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Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer from Facebook — Snapchat, a rapidly growing messaging service, recently spurned an all-cash acquisition offer from Facebook for $3 billion or more, according to people briefed on the matter. — The offer, and rebuff, came as Snapchat …
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits: |
Why Snapchat may have turned down Facebook: a young, fast-growing, highly-engaged user base — Why Would Snapchat Turn Down a $3 Billion Cash Buyout? — On Wednesday, Digits reported that Snapchat's CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel spurned a $3 billion or more cash offer from Facebook …
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Amazon WorkSpaces - Desktop Computing in the Cloud — Once upon a time, enterprises had a straightforward way to give each employee access to a desktop computer. New employees would join the organization and receive a standard-issue desktop, preconfigured with a common set of tools and applications.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
HP and Google order ‘pause’ in Chromebook 11 sales after reports of chargers overheating — The HP Chromebook 11 has been pulled from Best Buy store shelves, and sales halted on Amazon and HP and Google's online stores, following customer complaints of chargers overheating.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Motorola Makes The Moto G Official, A “Premium” Phone Starting At $179 Unlocked — On-Demand Photography Marketplace Scoopshot Snaps $3.9 Million Series A — Motorola held a special event today to reveal its new Moto G, a spiritual sibling to the Moto X and a way for the Google-owned smartphone maker …
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| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Apple's $10.5B on Robots to Lasers Shores Up Supply Chain — Apple Inc. is putting a record $10.5 billion to work in new technology — from assembly robots to milling machines — that consumers will never see. — To get a jump on rivals like Samsung Electronics Co. and lay the groundwork for new products … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Hits 200M Users, Unveils New “For Business” Client Combining Work And Personal Files — CEO Drew Houston today announced that Dropbox has hit 200 million users, up from 175 million in July. He later revealed the new Dropbox For Business client securely houses both a user's personal …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Redfin is now a $500 million company — Online real estate company Redfin raises $50 million in new VC funding. — FORTUNE — Online real estate company Redfin has raised $50 million in what it believes will be its last round of VC funding before going public.
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| iFixit: |
iPad Mini Retina Display Teardown — Lots of new tech ensures the iPad Mini Retina Display is a worthy successor to both the iPad Air and last year's iPad Mini—but will it carry the familial low repairability? Follow along as we reveal the inner workings of this compact new Retina device.| Nicholas Weaver / Wired: |
Our Government Has Weaponized the Internet. Here's How They Did It — The internet backbone — the infrastructure of networks upon which internet traffic travels — went from being a passive infrastructure for communication to an active weapon for attacks.
Tweets: @nzkoz
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple demands $380M in patent trial, but Samsung wants to pay $52M — The amount requested by Apple during opening arguments in a damages retrial is less than the $450 million awarded by a jury last year. And Samsung's proposal is much lower. SAN JOSE, Calif. — An Apple attorney told …
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TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Negotiators Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms — After years of secret trade negotiations over the future of intellectual property rights (and limits on those rights), the public gets a chance to looks at the results.
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's Visual Studio 2013 Launches With New Online Tools, Previews Browser-Based Code Editor — Microsoft today launched the latest version of its Visual Studio tools for developers at an event in New York City. The new version includes a number of user interface improvements …
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| Manuela D'Alessandro / Reuters: |
Apple under investigation in Italy for alleged tax fraud: source — (Reuters) - U.S. tech giant Apple is under investigation in Milan for allegedly hiding more than 1 billion euros ($1.34 billion) from the Italian taxman, a judicial source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters, confirming a local media report.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon admits network faces traffic pressure in big cities — The wireless carrier is pouring money into the problem, and a top executive says the issues will dissipate by the end of the year.—Verizon Wireless is feeling the crush of all of those LTE-enabled devices on its network.
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| David Kravets / Wired: |
NSA Transparency Hurts Americans' Privacy, Feds Say With Straight Face — Adding limited public accountability to the NSA's vast electronic spying programs would actually harm the privacy of Americans, Obama administration officials told a Senate hearing today.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Pocket update highlights the saves you're most likely to enjoy — Pocket is releasing an update to its app today that puts a new focus on helping you discover the best of the items you have saved, using algorithms to surface content likely to interest you the most.
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Steve Jobs On Android Founder Andy Rubin: 'Big, Arrogant ..." — Steve Jobs did not like Android, or the guy that ran it, Andy Rubin, according to a new book on the Google-Apple smartphone wars. — Jobs told friends that he thought Rubin was a “big, arrogant f**k,” according to Fred Vogelstein's …
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| Steve Johnson / Mercury News: |
Cisco stock tumbles over company's sales projections — Cisco Systems (CSCO)' shares took a nose dive after its earnings report missed Wall Street's projections — which the computer networking giant partly attributed to the government shutdown and fallout over the NSA's spying revelations …
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
The Dual-Screen YotaPhone Will Launch Internationally In December — Russia-based Yota Devices has been working on a curious beast called the YotaPhone for years now, and it's gained quite a reputation for itself because of its split personality. While the front of the phone sports … | Jason Del Rey / AllThingsD: |
Fab to Lay Off at Least Another 50 Employees — Restructuring efforts at Fab are about to hit its New York headquarters hard, according to sources close to the situation. — The e-commerce startup, which recently received massive funding, is getting ready to announce another round of layoffs in the U.S. … | Reuters: |
Juniper appoints Barclays executive Shaygan Kheradpir CEO — Network gear maker Juniper Networks Inc named Barclays Plc's chief operations and technology officer, Shaygan Kheradpir, as successor to Chief Executive Kevin Johnson. — Kheradpir joined Barclays in January 2011.
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