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October 9, 2015, 6:35 PM

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Dan Primack / Fortune:
“Last call!” — Valuations for later-stage tech companies are finally receding, say Silicon Valley dealmakers  —  Fear and sadness in Silicon Valley  —  Every couple of months I leave my small Massachusetts town — where most people still shop for their own groceries …
Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed:
A breakdown of October 2014 fundraising documents from WeWork, which raised $400M in June 2015 at a $10B valuation  —  How WeWork Convinced Investors It's Worth Billions  —  Startups don't turn into unicorns — the buzzword for companies valued at a billion dollars or more — without a good story attached.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
LogMeIn acquires LastPass for $110M in cash and another $15M in cash contingent on LastPass meeting certain milestone and retention targets  —  LogMeIn Acquires Password Management Software LastPass For $110 Million  —  With an increasing number of data breaches putting users' personal information at risk …
Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Google promotes Neal Mohan to SVP for ads and Hiroshi Lockheimer to SVP for Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast  —  New Google CEO Sundar Pichai Makes First Major Executive Picks  —  Sundar Pichai, Google's new CEO under the company's Alphabet restructuring, has made his first major wave …
Reuters:
Education software firm Instructure files for IPO  —  Education software company Instructure Inc filed with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering of common stock on Friday.  —  Reuters reported in August Instructure was planning an initial public offering that could value the company at $500 million to $800 million.
Andrew Chung / Reuters:
US ITC: Samsung does not infringe Nvidia graphics chip patents, another Nvidia patent is invalid  —  Samsung did not infringe Nvidia graphics chip patents: U.S. ITC  —  Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has been cleared on its use of graphics chip technology owned by Nvidia Corp without permission …

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