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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
'It's been way too long': Apple sends out invites for Thursday, October 16th iPad & Mac event — It's happening: Apple has just announced a keynote address for Thursday, October 16th to take place at the Town Hall auditorium on its Infinite Loop Campus in Cupertino, California.
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple says it was surprised by the bankruptcy filing of sapphire supplier GT Advanced; sources say GT didn't meet Apple's technical milestones — Apple Surprised by Sapphire Partner GT Advanced's Bankruptcy Filing — iPhone Maker Says It Will Work With State and Local Officials to Consider Next Steps
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| Bethany McLean / Vanity Fair: |
Can C.E.O. Satya Nadella Save Microsoft? — The Empire Reboots — Over the last decade, as the biggest force in tech history hurtled toward irrelevance (albeit lucratively), a few blamed Microsoft' s woes on founder Bill Gates, while most pointed to his successor as C.E.O., Steve Ballmer.
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Business Insider, CITEworld, Mashable, SmoothSpan Blog and GeekWire
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google Adds Custom Pirate Bay Search With Autocomplete — The entertainment industries have gone head to head with Google in recent months, demanding tougher anti-piracy measures from the search engine. — According to the RIAA, MPAA and others, Google is making it too easy for its users to find pirated content.
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Search Engine Watch, Pocketables, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Engadget, TechSpot, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Roundtable. Tweets: @terrencehart
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Slack exposes companies' team names to outsiders, but it's a feature, not a bug — There's a bit of chatter today about an apparent Slack vulnerability that allows people to snoop around other companies to find out what group they have on the service. However, it's not technically a vulnerability … | Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
AT&T Pays $105 Million to Settle Mobile Cramming Charges — AT&T agreed to pay $105 million to settle claims that it allowed third-party companies to bill subscribers for millions of dollars in unauthorized charges, federal and state law enforcement officials announced Wednesday.
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| CNET: |
Marc Andreessen on Zuckerberg, Twitter, Apple Watch, bitcoin, PayPal spinning off, and Snowden — Zuckerberg is world's best CEO, Twitter the eighth wonder, says Marc Andreessen — The venture capitalist has been tweeting up a storm, sharing his thoughts on everything from startups to activist shareholders.
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Cisco Is Shuffling 25,000 Employees Around In A Massive Reorg — Resumes are flying out of Cisco like so many owls in a Harry Potter movie, sources in the Valley are telling us. — A huge reorganization of Cisco's routing and switching engineering business has been going on, affecting up to 25,000 employees.
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| Bloomberg: |
Symantec Said to Explore Split Into Security, Storage Cos — Symantec Corp. is exploring a breakup, according to people with knowledge of the matter, joining other large technology companies that are trying to make their businesses more focused and nimble. — The Mountain View …
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USA Today, eWeek, Re/code, Tech Trader Daily, PC Magazine, TechSpot, CNET, bizjournals, Wall Street Journal, TheStreet.com, Fortune, VentureBeat, Network World, Seeking Alpha and Reuters. Tweets: @dinabass
| Glenn Fleishman / The Magazine: |
Subscriber-supported magazine app The Magazine will produce its last issue Dec. 17 — Last Issue Is December 17, 2014 — Hello, readers, The Magazine will stop publishing its every-other-week issues on December 17, 2014, cancel all outstanding subscriptions, and automatically provide pro-rated refunds …
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Teens ‘tepid’ on Apple Watch as iPhone and iPad steal Android marketshare — According to a recent survey conducted by Piper Jaffray, U.S. teens show steadily increasing demand for iPhone and iPad, but are ho-hum on the prospect of Apple's upcoming Apple Watch.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: Truecaller Scores $60 Million In Series C From KPCB, Atomico, And Sequoia — Truecaller has just announced the raise of a $60 million in Series C led by Atomico, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Sequoia Capital. — As you might have noticed, TechCrunch's Ingrid Lunden tracked …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Snowball Debuts A Unified Inbox For All Your Messaging Apps — A new mobile application called Snowball, launching today, is going to give iPhone users Android envy. The app serves as a universal inbox for your many mobile messaging clients, including Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, SMS …
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The Next Web, Gigaom, Mashable and Medium
Tweets: @ryanlawler and @joshconstine
Thanks:@mkakav| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Josh Miller Confirms He's Built Something, But It's Not Just About Anonymity — In response to the New York Times' report that he's leading a team working on an anonymous forum app for Facebook, product manager Josh Miller posted a tweetstorm saying apps need to serve a function …
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PandoDaily, PC Magazine, CNN, Macworld, The Register and New York Times
| Killian Bell / Cult of Mac: |
iOS 8.1 blocks ‘date trick’ loophole that allows emulators on iPhone and iPad — A neat trick that allows old console emulators and other unapproved apps to be installed on iOS devices without jailbreaking is set to be wiped out with iOS 8.1. Apple has finally taken action against the … | Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Google announces new Chromebook for Work features, $50/year subscription option — Google, in a post on the official Google Work blog today, announced several enhancements coming to enterprise Chromebook users. In addition to a slew of new features for places using Chromebooks for Work … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Xim turns iOS, Android, and Windows phones into a multi-screen slideshow — Microsoft's many research teams dream up fantastic concepts on a regular basis, but what you rarely see is an end product direct from the research labs. Microsoft Xim is launching today …
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Windows Phone, GeekWire, Gizmodo, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Gigaom, iPhone in Canada Blog and Phones Review
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google mobile app can now surface your past and upcoming bills from your Gmail account — Google today updated its main Android and iOS with support for surfacing past and upcoming bills. If you have the payment due date and amount in your Gmail account, the Google mobile app will find it.
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The Information, PC World, Wall Street Journal, Google, Engadget, 9to5Google, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, AndroidGuys, Lifehacker, Search Engine Land, BGR and Ubergizmo. Thanks:@epro
| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Product Hunt Gets $6.1 Million Series A Funding From A16Z And Alexis Ohanian — Product Hunt, a community board where people can up vote tech products, officially announced the raise of $6.1 million in a Series A today, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Y Combinator partner and Reddit co-founder …
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GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Andreessen Horowitz, BuzzFeed, The Next Web, Business Insider, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, Gigaom and silicontap.com
Tweets: @alexisohanian, @jonnotie, @eriktorenberg and @stevesi
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple opens the door for HomeKit accessory makers w/ finalized MFi specs — Apple has now finalized and published specifications for HomeKit through its Made-For-iPhone/iPad/iPod (MFi) licensing program. The finalized specifications, which allow accessory makers to start building products …
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| Jeremy Kirk / Computerworld: |
Russian cybercrime group compromised half a million computers — A mistake by a suspected Russian-speaking cybercriminal group allowed a security vendor to peep on a campaign that stole login credentials for hundreds of thousands of online bank accounts. — In a new report …
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Proofpoint, The Verge, Network World, InfoWorld, ITworld.com and The Register
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