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Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

One of two plaintiffs named in Apple iPod antitrust case withdrawn while Apple files motion asking for dismissal — iPod Lawsuit Down to One Plaintiff — OAKLAND, Calif. — A class-action lawsuit against Apple that has been nearly a decade in the making could hinge on a single iPod purchased by a New Jersey woman in 2008.

More: Associated Press, Digital Trends, Fortune, The Daily Dot, Tech Times, The Verge, iMore, Electronista, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, AppleInsider and iPhone in Canada Blog

Josh Lowensohn / The Verge:

Steve Jobs's 2011 testimony in Apple DRM lawsuit points finger at music labels — Apple's late CEO says rival companies were “collateral damage” — Whether Apple's security measures for iTunes and iPods were designed to actively shut out competitors, or simply keep record labels happy …

More: CNET, New York Times, MacRumors, iMore, AppleInsider, ABC News, Ars Technica and Cult of Mac

Brian X. Chen / New York Times:

Apple antitrust lawsuit could be halted: Apple claims plaintiffs did not buy affected iPods

More: CNET, AppleInsider, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, Bloomberg, Forbes, Macworld, VentureBeat, Washington Post, Reuters, bizjournals, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, MacRumors, The Mac Observer and 9to5Mac

Zac Bowden / WinBeta:

Video demonstrates pre-release version of Cortana running on Windows 10 — Exclusive: Here's Cortana running on the desktop in Windows 10 — It's been months since the Windows Technical Preview launched to the public, and we're still yet to see Cortana running on the desktop.

More: Blogging Windows, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, PC World, Engadget, Laptop Mag, Business Insider, TechSpot, Neowin, Windows Phone Central, Gizmodo, The Tech Report and TechnoBuffalo. Thanks:@refsrc

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Instacart raising $100M+ in round valuing the company at $2B, 5X the previous valuation — Instacart Is Raising North Of $100 Million At A $2 Billion Valuation — Instacart, the home grocery delivery service that launched back in 2012, is close to raising a massive Series C round …

More: Re/code, Business Insider and bizjournals

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Former Product VP Daniel Graf Leaves Twitter After Demotion — Twitter's former head of product Dainel Graf is leaving the company just one month after he was demoted. — Graf announced his departure on Twitter Friday afternoon. He was hired to run Twitter's product team in April …

More: Gigaom, TechCrunch and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @danielgraf

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

AT&T still throttles “unlimited data”—even when network not congested — A while back, we reported that AT&T had stopped throttling unlimited data users except in cases when the network is congested. — We were wrong. AT&T did change its policy to stop the automatic throttling …

More: PC Magazine, iMore, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, Engadget, Digital Trends, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, SiliconBeat, Washington Post, AndroidHeadlines.com and BGR

Klint Finley / Wired:

Joyent-led Node.js forked by top contributors into Io.js to shift project toward an open governance model — Future of Popular Coding Tool In Doubt After Public Split — Node.js, a popular and influential tool for building and running modern internet services, has split in two.

More: InfoWorld, Gigaom, ReadWrite and InfoWorld

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Torque, Microsoft's Alternative To “OK Google,” Now Works On Android Smartphones — Microsoft this morning has released an app for Android smartphone users called Torque that allows you to shake your phone in order to perform a voice search, similar to Google's “OK Google.”

More: BetaNews, Android Authority, Engadget, PCMag Australia Feed, 9to5Google, SlashGear and Mobile Geeks

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Judge rejects Target's bid to throw out banks' lawsuits; ruling makes clear that banks have right to go after retailers that were negligent in security — Banks' Lawsuits Against Target for Losses Related to Hacking Can Continue — A federal judge on Tuesday handed an early victory …

More: Ars Technica, Krebs on Security, Electronista, Insurance News, Engadget, Law360, The National Law Review, PYMNTS.com, PandoDaily, Out-Law News and Claims Journal

Tweets: @stevedekorte and @dangillmor

Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:

Deep-learning startup MetaMind launches with $8M from Benioff & Khosla Ventures — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Richard Socher never set out to place himself on the bleeding edge of artificial intelligence. He merely wanted to blend language and math — two subjects he'd always liked.

More: Wired, Re/code, Businessweek, Tech Times, General News, Headlines & Global News, Gigaom, PE Hub Blog, VatorNews and VentureBeat. Tweets: @recode

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft adds video calling between Lync and Skype for Windows, coming to Android and iOS next — Microsoft today announced new cross-app integration between Lync and Skype: video calling. The new feature works between Lync 2013 and the latest Skype for Windows desktop client, which you can download now from Skype.com.

More: Skype Blogs, Office Blogs, PC Magazine, PC World, TechCrunch, WinBeta and Microsoft News

Martin Beck / Marketing Land:

Chartbeat changes how it tracks mobile apps traffic to better measure dark social referrals — Chartbeat Shines A Light On Dark Social, Finds Missing Mobile Referrers — Sites with high Facebook referral traffic are seeing a bump of 40% in traffic attributed to Facebook mobile after the real …

More: Fusion, Chartbeat Blog, Business Insider, Gigaom and Poynter. See also Mediagazer

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