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September 16, 2014, 7:55 AM

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Buster Hein / Cult of Mac:

Apple confirms iPhone 6 NFC chip is restricted to Apple Pay — Apple finally added NFC to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, but if you were hoping the company's new NFC chip will allow you to pair speakers or integrated NFC tags into your favorite apps, however you won't be able to do any of the when …

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Markus Persson / notch.net:

Markus “Notch” Persson on selling and leaving Mojang: “It's not about the money. It's about my sanity.” — I'm leaving Mojang — September 15th, 2014 I don't see myself as a real game developer. I make games because it's fun, and because I love games and I love to program …

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Why parents are raising their kids on Minecraft — Microsoft's latest purchase has remarkable intergenerational appeal — Back in June of 2011, David Pakman's daughter and son, at the time age 10 and eight, asked him for a copy of Minecraft. “At the time I didn't know what that was …

More: Re/code and GeekWire. Tweets: @a91g and @cwarzel

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

Minecraft fits into Nadella's new vision for Microsoft, but the Xbox business creates conflict

More: Gamasutra, Softpedia News, ITworld.com, THE CORNERPLAY, Mobile Magazine, Polygon, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog and DailyTech

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Tony Fadell on the evolution of Nest, working with Jobs and Page, and integrating Google's culture — The $3.2 Billion Man: Can Google's Newest Star Outsmart Apple? — Google is betting big on Nest CEO Tony Fadell, who helped invent the iPod and iPhone. Here, a look inside his design revolution.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @austincarr

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft announces Windows 9 event in San Francisco on September 30th — Microsoft is preparing to detail its next major version of Windows. We had been expecting the company to hold a press event later this month, and now it's official. Microsoft will hold a “Windows event” in San Francisco on September 30th.

More: Computerworld, Re/code, The Register, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, PC World, Electronista, Laptop Mag, MobileSyrup.com, TechSpot, CNET, Pocketnow, CIO.com, Mashable, Liliputing, Windows Phone Central, GeekWire, BGR, WinBeta, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Seeking Alpha and TIME. Tweets: @zpower

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Paypal attacks Apple Pay security with full-page ad in NYT referencing recent iCloud celebrity photo hack — “We the people want our money safer than our selfies.” PayPal goes after Apple in a full page NYT ad — As the rumors of an Apple payments platform swirled leading up to last week's keynote …

More: BGR, CNET, TechCrunch, ReadWrite, MacRumors, Patently Apple, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, App Advice, TechRadar.com and TUAW

Tweets: @rabois, @halthomas, @rabois, @carnage4life, @ow, @arj, @cjc, @lessien and @delrey

Derrick Harris / Gigaom:

Facebook launches an open source organization and releases new routing tech — Facebook is upping the ante in the open source world, announcing on Monday a new open source technology for routing data across server caches, and also a new open organization (along with other big-name companies) to help foster open source efforts.

More: Facebook Code, Facebook Code, New York Times, AllFacebook, PC World, Softpedia News, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Re/code, EnterpriseTech, Bloomberg, Inside Facebook, Data Center Knowledge, ZDNet and insideHPC

Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:

Silicon Valley's view of Alibaba: a competitor only for investments, and a potential acquirer — How Silicon Valley sees Alibaba — Wall Street is seeing green this week regarding the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. It hopes to raise more than $20 billion.

Tweets: @jonrussell

Wall Street Journal:

Bill Gurley says Silicon Valley is taking on the most risk since 1999, will see high-profile failures in the next year or two

More: Business Insider, AVC, Business Insider, Re/code and Valleywag

Tweets: @rabois, @ross, @hunterwalk, @evelynrusli, @daniellemorrill, @pmarca and @caseynewton

Wall Street Journal:

Alibaba increases IPO price range to $66-68 a share, from $60-66, could raise as much as $25B

More: Associated Press, New York Times, SiliconBeat, Gigaom, Tech Trader Daily, Forbes, Bloomberg, Reuters and CNET. Tweets: @wsjbreakingnews

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Amazon tops list of Google's biggest search advertisers, spent $158M on search ads in 2013 — Amazon Tops List of Google's 25 Biggest Search Advertisers — Online Retail Giant Spent $158M on Search Ads in 2013 — One of Google's emerging rivals for online ad dollars is also its biggest search-ad buyer.

More: ECPM BLOG, ScreenwerkScreenwerk and Marketing Land. Tweets: @jyarow

Stephen Wolfram / Wolfram Blog:

Wolfram launches cloud-based Mathematica Online that works in the browser — Launching Today: Mathematica Online! — It's been many years in the making, and today I'm excited to announce the launch of Mathematica Online: a version of Mathematica that operates completely in the cloud …

More: The Next Web

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

500px Co-Founder And Former CEO Ousted From The Startup — Toronto's 500px photo portfolio site and marketplace is undergoing some major changes, as co-founder Oleg Gutsol is out from the company he started. The executive shared the information on Facebook on Monday, saying that he was …

More: BetaKit. Tweets: @rcnaturephotos

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Roku has sold over 10 million of its streaming players — Roku just hit a milestone: over 10 million of its streaming players have been sold to this point, stretching from the company's original set-top box — which debuted in 2008 — through today. It's a big number, and it establishes Roku …

More: Engadget, CNET, Re/code, Multichannel News, Fast Company, Gigaom and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Mail.ru Takes Over 'Russia's Facebook' Vkontake In $1.47B Deal, Settles Durov Suit — Some big shareholder shifts at Vkontake, the social network with 92 million monthly active users that's often described as Russia's Facebook and has been embroiled in political controversies that resulted in the ousting of its founder, Pavel Durov.

More: Mail.ru Group, Gigaom, The Next Web, Reuters, Webrazzi and Bloomberg. Tweets: @jonrussell

Bloomberg:

Apple Watch Privacy Questioned by Connecticut AG Jepsen — Apple Inc. (AAPL) faces questions by Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen over privacy protections for users of the company's watch, which includes features such as health tracking, unveiled last week as part of its lineup of new products.

More: State of Connecticut, Digital Trends, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Hartford Courant, New Haven Register, BGR and MacRumors

Tweets: @evilbachus and @parislemon

Natasha Singer / New York Times:

California bill to prohibit online services from selling or disclosing students' personal data — With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise — At a New York state elementary school, teachers can use a behavior-monitoring app to compile information on which children have positive attitudes and which act out.

More: EdSurge. Tweets: @zeynep, @mindshiftkqed and @russaltenburg

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Panasonic puts a 1-inch sensor and a Leica lens on new CM1 smartphone — Seeking to set a new benchmark for the cameraphone category — Panasonic has made the biggest news of Photokina so far with the announcement of its new Lumix CM1 Android smartphone.

Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:

Gartner: 75% of mobile apps will fail basic security tests in 2015 — Majority of mobile apps will fail basic security tests in the future: Gartner — Summary: The research firm claims that 75 percent of all mobile applications will fail basic security tests next year — leaving the enterprise vulnerable.

More: Gartner, SecurityWeek and BetaNews

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:

Macy's rolls out retail's largest beacon installation — Summary: Macy's expects to complete the installation by early fall, just in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season. — Following a test run during last year's holiday shopping season at its flagship stores in New York City and San Francisco …

More: MacRumors and SlashGear

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Spotify launches on Amazon Fire TV in US, available to premium subscribers only — Spotify fires up on Amazon Fire TV — Amazon's streaming-media box adds support for the music service with more than 20 million songs. To use Spotify Connect, you'll need a premium subscription.

More: Spotify Blog, Trusted Reviews, TechRadar.com, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Gigaom, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, AndroidHeadlines.com and Android Central

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