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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iOS 9 to support Force Touch with haptic feedback for iPhone 6S, feature new keyboard, Apple Pay for Canada, iMessage read receipts on contact-by-contact basis — iOS 9 supports ‘iPhone 6S’ Force Touch, may enhance iMessage, Keyboard & Apple Pay — Some of iOS 9's more important planned …

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iOS 9 Maps Transit navigation to include San Francisco, New York City, Toronto, London, Paris, and Berlin, in addition to China, at launch — iOS 9 Transit Maps to launch in a handful of cities in North America, Europe & China — While Apple plans to debut its own mass transit directions service …

More: MacRumors, The Verge, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider and iLounge

Joe Belfiore / Blogging Windows:

Microsoft's bringing Cortana to iPhone and Android, announces Phone Companion app for Windows 10, which helps automatically sync your smartphone with your PC — Your Windows 10 PC will love all the devices you own — Whether it's a 3-year-old printer or projecting to your brand new TV with Miracast …

More: Building Apps for Windows, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Engadget, Ars Technica, ReadWrite, The Register, ABC News, ZDNet, Computerworld, Forbes, CNET, Re/code, PC Magazine, MacRumors, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Droid Life, CIO.com, Neowin, MacNN, SlashGear, InfoWorld, Yahoo Tech, Windows Central, BetaNews, GeekWire, AndroidGuys, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, TechSpot, Gizmodo, Phandroid, Ausdroid, WinBeta, Tech2, O'Grady's PowerPage, 9to5Google, PCWorld, Fone Arena, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Marketing Land, FierceMobileIT News, International Business Times, Pocketnow, AppleInsider, Mashable, Android Central, The Next Web, Polygon, MobileSyrup.com, Gizmodo UK, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, TIME, iLounge, iMore, Silicon Republic, MacStories, PhoneDog.com and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @marcjalabert. Thanks:@brandonleblanc

Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:

IRS says hackers gained access to tax returns, other info of more than 100K taxpayers by targeting “Get Transcript” service and using SSNs, birth dates, more — APNewsBreak: IRS says thieves stole tax info from 100,000 — WASHINGTON (AP) — Thieves used an online service provided …

More: Internal Revenue Service, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, The Next Web, PCWorld, ZDNet, Federal Computer Week, darkREADING, We Live Security and BGR

Sydney Ember / New York Times:

Vox Media acquires ReCode in all-stock deal, Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher to stay at ReCode after merger — Vox Media Acquiring ReCode — ReCode, the news website led by the veteran journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, is being acquired by Vox Media, a deal that reflects …

Tweets: @alexweprin

Edmund Lee / Re/code:

AOL was approached by three bidders other than Verizon, considered selling Huffington Post, TechCrunch; CEO Armstrong gets bonus of about $59M for making deal — AOL Was Approached by Three Other Bidders After Verizon — AOL was approached by three other companies for a possible acquisition …

More: Fortune, TIME, Tech Trader Daily and Seeking Alpha

Tweets: @caseynewton and @jyarow

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Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:

Android Auto review: maps, speech recognition, Google Now are great, but limited availability on Android and Hyundai Sonata is frustrating — Android Auto Review: The Smartphone Finally Finds Its Rightful Home in the Car — A future without slow, unintuitive in-dash navigation systems is on the horizon

More: Engadget, The Verge, Wired, USA Today, The Verge, The Verge, BuzzFeed, Ars Technica and Mashable. Tweets: @g1sh

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Twitter brings live-streaming app Periscope to Android — Periscope, the promising live-streaming app owned by Twitter, arrives on Android today. Like its cousin on iOS, which debuted two months ago to the day, Periscope for Android lets you watch and record broadcasts from your mobile device.

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Charter to acquire Time Warner Cable for $55B in cash and stock, including debt, valuing TWC at $78.7B, also buys Bright House for $10.4B — It's Official: Charter to Acquire Time Warner Cable in Deal Valued at $78.7 Billion — Charter Communications, in which John Malone's Liberty Media owns …

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Facebook adds critics' reviews to select restaurant pages in a pilot with seven publications including Bon Appetit, Conde Nast Traveler, and Eater — Facebook begins adding critics' reviews to restaurant pages — Two weeks after starting to host news articles on its servers …

More: Digital Trends, Macworld, Engadget, WebProNews, Tnooz and SlashGear. Tweets: @caseynewton. See also Mediagazer

Ben Lang / Road to VR:

Oculus Acquires Computer Vision Company Surreal Vision for 3D Scene Reconstruction — Oculus today announced that they've acquired Surreal Vision, a computer vision company that's using technology to interpret the real world in a way that can be visualized and interacted with within virtual reality.

More: Oculus VR, International Business Times, Gizmodo, The Verge, VentureBeat, SlashGear and VRFocus

Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:

Fove's VR headset, expected to arrive Spring 2016, aims to use eye-tracking to focus rendering on your center of vision, reducing processing demands

More: The Register, SiliconANGLE, Tech in Asia, IGN, Engadget, Telegraph, Road to VR and Fox News

Barb Darrow / Fortune:

EMC expands cloud push with $1.2 billion buy of Virtustream — Joe Tucci is at it again. The longtime EMC chief executive and chairman has made another purchase, buying Virtustream, an enterprise-oriented cloud computing company, for $1.2 billion in cash.

More: EMC, eWeek, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, Data Center Knowledge, Bloomberg Business, USA Today, TechCrunch, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, The Register, bizjournals and silicontap.com

Ryan Whitwam / Android Police:

Source: two new Nexus phones coming this year—5.2" LG Bullhead and 5.7" Huawei Angler, no new Nexus tablet — [Updated] [Rumor] No Nexus Tablet In 2015, But Two Phones—A 5.2-Inch LG (Code Name Bullhead) And A 5.7-Inch Huawei (Code Name Angler)

More: International Business Times, TechSpot, Droid Life, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, CNET, BGR, Gizmodo UK, PCWorld, Business Insider, AndroidGuys, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, 9to5Google, Mashable and Tech2

Jonathan Vanian / Fortune:

Rubrik raises $41M Series B round to archive your company data, two months after raising $10M — Rubrik lands $41 million to archive your company data — It's probably safe to say that analyzing vast quantities of company data can lead to making better business decisions for your organization.

More: SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and The Register

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