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TIME - Now you can capture yourself in all your breakfast eating glory.

It has been said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Clearly that’s why Cinnamon Toast Crunch has introduced a “selfie spoon,” a selfie stick with a spoon at the end that extends up to 30 inches so cereal eaters can take photos of themselves while eating cereal.

The General Mills brand created this new spin on the notorious selfie stick to solve the first world problem of “choosing between eating and posting” a selfie, according to their ad.

To use the selfie spoon, narcissists just have to turn on the Bluetooth feature on their smartphones so the white remote will be recognized — there is one gray button that takes photos on Android phones, and one that takes photos on iOS devices.

Selfie spoons are free to order now on SelfieSpoon.com, though customers do have to pay for shipping and will likely pay in followers on social media.

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ML - Local Apple resellers announced that the starting price of the iPhone 6s will be at least Php 115,000.00 due to the 85% import tax increase imposed by the customs on the shipping cargos.

The customs told the media that the 85% import tax is set so high to "keep it fair" with the local mobile phone designers and developers. "Masyado na natin tinatangkilik yung mga iPhone at Samsung na yan. Dapat yung sariling atin naman," ("We support iPhone and Samsung brands too much. We should start supporting our own,") said Anthony Paz in a quick presser with the media 3:00 AM Manila time.

iPhone 6s: Just a dream in the Philippines?

Filipino citizens who purchase their iPhone 6s overseas will be given a ticket to pay at their corresponding city hall. According to customs, this is to prevent people from going overseas just to buy an iPhone 6s for cheaper prices.

The iPhone 6s starting price in the USA is $199.00 which would roughly be Php 9,300 in today's exchange rates.

The first places to get the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus will be Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, the UK and the US.

Preorders begin on Saturday, Setember 12 with the line coming out on September 25.

ML - In a shocking turn of events, the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) has announced that they will start reducing the internet speed of customers that complain about them online.


The largest telecommunications company in the Philippines released a statement to the press after "enduring cyber bullying on Facebook and Twitter." "We are going to throttle customers who publicly bully PLDT as a whole," said Julian Vega, a spokesperson for PLDT.

The issues began when Facebook users began posting complaints on the comments section of the PLDT Home Facebook page's posts. You can view the PLDT Home Facebook page here.

After the announcement, no complaints have been made publicly so far, but a PLDT in-house technician that refused to be named said that they're cross-examining the names of the customers to the names that they post with on Facebook.

"Kung ang subscriber name niyo ay name niyo din sa Facebook, wag na kayo mag-post ng reklamo. Babagal ang internet niyo," said the technician.

CUPERTINO - In a somewhat shocking move, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that they have purchased music rival Spotify for a whopping $20 million. Cook stated, "we at Apple want to bring our customers the very best in digital music and by merging with Spotify, we now have the largest digital music library in the world."

Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify confirmed the merge 2 hours later. "We here at Spotify love to please our loyal fanbase and by doing this, we can open more and more possibilities with more music then anyone could ever wish for. Both for Apple Music and Spotify."



The merge means for anyone who loves to listen to music digitally either on their PC, mobile or tablet device can access a much larger library of titles then before. If anything more will come out of this is yet to be seen.

Apple Music made an impact this month when it decided to compete with popular music streaming services such as Spotify, Tidal and Pandora. The difference between the three is Apple Music's in-house podcasts, radio-like shows and live concerts.

BEIJING - "Don't torture yourself with Filipino internet speed, subscribe to us now for the fastest broadband in Mainland China," said one of the TV commercials for China Telecom's service.

China Telecom is a Chinese state-owned telecommunication company that also provides wired and wireless internet for 80.33% of Mainland China (Q1 2015). Their average internet speed is 18.3 Mbps, but has limitations on which sites their subscribers can visit.

Philippine telcos came under fire early this year for being in the bottom three of the slowest internet speed in Asia. The average being 3.6 Mbps compared to China's 18.3 Mbps.

Filipinos took to Twitter to voice their displeasure over the Chinese telco ad and pressure has been put on local telcos to boost internet speed. "It's inexcusable that we're one of the most advanced countries in Asia in terms of economy, yet our internet speed is in the bottom 3," said one of the users on Twitter.

COMPTON - Andre Romelle Young, more known by his stage name Dr. Dre, was shot fifteen times today during a filming of an advertisement for one his technological ventures Beats by Dre under the Beats Electronics brand. The scene was being shot in Downtown Compton.

The American record producer, rapper and entrepreneur received fatal gunshot wounds at around 9 PM tonight while the filming crew stood by in shock as the medical response team attended him. Dr. Dre was shooting a scene with twelve alleged Compton gang members when a vehicle drove by and began firing specifically at the hip-hop billionaire.

"They [meant] to do that on purpose," said one of the participants in the commercial who was wearing an all-red outfit with tattoo of guns, dollar signs and the word "BLOODS" all over his skin.

The Los Angeles Police Department has already ruled out the possibility for this to be a random drive-by shooting as the gunner was definitely targeting Dr. Dre who was in the middle of the scene. "We believe that this is still a gang-related incident as the gunman and several others in the car began shouting profanities typically shouted against Bloods gang members."

UPDATE - Dr. Dre is currently being attended by three doctors at the UCLA Medical Center where he was transferred to after spending two hours in a Compton hospital. He's currently being guarded by his entourage and a group of policemen is surrounding his hospital room.

BENTONVILLE - Walmart has recently announced that it's going to sell the iPhone 6 for only $50 this coming Black Friday on all their stores nationwide. This bold move was revealed earlier this morning during a live interview with Doug McMillon, the President and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

To boost its sales with Apple products, McMillon told the media that Walmart is going on full sale for all Apple-branded products. This includes the iPhone 5, iPod, iPhone 6 Plus and the iPhone 6 which is going for $50 a piece, the lowest-priced of the bunch, this coming Black Friday.

"We had too many in our warehouses that were not picked up during the pre-order phase due to an error with the system from Apple, so we're going to put them on sale," McMillon addressed the press. He explained that instead of risking themselves losing profit over unsold units, they're going to resell them at a lower price on Black Friday.

They made it clear, however, that they will not be available online or for pre-order again. It will be a first-come-first-serve basis. Security will be upped due to the hype surrounding the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. This is to prevent any minor scale stampedes that are expected to occur during the opening of Walmart stores nationwide.