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Microsoft Corporation:

Microsoft previews Windows 10, touts familiarity and consistency across devices, enterprise features, Start menu with incorporated tiles — Microsoft unveils the future of Windows — Company gives first look at Windows 10, highlighting enterprise advancements and open collaboration.

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 10 aims to run universal apps on devices ranging from internet-of-things to servers; preview coming tomorrow, final release in late 2015 — Windows 10 is the official name for Microsoft's next version of Windows — Microsoft is officially unveiling the name for the next release of Windows today: Windows 10.

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview available Oct. 1 will work on x86 machines only; here's how to get it

More: WindowsITPro, Pocket-lint, Ubergizmo, Bink.nu, TechnoBuffalo and PC Magazine

Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Hands on with Windows 10's resizable Start menu, Mission Control-like Task View, and app snapping

More: The Next Web, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Shelly Palmer, Laptop Mag, Engadget and The Verge

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Windows 10 addresses switching between touch and non-touch environments with Continuum

More: BrianMadden.com and CIO.com

Ian Kar / Bank Innovation:

PayPal was excluded from Apple Pay because PayPal partnered with Samsung on the Galaxy S5's fingerprint reader — The Real Reason PayPal Isn't an Apple Pay Preferred Partner — Earlier this month, before Apple Pay came out, Bank Innovation wrote that Apple and PayPal had been involved in talks for ... something.

More: Cult of Mac, SamMobile, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Electronista, MacRumors, Business Insider and App Advice. Tweets: @amir

Kim Zetter / Wired:

How RAM Scrapers Work: The Sneaky Tools Behind the Latest Credit Card Hacks — Today, news broke of yet more large-scale credit-card breaches at big-box stores, this time at Albertson's and Supervalu, grocery chains in the American west. — The breaches follow in the wake of other recent breaches …

Nicky Woolf / Guardian:

Hackers charged with stealing over $100m in US army and Xbox technology — Indictment unsealed on Tuesday reveals Department of Justice charged four people in international computer hacking ring — Four men have been charged with breaking into the computer systems of Microsoft …

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Reddit raises $50M round led by Y Combinator president Sam Altman, investors plan to allocate 10% of the round's equity to Reddit users — Reddit Raises $50 Million, Plans to Share Stock With Community Members — Reddit, the Internet's favorite place to share links, has raised about $50 million in funding.

More: Sam Altman, VentureBeat, ReadWrite, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Valleywag, internetcases and New York Magazine

Tweets: @danielcawrey and @papadimitriou

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TechCrunch:

Reddit Plans Its Own Cryptocurrency To Give Back To Its Users After $50 Million Raise

More: reddit, The Verge, CNET, CoinDesk, SocialTimes, The Technology Chronicles, TechSpot, Mashable, Finextra Research news, NEWSBTC and WebProNews. Tweets: @obsoletedogma

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Google unveils Drive for Education with free, unlimited storage and ‘Classroom’ integration — Google Apps for Education just got a little bit sweeter: In the coming weeks, new and existing customers will have access to Drive for Education, an academic version of its online storage solution.

More: Google for Education, ZDNet, bit-tech.net, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Fast Company, Liliputing, Engadget, 9to5Google and EdSurge

Craig Timberg / Washington Post:

Holder urges tech companies to leave device backdoors open for police — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said on Tuesday that new forms of encryption capable of locking law enforcement officials out of popular electronic devices imperil investigations of kidnappers and sexual predators, putting children at increased risk.

More: Bloomberg, Reuters, Gizmodo, Department of Justice, Guardian and Computerworld

Nellie Bowles / Re/code:

Amid layoffs at the Las Vegas Downtown Project, Tony Hsieh hands off lead role to his lawyer — Tony Hsieh Steps Down From Lead Role at Las Vegas Downtown Project — Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO and founder of the ambitious startup-city development Downtown Project in Las Vegas …

More: Gigaom, Las Vegas Weekly, Valleywag, Las Vegas Weekly, KNPR, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Here & Now and GeekWire

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Golden Master Candidate to Developers [Update: Also Public Beta] — Apple today released a candidate golden master version of OS X Yosemite to developers, just over two weeks after releasing the eighth Developer Preview alongside the third public beta of the upcoming Mac operating system.

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, App Advice, Pocket-lint, InvestorPlace, TechnoBuffalo, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, ReadWrite, iMore and BGR

AnandTech:

iPhone 6 Plus: best phablet available, may appeal more than the iPhone 6 if you don't mind two-handed usage — The iPhone 6 Review — With every launch of the iPhone, Apple seems to have everything to lose and not much to gain. Apple's iPhone line accounts for the majority of profits …

More: AnandTech

Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:

German regulator orders Google to limit how it combines user data from multiple services — Google Ordered to Change Handling of User Data in Germany — Google Inc. (GOOG) was ordered by a German regulator to limit how it combines user data that could be used to find out customers' personal preferences …

More: Marketing Land, Business Insider, Reuters, Financial Times and PC World

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Comcast launches cloud DVR in San Francisco, lays foundation for a set-top box-free future — Comcast customers in the Bay Area now have two DVRs available to them: One in their living room, one in the cloud. Eventually, the one in the living room will disappear.

More: Multichannel News and CNET

Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:

Arduino Is Building A Sub-$1000 3D Printer — There is by no means a shortage of teams working on low-cost 3D printers. Kickstarter is absolutely overflowing with them. But, as many of those teams quickly realize, shipping hardware is hard. — A challenger approaches!

More: Gizmodo, Arduino Blog, Gigaom and Engadget

Internet.org:

Report details barriers to Internet adoption; Zuckerberg to keynote first Internet.org Summit in New Delhi next week — Offline and Falling Behind — Bringing the next 4.4 billion people online will require companies, governments, and civil society to work together to remove barriers that stand in the way of a more connected world.

More: Facebook. Tweets: @joshconstine and @internet_org

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 …

Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:

Activist investor Carl Icahn praises “no brainer” PayPal spin off, says PayPal should consolidate the payments industry with acquisitions or a merger

More: Shareholders Square Table, USA Today, Forbes, CIO.com, Fortune, Forbes and Business Insider. Tweets: @carl_c_icahn

New York Times:

Senior Amex exec Daniel Schulman joins PayPal as president, will become CEO after split

More: Forbes, Business Insider, Mashable, StreetInsider.com, New York Magazine, eWeek, Wall Street Journal and VentureBeat. Tweets: @donahoe_john

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