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September 16, 2014, 4:50 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: DisplayBlog and Business Insider. Tweets: @thejgr and @austincarr

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Round two of Microsoft layoffs coming September 18: Sources — Summary: Microsoft will continue with its planned layoffs of 18,000 with job cuts across nearly all divisions of the company with its second wave of cuts later this week. — Later this week, Microsoft will lay off another group …

More: Business Insider, Neowin and Windows Phone Central

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, Android Police, VentureBeat, The Next Web, PC World, Wired, SlashGear, Engadget, Wearables Arena, Gigaom, Wearable World News, Ubergizmo and AppleInsider

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

U.S. court throws out VirnetX $368 million patent award vs Apple — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out a jury order requiring Apple Inc to pay VirnetX Holding Corp $368.2 million in damages for infringing four patents concerning technology for providing security over the Internet.

More: PC World, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, iMore, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg

Eugene Kim / Business Insider:

YC's Sam Altman plus roster of notable founders including Graham, Thiel, and Andreessen, to teach Stanford course on startups; lectures to appear online — Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, And Marissa Mayer Want To Teach You ‘How To Start A Startup’ — Some of the most prominent investors …

More: TechCrunch, Re/code, GeekWire, New York Times, Wired, Fortune, Fast Company and bizjournals

Tweets: @sama and @sama

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

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, GeekWire, Blogging Windows, Electronista, The Next Web, Gigaom, PC World, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Android Police, Ubergizmo and WinBeta

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, Gigaom, PE Hub Blog, Data Center Knowledge and silicontap.com

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, Wall Street Journal, PadGadget, MacRumors, Bank Innovation, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, Inquirer, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, App Advice, Ubergizmo and The Mac Observer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft launches OneNote for Android Wear and Share extension for iOS 8, updates Office Lens for Windows Phone — Microsoft today made three major OneNote announcements. The company launched OneNote for Android Wear and a Share extension for iOS 8, as well as updated Office Lens for Windows Phone.

More: Office Blogs, Office Blogs, The Verge, BetaNews, PC World, Engadget, CITEworld, Digital Trends, Gigaom, Android Police, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Fire Hose, Android Central, Neowin, Pocket-lint and Ubergizmo

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, Law360 and Gigaom. See also Mediagazer

Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal:

Chinese Worker Detained for Giving Customers a Sneak Peek at iPhone 6 — Apple's new iPhone 6 might not be available in mainland China any time soon. But, according to local authorities, plenty of people there have already wrapped their hands around its contours.

More: CNET, SlashGear, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, iMore, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, Ubergizmo and App Advice

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, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Engadget, GeekWire, The Next Web, TUAW, Pocket-lint, iMore and App Advice. 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, TechCrunch, PC World, Help Net Security, Inquirer, SC Magazine, InvestorPlace, Engadget, PandoDaily, Business Insider, Softpedia News, Digital Book World, ITProPortal, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Electronista and Good E-Reader

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

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Quidsi co-founder Marc Lore raises an additional $20M for secretive e-commerce startup Jet — Quidsi Co-Founder Raises An Additional $20M For A New E-Commerce Biz — In less than a year after leaving Amazon, Quidsi co-founder Marc Lore began work on a new startup called Jet.com.

More: Marc Lore, GeekWire, Re/code, Business Insider and Wall Street Journal

Andy McDonald / Digital TV Europe:

Netflix goes live in Germany, partners with Deutsche Telekom — Netflix has gone live today in Germany and has signed a distribution partnership with Deutsche Telekom in the latest leg of its European expansion. — Under the terms of the partnership deal, Netflix's app will be available …

More: Hollywood Reporter, CNET, DW.DE, ValueWalk, The Next Web, Broadband TV News and WebProNews. Tweets: @netflixde

Jason Verge / Data Center Knowledge:

Data Center Security Startup vArmour Emerges from Stealth — Data center security startup vArmour has come out of stealth. The company recently raised a $15 million series C after proving itself with several enterprises and service providers, but has not, until now, said what it does.

More: VentureBeat, Gigaom and PandoDaily

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Smart thermostat maker Ecobee pokes Nest with a striking redesign — And the promise of lower heating and cooling bills — One of the first things Stuart Lombard will tell you is how much he spent on the solar panels that are on top of his house. It's not to brag so much as to explain …

More: Engadget, BetaKit, SlashGear, Gizmodo, PC World and Gigaom

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, PC Magazine, CNET, Android Police, Engadget, TechSpot, AndroidGuys, Digital Trends, Gigaom, Droid Life, AndroidOS.in, SlashGear, The Tech Report, MobileSyrup.com, Ubergizmo and Pocketnow

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Two-factor verification for iCloud.com is back following recent hacks — Back in June, Apple rolled out a two-factor authentication system for the iCloud.com suite of web apps. The feature quickly disappeared, but today, users are noticing that it has returned.

More: MacRumors, iMore, Business Insider and iPhone in Canada Blog

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

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

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