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September 7, 2015, 8:45 AM

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

iPhone 6s will feature next-gen “3D Touch” display which can differentiate between three levels of pressure: a tap, a press, and a deeper press — iPhone 6s to have ‘3D Touch’ three-level, next-gen Force Touch interface — One of the cornerstone features of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus …

Startup L. Jackson / Startups and S**t:

Twitter's core product is fine for current users, but company is overvalued and has to show investors it can grow with projects like Vine, Periscope — Twitter's Product is F**king Fine — It seems all the range to write thought pieces on Twitter's product problems.

More: Dustin Curtis. Tweets: @markymark, @davemcclure, @tomaxwell, @om, @joshelman and @anildash

Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day:

Twitter should remove arbitrary 140 character limit and other legacy restrictions to appeal to mainstream users, recognize its true strength is its network — The network's the thing — Last week Instagram announced it was supporting more than just square aspect ratios for photos and videos.

More: PC Magazine. Tweets: @eugenewei, @jeffweiner, @erickschonfeld, @dseetharaman, @carnage4life and @ow

Charles Arthur / The Overspill:

High-end Android OEMs like Samsung, LG struggle in Q2 as cheaper phones take Chinese business, appetite for upgrades in the west wanes — Premium Android hits the wall: the Q2 2015 smartphone scorecard — Premium Android phones went off track in the second quarter. Photo by -Jeffrey- on Flickr.

More: ZDNet

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Uber Confirms It's Raised $1.2B More In China Led By Baidu As Rival Didi Kuaidi Gets $3B — Uber — the app-based, on-demand transportation service — has been on has been on a fundraising tear as it expands globally in the face of major competition. China is the company's latest battleground.

More: Tech in Asia, VentureBeat, Bloomberg Business and Reuters

Cade Metz / Wired:

Why Facebook chose Haskell, a functional programming language that ranks 23rd in overall popularity on Github, to build its complex anti-spam system — Facebook's New Spam-Killer Hints at the Future of Coding — Louis Brandy pauses before answering, needing some extra time to choose his words.

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:

Pagefair's estimate that publishers will lose $21.8B due to ad blocking ignores law of supply and demand, so is likely overstated — Widely Cited Ad Blocking Study Finding $21.8 Billion Loss Is Incorrect — Supply and demand were purposefully overlooked, leading to larger number.

More: Wired, Business Insider and Fortune

Tweets: @mollywood, @whatthebit and @jason_kint

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:

Hachette, HarperCollins Publishers, and Simon & Schuster report declining revenues on ebooks after winning the right to set prices in deal with Amazon — E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contracts — E-book revenue is falling, and some people in the publishing industry say it is partly …

More: TeleRead, Beyond Search and Business Insider

Tweets: @benedictevans, @tcarmody and @cdixon

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Zomato raises $60M and launches a white-label service to help restaurants go online — Restaurant search service Zomato has raised a fresh $60 million in funding, in a round led by new entrant Temasek Holdings, and existing investor Vy Capital. — Founded in 2008, Zomato offers an online …

More: PR Newswire, TechCrunch, Zomato and YourStory.com. Tweets: @deepigoyal

Bruce Einhorn / Bloomberg Business:

ZTE nearly doubles its US smartphone marketshare to 8% in the past 15 months through low-cost offerings, ranking it as the fourth largest smartphone maker in US — The Cheap Phones Quietly Winning the U.S. — China's once-embattled ZTE almost doubled its share in 15 months

More: Slashdot

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Comcast tests letting Florida customers pay an extra $30 per month to avoid 300GB data cap — New Comcast innovation: A $30 charge to eliminate your data cap — Florida data cap trial limits users to 300GB unless they pay extra each month. — Comcast has unveiled a new $30 charge …

More: customer.xfinity.com, BGR, DSLreports, miamiherald, PC Magazine, Credit.com, GeekWire, SlashGear, Engadget, Light Reading, Multichannel News, CIO.com, The Verge, PCWorld, Fortune, Sun-Sentinel, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo and Tech Times. Tweets: @pmarca

Los Angeles Times:

Snapchat now draws 4B daily video views, putting it on par with Facebook, and doubling its views in just 3 months — Snapchat's video push clicks with users — Snapchat's aggressive push into curated video appears to be paying off. — The social media app, popular with young users …

More: International Business Times, Marketing Land, Entrepreneur and Variety. Tweets: @xpangler

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