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October 6, 2014, 8:20 PM

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HP:

HP's split into two publicly traded companies called Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. expected to be completed by November 2015 — HP To Separate Into Two New Industry-Leading Public Companies — Hewlett-Packard Enterprise will define the next generation of technology infrastructure …

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Wall Street Journal:

HP announces split, boosts number of expected layoffs by 5K to 55K — Hewlett-Packard Announces Plans to Break Up Company — H-P Would Separate PC, Printer Business from Corporate Hardware, Services; Expects More Layoffs — Tech company Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will separate …

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New York Times:

Meg Whitman will be CEO of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and nonexecutive chairman of HP Inc.

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Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

HP is better not together — company to split into enterprise and PC/printer businesses

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Uber Hires Former Lyft COO VanderZanden to Spur International Growth — Will the ongoing Spy vs. Spy war between San Francisco ride-sharing services Lyft and Uber ever end? — Not today it won't, with Uber hiring recently departed Lyft COO Travis VanderZanden to head a new unit that will focus on international growth.

More: GeekWire, Fortune and Business Insider. Tweets: @caseynewton

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Washington Post working on curated news app for the new 8.9" Kindle Fire launching this fall; app will come to other tablets eventually — Jeff Bezos's New Plan for News: The Washington Post Becomes an Amazon Product — Jeff Bezos wants to turn the Washington Post into a national publication …

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Adobe launches cloud-connected Capture & new Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, and Premiere iOS apps — Ahead of its annual MAX Conference kicking off today, Adobe has launched an entirely new suite of apps that are now available on the iPhone and iPad App Store.

More: TechCrunch, Re/code, VentureBeat, Adobe MAX 2014, Seeking Alpha, Macworld, iLounge, PadGadget, PDNPulse, iMore, TUAW, Engadget, AppleInsider, The Next Web, iMore, The Register, ZDNet, Gizmodo, CNET and The Verge

Liam Spradlin / Android Police:

Adobe Releases Creative Cloud Preview For Android To View And Manage Cloud-Based Files (Including PSD And AI)

More: iMore, Adobe, Gigaom, The Next Web and Android Central

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Adobe Launches Public Beta Of Its Creative SDK For iOS, Android Coming Soon

More: The Next Web, The Verge, Tim Anderson's ITWriting and iMore

Dennis Fisher / Threatpost:

Insider breach at AT&T compromises Social Security and drivers' license numbers; company offers credit monitoring to those affected — AT&T Hit By Insider Breach — AT&T is warning consumers about a data breach involving an insider who illegally accessed the personal information of an unspecified number of users.

More: ZDNet, New York Times, Re/code, iTnews.com.au, The Register, Ubergizmo, PhoneDog.com, Help Net Security and Android Central

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple sapphire crystal supplier GT Advanced files for bankruptcy — Apple sapphire supplier GT Advanced Tech has today released a statement announcing that it is filing for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. Filing for Chapter 11 means the company will be able to continue normal operations until it can resolve issues with creditors.

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Plex Launches On Xbox One — Perennial media management software favorite Plex is celebrating a return of sorts today: The company has launched an official client for Xbox One, after having originally been based on XBMC, the open-source media player that took its name from the original Xbox.

More: Plex Blog, The Verge, The Next Web, Xbox Wire, PC World, Engadget, Expert Reviews, Gigaom, Gizmodo, WinBeta, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, BetaNews, The Inquisitr News and Gotta Be Mobile. Thanks:@carmlyman

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft's ‘RoomAlive’ transforms any room into a giant Xbox game — When Microsoft first demonstrated its IllumiRoom research project at CES last year it generated a huge amount of attention ahead of a next-generation Xbox unveiling. A video showed off a projection system that was linked …

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Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Free Spending by Startups Stir Memories of Dot-Com Era Excesses — Growing Trend of High Salaries and Pricey Offices as Venture Capital Pours into Tech Firms — San Francisco real-estate agent Jeffrey Moeller wants tech entrepreneurs to spend less. — “A four-person startup will tell me …

More: Valleywag. Tweets: @sbyrnes, @jspepper and @joshconstine

Zachary Davies Boren / The Independent:

Yahoo confirms its servers were breached via a Shellshock exploit, buy says no user data was accessed — Shellshock: Romanian hackers are accessing Yahoo servers, claims security expert — Hackers are exploiting Yahoo's bash bug vulnerability, according to technology consultant Jonathan Hall

More: Future South Technologies, Engadget, SecurityWeek, The Next Web, CNET, The Register, ReadWrite, iTnews.com.au, Ars Technica, Threatpost, Business Insider, Bloomberg, TechSpot, CSO Online Steve Ragan, Help Net Security, Benzinga, PandoDaily and Forbes

Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal:

Beepi Raises $60 Million to Sell Used Cars to the Smartphone Generation — Investors are bankrolling used-car marketplace Beepi Inc. in a bet that people will purchase used cars with a few taps from their smartphones without ever taking a test drive. — The Los Altos, Calif.-based company …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat and bizjournals. Tweets: @jspepper

Martyn Williams / PC World:

ITC to investigate Nvidia complaint over Samsung phones, tablets — The U.S. International Trade Commission, the country's top trade court, is launching an investigation into allegations by Nvidia that several Samsung cellphones and tablet PCs contain graphics technology that infringes on its patents.

More: CNET, VentureBeat and NVIDIA Newsroom

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Facebook Closes WhatsApp Acquisition, Jan Koum To Match Zuckerberg's $1 Annual Salary — Facebook is now the legal owner of WhatsApp, following a filing made with the SEC today. This is the final step in a process begun when Facebook announced its intent to acquire the messaging company in February of this year.

More: Bloomberg, Re/code, Engadget, The Verge, Computerworld, The Next Web, Gigaom, Mashable, Android Central, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, PandoDaily, Wall Street Journal, Inside Facebook, ABC News, GeekWire and WebProNews. Tweets: @sequoia

Erin Griffith / Fortune:

With new $400 million fund, Thrive Capital, which has invested in Kickstarter, Spotify, Twitch, and Instagram, is New York's quietest success story — With new $400 million fund, Thrive Capital is New York's quietest success story — Unlike just about every venture capital firm, Thrive Capital doesn't tweet.

More: Re/code, PandoDaily and CB Insights

Tweets: @stevesi and @hunterwalk

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Backed By $9.5 Million, Curbside Launches A Mobile Shopping App For Same-Day Pickup, Not Delivery — A number of companies today are experimenting with same-day e-commerce, including Amazon, Google, eBay, Instacart and others - but for most, the focus has been on same-day delivery.

More: The Next Web, Index Ventures, ScreenwerkScreenwerk, Re/code, USA Today, PandoDaily, VentureBeat and bizjournals. Tweets: @mdudas

Cade Metz / Wired:

Overstock.com Assembles Coders to Create a Bitcoin-Like Stock Market — Overstock.com is building software, based on the bitcoin digital currency, that could allow the big-name etailer to issue corporate stock over the internet, sidestepping traditional stock exchanges such as the NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange.

More: Inside Bitcoins

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