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September 9, 2014, 12:40 PM

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Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple Events channel added to Apple TV for iPhone / Wearable live stream — Apple announced on Thursday that it will broadcast this year's iPhone event live for Safari and Apple TV users, and today Apple TV has revived the dedicated Apple Events channel for viewing the announcement live during the event.

More: Apple, iMore, GeekWire, MacRumors, Electronista, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, MacStories, WebProNews, App Advice and TUAW

Dan Frommer / Quartz:

Apple keynotes by the numbers: How long is the CEO on stage? At which minute is the big unveil? — The hidden structure of the Apple keynote — One of Apple's most successful products—which rarely gets recognized as such—is made not of aluminum and glass, but of words and pictures.

More: Business Insider, Salon, Pocketnow and DisplayBlog

Tweets: @david_perell, @okassim, @fromedome and @kevinjdelaney

Ian Kar / Bank Innovation:

Square, PayPal Expected to Work with Apple on Payments, Sources Say — With Apple entry into mobile payments essentially a foregone conclusion, what will happen to Square and PayPal, two major players in alternative payments? — Sources tell Bank Innovation that Square and PayPal …

More: MacDailyNews and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@pavanrajam

Evan Ramstad / Minneapolis Star Tribune:

Mayo Clinic to participate in Health app presentation during Apple's media event — At Apple's product unveiling, Mayo takes a big role — Mayo hopes the product will encourage patients to use smart gadgets to track their health, despite some concerns over data collection and security.

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, Phones Review, Laughing Squid, The Techolic, Geeky Gadgets and 9to5Mac

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

5.5" ‘iPhone 6’ said to launch in limited quantities on Sept. 19 alongside 4.7" model

iFixit:

Motorola Moto 360 Teardown — Motorola Moto 360 Teardown Hello Moto! After months of speculation and publicity, Motorola has finally released their flagship smartwatch, the Moto 360. Join us as we disassemble it and answer the one question Motorola dares not ask.

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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Nancy Pelosi urges FCC to reclassify broadband as a utility — A good number of politicians have recently made statements in favor of net neutrality, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is going further than most of them today and asking that the Federal Communications Commission reclassify broadband …

More: Nancy Pelosi, BetaNews, The Hill, DSLreports, Softpedia News, NEWS.com.au, Electronista, Deadline, Nextgov, NationalJournal.com, Free Press Blog and DisplayBlog. Tweets: @qthrul

Brendan Sasso / National Journal:

Netflix to Join ‘Internet Slowdown’ Protest Over Net Neutrality

More: motherboard.vice.com, Variety and Multichannel News. Tweets: @nationaljournal. See also Mediagazer

David Kravets / Ars Technica:

Comcast Wi-Fi serving self-promotional ads via JavaScript injection — Comcast has begun serving Comcast ads to devices connected to one of its 3.5 million publicly accessible Wi-Fi hotspots across the US. Comcast's decision to inject data into websites raises security concerns and arguably cuts …

More: InfoWorld, Washington Post, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Electronista, DSLreports and Techdirt

Tweets: @dsilverman and @marshray

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Rakuten Buys Ebates For $1 Billion — Rumors have been swirling around Japan's Rakuten, which has been in discussions with rebate website operator Ebates.com, regarding a potential acquisition deal. That deal is now official, as the company announced today it has agreed to acquire Ebates for $1 billion.

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Matt Burns / TechCrunch:

Nest Finally Works With Control4, Crestron, RTI And URC Home Automation Systems — Today, at CEDIA EXPO 2014, Nest made the day of every home automator installers and retailers everywhere: Nest finally works with the major players in home automation, Control4, Crestron, Remote Technologies Incorporated …

More: Nest, The Verge, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Gigaom, Gizmodo, Engadget, SlashGear and Connectedly

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Amazon Fire Phone's $200 price cut is just one more sign of its dismal market performance — Amazon Cuts Struggling Phone's Price to 99 Cents — SAN FRANCISCO — Sixty thousand people vied to attend the unveiling of Amazon's first smartphone in late June.

