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October 6, 2014, 1:10 AM

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Wall Street Journal:
HP plans to split into two businesses, one for PCs and printers and the other for corporate hardware and services  —  Hewlett-Packard Plans to Break in Two  —  H-P will separate its PC and printer operation from its corporate hardware and other units, sources say.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature Hidden In Facebook Messenger  —  Facebook Messenger is all set up to allow friends to send each other money.  All Facebook has to do is turn on the feature, according to screenshots and video taken using iOS app exploration developer tool Cycript …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Square closes its latest round, raising $150M at a $6B valuation, led by Singapore Investment Corporation  —  Square Raises $150 Million at a $6 Billion Valuation  —  It takes money to make money, or so the saying goes.  And Square, the e-commerce start-up, wants to make a lot more money.
Mat Honan / Wired:
Adaptive Path's acquisition by Capital One feels like the end of the long-fading Web 2.0 era  —  Adaptive Path and the Death Rattle of the Web 2.0 Era  —  You may not have heard of them, but a little company in San Francisco called Adaptive Path has had an outsized effect on the Web we know.
Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
Beats headphones banned from appearing on camera as part of Bose sponsorship deal with the NFL  —  NFL Bans Beats Headphones On Camera (Updated)  —  Remember the television commercial that opens with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick arriving at an opposing team's stadium …
Matthew Lynley / BuzzFeed:
Behind the Dropbox team working to deeply integrate the company's services in phones like the Galaxy Note 4 and Xperia Z3  —  Meet The Team Putting Dropbox On Your Phone  —  Dropbox's strategic partnerships team, filled with a batch of former Googlers and other policy experts, is tasked with embedding Dropbox into new mobile devices.
Tweets: @mattlynley and @tomgaraThanks:@mattlynley
Jake Swearingen / The Atlantic Online:
A Year After Death of Silk Road, Darknet Markets Are Booming  —  It's been one year since the FBI shut down Silk Road, the granddaddy of darknet marketplaces, and arrested main Silk Road admin Ross William Ulbricht (or, as he was known online, Dread Pirate Roberts).
More: Gigaom and ZDNetTweets: @jeffreyatucker

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