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Sources: Apple disbands division that develops AirPort wireless routers, which were last refreshed in 2013, and reassigns its engineers to other projects — Apple disbands its router division, reassigns engineers — Apple Inc. has disbanded its division that develops wireless routers …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches ephemeral live video that followers can watch only when it's streaming and Snapchat-style disappearing private messages — Instagram is combining the best of Snapchat and Periscope to help you get comfortable on camera. Rather than overlap with Facebook Live and Messenger …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Oracle acquires DNS provider Dyn, the target of DDoS attacks that took many popular websites offline a month ago, for an undisclosed amount — A timely, if a little surprising, piece of M&A this morning from Oracle: the enterprise services company announced that it has acquired Dyn …
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| Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
Symantec has agreed to acquire ID theft protection service LifeLock for $2.3B — Acquisition forms “world's largest digital safety platform for consumers and families.” — Symantec on Sunday agreed to acquire LifeLock, a consumer identity-theft protect service, for $2.3 billion to form the …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google opens up Team Drives, its new product for business file sharing, to early adopters — Google is opening up applications to businesses interested in testing its new file-sharing product called Team Drives. Announced earlier this fall, the focus of Team Drives is to offer companies …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
With Mi Mix, Xiaomi resolves challenges of placing speaker, proximity sensor, front-facing camera on a nearly bezel-less phone without much usability sacrifice — Xiaomi elegantly solves a lot of problems to create a more screen-centric smartphone. — Smartphone design has stagnated.| Mark Wilson / Co.Design: |
The buggy $1,495 June Intelligent Oven is all that's wrong with Silicon Valley design: automated yet distracting, boastful yet mediocre, confident yet wrong — Automated yet distracting. Boastful yet mediocre. Confident yet wrong. — I slide a piece of salmon into the June, one of the most advanced ovens ever built.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Macom buys Applied Micro for $770M to combine its analog processors with connectivity chips for data centers, plans to sell Applied Micro's ARM server chip unit — Macom is buying Applied Micro so it can provide a set of connectivity processors from switches to fiber in the network.
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| Andrew J / The Verge: |
nuTonomy signs agreement with Boston city officials to test its self-driving car tech on streets within an industrial park — NuTonomy is coming to Boston — NuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup that's been testing its technology in Singapore, announced that it had signed … | BBC: |
Facebook says it will increase UK employees by 500, or 50%, when new London HQ opens in 2017 — Facebook will expand its presence in the UK by 50% when it opens its new London headquarters in 2017, the US technology giant has announced. — It will hire 500 additional employees … | Sruthi Shankar / Reuters: |
Cybersecurity company Optiv filed for $100M IPO on Friday — Cybersecurity company Optiv Security Inc, majority owned by Blackstone Group LP (BX.N), filed with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering of its common stock on Friday. — The company set a nominal fundraising target …
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Intel's Project Alloy “merged reality” headset prototype; Intel says a new version with upgraded internals and camera is coming in 2017 — Stranger than fiction — In August of this year, Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich appeared onstage during …
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