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September 26, 2015, 1:00 PM

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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 …
David McLaughlin / Bloomberg Business:
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.
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
Atavist:
The Atavist abandons native apps to focus on web, saying apps have poor discovery, slow approval, tech limitations, smaller readership  —  Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps  —  When we concocted the ideas that would become Atavist and The Atavist Magazine, in 2010, we did so amidst a frenzy …
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 …
Ina Fried / Re/code:
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 …
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 …
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 …

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