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Isaac Salier-Hellendag / Facebook:

Facebook rolls out redesigned Notes with options for images, captions, other formatting after testing with small group last month — Updates for Facebook Notes — We're rolling out an update to make notes on Facebook more beautiful and customizable. Notes are now an even better …

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Tweets: @codeblue87, @hellendag, @mikeisaac and @film_girl

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Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Google has dominant position in EU and US mobile OS markets, but doesn't hold monopoly power — Is Android a monopoly? — A report from Bloomberg this morning suggests that US antitrust regulators are looking into whether Google has engaged in anticompetitive practices with its Android operating system.

More: Tech Times. Tweets: @jowens510, @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan, @startupljackson and @benbajarin

David McLaughlin / Bloomberg Business:

FTC has launched an inquiry into Google's Android business over antitrust concerns

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Sources: YouTube finalizing plans to bundle Music Key and ad-free videos for $10/month, could launch at end of October — YouTube Is Prepping Its Subscription Launch: Two Services, One Price — YouTube, which spent the first 10 years of its life as a free service, is getting ready to start selling tickets.

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John Chen / Inside BlackBerry:

BlackBerry and Android: Expanding Our World — There has been a lot of buzz regarding BlackBerry launching an Android smartphone. For those restraining excitement until rumors became reality - the day has come. — I confirmed today that the slider phone we very briefly unveiled earlier …

More: MobileSyrup.com, Tech Times, BerryReview, Ubergizmo, ReadWrite, Android Authority, CrackBerry.com, Datamation.com, TIME and VentureBeat

Ina Fried / Re/code:

BlackBerry confirms “Priv” Android phone will launch at the end of 2015, posts weak Q2 earnings with loss of 13 cents per share

Joanna Sugden / Wall Street Journal:

Study on global salaries of mid-career level IT staff finds Switzerland offers best salaries at $171K/year, Bulgaria worst at $25K/year — What IT Professionals Earn Around the World — Information technology professionals continue to be one of India's most competitive exports.

More: Fortune

Wall Street Journal:

Atlassian has filed for a US IPO; the software-tool maker is valued at over $3B privately — Australian Software-Tools Maker Atlassian Planning U.S. IPO — Company is valued at over $3 billion privately and expects to debut on U.S. markets by year-end — At least one more billion-dollar startup …

More: SiliconANGLE, Business Insider and VentureBeat

Tweets: @codinghorror and @swiftonsecurity

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Samsung opens its 1.1M-square-foot office in San Jose that can fit up to 2K workers — Samsung opens doors on new Silicon Valley offices — The South Korean company has built a 1.1 million square foot campus in San Jose, California — about 12 miles from rival Apple's headquarters.

More: Samsung Tomorrow, The Verge, Bloomberg Business, bizjournals, TrustedReviews, Android Authority, EE Times, Engadget, Digital Trends and NBC Bay Area

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

What to expect from Google's September 29 event: unveiling of Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, 2nd gen Chromecast, and Chromecast Audio, plus Android Marshmallow launch date — Google Nexus announcement: 5 things to expect at Tuesday's event — Apple, Samsung, Sony, and Motorola all unveiled new phones over the past two months.

More: Android Police, Ausdroid, International Business Times, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Tech Times and Network World

Glenn Peoples / Billboard:

Deezer IPO filing shows firm spends 75%+ of revenue on rights holders, doesn't generate revenue from 40.2% of subscribers — Deezer's IPO Filing Shows Both Potential and Problems — The financial information in Deezer's filing for a public stock offering provides rare transparency …

More: Fortune and Music Ally. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept:

GCHQ debuted a program called Karma Police seven years ago to track the browsing habits and communications of “every visible user on the Internet” — From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users' Online Identities — THERE WAS A SIMPLE AIM at the heart of the top-secret program …

More: Wired, Ars Technica, The Verge, The Register, SiliconBeat, Boing Boing, CIO.com, Engadget, Business Insider, Consequence of Sound, The Next Web and Hit & Run

Tweets: @dhh, @ggreenwald, @ioerror and @matthew_d_green

Fortune:

Sources: Square to file for IPO in the next two weeks — Payments startup Square plans to file an S-1 document for its initial public offering within the next two weeks, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. — The San Francisco-based company earlier this summer submitted …

More: Business Insider, Inc.com, Business Insider, Reuters and Seeking Alpha

Patricio Robles / ProgrammableWeb.com:

Pinterest Takes Wraps Off Public API, Launches Developer Sandbox … Today, Pinterest announced that its API is publicly available and launched a sandbox that allows developers to more easily test integrations the Pinterest APITrack this API. — With more than 100 million users …

More: Geeky Gadgets, Marketing Land, The Next Web, VentureBeat, SocialTimes, ZDNet and Pinterest Engineering

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