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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple developing iOS 8.1, 8.2, & 8.3 in shift for 2015 launches — Starting with iOS 5 in 2011, Apple has released a major new iOS version each fall and a notable follow-up update early in the following year. For example, iOS 6 launched in September 2012 and was updated to iOS 6.1 in January …

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Retina iMacs with OS X Yosemite in late testing within Apple, could launch soon — A new line of iMacs with ultra high-resolution Retina Displays is in late testing stages within Apple, according to our sources who have used the future desktop computer. While the machine will sport …

Matthew Prince / CloudFlare:

CloudFlare launches Universal SSL for free, doubling the number of encrypted websites to 4M — Introducing Universal SSL — The team at CloudFlare is excited to announce the release of Universal SSL™. Beginning today, we will support SSL connections to every CloudFlare customer …

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

HP adds to its Windows Stream line, with laptops from $200, tablets from $100, available November — Hewlett-Packard reveals HP Stream series of skinny laptops and tablets — Hewlett-Packard is stretching the limits of design with the announcement today of the colorful and thin HP Stream series of Windows laptops and tablets.

More: Engadget, Blogging Windows, The Verge, TechCrunch, PC World, SYS-CON MEDIA and TUAW

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

In Threshold, Microsoft will introduce new methods for building, testing, and updating Windows — Why Microsoft's engineering changes will be the real Windows 9 (Threshold) story — Summary: Microsoft is building, testing and updating Windows in a very different way, starting with Windows Threshold.

More: Associated Press, InfoWorld, Gizmodo, Neowin, Wall Street Journal, CIO.com, The Register, WinBeta, Windows Phone Central and SiliconANGLE

Tweets: @hondanhon and @danieleran

New York Times:

Gray market for iPhones in China dries up, driving iPhone 6 price down from $1960 to $1060 — Glum Sign for Apple in China: Smuggled iPhones Go Begging — HONG KONG — When Apple's latest iPhones went on sale this month in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York, among the hip urbanites …

More: AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Re/code, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, The Register, Digital Trends, Business Insider and Fortune

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Apple Rejects Launcher, The App That Lets You Launch Other Apps From iOS 8 Notification Center — Apple doesn't care for apps that let you launch other apps directly from the Notification Center, and has pulled one of the first apps to take advantage of this new functionality now available in iOS 8 from the iTunes App Store.

More: 9to5Mac, Business Insider, iMore, SlashGear, MacNN and Shelly Palmer. Tweets: @andreipop

Tim Worstall / Forbes:

Despite several published reports, the European Commission is not fining or even accusing Apple of anything — The European Commission Is Not About To Fine Apple; Nor Even To Accuse The Company Of Anything — Several newspapers seem to have got themselves into a bit of a tizzy …

More: Guardian, Valleywag, MacDailyNews, Re/code and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @charlesarthur

AppleInsider:

European Commission seeking retroactive tax windfall from Apple Inc subsidiary in Ireland

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple releases patch for Shellshock vulnerability for OS X Mavericks, Lion, and Mountain Lion — Apple releases OS X bash update 1.0 addressing Shellshock vulnerability — Apple has just released a new download for users on OS X Mavericks to address the recently-discovered “Shellshock” bug.

More: TechCrunch, MacRumors, Mashable, Gizmodo, The Next Web and Engadget. Thanks:@markgurman

Sonja Cheung / Wall Street Journal:

Google Capital Makes First China Investment, Backs InnoLight … Google Capital, a growth-stage vehicle backed by U.S. Internet giant Google Inc., has made its first investment in China. — The firm, along with Chinese venture firm Lightspeed China Partners, co-led a Series C round totaling $38 million …

More: VentureBeat, 9to5Google, PE Hub Blog and WebProNews

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Beats files lawsuit against Steve Lamar for claiming co-founder status — Apple Suing Headphones Entrepreneur for Claiming to Be a Beats Co-Founder — Steve Lamar taken to court over what he's been tweeting — The story of how Beats Electronics was founded just got more interesting.

FireEye Blog:

FireEye observes significant amount of malicious traffic leveraging Shellshock bug in Bash, suspects this is a dry run before a potentially larger-scale attack — Shellshock in the Wild — Michael Lin, James Bennett and David Bianco — The exploitation of the BASH bug, now widely referred to as “Shellshock”, is in full swing.

More: CVE, ZDNet, TrendLabs Security …, Securelist, InfoWorld, HP Security Research, The Register, ReadWrite, Inquirer and OSDir.com

Tweets: @al3x and @gonibble

Lora Kolodny / Wall Street Journal:

San Francisco-based personal finance service Credit Karma raises $75M at a valuation over $1B — Credit Karma Tops $1 Billion Valuation For Personal-Finance Tools — Hoping to do for personal finance what Expedia and other sites did for travel, Credit Karma Inc. has raised $75 million …

More: PR Newswire, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, VatorNews, VentureBeat and silicontap.com

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

eMusic will no longer offer songs from big labels, focusing only on indies starting Oct. 1 — EMusic Returns to Indie Roots Amid Shift in Online Market — EMusic, a pioneering digital music store that has struggled to find its place in the rapidly shifting online market, has changed directions again.

More: Engadget and Gigaom. Tweets: @sisario

Keiko Morris / Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft to open flagship store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan sometime in 2015 — Microsoft to Open Fifth Avenue Store — Flagship Store to Take Over Fendi Space — Microsoft Corp.'s first Manhattan flagship store is coming to Fifth Avenue. — The software company confirmed …

More: The Official Microsoft Blog, ZDNet, Neowin, The Verge, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, MacDailyNews, TechSpot, Patently Apple, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Electronista, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Geeky Gadgets and Windows Phone Central

Steve Dent / Engadget:

Jawbone's trackerless Up app syncs with Apple Health, other fitness services — As it promised mere weeks ago, Jawbone has launched a new version of Up for iOS that syncs data from numerous health services and doesn't require its own tracker. Confusingly, the Jawbone app which does require …

More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, BGR, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, Shelly Palmer, MacRumors, iMore, Gigaom and The Next Web

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Facebook Will Use Facebook Data to Sell Ads on Sites That Aren't Facebook — Investors and analysts spent years clamoring for Facebook to start up an ad network, and earlier this year it obliged them. — And now Facebook is rolling out another one. — Caveat — this isn't an ad network in a formal sense.

David Kravets / Ars Technica:

CEO of StealthGenie arrested on charges of designing spyware app for stalkers — Spyware executive arrested, allegedly marketed mobile app for “stalkers” — The chief executive officer of a mobile spyware maker was arrested over the weekend, charged with allegedly illegally marketing …

More: Department of Justice and VentureBeat

Buster Hein / Cult of Mac:

Apple poaches Visa's NFC payments expert to expand Apple Pay in Europe — Apple Pay, the new mobile payments system that unshackles iPhone users their wallets - will only be available in the U.S. when it launches next month, but Apple's is already hiring a team to expand its mobile payments into Europe.

More: PaymentEye, iMore, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice and iPhone in Canada Blog

Ryan Mac / Forbes:

Zalando Worth $6.8 Billion After Pricing IPO At More Than $27 A Share — Zalando, Europe's largest online-only fashion retailer priced shares on Monday at $27.28 (21.50 Euros) for its upcoming initial public offering, valuing itself at $6.8 billion (5.3 billion Euros) according to sources.

More: Tech.eu, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Bloomberg

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