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September 16, 2014, 1:40 PM

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Buster Hein / Cult of Mac:

Apple confirms iPhone 6 NFC chip is only for Apple Pay at launch — 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 …

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

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: Macworld, The Verge, SiliconBeat, Inquirer, DailyTech, BGR, Cult of Mac, App Advice, ReadWrite, internetretailer.com, TUAW, CNET, Patently Apple, MacRumors, TechRadar.com, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac

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Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Tim Cook doesn't want Apple to be a ‘treasure trove’ of user data for the NSA — Apple's privacy and security measures have been under a microscope for the past month, first with a targeted attack on celebrities that led to leaked nude photos, and now on Apple's own systems as the company gears …

More: Re/code, Bank Innovation, Inquirer, PandoDaily, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, App Advice, Ubergizmo and The Mac Observer

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: GeekWire, Digiday, Softpedia News, bizjournals, ECPM BLOG, Business Insider, ScreenwerkScreenwerk and Marketing Land. Tweets: @jyarow

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Jury finds CBS infringes podcasting patent, awards $1.3 million — The popular show NCIS is one of several shows that CBS was sued over. — CBS — A jury in Marshall, Texas found the infamous “podcasting patent” was infringed by CBS's website today and said that the TV network …

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Gigaom and Law360. See also Mediagazer

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Misfit announces Flash, a plastic $50 wearable that tracks fitness and sleep — Misfit Wearables Launches The Flash, A More Affordable Fitness And Sleep Tracker — Misfit Wearables, which has sold roughly 600,000 metallic, quarter-sized activity trackers or Shines, has launched a more affordable fitness wearable called the Flash.

More: The Verge, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Next Web, PC World, Engadget, Gigaom, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, Wired, Wearable World News and SlashGear

Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom:

Cloud darling Docker gets $40M in funding to push its container technology — The closing of the funding round ends a momentous summer for the container management startup in which companies like Google, Microsoft and VMware have all pledged support and a bunch of startups have sprung up to take advantage of the Docker platform.

More: TechCrunch, eWeek, VatorNews, Docker Blog, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, The Register, PE Hub Blog and Data Center Knowledge

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

FiftyThree reveals Mix, a community for sharing and downloading any kind of Paper — Grid paper, lined paper, and even smartphone templates — “What is your favorite PowerPoint template?” FiftyThree CEO Georg Petschnigg wants to know. — It's a surprisingly pertinent question.

More: TechCrunch, iMore, Engadget, GeekWire, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Business Insider, TUAW, Pocket-lint, App Advice and PSFK. Tweets: @hamburger

Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:

Hackers can exploit Kindle security flaw to access your Amazon account using malicious ebooks — Your Amazon Account Can be Hacked via a Kindle eBook — Amazon might not have a security issue at Audible but they do have one on their main website. — A security researcher has reported …

More: B.FL7.DE, The Verge, PC World, Help Net Security, Inquirer, PandoDaily, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Engadget, Business Insider, Electronista, Digital Book World, ITProPortal, Gizmodo and Good E-Reader

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

Fastly grabs $40M on its quest to build a big, cool content-distribution network — Above: Servers at Fastly's point of presence in Frankfurt. — Fastly, a startup looking to challenge the biggest companies in the business of distributing content around the world for quick online access, has brought on $40 million in fresh money.

More: TechCrunch, Data Center Knowledge, PE Hub Blog and Gigaom

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Y Combinator Releases Its Curriculum as a Stanford Class — and Online — Especially in boom times, Stanford has a reputation for being a channel for ambitious young techies to plug themselves into Silicon Valley, sometimes in lieu of academics. — Now it's coming true, literally.

More: TechCrunch, New York Times and Fortune

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, PC World, Mashable, Associated Press, PandoDaily, New York Times, Webrazzi, Reuters, Gigaom, The Next Web and Bloomberg

Tweets: @ingridlunden and @jonrussell

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Radio station operator Clear Channel rebrands as iHeartMedia, embracing iHeartRadio's success — Clear Channel Renames Itself iHeartMedia, in an Embrace of the Digital — When it was introduced by Clear Channel Communications in 2008, the iHeartRadio app had a humble job as an online outlet for the radio giant's 800-plus stations.

More: VentureBeat, clearchannel.com, Los Angeles Times, TechCrunch, Engadget, CNET, AdAge, Wall Street Journal and Billboard. See also Mediagazer

Bloomberg:

Connecticut attorney general asks to meet Apple representatives about privacy protections for Watch users — Apple Watch Privacy Questioned by Connecticut AG Jepsen — Apple Inc. (AAPL) faces questions by Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen over privacy protections for users …

More: SiliconBeat, State of Connecticut, The Register, Fox News, CNET, New Haven Register, Hartford Courant, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR and MacRumors

Tweets: @evilbachus and @parislemon

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft introduces “Universal Mobile Keyboard”, built for iOS, Android, and Windows; to be released this October for $79.95 — Microsoft creates a keyboard for iOS and Android tablets — Microsoft has created a keyboard designed for iOS, Android, and Windows tablets.

More: The Fire Hose, Gizmodo, BetaNews, Gigaom, Blogging Windows, TechCrunch, ZDNet, PC World, Android Police, The Next Web, WinBeta and Ubergizmo

Brandon Chester / AnandTech:

NVIDIA Opens Pre-Orders For The SHIELD Tablet With LTE and 32GB Of Storage — NVIDIA's SHIELD Tablet arrived earlier this year and it was one of the first devices to use NVIDIA's Tegra K1 platform with 4 Cortex A15 cores and a single SMX GPU based on NVIDIA's Kepler architecture.

More: NVIDIA, 9to5Google, Android Police, Engadget, Gigaom, AndroidOS.in, SlashGear, The Tech Report, MobileSyrup.com and Ubergizmo

Eugene Kim / Business Insider:

Richard Branson invests in ex-Wired editor Chris Anderson's drone company 3D Robotics — Richard Branson Explains Why He Just Invested In Drones — Billionaire entrepreneur and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson just made it official on Monday that he became the latest investor in 3D Robotics …

More: PRWeb and Gigaom

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: The Official Roku Blog, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, Tech Times, Engadget, CNET, Fast Company, Multichannel News, Gigaom, Re/code and The Next Web. Tweets: @piercedavid. See also Mediagazer

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