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How employee stock took the biggest hit when Good Technology, once valued at $1.1B, passed on a $825M offer and later sold to BlackBerry for $425M — When a Unicorn Start-Up Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt — On Sept. 4, employees of Good Technology, a mobile security start-up in Sunnyvale … | Hyatt Newsroom: |
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AdBlock Plus will be included and activated by default in Asus' proprietary browser that ships on its mobile devices, starting early 2016 — Browsers Are Starting to Block Ads by Default — Here's an intriguing new twist in the debate over adblockers: starting in early 2016 … | Wall Street Journal: |
Rising package volumes and costs have Amazon seeking alternative delivery routes, straining ties with UPS — Amazon Seeks to Ease Ties With UPS — Rising costs have Amazon seeking alternative delivery routes, straining relations with its longtime shipping ally| Bryan Lufkin / Gizmodo: |
Disney-funded VR service, Littlstar, announces it's bringing 360-degree videos to Apple TV — You Can Now Watch 360-Degree Video on Your TV — Earlier this year, YouTube rolled out 360-degree videos. Like magic, they let you peer around in any direction from within the video.| The Intercept: |
Top-secret document from 2011 reveals that GCHQ, with cooperation of NSA, acquired the capability to exploit 13 models of Juniper firewalls — NSA Helped British Spies Find Security Holes In Juniper Firewalls — A top-secret document dated February 2011 reveals that British spy agency GCHQ … | Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal's Kingdom Holding Co. buys 2.3% of Lyft for $247.7M, boosting Lyft's valuation to $4.92B — Saudi Prince Alwaleed's Firm Leads $247.7 Million Investment in Lyft — Ridesharing service Lyft is getting a boost from Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Windows 10 Mobile review: a better platform and OS than Windows Phone 8.1, but still feels quite buggy, and offers little for existing iOS and Android users — Windows 10 Mobile review: Windows on phones gets rebooted. Again. — This is the smartphone platform Microsoft has wanted to build for a long time.| Shannon Tiezzi / The Diplomat: |
China's anti-terror law, requiring tech companies hand over encryption keys and other sensitive data, is back in parliament and likely to pass soon — China Defends Controversial Anti-Terror Law — China's draft anti-terror law — the bane of foreign tech firms — is moving closer to becoming reality.| Reuters: |
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Samsung announces the Galaxy A9 with 6-inch 1080p display, 4,000 mAh battery, 13 mpx camera with OIS, available in China later this month — Samsung announces the Galaxy A9 with a 4,000 mAh battery — As we reported earlier today, Samsung has announced the Galaxy A9 in China today during its Galaxy A Party 2016 event.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce buys quote-to-cash company SteelBrick for $360 million — Salesforce has acquired SteelBrick, a company with software for helping sales reps figure out the right price quotes to give customers, for a total of $360 million, the companies announced today.
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