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Amazon opening first brick-and-mortar store in Manhattan in time for holidays, will handle pickups and returns — Amazon to Open First Store — The New York City Location to Handle Same-Day-Delivery Inventory, Product Returns — Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. plans to open …

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Apple suppliers postpone production of 12.9" iPad from December to early 2015 in order to cope with strong iPhone demand — Larger Apple iPad to Be Delayed — Apple Suppliers Concentrating on Meeting Demand for New iPhones — Apple Inc. suppliers have pushed back plans to mass produce …

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Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Snapchat CEO Spiegel Says Untargeted Advertising Is Coming Soon — Snapchat, the popular mobile app for disappearing messages, is close to launching its first disappearing ads as the company sets out to prove its $10 billion valuation. — Evan Spiegel, the startup's 24-year-old co-founder …

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Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald:

Revealed: How Google engineer Neel Mehta uncovered the Heartbleed security bug — Google engineer Neel Mehta found the Heartbleed bug — The media-shy Google engineer who found the Heartbleed computer security vulnerability has spoken out for the first time, revealing how he found the serious bug …

More: Risky Business. Thanks:@bengrubb

Sarah / The Imgur Blog:

Imgur now converts GIF uploads to more compact MP4 format, increases upload limit 10X to 50MB, plans to standardize new “GIFV” container format — Introducing GIFV — GIFs are no longer about .GIFs-the culture of the GIF now trumps the file format.

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat, TechSpot, The Verge, Featured stories, TIME, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, BetaNews, tech.co, Mashable, Kotaku and WebProNews. Tweets: @mikemchargue

Ian Sherr / CNET:

Unity game development platform is up for sale: presentation pitching the company circulates at potential acquirers like Google — Unity, one gaming development platform to unite them all, up for sale — A presentation pitching Unity has been circulating around the games industry, sources say.

More: Joystiq, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Electronista and GamePolitics blogs. Tweets: @mattrix. Thanks:@rogerwcheng

Kim Zetter / Wired:

Google's Eric Schmidt: US spy programs may “end up breaking the internet” if not reformed — US Spy Programs May Break the Internet if Not Reformed, Google Leader Says — PALO ALTO — You own your data. And the government needs to start respecting that.

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Skype's new design on Windows and Mac focuses on messaging — Mobile look and feel reaches the desktop — Microsoft's Skype client has traditionally focused on video and voice calls, but with the rise of mobile it has started to shift to target instant messaging.

More: Skype Blogs, TechCrunch, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Engadget, ZDNet, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, iClarified, Ubergizmo and TUAW

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft makes slew of commitments to get businesses hooked on Surface — Microsoft today made a slew of announcements as part of a new commitment to Surface for business. — The company says firms have been asking it about a longer-term commitment to Surface for businesses of all sizes.

More: Surface Blog, ZDNet, The Next Web, LiveSide.net, BGR, Network World, GeekWire, Gigaom, MSDN Blogs, Ars Technica, WinBeta, The Verge, WindowsITPro, SuperSite for Windows and Neowin. Tweets: @edbott

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google launches Hangouts app for Chrome on Windows and Chrome OS — Google today launched a new Hangouts app for Chrome on Windows as well as Chrome OS. You can download the app now directly from the Chrome Web Store. — The release brings Google's chat service to the desktop in a new way.

More: Google Chrome Blog, CNET, Inquirer, Gizmodo, Gigaom, The Next Web and TechCrunch

Quentin Hardy / New York Times:

Business subscribers of Quip productivity suite can now integrate spreadsheets into documents — Quip: Make Numbers Dynamic, Too — Quip, a fast-moving start-up that makes collaborative software for mobile workers, has an important new addition to its product: Spreadsheets.

More: Quip Blog, PC World, Fast Company, Tech Times, VentureBeat, FierceMobileIT News, ReadWrite, TabTimes, Wired, The Next Web, Forbes and Business Insider. Thanks:@ashleymcarlson

Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:

Apple outlines Apple Pay, NFC operation in comprehensive patent filing — For a major mobile payment platform on the verge of launch, not much is known about the nuts and bolts behind Apple Pay. A new patent application discovered on Thursday, however, offers a detailed look at how NFC …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat and iPhone Hacks

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Google asks US Supreme Court to overturn lower court in Oracle's Java API copyright case — Google asks Supreme Court to decide Oracle copyright fight — (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOGL.O) has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to wade into contentious litigation against Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) …

More: The Verge, Gigaom, 9to5Google, Engadget, CNET, PC World, TechSpot, bizjournals, AndroidHeadlines.com, FOSS Patents, The Register and Inquirer

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

WeatherSignal, OpenSignal's crowdsourced weather reporting app, comes to iOS 8 — OpenSignal brings its crowdsourced weather reporting app to iPhone — In May last year, we brought you news on WeatherSignal, a new crowdsourced weather reporting tool. The Web and Android app came courtesy …

More: Gigaom, TechCrunch, App Advice, SlashGear and TUAW

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Launches Mini-Marketing Lessons For Startups With New Mobile App, Google Primer — Google has rolled out a new iPhone app called Primer, aimed at teaching startups the fundamentals of marketing - with a Google spin, of course. The new app, available only on iOS for now …

More: The Next Web, Marketing Land, 9to5Google and iMore

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Yahoo still wants to poach YouTube stars, hopes to host their new channels on Tumblr — Marissa Mayer's Secret Plan For Tumblr Revealed: Make It YouTube — Just after Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in the spring of 2013, several of Marissa Mayer's top product and media executives presented …

More: Engadget. Tweets: @digitalshields

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Lenovo unveils a trio of new ‘Yoga’ devices, including a 13″ tablet with subwoofer and built-in projector — Lenovo has announced a trio of new devices today as it looks to differentiate and gain inroads in the competitive PC and mobile computing space.

More: Gizmodo, Inquirer, ZDNet, ZDNet, The Verge, TechRadar.com, stuff.tv, Yahoo Tech, Yahoo Tech and WinBeta

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Foursquare's new Swarm widget for iOS lets you check-in with a swipe and tap — Checking in is finally just one swipe away — Foursquare's new Swarm widget takes great advantage of iOS 8 — Checking in should have always been automatic — a feature every phone ships with that lets …

More: The Foursquare Blog, The Next Web, VentureBeat, iMore and Business Insider

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Alibaba Invests $50 Million in TV Remote App Peel — Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, continues to place financial bets outside of its core e-commerce focus, investing $50 million into entertainment app maker Peel. — The Mountain View, Calif.-based startup makes apps for smartphones …

More: TechCrunch, bizjournals, Gigaom, Seeking Alpha, VentureBeat, Tech in Asia and PE Hub Blog

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Surging Mac sales put Apple among top five global PC vendors for first time, IDC says — The Macintosh may have posted its strongest worldwide market share yet last quarter, according to the latest estimates from IDC, which place Apple among the top five global PC vendors for the first time.

More: IDC, ReadWrite, BetaNews, Windows Phone Central, MacDailyNews, ZDNet, bizjournals and Ubergizmo

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