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October 21, 2014, 12:20 PM

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

Staples investigating credit card breach at its retail stores after multiple banks report fraud — Banks: Credit Card Breach at Staples Stores — Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern of credit and debit card fraud suggesting that several Staples Inc. office supply locations …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Fortune, Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Re/code, BBC, Forbes, Network World, Electronista, CNET, ZDNet, Help Net Security, TIME, The Register and Benzinga. Tweets: @lessien

iFixit:

Mac Mini 2014 teardown: CPU and RAM soldered to logic board, impeding user repairs or upgrades — Mac Mini Late 2014 Teardown — This guide has been found to be exceptionally cool by the iFixit staff. — It's been two years since the Mac Mini's last appearance on iFixit's teardown table …

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Rene Ritchie / iMore:

Apple clarifies Spotlight Search data and location sharing, says information shared is minimal — Yosemite, iOS 8, Spotlight, and Privacy: What you need to know — A story made the rounds earlier today calling into question the new Spotlight Suggestions feature in OS X Yosemite and iOS 8.

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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:

OS X Yosemite's Spotlight search sends query and location data to Apple and Bing by default

More: Wired, Official Apple Support, iMore, Ars Technica and Lifehacker

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Scammers hack business phone networks to rack up billions in fraudulent charges, vexing carriers and lawmakers — Phone Hackers Dial and Redial to Steal Billions — SAN FRANCISCO — Bob Foreman's architecture firm ran up a $166,000 phone bill in a single weekend last March.

More: Guardian, SmallBusiness.com, BGR and Help Net Security

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Banks racing to become your first card in Apple Pay as most users will use the default card — New Gold Rush: why banks are racing to be the first card in your Apple Pay — Beyond the home screen, beyond the lock screen, the battle for the pre-screen — Over the weekend I was hit …

More: Beau Giles, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, CNET and App Advice. Tweets: @benpopper

Sharon Profis / CNET:

Apple Pay's speed, security, and timing will help push mobile payments into the mainstream

More: Forbes, Uber Blog, Six Colors, Forbes, BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, Macworld, Quartz, SuperSite for Windows, USA Today, Gizmodo, Forbes, The Next Web, ABC News, Macworld, Cult of Mac and ReadWrite

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Eddy Cue expects biggest share of early Apple Pay transactions to be in-app purchases, product “should be huge”

More: Businessweek, CNET, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, Network World, Inc.com and Wall Street Journal

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Magic Leap Secures $542M Led By Google For “Lightweight Wearable” Tech That Merges Physical And Digital Worlds — It's rare that a company can stay relatively secretive while raising a huge amount of funding, but Florida's Magic Leap has managed that. The startup, led by CEO Rony Abovitz …

More: Re/code, PR Newswire, GeekWire, The Verge, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, VentureBeat, TIME, bizjournals and PE Hub Blog

TechCrunch:

Yahoo In Talks To Buy Video Ad Platform BrightRoll For Around $700M — Yahoo has been building up its video and video advertising content, and we have heard that it may make another key acquisition in the area to further raise its game. The company is in talks to acquire BrightRoll …

More: Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, Seeking Alpha, bizjournals, Fortune, Ubergizmo, ECPM BLOG, Marketing Land, TheStreet.com and CNET

Tweets: @ericjackson and @joshconstine

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft launches Azure cloud in a box — Summary: In partnership with Dell, Microsoft is launching its Azure cloud in a box offering, codenamed ‘San Diego.’ — Microsoft is teaming with Dell to create an Azure cloud in a box offering for customers who want to run their own, on-premises datacenters.

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft Values CEO Satya Nadella's Pay at $84 Million — Call Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the $84 million man. — Microsoft said it awarded the new CEO compensation valued at more than $84 million for the fiscal year ended June 30. — The majority of the money, $59.2 million …

More: Fortune, BetaNews, GeekWire, ZDNet, CNBC, InfoWorld, Associated Press, Reuters and Bloomberg

Dan Frommer / Quartz:

Tim Cook, in his own words, on why the iPad has a bright future — Apple's iPad business was the lone drag in its otherwise strong earnings report today. iPad sales last quarter dropped 13% from the previous year, to 12.3 million, their third straight quarter of decline.

More: Six Colors, 9to5Mac, BGR, The Register, Daring Fireball, Computerworld and Washington Post. Tweets: @stevesi

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Apple Mac market share at its highest since 1995; sales up 46% in emerging markets

More: CNET, MacRumors, Re/code, VentureBeat and The Loop. Tweets: @asymco

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Apple's Q4 beats estimates with $1.42 EPS on $42.1B revenue; sold 39.3M iPhones, 12.3M iPads, 5.5M Macs

More: PandoDaily, Fortune, TechCrunch, TUAW, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, MacNN, CNET, Techvibes Global News, Electronista, eWeek, App Advice, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, GeekWire, MacRumors, iMore, Tech Trader Daily and Mercury News. Tweets: @fmanjoo

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

iPads fall for third consecutive quarter, iPhones and Macs boost Apple's Q4 [Updated]

More: 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Vox, ZDNet, Engadget and Guardian

Tweets: @ampressman, @asymco and @jbrodkin

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google beefs up 2-step verification with physical USB Security Key option in Chrome — Google today announced it is beefing up its two-step verification feature with Security Key, a physical USB second factor that only works after verifying the login site is truly a Google website.

More: Google Online Security Blog, Gizmodo, Business Insider, BetaNews, Gigaom, Android Police, The Next Web, TechCrunch, The Verge, 9to5Google, Android Central, SlashGear, Lifehacker and WebProNews

John Ribeiro / PC World:

NSA approves Samsung Knox devices for government use — Samsung Electronics' Galaxy devices have been approved by the U.S. National Security Agency under a program of the agency to quickly deploy commercially available technologies. — The Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) …

More: BetaNews, Associated Press, Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet and ABC News

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Verizon misses Q3 profit expectations, posts higher revenue, adds 1.5M retail customers — Verizon misses Q3 expectations as it shirks off rival promotional offers — The company did post strong customer growth, driven largely by increased tablet sales.

More: Fortune, BGR, Verizon, Associated Press, ZDNet, Reuters, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, Reuters, Hollywood Reporter and Electronista. Thanks:@rogerwcheng

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