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Samsung Electronics to acquire US cloud services firm Joyent; Joyent to retain name and top management, will be integrated into Samsung's mobile division — Acquisition of Joyent shows device maker is pushing to beef up software and services — SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Microsoft Boosts Its Chatbot Future By Acquiring Wand Labs — The startup, which ties together an array of services through a conversational interface, will help build out Satya Nadella's vision. — On Monday, Microsoft made headlines by plunking down $26 billion for LinkedIn.
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Facebook Messenger's home tab on mobile now organizes the app into recent messages, favorites, active users, messages awaiting a response, and birthdays — Facebook wants to make Messenger the app to anchor a post-app Internet that lets you do everything within a chat. Need an Uber?| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Airbnb secures $1B debt facility from JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley — Airbnb Inc. secured a $1 billion debt facility from some of the largest U.S. banks to help the home-sharing company develop new services and fund growth initiatives, people familiar with the matter said.
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200+ page dossier on Donald Trump allegedly authored by Democratic strategist Warren Flood leaks a day after Washington Post reported the DNC had been hacked — A 200+ page document that appears to be a Democratic anti-Trump playbook compiled by the Democratic National Committee …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Periscope go-live broadcast button available to all in Twitter's iOS and Android apps — Want to livestream for your Twitter audience? You don't have to switch apps to get started. As promised, Twitter's Periscope button is now available to everyone using its Android and iOS apps.
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“Spam King” Sanford Wallace is sentenced to 30 months in prison and a $100K+ fine for bombarding over 550K Facebook users — Sanford Wallace, the self-proclaimed “spam king” who has bedeviled Web users since the dawn of the public Internet two decades ago, has been sentenced …
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Pro-ISIS hacker pleads guilty after stealing names of over 1,000 US military personnel — The 20-year-old has admitted pilfering the data before sending it along to ISIS members. — An ISIS supporter has admitted to stealing identifiable information of roughly 1,300 members of the US military … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
“Deleting” pre-loaded iOS apps removes them from the homescreen and deletes associated user data but the application binary remains on the device — One of the most talked about features in Apple's upcoming iOS 10 is the ability to delete many of the apps that come pre-loaded on your iPhone or iPad.
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ZDNet, Quartz, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, SlashGear, Mashable, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, Android Police, Business Insider, AppleInsider, iMore and CNET. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Cavium, chip maker for data centers, buys networking infrastructure provider QLogic, in cash-and-stock deal valued at about $1.36B — The two companies aim to scale better and target large customers such as HPE, Dell, Cisco, IBM and others. — Cavium, which makes processors for enterprise data centers … | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
GAO report raises privacy and accuracy concerns with FBI's facial recognition program, which now has over 173M driver's license photos and 411M photos total — The watchdog said it had “concerns regarding both the effectiveness of the technology” and the “protection of privacy and individual civil liberties.”| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Uber agrees to settle driver lawsuit alleging company terminated drivers after obtaining background reports without authorization, for $7.5M — Uber has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by drivers over background checks conducted by the ride-hailing company, according to a court filing on Wednesday.
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