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October 8, 2014, 4:30 PM

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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

More: Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, Reuters, BGR, The Mac Observer, TechSpot, iMore, 9to5Mac and TheStreet.com

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.

More: PC World, Business Insider, CITEworld, Mashable, SmoothSpan Blog and GeekWire

Tweets: @nickwingfield, @jyarow and @howardlindzon

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.

Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

A sampler of Slack group names at major tech companies, obtained through the service's dubious usability “feature” — Slack Is Letting Anyone Peek at Their Competitors — Few pieces of corporate software have earned so many fans so quickly as Slack, which is basically a sophisticated chat room for businesses.

More: Tanay Sai, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Verge and Forbes

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @willoremus, @michaelroston, @mikeisaac and @kashhill

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Slack exposes companies' team names to outsiders, but it's a feature, not a bug

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @kashhill

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.

More: Search Engine Watch, TechSpot, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Pocketables, Engadget and Search Engine Land. Tweets: @terrencehart

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 …

More: Cult of Mac and JIMROMENESKO.COM. Tweets: @glennf, @harrisj and @glennf. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: ReadWrite, Business Insider, Business Insider and bizjournals. Tweets: @stshank. Thanks:@srikardr

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.

More: ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily and Seeking Alpha

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 …

More: The Next Web, Gigaom, Medium and Mashable

Tweets: @ryanlawler and @joshconstine

Thanks:@mkakav

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.

More: Re/code, iPhone in Canada Blog, TIME, Fortune and CNET. Tweets: @rands

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 …

More: Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Re/code, VentureBreak, Bloomberg, Gigaom, New York Times and PE Hub Blog

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 …

More: Official Google for Work Blog, The Next Web, CITEworld, Engadget, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo and WebProNews

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 …

More: eWeek, USA Today, Re/code, Tech Trader Daily, PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, bizjournals, TechSpot, CNET, TheStreet.com, Fortune, VentureBeat, PC World, Seeking Alpha and Reuters. Tweets: @dinabass

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 …

More: MacRumors and MacNN

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 …

More: Windows Phone, GeekWire, Gizmodo, ZDNet, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web, Gigaom and Phones Review

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 …

More: PandoDaily, PC Magazine, CNN, Om Malik, The Register and New York Times. Tweets: @joshm

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 …

More: Proofpoint, The Verge, Network World, ITworld.com, InfoWorld and The Register

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

Google reportedly working on bite-sized app trials for Android — While Android has soared, Google Play has struggled a bit. Customers don't buy nearly as many apps, songs or movies as their counterparts using iOS. According to The Information, Mountain View is working to change that with a new app trial program.

More: The Information, PC World, Gigaom, Phandroid, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, MobileSyrup.com, 9to5Google and Droid Life

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.

More: Wall Street Journal, Google, iPhone in Canada Blog, PC World, AndroidGuys, Lifehacker, Search Engine Land, BGR and Ubergizmo. Thanks:@epro

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Nokia's HERE maps is finally available for Android, kicking off with Samsung Galaxy phones — Nokia has launched a beta version of its HERE maps and navigation app in the Samsung Galaxy Apps store, giving the smartphone maker a viable alternative to the wildly popular Google Maps.

More: HERE Three Sixty, CNET, Forbes, Ubergizmo, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, DailyTech, ZDNet, SlashGear, Gigaom, Android Central, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Engadget and Gizmodo

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