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September 17, 2015, 9:05 PM

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Andy Mitchell / Facebook Media:
Facebook launches Signal, a discovery and curation tool for journalists to find and embed content from Facebook and Instagram  —  Introducing Signal for Facebook and Instagram  —  We've heard from journalists that they want an easy way to make Facebook a more vital part of their newsgathering …
Lauren Goode / The Verge:
Amazon announces updated Fire TV with Alexa and 4K support for $100, Fire TV Stick and voice remote bundle for $50, all shipping in October  —  Amazon's answer to Apple TV: a Fire TV box with Alexa and 4K video support  —  Last week Apple sucked up most of the air in the tech press with its newest gadgets …
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Susan Decker / Bloomberg Business:
Federal appeals court rules Apple was entitled to block Samsung from using Apple's patented slide-to-unlock, autocorrect, and quicklinks features  —  Apple Wins Ruling to Force Samsung to Change Products  —  Apple Inc. won an appeals court ruling that may force Samsung Electronics Co …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Independent publishers are collateral damage in the war over ad revenues between Google, Apple, and Facebook  —  Welcome to hell: Apple vs Google vs Facebook and the slow death of the web  —  So let's talk about ad blocking.  —  You might think the conversation about ad blocking …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Google's Project Zero team finds address space layout randomization offers less protection against Stagefright than Google PR claims  —  Google's own researchers challenge key Android security talking point  —  No, address randomization defense does not protect against stagefright exploits.
Cade Metz / Wired:
Software needed to run every Google internet service spans 2B lines of source code, all in a single repository available to all 25K engineers  —  Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—And It's All in One Place  —  How big is Google?  We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Carly Fiorina's record as CEO at HP assailed during second Republican debate  —  Trump and Fiorina pummel each other over business record  —  The two CEOs on the Republican debate stage — Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina — took turns thrashing each other's business records …
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Snapchat signs one-year deal with NFL, will curate Live Stories including league and fan content; both Snapchat and NFL will sell ads and split revenue  —  Snapchat Inks NFL Deal to Bring Football Into Its Live Stories  —  Are you ready for some football?  Snapchat is!

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