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September 27, 2015, 6:45 PM

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Vindu Goel / New York Times:
India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies  —  BANGALORE, India — American technology companies desperately want to win over people like Rakesh Padachuri and his family.  —  Mr. Padachuri, who runs a construction business in this city, the center of India's technology industry …
Michael Crider / Android Police:
Nexus 6P training deck for retail employees leaks, reveals AMOLED display, 3450mAh battery, Gorilla Glass 4, 12.3MP camera with 2.0 F-stop, 1.55 μM pixels  —  Nexus 6P Presentation Leak Includes More Images, Confirms Metal Body, Gorilla Glass 4, And 3450mAh Battery  —  The leaks continue to flow out of Mountain View.
Greg Sterling / Marketing Land:
Mobile web has 2.5X+ more unique visitors than apps, growing 2X faster, but 18X more time is spent in apps  —  Apps Eat Digital Media Time, With Top 3 Capturing 80 Percent  —  Time spent with digital is increasingly concentrated in a few hands.  —  Measurement firm comScore has published …
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Behind the creation of Epic's Bullet Train, a first-person shooter built for Oculus Touch  —  Inside Epic's incredible first attempt at real VR gaming  —  Walking through the darkened hallways of Epic Games, I know three things about the secret project I'm about to see.
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
How tech entrepreneurs are fighting to take back a porn industry disrupted by piracy and free tube sites  —  Meet The Tech Entrepreneurs Trying To Take Back The Porn Industry  —  It's a cloudless, mid-January day in Los Angeles, and I'm in a cramped, dimly lit hotel conference room off …
Sapna Maheshwari / BuzzFeed:
A look at the history of sketchy online marketing schemes run by the founders of $1B JustFab  —  JustFab: The Billion Dollar Startup With A Dark Past  —  After more than a decade spent running sketchy online marketing schemes, JustFab's founders have made it big in Silicon Valley.
More: RackedThanks:@sapna
Ben Kuchera / Polygon:
Oculus VP says the company isn't close to supporting Xbox One, but there have been talks  —  Don't expect to see the Oculus Rift on Xbox One anytime soon  —  Oculus has been pretty cozy with Microsoft lately.  The companies announced that the retail Oculus Rift will ship with an Xbox One controller in the box.

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