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Insider breach at AT&T compromises Social Security and drivers' license numbers; company offers credit monitoring to those affected — AT&T Hit By Insider Breach — AT&T is warning consumers about a data breach involving an insider who illegally accessed the personal information of an unspecified number of users.| Chris Hamby / BuzzFeed: |
DOJ in court filing asserts a DEA agent had the right to impersonate a woman on Facebook without her consent — Government Set Up A Fake Facebook Page In This Woman's Name — The Justice Department is claiming, in a little-noticed court filing, that a federal agent had the right … | Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Final price of WhatsApp for Facebook is $22B, up $3B due to increase in Facebook share price — Facebook's WhatsApp acquisition now has price tag of $22 billion — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) closed its acquisition of mobile messaging service WhatsApp on Monday … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Samsung warns Q3 profit could fall 60% from last year amid competition from cheap Androids and new, large screen iPhones — Samsung Warns Another Disappointing Earnings Report Is Coming — Samsung warned Monday night that its third-quarter earnings will be weaker than expected.
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Samsung Tomorrow, Re/code, BBC, Bloomberg, 9to5Google, The Verge, VentureBeat, Guardian, Neowin, memeburn, Engadget, Bloomberg, Android Central, Phandroid, ZDNet, PC World, AppleInsider and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @stevekovach
| Tomasz Tunguz: |
An analysis of CrunchBase data suggests raising a second seed round won't hurt your odds of raising a Series A — Second Seed Rounds: How They Impact a Startup's Ability to Raise a Series A — The market for startups raising capital has changed dramatically over the past few years.
Tweets: @pmarca, @pmarca, @startupljackson, @pmarca and @joshconstine
| Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
PayPal is at a disadvantage because it focused on peer-to-peer payments, not merchant-based — PayPal's Incentive Problem — Last week eBay announced that PayPal would be spun out into a separate company, fixing two big problems for PayPal: — While PayPal grew big by being the payment method …
Tweets: @stevesi, @stratechery and @caseynewton
| Steven Greenhouse / New York Times: |
Teamsters seeking to unionize Facebook shuttle bus drivers, hope to move on to Google and Apple next — Facebook's Bus Drivers Seek Union — They shuttle highly paid Facebook employees to and from the company's headquarters in Silicon Valley, yet many say their pay is so low that they can't afford to live in the area.
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Uber Hires Former Lyft COO VanderZanden to Spur International Growth — Will the ongoing Spy vs. Spy war between San Francisco ride-sharing services Lyft and Uber ever end? — Not today it won't, with Uber hiring recently departed Lyft COO Travis VanderZanden to head a new unit that will focus on international growth.| Tim Fernholz / Quartz: |
Despite huge investments in bitcoin startups, transaction volumes haven't surged in last year — Falling prices aren't the real reason to worry about bitcoin — People are starting to notice: The bad boy of the digital currency world is losing its mojo.| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Washington Post working on curated news app for the new 8.9" Kindle Fire launching this fall; app will come to other tablets eventually — Jeff Bezos's New Plan for News: The Washington Post Becomes an Amazon Product — Jeff Bezos wants to turn the Washington Post into a national publication …
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Tweets: @rosental, @matthewkeyslive, @mlcalderone, @felixgillette, @davidmwessel and @gregbensinger
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HP's split into two publicly traded companies called Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. expected to be completed by November 2015 — HP To Separate Into Two New Industry-Leading Public Companies — Hewlett-Packard Enterprise will define the next generation of technology infrastructure …
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Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Mercury News, eWeek, bizjournals, Bloomberg, SiliconValley.com, Gigaom, New York Times, CIO.com, EE Times, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, NPR, insideHPC, ReadWrite, Ubergizmo, Data Center Knowledge, ExtremeTech, Neowin, Android Central, The Next Web, internetretailer.com, SiliconBeat, Businessweek and The Tech Report
Tweets: @sama, @pmarca and @boingboing
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Overstock.com Assembles Coders to Create a Bitcoin-Like Stock Market — Overstock.com is building software, based on the bitcoin digital currency, that could allow the big-name etailer to issue corporate stock over the internet, sidestepping traditional stock exchanges such as the NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange.
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Inside Bitcoins, NEWSBTC and Bitcoin Magazine
| Martyn Williams / PC World: |
ITC to investigate Nvidia complaint over Samsung phones, tablets — The U.S. International Trade Commission, the country's top trade court, is launching an investigation into allegations by Nvidia that several Samsung cellphones and tablet PCs contain graphics technology that infringes on its patents.
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| Eric Jou / Kotaku: |
Microsoft sells over 100K Xbox One units in China during first week of sales — Report: Microsoft Sells 100,000 Xbox Ones in China — The Xbox One, the first official video game console to launch in China in 14 years, has started its console life in the middle kingdom with a bang!
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| Zachary Davies Boren / The Independent: |
Yahoo confirms its servers were breached via a Shellshock exploit, but says no user data was accessed — Shellshock: Romanian hackers are accessing Yahoo servers, claims security expert — Hackers are exploiting Yahoo's bash bug vulnerability, according to technology consultant Jonathan Hall| Shivam Srivastava / Reuters: |
Amazon to face EU investigation over Luxembourg tax deal — (Reuters) - The European Commission is set to begin a formal probe into allegations that Luxembourg allowed Amazon.com Inc to benefit illegally from state subsidies for its European operations for almost 10 years, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
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| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Facebook names Joel Kaplan VP of Global Policy, as Marne Levin moves to Instagram as COO — Facebook taps D.C. office head to manage global policy — Facebook's D.C. office head, Joel Kaplan, will become the company's global VP of public policy. (Photo by: Eric Thayer/Reuters)
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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