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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter may cut 8% of workforce, or 300 people, as soon as this week — Twitter Inc. is planning widespread job cuts, to be announced as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter. — The company may cut around 8 percent of the workforce, or about 300 people …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Twitter to report 2016 Q3 results pre-market instead of post-market on Thursday October 27 at 4am Pacific Time — A lot of the industry watchers that follow Twitter are out here on the West Coast, where the company is based. And for good reason! The Twitter diaspora exists in a large force …
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Tweets: @twitterir, @shiraovide, @catwoman2011 and @tweeter_ir
| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung: South Korean customers who exchanged their Galaxy Note7 for an S7 will be able to trade for Galaxy Note8 or S8 next year at 50% of the cost of their S7 — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it is offering an upgrade program to Galaxy Note 7 customers in South Korea who trade …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
The New York Times is buying online consumer guide The Wirecutter, founded by former Gizmodo editor-in-chief Brian Lam; sources say NYT will pay more than $30M — The New York Times is buying The Wirecutter, a five-year-old online consumer guide. The Times will pay more than $30 million …
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New York Times, Fortune, The New York Times Company, CNNMoney, Scripting News, VatorNews, Nieman Lab, Boing Boing, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Mashable, Ars Technica UK and The Wirecutter
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IDC: Q3 smartwatch shipments down 51.6% YoY to 2.7M with Apple Watch down 72% YoY to 1.1M units, but the impact of new Apple Watch models remains to be seen — Maybe not everyone is convinced they need a smartwatch? According to a new industry report from IDC out this morning …
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Tweets: @lukew, @benbajarin and @rdr0b11
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
MasterCard links MasterPass to Android Pay, Samsung Pay, Microsoft Wallet to let cardholders more easily complete purchases online using device authentication — The integration means users of Android Pay, Samsung Pay, or Microsoft Wallet will be able to complete online transactions at any merchant site that accepts MasterPass.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases iOS 10.1 with the iPhone 7 Plus' Portrait mode, which is still in beta — Apple has just released the first significant update for iOS 10. As expected, the main focus of iOS 10.1 is that insane Portrait mode for the iPhone 7 Plus. The update is rolling out and is available …
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BGR, The Verge, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Quartz, The Register, Gotta Be Mobile, Digital Trends, The Tech Report, VentureBeat, Engadget, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZDNet and Gizmodo. Tweets: @chriswelch
| Roger Fingas / AppleInsider: |
Apple Pay now available in Japan; iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2 equipped with Sony's FeliCa-ready chips will support Suica, QUICPay, and iD — In tandem with Monday's iOS and watchOS updates, Apple has activated Apple Pay in Japan, potentially one of the platform's most important markets.
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MacRumors, Bloomberg, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @markgurman
| Jason D. Rowley / Mattermark: |
Google acquires Eyefluence, an eye-tracking tech firm for AR and VR — tl;dr: Google has acquired Eyefluence, which has developed a suite of eyeball-sensing technologies for AR and VR, for an undisclosed sum. — Today, Eyefluence quietly announced on its website that it has been acquired by Google.
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Eyefluence, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, UploadVR and Business Insider
| Blaise Zerega / VentureBeat: |
Paxata gets $33.5M Series D led by Intel Capital for machine learning for information management, with Microsoft Ventures, In-Q- Tel, Accel, more participating — Paxata today announced it has raised $33.5 million to bolster the machine learning and semantic analysis foundations of its enterprise information platform.
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BetaNews, The Register, Tech.eu, K4Connect, Chronocam, Paxata, PE Hub Blog, Silicon Valley Business … and Business Wire
| Reuters: |
In wake of botnet DDoS attack on DynDNS, Hangzhou Xiongmai issues US recall of webcam models that had easy-to-guess default passwords — Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co Ltd said it will recall some of its products sold in the United States after it was identified by security researchers …
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Tweets: @kashhill and @jeremiahg
| iFixit: |
Google Pixel XL teardown reveals little HTC branding, a 6/10 repairability score due to fragile screen, but most components are modular and easy to replace — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — Today marks our first ever teardown of a phone designed entirely by Google: the Pixel XL.
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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Court filings: Magic Leap countersues two ex-VPs over IP who sued for wrongful termination; SF offices appear in disarray relative to Florida operations — Multi-billion dollar startup Magic Leap, which is building a cutting-edge augmented reality headset, is currently in a legal battle … Sponsor Posts
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