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Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67 Billion — Dell Inc. agreed to buy EMC Corp. for about $67 billion in the largest technology acquisition ever, creating a corporate-computing giant that will use a wider product lineup to woo customers as demand slows and competition stiffens.
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VMware reports preliminary Q3 sales of $1.67B, drops 10% following the announcement of Dell-EMC deal — VMware Reports Q3 Sales Of $1.67B, Stock Drops After Dell Offers $67B For EMC — Alongside the not-unexpected news that Dell would acquire EMC in a record $67.1 billion deal …
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AngelList announces $400M early-stage fund raised from Chinese private equity firm CSC Group — Coming Soon From China: a $400 Million Bonanza for U.S. Startups — Naval Ravikant is attempting to do to early-stage venture capital what technology firms have done to every other industry: disrupt it.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Symphony Secures $100M From Google And Other Investors — Symphony, the secure cloud-based communications platform, announced today that it has received a $100 million round from a list of investors that includes Google, Inc. — Google's part in the investment was first reported last week …
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Defendants Should Have the Right to Inspect the Software Code Used to Convict Them — Secret code is everywhere—in elevators, airplanes, medical devices. By refusing to publish the source code for software, companies make it impossible for third parties to inspect, even when that code has enormous effects on society and policy.| Matthew Fulco / CNET: |
Acer launches Windows 10-optimized convertible tablet, an all-in-one laptop, and a 5.5-inch smartphone — Acer unveils its first wave of Windows 10 devices — The Taiwanese tech company has shown off three new Windows 10 devices — a convertible tablet, an all-in-one laptop and a 5.5-inch smartphone.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Google SVP for search: More than half of Google searches worldwide now happen on mobile, more than 100B links within apps indexed — Worldwide, More Than Half Of Google's Searches Happen On Mobile — Earlier this year, Google announced that for the first time, it was seeing more search activity on mobile than desktop.
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Facebook tests Shopping feed with products highlighted by retailers, matched to your connections, likes, and interests — Facebook Tests A Dedicated Shopping Feed — Facebook's where people spend their time on mobile, and now it's working on several new features to give shopping sites a cut of the attention.
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| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
HP and SanDisk partner on a new breed of storage chips, predict a 1000X speed increase over flash memory — Hewlett-Packard, SanDisk Join Forces on New-Breed Memory Chips — Companies predict their forthcoming chips will be 1,000 times faster than flash memory
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Qualcomm Sells Its Vuforia Augmented Reality Business to PTC for $65 Million — Qualcomm said Monday that it has sold its Vuforia augmented reality platform for $65 million, but the buyer isn't one of the big names in tech. — Instead, the buyer is PTC, a Needham, Mass.-based Internet-of-Things company.
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| Adam Pasick / Quartz: |
Sources: Eric Schmidt-backed startup, The Groundwork, has become a major tech vendor to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign — The stealthy, Eric Schmidt-backed startup that's working to put Hillary Clinton in the White House — An under-the-radar startup funded by billionaire Eric Schmidt …
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After EU Safe Harbor ruling, Amazon, Salesforce, Microsoft, Google, others use Model Clauses for compliance, but these contract changes are cumbersome for many — Safe Harbor Ruling Leaves Data Center Operators in Ambiguity — Europe's annulment of the framework that made it easy … Sponsor Posts
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