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September 29, 2014, 12:45 PM

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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 …

More: Jack March, The Verge, Gigaom, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Business Insider, MacRumors, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gotta Be Mobile, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, Geeky Gadgets, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com and MacNN. Tweets: @marcoarment

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.

More: New York Times, Telegraph, PandoDaily, Seeking Alpha, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET and Shelly Palmer

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Facebook Relaunches Atlas Ad Platform With Cross-Device Targeting And Offline Sales Tracking

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

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 …

More: Ars Technica, Gigaom, Inquirer, TechCrunch, InfoWorld, PC World, SecurityWeek and The Verge

Tweets: @zatlyn and @mattcutts

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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, Digital Trends, CNET, The Register, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews and Business Insider

AppleInsider:

European Commission seeking retroactive tax windfall from Apple Inc subsidiary in Ireland — The European Commission is expected to release a report this week alleging that Ireland provided illegal “state aid” to Apple when it set tax rates for the company in 1991 and 2007 …

Tim Worstall / Forbes:

The European Commission Is Not About To Fine Apple; Nor Even To Accuse The Company Of Anything

More: Re/code, Computerworld and MacDailyNews

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, CNET, Neowin, The Verge, Patently Apple, MacDailyNews, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat, Cult of Mac, Mashable, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Geeky Gadgets, 9to5Mac, Business Insider and Windows Phone Central

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, Inquirer, InfoWorld, ReadWrite, Securelist, TrendLabs Security …, HP Security Research and OSDir.com. Tweets: @gonibble

Laura Lorenzetti / Fortune:

Instagram founder Kevin Systrom joins Wal-Mart's board — Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom will join Wal-Mart's board of directors as its 15th member, effective Monday. — He won't be the lone tech executive either: Systrom joins Yahoo YHOO CEO Marissa Mayer as a board member of the world's largest retailer.

More: Business Wire, ZDNet, Re/code, Business Insider, Bloomberg, The Republic, RTTNews and Mashable

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 …

More: iMore, iDownloadBlog.com and App Advice

Josh Horwitz / Tech in Asia:

Mobile messaging app FireChat flares up in Hong Kong amid Occupy Central protests — Last night marked a historic moment in Hong Kong as peaceful demonstrators fell subject to police aggression. Under the banner of Occupy Central, tens of thousands of locals (organizers say 60,000 …

More: Gizmodo, Gigaom, BBC, New York Times and Wall Street Journal. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Vlastelica / Reuters:

Instagram reportedly blocked in China amid Hong Kong protests

More: The Verge, BBC, Washington Post, TechSpot, PandoDaily, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, memeburn, ZDNet, Gizmodo, VentureBreak, CNET, Business Insider, NBC News, Digital Trends and Vox

Kyle Russell / TechCrunch:

Shyp Launches In New York City, And Miami Is Next — On-demand shipping startup Shyp is now officially expanding beyond San Francisco, launching its service in New York City after just a few weeks in private beta. In addition, the company is today announcing that its service will land in Miami …

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @hunterwalk

Liana B. Baker / Reuters:

Vista Equity to buy Tibco Software for $4.3 billion — (Reuters) - Business software maker Tibco Software Inc (TIBX.O) said buyout firm Vista Equity Partners had agreed to take it private for $4.3 billion. — Vista will pay $24 per share in cash for Tibco, representing a 26 percent premium …

More: VentureBeat, TIBCO, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Tech Trader Daily, Wall Street Journal, ABC News and New York Times. Tweets: @davemcclure

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: Bloomberg

Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

With Perspective From Both Sides of His Desk, F.C.C. Chairman Ponders Net Neutrality — WASHINGTON — As a lobbyist for the cable and wireless industries, Tom Wheeler played a role in shaping almost every major telecommunications policy and innovation over the last three decades.

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