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Sources: Russian government hackers had access to computer network of the Democratic National Committee for about a year, stole opposition research on Trump — Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Net neutrality and Title II win in court, as ISPs lose case against FCC — Appeals court decision upholds FCC's net neutrality order. — The broadband industry has lost its lawsuit attempting to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules and the related reclassification …
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See also Mediagazer| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Rhapsody rebrands itself as Napster, the service it acquired in 2011 — Rhapsody is part of the old guard of music streaming services, launched way back in 2001 as Listen.com. It never got the traction of it's rival Spotify, and is now competing against titans like Apple and Google as well.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds SMS support back to Facebook Messenger for Android after pulling it in 2012; SMS support is not currently planned for Messenger on iOS — Surround and conquer is Facebook's new strategy for getting people to switch from SMS to Messenger. You can now read and send old-school text messages …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Twitter Ventures invests in SoundCloud; sources say investment is $70M in a round valuing SoundCloud at about $700M — Twitter wanted to buy the company a couple years ago; now it has invested $70 million instead. — Two years ago Twitter thought about buying SoundCloud, but ended up walking away from the music service.| CNET: |
OnePlus 3 review: excellent performance, 6GB of RAM, sharp 16MP camera, clean interface design, and fast battery charging; at $400, this is a great phone — With a new aluminum unibody design, the OnePlus 3 looks better than all of OnePlus' past devices (which either had a plastic or glass backing).| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple to disable plug-ins like Flash, Java, Silverlight, and Quicktime by default in Safari 10, to focus on HTML5 content — In Safari 10, set to ship with macOS Sierra, Apple plans to disable common plug-ins like Adobe Flash, Java, Silverlight, and QuickTime by default in an effort to focus …
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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
One Kings Lane, once valued at $900M+, acquired by Bed Bath & Beyond in all-cash deal, at a price “not material” to BB&B Inc. — Bed Bath & Beyond has bought One Kings Lane, a home-goods website that, at its peak, was valued at more than $900 million.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber has hired Morgan Stanley, Barclays PLC to sell a leveraged loan of $1B-$2B to institutional investors — Loan would bring to some $15 billion the funds the cash-hungry ride-sharing firm has raised — Uber Technologies Inc. is turning to the so-called leveraged-loan market …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook now offers a Store Locator ad unit and tracks in-store visits and purchases through GPS, Wi-Fi, and a partnership with Square, with no user opt out — Facebook has found the Holy Grail of advertising in a set of new partnerships with point-of-sale systems like Square and Marketo …
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| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
LinkedIn's struggling stock price and its reliance on stock-based compensation may be a factor in its sale to Microsoft — “Let me explain why.” — Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn's chief executive, wrote a lengthy memorandum to his employees Monday morning, ticking off a list of reasons behind …
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See also Mediagazer| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Springboard, a search and recommendation tool for Google Apps, and redesigns Sites — At its Atmosphere enterprise-focused event in Tokyo today, Google is showing off a redesign of its Google Sites service for creating and posting sites you share with colleagues … Sponsor Posts
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