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September 22, 2014, 3:20 PM

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Apple:
Apple sells over 10M iPhone 6 and 6 Plus units in three days after launch, beating 9M iPhones sold in the same period last year  —  First Weekend iPhone Sales Top 10 Million, Set New Record  —  Apple® today announced it has sold over 10 million new iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models …
Joshua Ho / AnandTech:
iPhone 6/6 Plus beat competition in browser and GPU benchmarks, web browsing battery life test  —  iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus: Preliminary Results  —  While we're still working on the full review, I want to get out some preliminary results for the iPhone 6.
Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal:
Google selects HTC to make its upcoming 9-inch Nexus tablet  —  HTC Returns to Tablets with Google Nexus Partnership  —  After disappointing sales of the Flyer tablet in 2011, HTC's executives said they'd swear off making tablets until they found a compelling reason to try again.  —  They have one now.
Jackgmarch Com / Jack March:
Source: 12″ Macbook Air has thinner fanless design, reversible USB Type C, no MagSafe  —  Exclusive: 12″ Macbook Air Design Details  —  You may remember a report from last week claiming that the MacBook Air was going to arrive in Space Grey, Gold, & Silver colours and launch in Mid 2015 …
Steven Millward / Tech in Asia:
DuckDuckGo joins Google in being blocked in China  —  Privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo is now blocked in China.  We noticed this over the weekend, and on Sunday DuckDuckGo founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg confirmed to Tech in Asia that the team has noticed the blockage in China:
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
AT&T, Chernin buy majority stake in Fullscreen YouTube network, valuing it between $200-300M  —  AT&T & Chernin Buy Fullscreen, the Big YouTube Video Network  —  Otter Media, the Web video joint venture between AT&T and the Chernin Group, is confirming its deal to buy a controlling stake in Fullscreen …
Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:
BlackBerry Passport to go on sale Wednesday in the US, will cost $599 without contract  —  BlackBerry CEO: New Smartphone Will Cost $599  —  Passport Smartphone Is Company's First Device Launch Since BlackBerry 10  —  SINGAPORE— BlackBerry Ltd. plans to sell its new square-screen smartphone …
Wall Street Journal:
Merger talks between EMC and Hewlett-Packard recently broke down; EMC also talked with Dell  —  EMC Weighs Merger, Other Options  —  Pressed by Activist and With CEO Expected to Retire, Data-Storage Giant Reaches Crossroad  —  Data-storage giant EMC Corp. , under pressure from a shareholder activist …
Reuters:
Sources: Silver Lake is in advanced talks to acquire Shutterfly for at least $2 billion  —  Exclusive: Silver Lake in the lead to acquire Shutterfly - sources  —  (Reuters) - Private equity firm Silver Lake is in advanced talks to acquire Shutterfly Inc, the online photo-sharing services provider …

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