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Red Hat acquires devops firm Ansible, source says for over $100M — Source: Red Hat is buying Ansible for more than $100M — EXCLUSIVE: — Publicly traded enterprise software company Red Hat has acquired devops software startup Ansible for more than $100 million, VentureBeat has learned.| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Russians hacked Dow Jones hoping to trade on unreleased information; FBI, Secret Service, and SEC are investigating the incursion — Russian Hackers of Dow Jones Said to Have Sought Trading Tips — FBI, Secret Service and SEC said to be probing incursion
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google removes “OK Google” hotword to trigger voice search from Chrome for Mac, Linux, and Windows — Google removes ‘OK Google’ voice search from Chrome — Google this week released Chrome 46, adding a slew of new developer features and simplifying the page's security icon.| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nintendo distributing SDK for NX game console ahead of possible 2016 launch; package to include mobile unit for use with the console or on the road — Nintendo Begins Distributing Software Kit for New NX Platform — Move suggests Nintendo may launch NX in 2016, analyst says
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| Fred Imbert / CNBC: |
Steve Ballmer says he bought a 4% stake in Twitter, which is larger than CEO Jack Dorsey's 3.2% stake — Twitter shares pop on report of Ballmer investment — Twitter's stock rose on Friday after a Bloomberg report said former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took a 4 percent stake in the company.
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Bloomberg Business, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Telegraph, Reuters, Fortune and TheStreet.com. Tweets: @steven_ballmer
| Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal: |
US appeals court rules Google's book-scanning project legal, dismisses lawsuit brought by Authors Guild that alleged massive copyright infringement — Appeals Court Backs Google in Copyright Lawsuit Over Book Scanning — A federal appeals court in New York on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: iOS App Store revenue was about 80% higher than Google Play in Q3 2015, up from 70% in Q2 2015 — iOS App Store Revenue Now 80 Percent Higher Than Google Play, Thanks To China — The move to larger-screened iPhones has led to China becoming Apple's most important market … | Reuters: |
Spotify and others downplay impact of transition to chip-based cards cited by Netflix as causing slow subscriber growth — Spotify, others downplay chip card woes cited by Netflix — Oct 15 Spotify and some other online companies on Thursday played down the impact of a transition …
| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: IBM allows Chinese government to review product source code in secure room — IBM Allows Chinese Government to Review Source Code — China has been pressuring U.S. tech companies to hand over source code to prove there are no security risks — BEIJING— International Business … | Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat: |
Sources: Intel has more than a thousand people working to outfit new iPhones with its 7360 LTE modem chip; Qualcomm currently provides all iPhone modems — Intel has 1,000 people working on chips for the iPhone — Intel now has a thousand people or more working to outfit a 2016 iPhone …
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| Julia Fioretti / Reuters: |
EU privacy regulators give EU, U.S. three months to find new data pact — Companies could face action from European privacy regulators if the European Commission and United States do not come up with a new system enabling them to shuffle data across the Atlantic in three months, the regulators said on Friday.| Malathi Nayak / Reuters: |
Uber and AT&T to test streaming live college football games to tablets in select vehicles in Detroit, Nashville, Houston, and Atlanta — AT&T, Uber to test college football streaming in connected cars — AT&T Inc said on Friday it has partnered with Uber to roll out connected car rides …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Restaurant Search App Zomato Lays Off 300, 10% Of Staff, In Shift Away From Live Data Collection — Some belt tightening underway at Zomato, the $1 billion+ restaurant discovery portal based out of India that is now active in 22 countries. TechCrunch has learned, and has now confirmed with the company …
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