstering their stores with upgraded versions …

More: Digital Trends, NEWS.com.au, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, MacDailyNews and iMore

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

5.5-inch iPhone 6 may run landscape apps with more productive iPad-like interface — While the 4.7-inch version of the upcoming iPhone 6 will seemingly function as a large version of the current iPhone interface, it appears that the larger model with a 5.5-inch display could run software …

More: Business Insider, Fortune, Gizmodo, iMore, ITProPortal, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, The Tech Gadget and App Advice

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Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

What to expect from Apple's September 9th event: new iPhones, wearables, iOS 8, more — What To Expect From Apple's iPhone Event On September 9 — Apple is hosting an event on September 9, and by all accounts it's going to be a real barn burner. The company is set to announce new iPhones …

More: New York Times, The Verge, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, Mashable, New York Magazine, Forbes, Engadget, MacRumors and Business Insider

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Apple Dominating Shipping Capacity Out Of China With New iPhones

More: Tech Times, Business Insider, iMore, Gotta Be Mobile, Phones Review, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, Cult of Mac and Electronista

Bloomberg:

CenturyLink Said to Seek to Acquire Rackspace Hosting — CenturyLink Inc. (CTL), the Louisiana-based landline phone service provider, is seeking to acquire Rackspace Hosting Inc. (RAX) to further expand into cloud-computing services, according to people familiar with the situation.

More: SiliconANGLE, VentureBreak, Reuters, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Forbes, The Register and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @alex

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Tool to kick Glass users off Wi-Fi becomes Cyborg Unplug, a $50-$85 anti-surveillance appliance — For Sale Soon: The World's First Google Glass Detector — Earlier this summer, Berlin-based artist and coder Julian Oliver released Glasshole.sh, a simple and free piece of software designed …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @devindigital

Re/code:

Reddit raising over $50M for less than 10% of the company, at a valuation upwards of $500M — Reddit Raising a Big Round, and Some Y Combinator Players Are in the Mix — Reddit, the social news site with a big Web footprint, is raising a big funding round — with help from some of the people …

More: Business Insider, GamesIndustry.biz and VentureBreak. Tweets: @anildash

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Microsoft fully revamps its MSN portal, Bing mobile apps to be rebranded MSN too — Microsoft has fully overhauled its MSN portal to make it more deeply integrated with its other services. Alongside this, it will also be introducing a rebrand of its Bing mobile apps for Windows Phone, iOS and Android.

Alex Wawro / Gamasutra:

John Carmack on Gear VR, building the Oculus Mobile SDK, difficulties of Android development — Q&A: Carmack reveals the challenges of mobile VR game development — Yesterday Samsung formally revealed its Gear VR headset, which was developed in close partnership with the folks at Oculus VR.

More: DisplayBlog. Tweets: @andyorin

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

An Inside Look At The Development Of Samsung's Gear VR At Oculus With CEO Brendan Iribe

More: bit-tech.net, The Verge, Joystiq and VentureBeat

David Barboza / New York Times:

A profile of Alibaba founder Jack Ma, whose personal interests increasingly overlap with the company he firmly controls — The Jack Ma Way — At Alibaba, the Founder Is Squarely in Charge — At the resplendent China World Hotel in Beijing, scores of cameras snapped as colorful confetti floated down from the ceiling.

More: Washington Post and NPR. Tweets: @chen_liyan and @shak

Matt McFarland / Washington Post:

The unstoppable TI-84 Plus: How an outdated calculator still holds a monopoly on classrooms — In the ruthlessly competitive world of technology, where companies rush the latest gadget to market and slash prices to stay competitive, the TI-84 Plus is an anomaly.

More: The Verge and Boing Boing

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Facebook adds video features like view counts and related videos as it tops 1B daily video views — Facebook Adds YouTube-Like Video Features, as It Tops 1 Billion Daily Views (Exclusive) — Facebook, already a huge distributor of Internet video, continues to roll out new ways …

More: Facebook, New York Times, The Register, TechCrunch, VatorNews, Engadget, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, memeburn and VentureBreak

Nik Cubrilovic:

FBI concealed how they obtained Silk Road's IP in their affidavit, while evidence suggests they ran an exploit — Analyzing the FBI's Explanation of How They Located Silk Road — The first incarnation of online drug marketplace Silk Road was shutdown in October 2013 resulting in the arrest of Ross Ulbricht.

More: Techdirt, Ars Technica, SecurityWeek, The Register and TechCrunch

Tweets: @declanm, @kadhimshubber, @kevinmitnick and @balajis

Thanks:@nikcub

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple's wearable will come with an App Store; Facebook and several other big developers already have access to a pre-release SDK — Apple wearable to run third-party apps, big developers already seeded SDK — Apple's upcoming wearable device, based on iOS, will run third-party applications and …

More: Inquirer, Wired, Neowin, Wearable World News, Pocketnow, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider, Engadget, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, Gizmodo, MacRumors, Softpedia News, GSMArena Blog and App Advice

Tweets: @bzamayo and @markgurman

Christina Farr / Reuters:

Apple has invited several top fashion editors and bloggers to its Tuesday media event

More: Computerworld, ITProPortal, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, DisplayBlog, App Advice, Softpedia News, Business Insider, AppleInsider, Mashable, Pocketnow, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @jeffcarlson. Thanks:@chrissyfarr

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