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SEC filing reveals a play-by-play account of how LinkedIn shopped itself to Salesforce, Google, and Microsoft, which prevailed thanks to its all-cash bid — How the $26 billion deal went down. — Most Securities and Exchange Commission filings are dry affairs.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher uses exploits to extract disk encryption keys from Android devices with Qualcomm chips; publicly-available attack code works on unpatched devices — Unlike Apple's iOS, Android is vulnerable to several key-extraction techniques. — Privacy advocates take note …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google makes its expanded ad tracking opt-in, launches new ‘My Activity’ site — By default, ads shown on Google sites are tailored based on previous searches, watched YouTube videos, and more Google-related history. Now, Google is rolling out (via Wired) a new opt-in setting that will apply … | Bloomberg: |
Four years after Amazon acquired Kiva, a handful of startups look to fill the void by equipping warehouses with robots — In 2012 Jeff Bezos scooped up warehouse automation firm Kiva. Everyone else is still trying to catch up. — An Amazon warehouse is a flurry of activity.| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
How tech CEOs' Twitter accounts got hacked through pre-approved 3rd-party app access — It happened to Mark Zuckerberg. It happened to Sundar Pichai. It happened to Travis Kalanick. And it could happen to you, too. — Want to know how secure your Twitter account is? Here's an easy way to find out.
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Amazon's urban “Biosphere” buildings on track to open in 2018 as the company heads toward controlling 15% of Seattle's office space — Walk down Seventh Avenue in downtown Seattle and you can't miss them: three gigantic spheres resembling melted-together Milk Duds rising … | Peter Maass / The Intercept: |
Former NSA hacker and author of memos leaked by Snowden including “I Hunt Sysadmins” talks about his work for the agency — he message arrived at night and consisted of three words: “Good evening sir!” — The sender was a hacker who had written a series of provocative memos at the National Security Agency.
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Apple accuses Spotify of asking for “preferential treatment” after app rejection complaint, says Spotify is “publicly resorting to rumors and half-truths” — “We find it troubling that you ... are publicly resorting to rumors and half-truths about our service."
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First known fatality involving an autonomous vehicle opens the door for regulatory oversight — First known fatality involving autonomous vehicle opens a door that has largely been closed — Last October, Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk heralded the arrival … | Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
How a handful of Chinese companies that control a majority of the Bitcoin network are playing a central role in the community's civil wars — A delegation of American executives flew to Beijing in April for a secret meeting at the Grand Hyatt hotel, just blocks from Tiananmen Square.| Matt Jarzemsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Report: Tech firms accounted for 46% of US private-equity buyouts so far this year, the sector's highest level since at least 1995 — Buyout shops have become comfortable with some corners of the tech sector that they see as relatively stable, such as corporate-software providers
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| Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times: |
Pitchbook: VC investment in Europe dropped to $2.8B in Q2 2016 from $4.3B in Q2 2015; UK fell 5% to $994M — Venture capital investment in European start-ups dropped by over a third in the second quarter, contributing to anxiety about the continent's technology sector that is expected to be buffeted by Britain's exit from the EU.
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