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Broadcom offers $105B to buy Qualcomm for $70/share, a 28% premium to Qualcomm's closing price on Thursday, in deal valued at ~$130B including $25B of net debt — Broadcom is proposing to buy Qualcomm for $70 per share in a cash and stock deal valued at $130 billion, Bloomberg News reports.
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Sources: inability to agree on controlling stake, valuation, and fear of opposition from regulators doomed the T-Mobile Sprint merger — After months of talks, billionaire Masayoshi Son was unwilling to give up control of his U.S. wireless network — During months of merger talks …
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Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who holds large stakes in Twitter, Lyft, and Apple, arrested in apparent power consolidation — Saudi leadership in recent months has clamped down on any traces of dissent — Saudi authorities carried out a new wave of arrests targeting royals …
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| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon quietly rolls out a “Discount provided by Amazon” tag, discounting select items from independent merchants by up to 9% — The move allows the retail giant to compete more fiercely with low-cost rivals, but could hurt its relationship with big-name brands, manufacturers and merchants| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Intel and AMD team up to co-design an Intel Core processor with custom AMD Radeon graphics, to bring top-tier games to thin and light notebook PCs — Absolutely incredible! Intel will ship a chip powered by AMD's Radeon graphics next year to bring top-tier, AAA games to the thin-and-light notebook market.
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| The Guardian: |
Two Russian state-owned companies, VTB Bank and Gazprom, owned stakes in Yuri Milner's DST Global funds that invested in Facebook and Twitter pre-IPO — Institutions with close links to Kremlin financed stakes through business associate of Trump's son-in-law, leaked files reveal
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Apple Says ‘Face With Tears of Joy’ is Most Popular Emoji in United States Among English Speakers — Apple has revealed that “face with tears of joy” is the most popular emoji among English speakers in the United States. — The face topped Apple's list of the top 10 emoji, ahead of a red heart …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Overview of Bitcoin's contentious SegWit2x fork, projected to occur on November 16, supported by some big Bitcoin startups and miners — Bitcoin has faced turmoil in the past but nothing like this. In two weeks, a massive fight taking place among bitcoin insiders could produce a ruinous schism …
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| Burt Helm / New York Times: |
A behind-the-scenes look at an e-commerce startup's successful ad campaign on Facebook, powered by Facebook's opaque AI ad-targeting algorithm — The platform is so good at “microtargeting” that many small e-commerce companies barely even bother advertising anywhere else.
Tweets: @stevendilla
| Reuters: |
Fourth-largest US cable operator Altice USA to start offering mobile voice and data services via MVNO deal with Sprint — (Reuters) - Altice USA (ATUS.N), the fourth-largest U.S. cable operator, said it would introduce mobile service on Sprint Corp's (S.N) network, becoming the latest …
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Stacey on IoT: |
ADT wins temporary injunction against video doorbell maker Ring, preventing it from selling Protect security system until trial ends — ADT, which was suing Ring after the video doorbell company hired away most of the employees of Zonoff, has won a temporary injunction against Ring.| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Salesforce's collaboration service Quip launches a developer platform, adding third-party “Live Apps” — Originally a minimalist document editor, Salesforce's collaboration tool adds third-party apps in hopes of building the ultimate digital whiteboard.
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