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September 23, 2015, 7:15 AM
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Michael Crider / Android Police:
Leaked Images Of The New Nexus Phone Retail Boxes Confirm ‘Nexus 5X’ And ‘Nexus 6P’ Model Names  —  It's a little less than a week until Google reveals its new Nexus devices in San Francisco, but as seems to happen every year, we know pretty much every detail beforehand.
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
iPhone 6s breaks traditional tick-tock release cycle with 3 marquee features: innovative 3D Touch, impressive 4K video shooting and editing, and Live Photos  —  Review: Apple's iPhone 6s And 6s Plus Go ‘Tick’  —  Tick, tock.  Tick, tock.  This is the familiar sound of Apple's iPhone.
John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:
iPhone 6s Plus' snappier performance and camera improvements are nice, but 3D Touch makes it worth upgrading
Instagram Blog:
Instagram announces it has reached 400M monthly active users, doubling in size since March 2014, with more than 75 percent of users outside US  —  Celebrating a Community of 400 Million  —  We are thrilled to announce that the Instagram community has grown to more than 400 million strong.
Reuters:
Sources: Citrix looking to sell itself as a whole before embarking on asset sales, has reached out to Dell and others  —  Exclusive: Citrix in last-ditch attempt to sell itself - sources  —  Citrix Systems Inc (CTXS.O), the U.S. cloud computing company targeted by activist hedge fund Elliott Management …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Facebook ramps up its Instant Articles as Washington Post says it will publish all of its articles on Facebook and over a dozen new publishers join  —  Facebook Ramps Up Its Instant Articles, and the Washington Post Is All In  —  Last spring Facebook started hosting stories from the New York Times …
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Uber Is Testing UberCommute, A New Carpooling Service, In China  —  Uber is testing a new kind of carpooling service after it announced UberCommute, a service that will be piloted first in China.  The news comes weeks after UberChina closed a $1.2 billion funding round.
Mike Allen / Medium:
Shred denies it repurposed Smule's IP, details how its technology works  —  When your Former Boss Sues you for Starting a Startup  —  At Y Combinator, the partners often say, “Startups die of suicide, not homicide.”  It's a startling statement, but it's true.
David Yanofsky / Quartz:
Waze considers reducing suggestions for dangerous left-hand turns that save time  —  The “Waze left” may be coming to an end  —  The navigation app Waze is beloved for exploiting shortcuts, avoiding traffic, and proving that the shortest distance between two points is not always a straight line.
More: SlashGear.  Tweets: @debcha
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Broadband is a “core utility” like electricity, White House report says  —  US must take action because millions lack broadband access, White House says.  —  Broadband Internet service “has steadily shifted from an optional amenity to a core utility” and is now “taking its place alongside water …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
Imgur vulnerability that targeted 8chan via images on Reddit patched  —  Someone Was Abusing an Imgur Bug to Target 8chan Users  —  A previously unknown vulnerability in the popular photo-sharing site Imgur was recently exploited in an apparent attempt to hack users of the internet message board 8chan …

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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Memo: CNN's Poppy Harlow is leaving the network; she joined in 2008 and most recently co-hosted CNN This Morning, which was effectively canceled earlier in 2024

Financial Times:
Sources: RedBird IMI prepares to withdraw its Telegraph bid as early as next week, triggering an auction expected to draw bids from Rupert Murdoch and others

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