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Bloomberg Business:
Dell agrees to buy EMC for about $67B in the largest technology acquisition ever  —  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 …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
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 …
Rebecca Wexler / Slate:
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.
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
More: PCWorld
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
FCC weighs cable, entertainment, and tech industry arguments about who can make changes to UI of TV set-top boxes  —  Does the Future of Television Belong to the Device or the App?  —  This week, the FCC hears reaction to a controversial proposal.  The MPAA says it violates the U.S. Constitution.
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.
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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Peter White / Deadline:
HBO Max received 122 Emmy nominations, Netflix landed 111, Disney received 111 overall, Apple scored 87, its most-ever, and Amazon landed 39 for Prime and MGM+

Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Nexstar appeals a district court judge's injunction blocking its Tegna acquisition while an antitrust lawsuit proceeds and calls the injunction “overbroad”

Michael Savage / The Guardian:
Prince Harry and six other prominent figures face an up to £50M legal bill after losing their phone-hacking case against Daily Mail owner Associated Newspapers

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