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Elizabeth Dexheimer / Bloomberg:

Apple collects fees from banks, not developers or merchants, when consumers use Apple Pay for credit or debit card purchases — Apple Said to Reap Fees From Banks in New Payment System — Apple Inc. (AAPL) will collect fees from banks when consumers use an iPhone in place of credit …

More: CNET, AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, MacDailyNews, Mashable, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo UK, Re/code, Patently Apple, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, WMPoweruser, iPhone, TUAW, App Advice, Fortune, ZDNet, MacRumors, AppleTell, Ubergizmo, MediaNama, iDownloadBlog.com, Reuters and ParisLemon. Tweets: @erickschonfeld

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Here's Apple Pay In Action — Apple has revealed its mobile payments play, and it features NFC and Touch ID, as many expected. The system works as fast as they joked it did on stage - which is why in our demo we ran through a number of different payment scenarios.

More: BGR, Bank Innovation, 9to5Mac, Business Wire and Valleywag

Mike Snider / USA Today:

Apple hopes to jump-start mobile payments with Apple Pay

More: Wired, ABC News, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Forbes and Forbes

Bloomberg:

Microsoft and Mojang have been in talks for months; Notch would likely leave after transition — Microsoft Said Near $2 Billion Deal for Minecraft Maker — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), maker of the Xbox video-game console, is in discussions to acquire Mojang AB, the software company behind …

Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft in “serious discussions” to buy Minecraft maker Mojang AB in deal worth more than $2B — Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang — Deal May Come This Week, Value Swedish Company at More Than $2 Billion — Microsoft Corp. is in serious discussions to buy Mojang AB …

More: New York Times, VatorNews, The Verge, BBC, App Advice, The Verge, TIME, Fortune, Kotaku, ArcticStartup, Guardian, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, BuzzFeed, Neowin, SlashGear and TechnoBuffalo

Tweets: @codinghorror and @nikcub

Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

Tim Cook era emerges as Apple enters two new categories (wearables and mobile payments) in one day — It's Tim Cook's Apple Now — The Tim Cook era at Apple emerged onto the public stage today in full force, and it bears subtle differences from Steve Jobs's Apple.

More: New York Times, Softpedia News, Bloomberg and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @bonniescha

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Tim Cook's memo to employees: I am ‘excited’ about 'this new chapter in Apple's story'

More: Guardian, iMore, Inquirer, ABC News, Business Insider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog and App Advice

Swift Blog:

Apple invites developers to submit Swift apps as language reaches GM status for iOS — Swift Has Reached 1.0 — On June 2, 2014 at WWDC, the Swift team finally showed you what we had been working on for years. That was a big day with lots of excitement, for us and for developers around the world.

More: CNET, AppleInsider, InfoWorld, MediaNama, Geeky Gadgets, InfoQ, MacRumors, iMore, The Next Web and MacNN

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Deezer launches in the US at $15/month with high quality streaming audio that works with Sonos — Deezer Joins a Crowded Music Subscription Market, with a High-End Pitch — If you want to spend $10 a month on a music subscription service in the U.S., there are plenty of people who are happy to take your money*.

More: The Sonos Blog, VentureBeat, The Verge, CNET, The Next Web, Los Angeles Times, Engadget, RAIN News, Electronista and Mashable. See also Mediagazer

Chris Burns / SlashGear:

Apple Watch allows for left-handed UI, but Digital Crown will be at bottom left of watch — Where's our left-handed Apple Watch? [Update] — One striking feature of the Apple Watch you may have missed during today's Apple presentation is its single-handed orientation.

More: Yahoo Tech, Gigaom, iLounge, App Advice, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, MacDailyNews and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @sarahlane

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Hands on an Apple Watch (running a demo loop): attractive and solid, yet light

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Apple Watch will be available “early” 2015 in two sizes and three collections, starts at $349, requires iPhone 5 or newer

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Kevin Rawlinson / BBC:

Twitter supports Internet Slowdown campaign along with Netflix, Reddit, Mozilla, Digg, more — Twitter, Netflix and Reddit hold net neutrality protest — Protesters rally in support of ‘net neutrality’ in May this year — Twitter, Netflix and Reddit will take part in an “internet slowdown” …

Ryan Smith / AnandTech:

Intel's Edison development platform for wearables and Internet of Things now shipping — IDF 2014: Intel Edison Development Platform Now Shipping — As part of today's IDF 2014 keynote, Intel has announced that their Edison development platform is now shipping.

More: Intel, eWeek, New York Times, PC Magazine, TechRadar.com, PC & Tech Authority, Trusted Reviews, SlashGear, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Laptop Mag and Engadget

Agam Shah / PC World:

Intel's next-next-gen Skylake chips set for 2015 launch despite Broadwell delay

More: ExtremeTech, Inquirer, Computerworld, USA Today, PC World, Data Center Knowledge, Softpedia News, Engadget, Electronista, CIO.com, San Francisco Chronicle, PC World and Digital Trends

Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:

German startup incubator Rocket Internet finally confirms that it will pursue $1 billion IPO in 2014 — And we're off to the races. After Zalando last week, German startup incubator Rocket Internet this morning confirmed its intention to float its shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange before the end of this year.

More: VentureBeat, kinnevik.se, Bloomberg, Reuters, Tech in Asia, New York Times, Gigaom, Forbes, ABC News and The Next Web. Tweets: @robinwauters

Eric Mill / Konklone:

Google is moving to remove support for SHA-1 encryption in Chrome as it is no longer secure — Why Google is Hurrying the Web to Kill SHA-1 — Hilbert map of hashing algorithms, by Ian Boyd — Most of the secure web is using an insecure algorithm, and Google's just declared it to be a slow-motion emergency.

More: InfoQ and SecurityWeek

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Amazon's Android app gets Prime Instant video, can also shop for apps from Amazon App store — Amazon Updates Its App To 5.0 With Instant Video Streaming App, Access To Entire Digital Catalog, Including The Appstore [APK Download] — Amazon has finally (finally!) brought …

More: Amazon.com, Electronista, The Next Web, Lifehacker and Guardian

Robert Lemos / Ars Technica:

Dyre banking trojan, a Zeus variant, branches into corporate espionage with Salesforce attack — Dyre malware branches out from banking, adds corporate espionage — A variant of the infamous banking trojan Zeus has gone beyond targeting financial accounts, instead striving to collect another type …

More: Malwarebytes Unpacked, Adallom, cloudpro.co.uk, PC World, Threatpost, SC Magazine and darkREADING

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

iPhone 6 Plus hands-on: large enough to potentially rival iPad mini, thin enough to feel manageable in-hand — The iPhone 6 Plus hands-on: yeah, it's big — I just had the chance to play with the larger 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus, and while it's nothing surprising after all the leaks, it's still a fascinating phone.

More: Computerworld, Reuters, Engadget, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and MacStories

David Pierce / The Verge:

The iPhone 6: up close with Apple's slightly smaller bigger phone

More: AppleInsider, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, iMore, NEWS.com.au, Gigaom, Joystiq and techeblog.com

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