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October 9, 2015, 4:30 PM

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Dan Primack / Fortune:
“Last call!” — Valuations for later-stage tech companies are finally receding, say Silicon Valley dealmakers  —  Fear and sadness in Silicon Valley  —  Every couple of months I leave my small Massachusetts town — where most people still shop for their own groceries …
Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web:
Remote computing firm LogMeIn to acquire password management service LastPass for $125M  —  LogMeIn just acquired LastPass to build one password platform to rule them all  —  Remote computing company LogMeIn announced today that it's agreed to acquire password management service LastPass …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YC-backed Segment, which allows businesses to use a single API for event tracking, raises $27M Series B led by Thrive Capital  —  Segment Raises $27 Million For Its “One API To Rule Them All”  —  Segment, a Y Combinator-backed startup that allows businesses to use a single API for event tracking …
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Google Drive and Docs are down  —  The Dog Ate Our Homework, Google Drive Is Down  —  OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG.  —  If you've noticed that Google Drive and all of the apps that save to it are acting a bit shaky today, you're not alone.  Google updated their Apps status page to show that the company is looking into reported issues.
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
US ITC: Samsung does not infringe Nvidia graphics chip patents, another Nvidia patent is invalid  —  Samsung did not infringe Nvidia graphics chip patents: U.S. ITC  —  Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has been cleared on its use of graphics chip technology owned by Nvidia Corp without permission …
Washington Post:
Obama administration decides not to seek legislation forcing companies to decrypt data for law enforcement but doesn't disavow a legislative mandate  —  Obama administration opts not to force firms to decrypt data — for now  —  After months of deliberation, the Obama administration …
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Patent lawsuit filings down 33% year-over-year in Q3 2015, driven by drop in East Texas troll cases  —  New patent lawsuits down, driven by drop in East Texas “troll” cases  —  At this point, filing numbers are tied to just a few “non-practicing entities.”
Owen Williams / The Next Web:
Leaked TPP agreement requires member countries to honor copyright takedowns  —  Wikileaks has released what it says is the final text of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a “free trade” deal between the United States and eight other countries.

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