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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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PC World, Business Insider, CITEworld, Mashable, SmoothSpan Blog and GeekWire
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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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The Loop, TechCrunch, SiliconBeat, The Daily Dot, MacRumors, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNET, Los Angeles Times, ReadWrite, Guardian, ABC News, Macworld, The Next Web, iMore, BGR, The Verge, Six Colors, Business Insider, VentureBeat, GeekWire, VentureBreak, TechSpot, Technology Personalized, MacStories, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileSyrup.com and TUAW
| 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.
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Tanay Sai, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Verge and Forbes
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @willoremus, @michaelroston, @mikeisaac and @kashhill
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
| 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, 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 …
| 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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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 …
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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.| 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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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 … | 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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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 … | 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, 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 … | 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, 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.
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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.
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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.
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