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September 13, 2014, 11:15 PM

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Bill Rigby / Reuters:

Source: Microsoft will announce $2.5B deal to buy Minecraft maker Mojang on Monday — Microsoft needs Minecraft to boost mobile ambitions — (Reuters) - Microsoft's impending purchase of Mojang, the Swedish developer with 100 million players of its open world Minecraft game …

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Mat Honan / Wired:

A requiem for the click wheel iPod, discontinued after almost 13 years — On Death and iPods: A Requiem — Have you ever loved a car? Maybe it was an old truck you drove for hundreds of thousands of miles, or maybe it was your very first car: where you had your very first beer and your very first kiss.

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Nick Bilton / New York Times:

Steve Jobs and several other tech execs have imposed time limits on their kids' use of gadgets — Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent — When Steve Jobs was running Apple, he was known to call journalists to either pat them on the back for a recent article or, more often than not, explain how they got it wrong.

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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Product Hunt Raises $6 Million From A16Z — Product Hunt, the aggregation site that many people consider a direct competitor to TechCrunch and other tech blogs due to its ability to surface new tech products and startups, has raised a hefty series A, we're hearing.

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Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Tim Cook on Charlie Rose: no plans for social networking; Apple's top competitor is Google — Tim Cook says Apple could have made a bigger iPhone ‘years ago’ — Apple CEO tells Charlie Rose the company's been patient — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company could have made a larger iPhone long ago …

More: Gizmodo, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iMore, DisplayBlog, GeekWire, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, NBC News, The Register, Telegraph, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, Engadget, CNET, App Advice, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo, MacRumors, iMore, Business Insider, Business Insider and Quartz

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Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

Since Supreme Court's Alice decision, 11 lower court rulings have invalidated software patents — Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court — The Supreme Court's June ruling on the patentability of software — its first in 33 years — raised as many questions at it answered.

More: IPWatchdog.com, Techdirt and Patently-O. Tweets: @skupor

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Public version of Google Chrome for Mac will go exclusively 64-bit in November — Last month Google released a 64-bit version of the Chrome browser for OS X on its developer channel. However, this version of the app has not yet been made available to the general public.

More: Google Apps update alerts, Engadget, iMore and Pocket-lint

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Apple Pay Details: Apple Gets 0.15% Cut of Purchases, Higher Rates for Bluetooth Payments — Apple's ambitious new mobile payment initiative, Apple Pay, was announced on Tuesday during the company's iPhone event. Many questions still linger about the service, but information is beginning …

More: Financial Times, TUAW, eWeek, The Register, App Advice, MacNN, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, Pocketnow, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, BGR, iMore and New York Times. Tweets: @mdudas

Ian Kar / Bank Innovation:

Apple Poaching Talent from AmEx, PayPal, Google — for Loyalty Program

More: Finextra, iPhone in Canada Blog and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@iankar_

Ian Kar / Bank Innovation:

Apple Pay transactions made via bluetooth or in-app are charged higher “card-not-present” rate

More: Om Malik, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macworld and MacRumors

New York Times:

JPMorgan hack investigation finding dozens of the company's servers breached over two months; one source says SSNs and account data not stolen — After Breach, JPMorgan Still Seeks to Determine Extent of Attack — The headache caused by the attack on JPMorgan Chase's computer network this summer may not go away anytime soon.

More: Reuters and Electronista

Don Reisinger / CNET:

Microsoft announces new Xbox 360 console and game bundles for holiday season, including Blue and Kinect options — Big on blue? Microsoft expands palette with new Xbox 360 bundle — The $249 bundle includes two games, Call of Duty: Ghosts and Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and a free month of Xbox Live Gold.

More: Xbox Wire, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, GeekWire, SlashGear, The Verge, Xbox, destructoid, Gotta Be Mobile, Windows Phone Central, Polygon and The Fire Hose

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Apple Users Download Free U2 Album Two Million Times — Some of you do not want the U2 album Apple is giving away. But lots of you were willing to download it. Or, at a minimum, your iPhones and MacBooks did. — iTunes users have downloaded more than 2 million copies of “Songs of Innocence” …

More: iMore, New York Times, Billboard, Business Insider, App Advice, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, Album Reviews, US News, MacNN, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac and Electronista

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