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September 28, 2014, 7:25 PM

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Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter:

Japan's SoftBank reportedly in talks to acquire DreamWorks Animation in a deal valued at $3.4B — Source: DreamWorks Animation in Sale Talks With Japan's SoftBank (Exclusive) — The company, which has seen up-and-down box office numbers of late, would be valued at $3.4 billion, a source tells THR

More: Reuters, CNET, USA Today, PC World, The Verge, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Erin Griffith / Fortune:

Ello plans to charge for features, like a one-time fee of $2 to manage two different accounts — An audacious plan to fix the Internet's original sin — The social networking site Ello is just five weeks old, but damn if it hasnt made an impression. In the past week …

More: New York Times, Mustapha Hamoui's Geek …, PC Magazine, Not Your Ex/Rotic, Marketing Land and Mashable. Tweets: @djspooky

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: Competition Between Apple and Google is More Brutal Than Ever — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and former SVP of products, Jonathan Rosenberg, recently published a new book entitled “How Google Works, which explores topics like corporate culture …

More: Bloomberg, Economist, Business Insider, Financial Times, Guardian, Re/code, VentureBeat, BGR, ZDNet, Cult of Mac, Tech Times, AppleInsider, Business Insider, 9to5Google and Guardian

Tweets: @dujkan and @amir

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:

Android Auto developer docs show off more UI, detail 3rd-party apps — An example of a generic interface that Google designs. Developers can customize the colors and icons. — 7 more images in gallery — Google just released a set of Android Auto developer documents to developer.android.com …

More: Android Police and Liliputing

Michael Crider / Android Police:

AT&T Promotion Doubles Some Mobile Share Value Data Plans (From 30GB Up To 100GB) From Now Until October 31st — Are you and your family so-called “data hounds,” who need much, much more mobile data per month than the average user? Then for God's sake, avoid the limited plans on AT&T and Verizon …

More: Engadget, about.att.com, BGR, MacRumors, CNET, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, MacNN, VentureBeat, The Verge, DailyTech and PC Magazine

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Oracle to announce it will offer its database and Java in the cloud, taking on Microsoft Azure — For Larry Ellison's Oracle, the Cloud Beckons — Business software giant Oracle kicks off its massive OpenWorld conference in San Francisco tonight with a keynote address by founder and newly named CTO Larry Ellison.

Nathan Grayson / Kotaku:

Sony to shut down Playstation Home virtual social hub in March 2015, after six years — PlayStation Home Finally Closing Down — Goodnight, sweet prince. You were... you, um... well at least you tried. — PlayStation Home, Sony's long-running (though never exactly beloved) …

More: PlayStation Home Update, Engadget, Electronista, The Next Web, GameSpot, Joystiq, VG247, IGN, Eurogamer.net, PC Magazine and Forbes

Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:

The history of the “right to be forgotten”, and a look inside Google's removal process — Google and the Right to Be Forgotten — In Europe, the right to be forgotten trumps the Internet. … “We should support the local farm as well as the local confectioner.” — »

More: ROUGH TYPE. Tweets: @veorq and @kashhill

Ryan Vlastelica / Reuters:

Instagram reportedly blocked in China amid Hong Kong protests — (Reuters) - Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service owned by Facebook Inc (FB.O), has been blocked in China, according to numerous reports, including from Hong Kong-based reporters with the New York Times.

More: The Verge, CNET, Engadget, Gizmodo, Business Insider, NBC News and Vox

Reuters:

Alibaba pays $459 million for stake in Chinese hotel tech company — Traders work on the floor as they wait for a final price on the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. initial public offering (IPO) under the ticker “BABA”, at the New York Stock Exchange in New York September 19, 2014.

Tweets: @jbaksht

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

RIAA: revenues from music streaming services have replaced those lost from online sales — Music Download Sales Drop, Replaced by Streaming: RIAA — For a very long time, any report on the state of the music business sounded like this: Digital download sales are rising, but not enough to make up for the drop in CD sales.

More: New York Times, AllAccess.com, Billboard, Billboard and CNET

Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:

Innocuous LGBT sites are often blocked on Wi-Fi provided by businesses like Gogo — In 2014, who decides to ban a gay website from in-flight Wi-Fi? — If you were gay and a recent passenger on American Airlines, you might have used in-flight Wi-Fi provided by Gogo just like any other customer.

Tweets: @arstechnica and @caseyjohnston

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Unpaid programmer who maintains Bash may have inadvertently introduced Shellshock bug in 1992 — Security Experts Expect ‘Shellshock’ Software Bug in Bash to Be Significant — Long before the commercial success of the Internet, Brian J. Fox invented one of its most widely used tools.

More: The Register, Inc.com, Tech Times and ABC News

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Experts: Shellshock is just partially patched, underlying problem with Bash remains unsolved

More: Indistinguishable from Random and Ars Technica

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