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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Dyn says today's DDoS attack on its DNS service came from tens of millions of IPs, and involved a botnet IoT devices compromised by Mirai malware — Friday morning is prime time for some casual news reading, tweeting, and general Internet browsing, but you may have had some trouble accessing …
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See also Mediagazer| Jessica Toonkel / Reuters: |
Sources: AT&T reaches agreement in principle to buy Time Warner for about $85B — AT&T Inc (T.N) has reached an agreement in principle to buy Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) for about $85 billion, sources said on Friday, paving the way for a blockbuster deal that would give the telecom company control …
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See also Mediagazer| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Why AT&T would want to buy Time Warner: content packaged with data connections, a shrinking DirecTV business, and competition with Verizon, Facebook, and Google — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is busy, so we'll answer for him. — More than 16 years ago, AOL bought Time Warner for $160 billion …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook plans to show more images and stories with graphic content, including violence and nudity, if they're “newsworthy, significant or of public interest” — Facebook will soon display more graphic content including violence and nudity that would normally violate its policies …
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Tweets: @fabiochiusi, @davewiner and @joshconstine
Thanks:@joshconstine. See also Mediagazer| Julia Angwin / ProPublica: |
Google updated its privacy policy this summer, letting Google combine personal info from Gmail and other tools with DoubleClick browsing data to target ads — When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company's …
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See also Mediagazer| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
New York Governor Cuomo signs bill banning less than 30-day rental unit listings on sites like Airbnb when tenant is not present; Airbnb sues to block the law — Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill that could deal a blow to Airbnb's operations in New York State.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find serious nine-year old privilege-escalation bug in Linux kernel, official patch released this week — Lurking in the kernel for nine years, flaw gives untrusted users unfettered root access. — A serious vulnerability that has been present for nine years in virtually …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: China overtakes the US in iOS App Store revenue, ending a six year run at the top — China has now overtaken the U.S. to become the largest market in the world for App Store revenue, according to a new report out this morning from app intelligence firm App Annie.
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TechSpot, GeekTime, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, Silicon Valley Business …, Pocket Gamer.biz, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, the Econsultancy blog, PYMNTS.com, Sensor Tower Blog, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, TechNode, O'Grady's PowerPage and Business Wire. Tweets: @jamesthomson
| Marco della Cava / USA Today: |
Microsoft shares closed at the all-time high of $59.66 on Friday — Microsoft shares surged 5% in early trading, on track to pass a high set in 1999, helped by enthusiasm for progress in its cloud business. — The stock was up 5% at $60.30, poised to breeze past the $58.72 mark set in December 1999.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Recode, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Business Insider, GeekWire, USA Today, Patently Apple, BetaNews, Fortune, Quartz, ZDNet and Reuters
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Time Out to pay up to $2.94M for Yplan, the London-based event ticketing startup that had raised $37.5M — Event ticketing startup YPlan has been acquired by travel publication Time Out in a deal worth £1.6 million ($1.96 million), a figure that will rise to £2.4 million …
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Business Insider, TechCrunch, VatorNews, City A.M., Telegraph, Tnooz and Tech City News. See also Mediagazer
| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Visa announces 2017 pilot of Visa B2B Connect, a business-to-business payment platform based on Chain's blockchain technology — Visa has announced new details about a forthcoming business-to-business payments service developed in partnership with blockchain startup Chain.| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Man arrested in Czech Republic, Yevgeniy Nikulin, indicted in US on charges related to hacking of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012 — Late on Friday, the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, who allegedly hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring, and stole customer details.
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