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Japan's SoftBank reportedly in talks to acquire DreamWorks Animation in a deal valued at $3.4B — Source: DreamWorks Animation in Sale Talks With Japan's SoftBank (Exclusive) — The company, which has seen up-and-down box office numbers of late, would be valued at $3.4 billion, a source tells THR
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Ello plans to charge for features, like a one-time fee of $2 to manage two different accounts — An audacious plan to fix the Internet's original sin — The social networking site Ello is just five weeks old, but damn if it hasnt made an impression. In the past week …
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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: Competition Between Apple and Google is More Brutal Than Ever — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and former SVP of products, Jonathan Rosenberg, recently published a new book entitled “How Google Works, which explores topics like corporate culture … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android Auto developer docs show off more UI, detail 3rd-party apps — An example of a generic interface that Google designs. Developers can customize the colors and icons. — 7 more images in gallery — Google just released a set of Android Auto developer documents to developer.android.com …
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AT&T Promotion Doubles Some Mobile Share Value Data Plans (From 30GB Up To 100GB) From Now Until October 31st — Are you and your family so-called “data hounds,” who need much, much more mobile data per month than the average user? Then for God's sake, avoid the limited plans on AT&T and Verizon …
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Oracle to announce it will offer its database and Java in the cloud, taking on Microsoft Azure — For Larry Ellison's Oracle, the Cloud Beckons — Business software giant Oracle kicks off its massive OpenWorld conference in San Francisco tonight with a keynote address by founder and newly named CTO Larry Ellison.| Nathan Grayson / Kotaku: |
Sony to shut down Playstation Home virtual social hub in March 2015, after six years — PlayStation Home Finally Closing Down — Goodnight, sweet prince. You were... you, um... well at least you tried. — PlayStation Home, Sony's long-running (though never exactly beloved) …
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| Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker: |
The history of the “right to be forgotten”, and a look inside Google's removal process — Google and the Right to Be Forgotten — In Europe, the right to be forgotten trumps the Internet. … “We should support the local farm as well as the local confectioner.” — »| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
RIAA: revenues from music streaming services have replaced those lost from online sales — Music Download Sales Drop, Replaced by Streaming: RIAA — For a very long time, any report on the state of the music business sounded like this: Digital download sales are rising, but not enough to make up for the drop in CD sales.
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| Ryan Vlastelica / Reuters: |
Instagram reportedly blocked in China amid Hong Kong protests — (Reuters) - Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service owned by Facebook Inc (FB.O), has been blocked in China, according to numerous reports, including from Hong Kong-based reporters with the New York Times.| Reuters: |
Alibaba pays $459 million for stake in Chinese hotel tech company — Traders work on the floor as they wait for a final price on the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. initial public offering (IPO) under the ticker “BABA”, at the New York Stock Exchange in New York September 19, 2014.
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| Scot Wingo / Amazon Strategies: |
Amazon expands fulfillment center network, bypasses UPS sorting with own “sortation centers” — Update on Amazon's Fulfillment Center (FC) Network — Every year as we head into the fourth quarter holiday selling season, we roll up our sleeves and update our database of Amazon Fulfillment Centers (FCs).| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Unpaid programmer who maintains Bash may have inadvertently introduced Shellshock bug in 1992 — Security Experts Expect ‘Shellshock’ Software Bug in Bash to Be Significant — Long before the commercial success of the Internet, Brian J. Fox invented one of its most widely used tools.
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