Tech Roundup: GlaxoSmithKline Ebola Vaccine, Twitter Transparency & More

[A recurring feature on the latest in Science & Technology.]

• A nurse who came in extensive contact with the Ebola patient in Dallas has tested positive for the infection; marks the second case of transmission outside of Africa after a Spanish nurse caught the same while caring for two missionaries who had contacted the disease in the course of their aid work. GlaxoSmithKline starts human trials of its experimental Ebola vaccine on Mali healthcare workers.
• Poland to erect a statue in honour of free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
• Twitter takes U.S. Federal Government to court for prohibiting it from "disclosing the exact number of national security letters ("NSLs") and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ("FISA") court orders received".
• Apple iPhone 6/Plus sales hit 20 million barely a month of its launch.
• Google's Android apps Google+, Newsstand and Play Store get the Material Design makeover; suggests Android L launch date is not far off.
• Yahoo! plans shut down of Yahoo Education and Yahoo Directory; streamlines India operations by laying off 400 employees to focus on support functions.
• Finnish company Nokia's Chennai-based handset manufacturing facility in India to suspend operations following Microsoft buyout.
• Social network Facebook unveils its own ad platform Atlas to serve ads elsewhere on the Web; plans to enter the field of healthcare, creating online "support communities" that would connect Facebook users suffering from various ailments.
• Cyanogen, makers of open sourced operating system based on Android AOSP, reveals it rejected a US$1 billion buyout offer from Google; strikes deal with Indian phone maker Micromax and OnePlus to build Cyanogen-based phones.
• Microsoft makes more money from Samsung than from Skype, Windows Phone, and Xbox combined in the form of royalty fees for using its technology in its Android smartphones; tech giant said to be holding 200 patent families "necessary to build an  Android smartphone" post purchasing Nokia's Devices and Services business.
• Somalia gets its first ATM.
• Apple iOS 8 adoption rate stagnates at 47% following insane storage requirements (5GB for over-the-air update) and general software bugginess (and also perhaps due to iPhone 4 being left out); blacklists Computer Bild magazine that published the viral iPhone 6 bendgate video from being "invited to Apple events in the future".
• Samsung forecasts more than 60% drop in profits as its smartphone business comes under increased competition from Apple (from the top) and affordable handsets  from Xiaomi, Huawei and Lenovo (at the bottom); cleverly shifts focus to chip making.
• PC maker HP splits into two - HP and HP Enterprise to better focus on its PC, printer and enterprise businesses; ecommerce giant eBay does the same by spinning off online payment service PayPal into a separate public-traded company.