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SoftBank agrees to acquire ARM Holdings for £24.3B at £17 per share, a 43% premium over last week's closing price — Japan's SoftBank has agreed to acquire Arm Holdings, the UK's pre-eminent technology company, for £24.3bn in an enormous bet by the Japanese telecoms group …
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Chinese consortium to acquire Opera's browser and other businesses for $600M, except for ad, marketing, TV, and game-related operations — A Chinese consortium's $1.24 billion takeover of Norwegian online browser and advertising firm Opera Software has collapsed after the deal failed … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung will announce the Galaxy Note 7 on August 2nd — Samsung has today revealed plans for an event on August 2nd in New York City where it will officially announce the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. The Note 7, which has been rumored for months, is expected to have a dual curved display, much like the existing Galaxy S7 Edge.
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Facebook shows little progress in diversity report, blames lack of available talent — Many observers say talent pipeline isn't primary factor — Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it made meager increases in the number of women and minorities working at the social-network giant …
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Sources: Google is working on a headset with a display that will offer AR features and does not require a phone or computer to power it — Yesterday Recode published an article suggesting Google has killed a VR project that would have directly competed with high-end headsets like the Oculus Rift.
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Clinton has assembled a tech team of over 50 engineers and developers for her presidential campaign, while Trump just focuses on using social media — Giving up Google wasn't easy for Stephanie Hannon, if it's easy for anyone. A person can get used to the big salary, cushy perks … | Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
Google's diverse emoji for women at work approved by Unicode Consortium — Back in May, Google proposed 13 new emoji meant to better represent women in professional fields, and now 11 of those emoji have been approved by the Unicode Consortium. The new emoji, including a chef, a graduate …
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Rocket Internet, known for incubating copycat startups, struggles to find a path to profitability as its stock price hovers at a third of its peak, hit in 2014 — German tech company has created 100 startups, many of which remain unprofitable — BERLIN—In 2011, German tech company Rocket …
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Attempted coup's failure to block internet in Turkey allowed President Erdogan and civilians to organize resistance through FaceTime, Periscope, Facebook Live — Rewriting the rulebook on coups, time to add cyberpower — Mere hours after the putsch in Turkey has failed, it is still too early to understand exactly what went on.
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VC at FirstMark on the history of NYC tech ecosystem and why he thinks the ecosystem is slowly catching up to the hype and maturing — I'm fascinated by tech ecosystems, and the network effects behind them. I wrote about Berlin (here) and about Paris (here) But of course … | Kim Nash / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM launches platform to let companies test using blockchain technology for supply chain record-keeping — IBM's new service will help companies experiment with using the online ledger technology to track high-value goods as they move through supply chains. Among the first users: a firm that tracks diamonds.
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Civil Maps, a startup that uses AI software to convert data from sensors on self-driving cars into detailed 3D maps, raises $6.6M seed from Ford and others — Automaker is among participants in $6.6 million seed funding — Civil Maps' system aggregates data from sensors on vehicles
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