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Sources: Uber looking to raise close to $1B in new venture capital at valuation of $60-$70B — Uber Said to Plan Another $1 Billion in Fund-Raising — Just three months after raising an enormous sum of money from investors, Uber is at it again. — The ride-hailing service is planning …
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business: |
Twitter's first Promoted Moments native advertising campaign rolls out this weekend — Twitter Rolls Out Advertising on New ‘Moments’ Feature — First Promoted Moment to run this weekend for movie ‘Creed’ — Twitter Inc. isn't wasting any time making money from its newest feature, called Moments.
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Pandora shares fall more than 30% after company reports quarterly loss of $85M — Pandora investors are losing faith in its ability to compete — Long before there was a Spotify or an Apple Music, there was Pandora. One of the earliest streaming music services, it was founded in 2000 … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
ESPN videos unavailable on YouTube because of rights issues related to YouTube Red launch — ESPN is shutting down its YouTube channels over paid subscriptions — Not everyone's on-board with YouTube's new paid subscription option. In the wake of this week's announcement … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
BlackBerry launches US preorders for $699 Priv Android slider phone, to work only with AT&T and T-Mobile and ship on November 6 — BlackBerry launches US preorders for $699 Priv Android slider phone — BlackBerry's Priv will start shipping in the United States on November 6th … | ACLU: |
District court dismisses Wikimedia v. NSA internet surveillance case brought by ACLU for broad coalition, says plaintiffs failed to show they were monitored — Court Dismisses ACLU Challenge to NSA Internet Surveillance — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal district court granted the government's motion …
| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Microsoft restructures, changes leadership of some units within its Cloud and Enterprise division amid strong growth — Microsoft shuffles its cloud business to keep the good times rolling — Microsoft's cloud infrastructure business is leading the company's ongoing growth …
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Microsoft adds an entry-level $1,699 Surface Book with Nvidia GPU and a $3,199 model with 1TB solid state storage and top-end specs to its lineup — Microsoft Adds $200 Nvidia GPU Option to Entry Level Surface Book — Keeping it discrete — Microsoft wants to ensure there's …
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UK ISP TalkTalk suffers massive breach, warns data of 4M customers, including credit card and bank details, could have been accessed — TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack — Police are investigating after a “significant and sustained cyber-attack” on the TalkTalk website, the UK company has confirmed.
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BBC, BBC, TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC, TechSpot, CNET, TalkTalk Help, New York Times, Engadget, Digital Trends, Guardian, SC Magazine, ITV, Graham Cluley, The Register, Telegraph, Guardian, MacNN, Reuters, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Naked Security, CSO, Business Insider, We Live Security, TechEye, Ars Technica UK, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Pen Test Partners, SecurityWeek, The Next Web, We Live Security, Inquirer, BetaNews, The Memo, Associated Press, TechSpective, Gizmodo UK, Help Net Security, Geeky Gadgets, Business Insider, Security Affairs, Telegraph, Phys.org, International Business Times, The Hacker News, Silicon Republic, Gizmodo, Sky News, Financial Times, BT.com, Graham Cluley, Neowin, CSO, The Register, bit-tech.net and PC Review
| Dell Cameron / The Daily Dot: |
DoJ says courts should require Apple to decrypt data on iOS devices because software is “licensed, not sold” to customers — DOJ dismisses Apple's arguments against decrypting iOS communications — The U.S. government rejected Apple's arguments in federal court …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Brewster Contacts App Team Gets Acqui-Hired By Burger King Owner RBI, Brewster Lives On — We've heard a lot about software eating the world; now a company that has built its business around food is now eating up a software startup. Restaurant Brands International, owner of Burger King and Horton's …
Tweets: @delrey, @caseynewton and @rafat
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Palantir adds $105M to latest round that closed in July and gave company a $20B valuation — Big Data Company Palantir Technologies Adds Independent Director — Founder's classmate and venture investor Adam Ross added to board — Palantir Technologies, Inc., the secretive Silicon …
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