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September 28, 2014, 11:40 PM

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

Tweets: @dujkan and @amir

Economist:

Schmidt's “How Google Works” encourages managers to think big, fail fast, rely on data, but these principles may not apply to the average company — Don't be modest — AS A service, Google has become indispensable to people's interactions online.

More: Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Tweets: @dkroy and @orbooks

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

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, CNET, MacNN, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, The Verge, DailyTech, PC Magazine, MacRumors and 9to5Mac

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, Engadget, CNET, Business Insider, VentureBreak, NBC News, Gizmodo, Mashable and Vox

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Facebook Relaunches Atlas Ad Platform With Cross-Device Targeting And Offline Sales Tracking — As Advertising Week kicks off in New York City, Facebook is announcing a new version of its Atlas ad platform, which it says represents the next step in tracking ad effectiveness across devices.

More: New York Times, Re/code, Bloomberg and Salon

Tweets: @sfiegerman, @pkafka, @pkafka and @pkafka

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.

More: Wall Street Journal and Gigaom. Tweets: @oracle

Erika Adams / Racked National:

How case makers prepare for iPhone launches, often risking thousands on unconfirmed specs — By The Numbers: The Big Money, High-Stakes iPhone Case Race — Apple's newest phones sold 10 million units last weekend—strange reports of bending aside, they're breaking records left and right.

More: Baltimore Sun

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

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

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

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica:

Experts: Shellshock is just partially patched, underlying problem with Bash remains unsolved — Still more vulnerabilities in bash? Shellshock becomes whack-a-mole — It's now bash-a-mole. — Sakura - flickr.com — Remember when we said that a new patch had fixed the problems …

More: Indistinguishable from Random and Ars Technica

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Unpaid programmer who maintains Bash may have inadvertently introduced Shellshock bug in 1992

More: The Register, Inc.com and Tech Times

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