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October 25, 2014, 1:50 AM

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Re/code:

Larry Page reorgs staff, transfers leadership of core Google products to Sundar Pichai — Exclusive: Google CEO Larry Page Reorgs Staff, Anoints Sundar Pichai as New Product Czar — In a significant reorganization of Google management, CEO Larry Page is transferring leadership …

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Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors:

AT&T Locking Apple Interchangeable SIMs in iPad Air 2 and Retina Mini 3 — Apple's new Apple SIM card in the iPad Air 2 and the Retina iPad mini 3 is designed to be universal, usable across a variety of wireless carriers in the US and UK, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and UK's EE.

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Nest Acquires Home Automation Hub Revolv, but Will Stop Selling It — Nest today said it had acquired Revolv, the smart-home automation device maker, for its developer platform. — The deal closed this morning with undisclosed terms. It wasn't about adding the Revolv home automation hub …

More: Revolv, Nest, The Verge, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web, Droid Life, Gigaom, Forbes, Connectedly and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @mikeisaac

Michael Heyward / Whisper:

Whisper responds to Guardian's “10 questions”, says members of editorial team put on leave — Setting The Record Straight — I wrote last Saturday that we welcome the current discussion around Whisper, and are grateful to those who have shared thoughtful feedback with us.

More: Business Insider, The Daily Dot, PandoDaily and Guardian

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Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:

Apple's music sales down 13% this year; Beats Music to relaunch as part of iTunes in 2015 — Apple iTunes Sees Big Drop in Music Sales — Dive of at Least 13% in Download Sales Underscores Music Industry's Fragile Recovery

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Google's New Search Downranking Hits Torrent Sites Hard — In recent years Hollywood and the music industry have taken a rather aggressive approach against Google. The entertainment industry companies have accused the search engine of not doing enough to limit piracy, and demanded more stringent anti-piracy measures.

More: KitGuru, ClickThrough Marketing, Plagiarism Today, Deccan Chronicle, InvestorPlace, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo and SlashGear

Bloomberg:

Google bought six Redwood City office buildings totaling about 934,200 square feet for $585M — Google Said to Buy Redwood City Offices for $585 Million — Google Inc. (GOOGL) bought six office buildings northwest of its Silicon Valley headquarters from Starwood Capital Group LLC and Blackstone Group LP …

More: 9to5Google, TheStreet.com and bizjournals

Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:

Apple reviewer sent screenshot of explicit image without warning to developer to show that app could be used to find porn — App developer claims Apple sent his company porn to prove its app could be used to find naughty pics — A Florida developer says his company got a bit of a naughty surprise via a recent email from Apple.

More: Medium, Business Insider, Daring Fireball, BGR, The Daily Dot, ReadWrite, Geek.com, 9to5Mac and Re/code. Tweets: @mediaredef

Abhijeet Mishra / SamMobile:

First Android 5.0 Lollipop updates should hit the Galaxy S5 in December — Android 5.0 Lollipop is coming to the Galaxy S5, and we've already given our readers an exclusive look at an early version running on the device. We had already said that the Galaxy S5 would be receiving …

More: AndroidGuys, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, PCMag Australia, Pocketnow, Inquirer, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Beat, 9to5Google, Phandroid and Droid Life

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Quietly Launches A Functional App Store Within Its Main Android Application — Until recently, if you wanted to install an application from Amazon's own Appstore onto your Android device, you would have to install the Amazon Appstore app separately. And this is a bit of a hassle …

More: TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, SlashGear and The Next Web. Thanks:@johnnotjon

John Markoff / New York Times:

Google VP Alan Eustace breaks Felix Baumgartner's world record for highest-altitude jump — Alan Eustace Jumps From Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner's World Record — A well-known computer scientist parachuted from a balloon near the top of the stratosphere on Friday …

More: Business Insider, The Verge, RT, Wall Street Journal, Laughing Squid, SlashGear, Wired, The Register, TechnoBuffalo, Forbes, Slate, 9to5Google, Mashable, Engadget, Digital Trends, PC World, bizjournals, Gizmodo, Associated Press, Re/code and TIME

Tweets: @google, @katies, @msquinn, @dannysullivan, @levie, @spacelawyer, @mattnorlander, @mhelft, @b_fung, @timoreilly, @amir and @parislemon

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Deezer Buys Stitcher, Adds 35K Talk Radio Shows And Podcasts To Its Music Platform — Deezer, the Paris-based music streaming service that competes against the likes of Spotify and Rdio, is switching up its game in the battle for more differentiation, more users and a higher profile in the U.S …

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google adds information about video games to Knowledge Graph in search results — Google search finally adds information about video games — Google has expanded its search engine with the ability to recognize video games. If your query references a game, a new Knowledge Graph panel …

More: PC Magazine, TechSpot, Search Engine Land, Android Police, 9to5Google, Canadianreviewer.com, GamePolitics blogs, Google and AndroidHeadlines.com

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