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October 1, 2014, 12:30 PM

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Bloomberg:

Apple to add gold color option to new 9.7" iPads this month, launch 12.9" model next year — Apple Said to Add Gold Option to IPad to Goose Sales — Apple Inc. (AAPL) will add a gold color option for its full-size iPads in an effort to boost a category that's posted declining shipments this year …

Robert Sullivan / Vogue:

A Rare Look at Design Genius Jony Ive: The Man Behind the Apple Watch — How Apple's under-the-radar design genius, Jonathan Ive, has found the way to our hearts. — I first catch sight of Jony Ive across the Apple campus, in a plain Dodger-blue T-shirt and white painter's pants, in conversation, nodding.

More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, Gizmodo, The Verge, iMore, 9to5Mac, TechnoBuffalo, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, Mashable, and MacStories

Tweets: @fmanjoo, @bryfitz and @monkbent

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

This Is The Motorola Nexus 6: A 5.9" QHD Display, 3200mAh+ Battery, Dual Front-Facing Speakers, And More — If you've been keeping up with any tech blogs over the past couple of weeks, you know that the next Nexus phone has been a hot topic. We saw rumored specs and rumored hardware photos …

More: Gizmodo, Forbes, PC World, BGR, Phandroid, GadgeTell, Phones Review, ExtremeTech, SlashGear, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile and MobileSyrup.com

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft launches web preview of a new Office content aggregation and presentation application called Sway — Microsoft adds new Sway presentation application to the Office family — Summary: Microsoft's Sway presentation application, available starting today in preview form, is the newest member of the Office product family.

More: Office Blogs, The Verge, BetaNews, VentureBeat, CITEworld, The Next Web, Engadget, Gizmodo, Shelly Palmer, Techie Buzz, WebProNews, WinBeta, Windows Phone Central, Mashable, Neowin and The Official Microsoft Blog. Tweets: @sway

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: Tech Trader Daily, SiliconANGLE, TechnoBuffalo, O'Grady's PowerPage, TIME, Gigaom Research, Fortune, Cult of Mac, TUAW, Forbes, BGR, SamMobile, BBC, AppleInsider, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, Electronista, Business Insider and MacRumors. Tweets: @amir

Parmy Olson / Forbes:

Finding Alibaba: How Jerry Yang Made The Most Lucrative Bet In Silicon Valley History — Jerry Yang is giving a quick tour of the conference room at his private investment firm in Palo Alto, Calif. It's dotted with gifts and photos from his 20 years in Silicon Valley.

Tweets: @christianhern, @erichippeau, @jeffweiner, @forbestech, @forbes, @john_ryu and @amir

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Microsoft Says Free Windows Has Helped Woo 50 New Phone and Tablet Makers — Microsoft said it has attracted a number of new partners since offering Windows free for devices with screens smaller than nine inches. — Windows chief Terry Myerson said Tuesday that 50 new companies …

More: FierceWireless, Gigaom, WinBeta, WMPoweruser, Windows Phone Central and Neowin

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 …

More: Gizmodo

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: PC World, The Technology Chronicles, Multichannel News and CNET

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: 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Reuters, New York Times, WebProNews, The Next Web, ZDNet, Marketing Land, Business Insider, Financial Times and PC World

Zac Bowden / WinBeta:

Microsoft launches the Windows Insider Program alongside Windows 10 preview, download now — Microsoft has unveiled the download links to the Windows 10 Technical Preview, meaning the public can now access, download and install the latest bits from Microsoft.

More: The Verge and The Next Web. Thanks:@zacb_

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, Shelly Palmer, Gizmodo and Engadget

Microsoft Corporation:

Microsoft previews Windows 10, touts familiarity and consistency across devices, enterprise features, Start menu with incorporated tiles

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

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

More: CNET, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, BrianMadden.com and WMPoweruser

Joshua Ho / AnandTech:

iPhone 6 Plus: best phablet, may appeal more than the 6 if you don't mind two-handed usage — The iPhone 6 Plus Mini-Review: Apple's First Phablet — While we've also written about the iPhone 6, the iPhone 6 Plus needs its own review in order to really understand the various features …

AnandTech:

iPhone 6 review: a significant step up from 5s in design, display, performance, camera, more

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 …

Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog:

Chinese iOS Trojan Targets Jailbroken iPhones Used by Hong Kong Protesters — Lacoon Mobile Security has discovered a new ‘advanced’ Chinese iOS trojan targeting jailbroken iPhone users in Hong Kong, linked to a previous Android spyware app currently being distributed among protesters via a link shared on WhatsApp.

More: Lacoon Mobile Security, New York Times, Help Net Security, PC Magazine, The Verge, ZDNet, iDownloadBlog.com, PC World, VentureBeat, TIME, The Register and iMore. Tweets: @ashk4n. Thanks:@gary_ng. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Flexes Its Search Engine Muscle, Adds College-Finding Tools For Students — Last year, LinkedIn widened the net for potential users when it started to allow high schoolers to join its social network for professionals, and today it's launching a clutch of features that it hopes …

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, Business Insider, The Next Web and Official LinkedIn Blog. Tweets: @linkedin

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: VentureBeat, Sam Altman, PandoDaily, Gigaom, Guardian, The Register, Wall Street Journal, SocialTimes, Business Insider, internetcases and ReadWrite

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