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October 8, 2014, 2:05 PM

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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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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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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 …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Review: CarPlay has promise, but the road to perfection is long  —  With Pioneer now offering aftermarket CarPlay support through their existing NEX displays, I got the chance to finally test drive CarPlay (without having to buy a new car) and see how Apple's driving-optimized iPhone experience performs on the road.
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.
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 …
Patrick Hoge / San Francisco Business Times:
SF's new “Airbnb law” officially permits short term rentals, with restrictions, starting Feb 2015  —  San Francisco Supervisors give okay to Airbnb legalization ordinance  —  Acknowledging that the “genie is out of the bottle,” the San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave initial approval …

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