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eBay Inc:

eBay Inc. to Separate eBay and PayPal into Independent Publicly Traded Companies in 2015 — American Express executive Dan Schulman joins PayPal immediately as President and CEO designee for PayPal post-separation — eBay Inc. President and CEO John Donahoe and CFO Bob Swan to oversee separation …

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

What the eBay Split Means for PayPal — PayPal hasn't aged so gracefully, but eBay's decision to spin it off next year could give it renewed life. — There are plenty of questions remaining about the plan to remake PayPal as its own public company, but one thing seems likely …

More: CNET, Guardian, Associated Press, TechCrunch, The Register, Fortune, Gigaom, DailyFinance.com, eBay Announcement Page, The Verge, CNBC, eBay Inc., internetretailer.com, WebProNews and BetaBoston. Tweets: @pkafka

New York Times:

Senior Amex exec Daniel Schulman joins PayPal as president, will become CEO after split — EBay to Spin Off PayPal, Adopting Strategy Backed by Icahn — By Michael J. de la Merced and Andrew Ross Sorkin — EBay said on Tuesday that it would spin off its PayPal payments unit …

More: GeekWire, Business Insider, ZDNet, Consumerist, memeburn and Payments News

Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @donahoe_john

David Faber / CNBC:

John Donahoe to step down as CEO of eBay after eBay and PayPal split takes effect in 2015, replaced by Devin Wenig — EBay and PayPal to split into two separately traded companies — After spending much of this year explaining why its two businesses are best left together …

More: Re/code. Tweets: @donahoe_john, @norse5 and @cnbc

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Apple Defends The Irish Tax Arrangement That Allegedly Saved It Billions Since The '90s — This is a photo of Apple's facility in Cork, Ireland, the structure that is the fruit of a deal cut between Apple founder Steve Jobs and the Irish government in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

More: BGR, 9to5Mac, CNBC, iPhone Hacks and Electronista

Tom Fairless / Wall Street Journal:

EU Believes Apple, Fiat Tax Deals Broke Rules — Letters to Irish and Luxembourg Governments Outline Rationale for Investigation — BRUSSELS—European Union regulators laid out for the first time Tuesday reasons why they believe tax deals granted to Apple Inc. in Ireland and Fiat SpA …

More: Re/code, iMore, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Mac Observer and iLounge

Apple:

iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus Available in China on Friday, October 17 — Pre-orders Begin Friday, October 10 — Apple® today announced that iPhone® 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, the biggest advancements in iPhone history, will be available in China beginning Friday, October 17 from the Apple Online Store …

Paul Carsten / Reuters:

China OKs iPhone 6 sale after Apple addresses security concerns

Giulio Minotti / Phonebloks Blog:

Project Ara to use modified Android L, allowing all but CPU, display modules to be hot-swapped — PROJECT ARA NEWS — Paul Eremenko recently announced interesting news on Project Ara. The most significant concerns its market launch in early 2015. The first fully functional prototype …

More: Gigaom, Engadget, Geek.com, Phones Review, Digital Trends, Pocketnow, AndroidGuys, Electronista, Gizmodo, Geeky Gadgets, MobileSyrup.com, Android Police, Phandroid, PC World, Ubergizmo, Droid Life and SlashGear

New York Times:

Netflix, Weinstein Co. to simultaneously release “Crouching Tiger” sequel on Netflix and IMAX — With ‘Crouching Tiger’ Sequel, Netflix Takes Aim at Hollywood — In a first deal of its kind, Netflix and the Weinstein Company said Monday that they planned to release next year's sequel …

More: Deadline, Variety, The Verge, Engadget, Bloomberg, CNNMoney.com, Quartz, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, The Next Web, SocialTimes, Fortune, Re/code, TIME, Neowin, CNET, BBC, SlashGear, VentureBeat and WebProNews

Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @chris_ciaccia

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steve cheney:

On The Future of Apple and Google — When Tim Cook was interviewed by Charlie Rose after Apple's mega launch event a few weeks ago, he scoffed at any mention of competitors, highlighting only Google as Apple's arch-rival. — Apple and Google are entrenched in a modern version of the PC war …

Tweets: @stevesi, @semil, @mdudas and @mdudas

Lauren Goode / Re/code:

Intel's Basis Takes Second Stab at Health Watch, With Peak — Another day, another new wrist-wearable in gadgetland. But this one sounds ... pretty compelling. — Basis, the Intel-owned maker of a health-tracking watch called the B1 Band, is introducing a new high-quality wristwatch …

More: Engadget, ReadWrite, ReadWrite, iMore, PC World, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Business Insider, Gigaom, 9to5Google, The Verge, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, The Wearable Stuff and Electronista

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Bug in iOS 8's “Reset All Settings” appears to be erasing all iWork documents in iCloud Drive — Bug in iOS 8's ‘Reset All Settings’ Option Also Erases iCloud Drive Documents — It appears that there may be a serious bug with the “Reset All Settings” option in iOS 8 …

More: CNET, Neowin, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, MacNN, Ubergizmo, Mashable, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, The Verge and BGR. Tweets: @joshconstine

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

iOS 8.1 Carries Hidden Settings for Apple Pay, References Touch ID Support for iPad — The first beta of iOS 8.1 seeded earlier today has not yet revealed a significant number of changes visible to regular users, but developer Hamza Sood has managed to uncover several interesting hidden settings and strings from the new version.

More: Cult of Mac, BGR, CNET, Engadget, AppleTell, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, App Advice, MacNN, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, Geeky Gadgets, AppleInsider and NFC World+. Tweets: @hamzasood

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Judge Rules Against Grooveshark in Copyright Infringement Case — In the music industry's second big legal victory in a week, a federal judge in New York ruled on Monday that Grooveshark, an online music service long vilified by the major record companies, infringed on thousands of their copyrights.

More: Reuters, Engadget, VentureBreak, The Register, VentureBeat and AllAccess.com. See also Mediagazer

Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:

Report: Game consoles most widely used video streaming devices in US — Consoles enjoy strong lead over smart TVs, media boxes. — Last week, a Dallas-based market research firm published a report about American video-streaming habits, and its numbers told a story that we saw coming for years …

More: Parks Associates, Ubergizmo, Windows Phone Central, GamesIndustry.biz and Geeky Gadgets. Tweets: @drpizza

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.

More: Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, MacNN and SlashGear. Tweets: @abrams. See also Mediagazer

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: Help Net Security, Computerworld, Mashable, Apple Gazette, Channel EYE, Gigaom, Graham Cluley, OS X Daily, MacRumors, Neowin, The Register, The Verge, MacNN, Krebs on Security and The Next Web. Thanks:@markgurman

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

More: CVE, eWeek, TrendLabs Security …, Securelist and ReadWrite

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