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Sources: Twitter may receive formal bid shortly, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google — Twitter has received expressions of interest from several technology companies and may receive a formal bid shortly, sources said. — The social media company is engaged in conversations …
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See also Mediagazer| TechCrunch: |
Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, Verizon are all eyeing up a Twitter bid — Twitter continues to inch its way to a sale process, and the latest developments come in the form of alleged bids from potential buyers. Today CNBC is reporting, and we have also independently heard … | Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: Twitter is looking for a price of at least $30B in sale discussions — Could it fetch up to $30 billion, as some sources suggest? — How serious is this Twitter sales effort? According to sources we've spoken to, it's more of a soft outreach and inbound than a formal … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple working on Siri-based smart home device to control appliances, lights, curtains, locks, and more — Bloomberg Anywhere Remote LoginBloomberg Anywhere Login — Product would control appliances, lights, door locks and more — Apple is also trying to improve Siri on iPhones and iPads
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Source: Google to launch $129 Google Wifi router, with several units able to link together into a larger wireless mesh network — OnHub-schmonhub: two sources are now telling us that Google will introduce an own-brand Wi-Fi router called Google Wifi, and that the device will cost $129.| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Sources: Google Home will cost $129, Chromecast Ultra with 4K support will cost $69 — Speaking to Android Police, two sources claim that Google will announce its Google Home and the 4K ‘Chromecast Ultra’ devices will be priced at $129 and $69, respectively, at its October 4th event.
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| David Fischer / Facebook: |
Facebook VP of advertising David Fischer explains video metric miscalculation, apologizes, says the mistake had no impact on billing — Many of you may have seen the reports about our video metric miscalculation - I want to provide further clarity on the issue.
| Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it overestimated average video viewing time metric by 60%-80% for 2 years, according to information Publicis Media says it obtained from Facebook — Social network miscalculated the average time users spent watching videos on its platform — Big ad buyers and marketers …
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See also Mediagazer| The Daily Beast: |
Oculus's Palmer Luckey funding pro-Trump political organization dedicated to “shitposting” and “meme magic” — A Silicon Valley titan is putting money behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and circulating Internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton.
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| Marco della Cava / USA Today: |
Uber is rolling out a new feature that will require drivers to confirm their identities via a selfie before each shift — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber is rolling out a new feature Friday that will require drivers to confirm their identities via a selfie photo before each shift.
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Tweets: @natfriedman and @sarahcuda
| Paul Szoldra / Business Insider: |
Brian Krebs' site hit by record 620Gbps sustained DDos attack, nearly twice as big as any previous attack seen by Akamai; the site will be “offline for a while” — Cloud hosting giant Akamai Technologies has dumped journalist Brian Krebs from its servers after his website came under a “record” cyberattack.
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Tweets: @briankrebs, @briankrebs, @erratarob, @briankrebs, @briankrebs, @ncardozo, @ghillert, @briankrebs, @briankrebs, @briankrebs, @gcluley, @ncweaver, @troyhunt, @briankrebs, @pjcampbe11, @briankrebs, @dakami, @mattblaze and @josephmenn
See also Mediagazer| Dylan Martin / BostInno: |
UPS begins drone delivery tests with CyPhy Works, a robotic startup it invested in and partnered with last fall — On a small, uninhabited island over a mile off the coast of Marblehead, Mass., I quietly waited for a buzzing fleck to appear in the sky. It was a drone made by CyPhy Works …
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Recode, Gizmodo, CNET, Reuters, UPS Pressroom, Engadget, ZDNet, USA Today, SlashGear, TechCrunch and InvestorPlace. Thanks:@dylanljmartin
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