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| Financial Times: |
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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| David Ramli / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank's deal for ARM would be largest Asian takeover of a UK firm; CEO says deal made regardless of Brexit, noting ARM's stock was up 15% since EU referendum — Masayoshi Son will get a steady, high-margin cash stream — SoftBank to secure a leader in global mobile computing
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Netflix Q2: international net subscribers 1.5M versus its forecast of 2M, misses on quarterly revenue with $2.11B; stock down 15%+ — Netflix now has 83.18 million subscribers after adding just 160,000 subscribers in the U.S. and 1.52 million abroad last quarter, missing the modest expectations it set back in April.
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| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Apple addresses song matching and auto-deletion issues by incorporating iTunes Match's audio fingerprint feature into Apple Music — Apple begins rolling out iTunes Match with audio fingerprint to Apple Music subscribers — One of the biggest complaints about Apple Music over the past year …
| Reuters: |
Chinese consortium to acquire Opera's browser and other businesses for $600M, except for ad, marketing, TV, and game-related operations — A $1.2 billion takeover of Opera Software by a group of Chinese internet firms fell through on Monday after failing to get regulatory approval in time …
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| James Phillips / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft debuts free preview of Microsoft Stream, a video sharing service for businesses, which will replace Office 365 Video as the de facto video experience — Video is one of the most powerful ways we connect, communicate and learn today - breaking down geographic boundaries and bringing …
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| Matt Lapsen / Xbox Wire: |
$399 2TB Xbox One S arrives August 2, release date for other hard drive options to be announced — Last month, we revealed a new member of the Xbox One family, the Xbox One S. Today, we're excited to announce that the highly-anticipated 2TB Xbox One S launch edition will begin hitting shelves in select regions on August 2.| Brad Linder / Liliputing: |
HP's Elite x3, a 6" Windows 10 Mobile phablet, ships August 29 for $699, $799 with Desk Dock, which lets you use UWP apps on a monitor with keyboard and mouse — As expected, HP's Elite x3 smartphone will be available in the US soon. But it has a somewhat lower starting price than had been anticipated.| Bloomberg: |
GlaxoSmithKline starts using Apple's ResearchKit for a rheumatoid arthritis study, becoming the first drugmaker to use the framework for clinical research — Glaxo is the first drugmaker to use Apple's ResearchKit — Success of the trial will determine Glaxo's future adoption
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| Sam Thielman / Guardian: |
New lawsuit claims DOJ intentionally conducts inadequate searches for FOIA requests with 21-year-old computer system, refuses to use new $425M Sentinel software — A new lawsuit alleges that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) intentionally conducts inadequate searches of its records using … | Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Uber reaches 2 billion rides six months after hitting its first billion — Uber has completed more than 2 billion trips on its app, the company's chief executive said on Monday, a milestone that arrives just weeks after the ride service added another $4.7 billion to its warchest.
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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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