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September 13, 2014, 11:45 AM

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Ian Kar / Bank Innovation:

Apple Poaching Talent from AmEx, PayPal, Google — for Loyalty Program — Apple has been filling out its payments team for the past few months, poaching a number of executives from PayPal, American Express, and others - but not just to prep for Apple Pay's launch this week.

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

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, ABC News, MacNN, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, App Advice, SlashGear, Pocketnow, BGR, iMore and New York Times. Tweets: @mdudas

Ian Kar / Bank Innovation:

Here's How the Security Behind Apple Pay Will Really Work

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Macworld and MacRumors

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: AppleInsider, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, Re/code, 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

Tweets: @tim, @tim, @tim and @mdudas

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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Accessory makers hit delays as iPhone 6 production eats up Lightning connector supplies — Record shipments of Apple's new iPhone 6 models unveiled this week might mean more headaches for companies building accessories with Apple's Lightning connectors. Several sources tell us in the lead …

More: TechnoBuffalo and Ubergizmo. Thanks:@markgurman

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

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Glympse Keyboard launches for Android to help you share your location from any app — Glympse has long since cemented its position as one of the most popular real-time location-sharing apps for mobile. — If you're new to it, it works like this: you decide which of your contacts can see where you are …

More: MobileSyrup.com and Marketwired

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

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Kevin Rose's ephemeral photo and video sharing app Tiiny is now available for download on iOS — Kevin Rose launches Tiiny, a fun iPhone app for sharing temporary photos and videos — After teasing the app earlier this week, Digg co-founder Kevin Rose has released Tiiny …

More: TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, Medium, SlashGear, VentureBeat and Engadget

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Comcast and Liberty Global agree to share WiFi networks, opening hotspots in Europe to Comcast customers — Comcast and Liberty Global agree to share their Wi-Fi networks — Both cable operators are using crowdsourcing to build massive hotspot networks on their customers' home routers.

More: ZDNet, The Boston Globe, TechSpot, PC Magazine and Light Reading

Chris Ziegler / The Verge:

Motorola's unlocked, unbranded Moto X will be called the ‘Pure Edition’ — I can think of many, many times where I've called the flavor of Android that ships on Nexus phones “pure Android,” and it looks like Motorola is taking a cue: its direct-sale, unbranded, unlocked Moto X will be called the Moto X Pure Edition when it ships.

More: Phones Review, Fone Arena, Electronista, Android Authority, TechnoBuffalo, DailyTech, Pocketnow, SlashGear, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Pocket-lint, DisplayBlog, PC World, Engadget and Droid Life

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