More: Gizmodo. Tweets: @carnage4life

Jarah Euston / Flurry Insights:

Phablet install base doubles in one year to 6% of all phone and tablet users — The Tides Turn for the Phablet's Popularity — The press is buzzing that Apple may unveil a phablet-sized iPhone 6 on September 9th. Six years ago, who would have guessed that an extra inch of screen space could cause so much commotion?

More: DisplayBlog, ZDNet, Yahoo, Marketing Land and Gigaom. Tweets: @brianshall

Jon Southurst / CoinDesk:

Hacker Hijacks Satoshi Nakamoto's Email, Threatens to Reveal All — The bitcoin world is abuzz with speculation some of Satoshi Nakamoto's online accounts have been compromised, concerned a hacker could potentially access information concerning the bitcoin creator's true identity or use …

More: Wired, Pastebin, SourceForge, PandoDaily, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, ITProPortal, Forbes, Engadget, BBC, Softpedia News, P2P Foundation, Business Insider, CIO.com, The Next Web, Mineforeman, Mineforeman and Gawker. Tweets: @petertoddbtc

Agam Shah / PC World:

Intel wants to modernize data centers with new Xeon server chips — Intel has designed its latest server chips to provide the building blocks to modernize “legacy data centers” by providing more processing cores, throughput and power-saving features. — The Xeon E5-2600 v3 chips …

More: Intel Newsroom, Softpedia News, AnandTech, Gearburn, Bloomberg, Tech Times, Maximum PC, The Register, PC Magazine, CRN, PC Pro, Tom's Hardware Guide, HotHardware.com News, CIO.com, Gigaom, eWeek and Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal:

Taboola Seeking to Raise $75 Million to $100 Million in Roadshow—Sources — An Israeli-owned content-marketing company is hoping to attract investors as content recommendation increasingly bites into traditional display banner advertising. — Taboola Inc., based in New York but founded …

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

With a Big Push From Facebook, Facebook Video Is Booming. Heads Up, YouTube. — Do you like watching videos on Facebook? — You're not alone. And you're going to be seeing a lot more of them. — That's the word from Facebook, which is excited about the rapid uptake of its new …

More: Facebook, USA Today, Digiday, Facebook, Marketing Land, Guardian and Inside Facebook. See also Mediagazer

Winnie Hu / New York Times:

SheTaxis, an Uber-like service for women with exclusively women drivers, launches next week in New York State — New Service Offers Taxis Exclusively for Women — New Yorkers can already choose from yellow taxis, green cabs or black livery cars. They can tap a smartphone app for a ride, or simply stick out an arm.

More: WebProNews, Digital Trends, Engadget, Gawker, Motherboard and The Verge

Barry Levine / VentureBeat:

Verizon plans to create a sharing platform for virtually anything — not just cars — The “sharing economy” is now moving into the “sharing services economy.” — This morning, Verizon Enterprise Services announced its “Auto Share” service, enabling any car company to become a Zipcar.

More: Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, Wireless Week, AndroidHeadlines.com and Light Reading. Tweets: @marshallk. Thanks:@harrisonweber

Alice Truong / Fast Company:

Isis-affiliated Twitter account calls for assassination of Twitter employees, Twitter investigating — A now-suspended Twitter account seemingly affiliated with the extremist group ISIS has been calling for the assassination of employees who work at the social network.

More: Vocativ, The Hill, Mashable, Washington Post, Firstpost, The Wire and SFGate Blog. See also Mediagazer

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

Twitch CEO: “Entire Website” Is a Native Advertising Hub, Not a Store — Twitch is already good at selling people on games, but it's not interested in selling the games directly. — That's the word from CEO Emmett Shear, asked at TechCrunch Disrupt about how the company plans to integrate with its new owner Amazon.

More: Guardian, ReadWrite, Gamasutra, Engadget, CNET, GeekWire and The Next Web. Tweets: @petersontee

Sapna Maheshwari / BuzzFeed:

Tinder settles sexual harassment lawsuit brought by former executive Whitney Wolfe; Justin Mateen no longer at the company — Tinder Settles Fast With Co-Founder In Sexual Harassment Suit — The shocking lawsuit, which sparked a national conversation around the treatment of women in tech, has been dropped.

More: TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Inc.com, ITProPortal, CNET, VatorNews, The Verge, Los Angeles Times and Business Insider

Tweets: @glennf and @katienotopoulos

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