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Samsung Electronics to acquire US cloud services firm Joyent; Joyent to retain name and top management, will be integrated into Samsung's mobile division — Acquisition of Joyent shows device maker is pushing to beef up software and services — SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday …
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200+ page dossier on Donald Trump allegedly authored by Democratic strategist Warren Flood leaks a day after Washington Post reported the DNC had been hacked — A 200+ page document that appears to be a Democratic anti-Trump playbook compiled by the Democratic National Committee …
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“Deleting” pre-loaded iOS apps removes them from the homescreen and deletes associated user data but the application binary remains on the device — One of the most talked about features in Apple's upcoming iOS 10 is the ability to delete many of the apps that come pre-loaded on your iPhone or iPad.
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Periscope go-live broadcast button available to all in Twitter's iOS and Andoid apps — Want to livestream for your Twitter audience? You don't have to switch apps to get started. As promised, Twitter's Periscope button is now available to everyone using its Android and iOS apps.| Alex Johnson / NBC News: |
“Spam King” Sanford Wallace is sentenced to 30 months in prison and a $100K+ fine for bombarding over 550K Facebook users — Sanford Wallace, the self-proclaimed “spam king” who has bedeviled Web users since the dawn of the public Internet two decades ago, has been sentenced …
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GAO report raises privacy and accuracy concerns with FBI's facial recognition program, which now has over 173M driver's license photos and 411M photos total — The watchdog said it had “concerns regarding both the effectiveness of the technology” and the “protection of privacy and individual civil liberties.”| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Cavium, chip maker for data centers, buys networking infrastructure provider QLogic, in cash-and-stock deal valued at about $1.36B — The two companies aim to scale better and target large customers such as HPE, Dell, Cisco, IBM and others. — Cavium, which makes processors for enterprise data centers … | Michael del Castillo / CoinDesk: |
Microsoft's Project Bletchley is an Azure-powered enterprise blockchain architecture with blockchain middleware and “cryptlets”, which can add info to contracts — Microsoft today unveiled a new project designed to make it easier for businesses across a wide range of industries …
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Sources: Airbnb secures $1B debt facility from JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley — Airbnb Inc. secured a $1 billion debt facility from some of the largest U.S. banks to help the home-sharing company develop new services and fund growth initiatives, people familiar with the matter said.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Fleksy announces its team is joining Pinterest, its keyboard app will remain in App Store, and it plans to open source some of its technology for the blind — Pinterest announced today that it has acquired the team behind the smart keyboard app Fleksy. The visual search engine company is not picking up the technology.| Marty Swant / Advertising & Branding: |
YouTube debuts new tools for SMBs to make video ads, including Director, a free app with a number of templates and editing tools — YouTube wants to turn video ads on its platform into a DIY possibility for small- and medium-sized businesses. — Today, Google is launching three ways … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Tencent nears $9B+ deal to buy Clash of Clans maker Supercell Oy from SoftBank; deal could be disclosed as early as next week — Transaction would exceed $9 billion — HONG KONG— Tencent Holdings Ltd. is nearing a more than $9 billion deal to buy Supercell Oy …
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