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October 8, 2014, 5:45 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

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Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:

HTC introduces waterproof Desire Eye smartphone with 13MP camera on the front and back — At its HTC Double Exposure event, HTC introduced its newest smartphone, the Desire Eye. — The new phone comes with a 5.2-inch HD 1080 x 1920 display with 424 ppi and has the same 13MP wide-angle camera on the front and back of the device.

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, PC World, CNET, The Verge, ZDNet, Android Police, Gizmodo, GeekWire, Android Police, 9to5Google, Engadget, Electronista and Liliputing

Billy Steele / Engadget:

HTC's Zoe app arrives for Android, heads to iOS later this year — HTC revealed its plan to turn Sense feature Zoe into a full-on social network a couple months back. Today, the company announced that the photo and video-sharing app is exiting its open beta, and is available for compatible Android devices (4.3 and above).

More: The Verge, CNET and The Next Web

Joshua Goldman / CNET:

HTC announces screenless Re action camera that uses smartphone as screen, priced at $199

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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.

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, Forbes, Business Insider and The Verge

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

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

Tweets: @nickwingfield, @jyarow and @howardlindzon

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: Gizmodo, TechSpot, Search Engine Watch, 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 …

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Tweets: @glennf, @harrisj and @glennf

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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.

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

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

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, Engadget, CITEworld, The Next Web, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo and WebProNews

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

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, Bloomberg, Gigaom, New York Times, VentureBreak, Re/code and PE Hub Blog

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, SlashGear and MacNN

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, TIME, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog and CNET. Tweets: @rands

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, Search Engine Land, CNET, Forbes, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Pocketnow, DailyTech, ZDNet, FierceWireless, SlashGear, Gigaom, Android Central, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Engadget and Gizmodo

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, TechCrunch, Gigaom, The Next Web, Phones Review, ZDNet and iPhone in Canada Blog

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