Techmeme: Tim Cook era emerges as Apple enters two new categories (wearables and mobile payments) in one day (Walt Mossberg/Re/code)

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September 10, 2014, 2:20 PM

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John Paczkowski / Re/code:

Source: Apple Watch battery life is “about a day right now”, Apple trying to improve ahead of launch — Code/Red: Apple Watch Battery Life — “Charge Nightly” — // HAPPENING TODAY — Internet Slowdown Day. — Silicon Valley vanity searches of Vanity Fair's New Establishment list — congrats, bosses.

David Pogue / Yahoo Tech:

Apple Watch tidbits: water resistance, microphone for calls, apps can be loaded from iPhone, Edition box doubles as charger, more — Apple Watch Update: More Details and Hands-On Impressions — Today, it seemed as if every tech journalist in America was crammed into Apple's auditorium.

More: iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, iLounge, Pocketnow, Geeky Gadgets, 9to5Mac, MacRumors and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @inafried

Chris Burns / SlashGear:

Apple Watch allows for left-handed UI, but Digital Crown will be at bottom left of watch

More: 9to5Mac, Gigaom, Cult of Mac, App Advice, MacRumors and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @sarahlane

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

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

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

Tweets: @mims, @whatthebit and @erickschonfeld

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Here's Apple Pay In Action

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

Mike Snider / USA Today:

Apple hopes to jump-start mobile payments with Apple Pay

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

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

More: New York Times, VatorNews, BBC, App Advice, The Verge, ParisLemon, TIME, ArcticStartup, Guardian, TechSpot, Kotaku and Ubergizmo

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, SiliconBeat, 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: Business Insider, Re/code, Guardian, iMore, Inquirer, Cult of Mac, ABC News and MacRumors

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, Geeky Gadgets, InfoQ, MediaNama, MacRumors, The Next Web and iMore

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

IDG closing Macworld magazine; Macworld.com website to continue; most editorial staff let go; IDG editorial director Jason Snell resigns — IDG shutters Macworld Magazine, much of the editorial staff let go … International Data Group (IDG) is shutting down Macworld Magazine …

More: Jason Snell and Valleywag. Tweets: @danfrakes, @jsnell and @drm510

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Hangouts Gets Google Voice Integration And Free VoIP Calls — For the last few years, it has always felt like Google Voice, the company's VoIP calling solution, was on its way out. Instead, the video-centric Hangouts was getting all of the attention.

More: Android Police, The Official Google Blog, Android Central, PC World, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Gigaom, iMore, Business Insider, Phandroid, Android Authority, Android Central and Droid Life. Tweets: @robpegoraro

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” …

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

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, PC Magazine, TechRadar.com, PC & Tech Authority, New York Times, Trusted Reviews and SlashGear

Agam Shah / PC World:

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

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

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, The Verge, VentureBeat, CNET, The Next Web, Engadget, Mashable, RAIN News and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Tinder in talks with Benchmark to raise funding at valuation of over $750 Million — Tinder Is Raising From Benchmark At A Valuation North Of $750 Million — Mobile dating app Tinder is in talks to raise a big round of funding from Benchmark, according to sources.

More: Forbes

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

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