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September 12, 2014, 2:05 PM

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Ina Fried / Re/code:

iPhone 6 Plus sells out within hours, Apple reports “record number” of pre-orders for new iPhones, AT&T says demand is higher than past two years — Larger iPhone 6 Plus Sells Out, “Record Number” of iPhone Pre-orders — Yep, lots of people tried to order new iPhones as pre-sales began just after midnight on Friday.

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple's second wave of iPhone 6 sales starts Sept. 26 for long list of countries

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, CNET, BGR, The Verge, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Touch Arcade, The Next Web, The Techolic and iPhone in Canada Blog

Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:

Apple Pay charged a lower transaction rate by banks than typical for credit card transactions, won't be accepted by Walmart and Best Buy — Banks Did It Apple's Way in Payments by Mobile — JPMorgan Chase's chief financial officer, Marianne Lake, took the stage at a financial conference …

More: Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, The Verge, SlashGear, AppleInsider, TUAW, PYMNTS.com and DisplayBlog

Tweets: @counternotions, @mikeisaac, @tek_fin, @micksussman and @nytimesbusiness

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Merchants equipped for Apple Pay likely to surge in US as Oct 2015 deadline for EMV support spurs point of sale system upgrades — The hidden brilliance behind the timing of Apple's adoption of NFC — There's a brilliance to the timing of Apple's adoption of near field communication (NFC) technology.

More: Mercury News, Electronista, MacRumors, internetretailer.com, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, The Boston Globe and VentureBeat

Tweets: @adamnash and @stevesi

Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed:

About 1000 New York Uber drivers plan to strike on Monday over fares and working conditions — Uber Drivers “Strike” — And Switch To Lyft — Over Fares And Conditions — Testing the labor market. “Uber is not doing anything — it's only an application on our phones.” — Facebook: uberdriversnetwork

More: TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @dhh and @laurahazardowen

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Offers Early-Stage Startups $100,000 In Cloud Platform Credits For 1 Year — If you are an early stage startup, Google wants to give you $100,000 in Cloud Platform credits for one year so you can host your applications on its servers (and not on AWS or Azure).

More: VentureBeat, PC World, BetaNews, VatorNews, New York Times, Google Cloud Platform Blog, Inquirer, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, Business Insider, Network World, The Next Web, Gigaom and Mashable

Tweets: @dburkes and @levie

Roger Cheng / CNET:

AT&T plans to offer Wi-Fi calling in 2015 — AT&T's Ralph de la Vega also said he expects customer turnover to remain low in the third quarter. — AT&T will embrace Wi-Fi calling in 2015. — That's according to Ralph De la Vega, CEO of the company's mobility and enterprise business.

More: Light Reading, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, iMore and Liliputing

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 9's new Start menu demonstrated on video — Microsoft may have demonstrated its new Start menu earlier this year, but thanks to a recent “Windows 9” leak we're now seeing every single part of the company's plans for bringing back this popular feature.

More: VentureBeat, BGR, PC World, Softpedia News, CNET, SlashGear, SuperSite for Windows, InfoWorld, Engadget, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, Yahoo Tech, WinBeta, Fone Arena, Gizmodo, eWeek, TechSpot, Ars Technica, Liliputing and The Verge

Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Court documents show US threatened Yahoo with $250K/day fine in 2008 if it refused to participate in NSA's PRISM program — U.S. threatened massive fine to force Yahoo to release data — The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply …

Y Combinator:

Y Combinator requests applications from startups in certain areas including energy, A.I., robotics, biotech, and healthcare — New Requests for Startups — INTRODUCTION There are a lot of startup ideas we've been waiting for people to apply with, sometimes for years.

Tweets: @aparanjape and @mattcutts

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Square raises $100 million at $6 billion valuation — Payments company Square has raised $100 million in new funding at a valuation of nearly $6 billion, according to a Delaware filing obtained by VCExperts.com and shared with Fortune. — The San Francisco-based company issued 6.4 million …

More: VentureBeat, Forbes and Business Insider

Tweets: @eringriffith and @danprimack

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Google changes stance, now says net neutrality rules should apply to cellular networks — Google changes stance on net neutrality four years after Verizon deal — Four years ago, Google teamed up with Verizon to argue that most network neutrality rules should not apply to cellular networks.

More: DSLreports, Washington Post, Softpedia News, SiliconBeat, Guardian and The Hill

New York Times:

Alibaba to Close Order Books Early and May Lift Price of I.P.O. — Demand for shares in the Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant, was long expected to be strong. But the orders have come in so quickly that the company's banks expect to close their order books early.

More: Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple says new iOS 8 SMS Continuity feature won't arrive until October — Apple's website detailing Continuity features arriving with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite in the coming weeks has been updated to announce SMS support won't arrive until October. — The feature, which allows users to send …

More: iLounge, iMore and iDownloadBlog.com

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Donates $31M To Build VR Lab At His Alma Mater University Of Maryland — Brendan Iribe dropped out of University Of Maryland his freshman year to launch a startup before going on to form Oculus. But now inspired by Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy and made rich …

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, Associated Press, Engadget, Gamasutra, Washington Post, GameSpot, Business Insider, diamondbackonline.com and Baltimore Sun

Associated Press:

HP fined $59M for bribing Russian officials as part of $108M plea deal for bribes in Mexico, Poland, and Russia — HP fined $58.7M for bribery of Russian government — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hewlett-Packard Co. pleaded guilty Thursday to felony charges that former employees bribed Russian …

More: USA Today, NDTV Gadgets, Tech Times and Business Insider. Tweets: @bschmeitzner

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Google is promoting Chromebooks to US students with a traveling Lending Library — Google is making moves to promote Chromebooks in colleges later this year, as it announces a new Chromebook Lending Library initiative. — However, the library won't be available internationally, or even nationally.

More: Google and TechCrunch

Wall Street Journal:

Facebook is trying to lure YouTube's biggest content creators, discussing advertising — Facebook Tries to Muscle In on YouTube — Social Network Makes a Pitch to Lure Content Creators, Discusses How Ads Might Be Used — In what may be another signal that Facebook Inc. wants to take on YouTube …

More: SiliconBeat, Reuters, Tubefilter and Seeking Alpha. See also Mediagazer

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

California Regulator Says Commercial Carpooling — Like What Uber and Lyft Are Doing — Isn't Legal — The California Public Utilities Commission is apparently not a fan of the new trend in mobile-enabled ride-sharing: helping two or more people with similar origins and destinations share a car across town.

More: SiliconBeat, CNET and PandoDaily. Tweets: @kostasrossoglou

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