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Sources: Twitter may receive formal bid shortly, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google — Twitter has received expressions of interest from several technology companies and may receive a formal bid shortly, sources said. — The social media company is engaged in conversations …
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Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, Verizon are all eyeing up a Twitter bid — Sep 23, 2016, 7:02 amSep 23, 2016, 9:22 am — Twitter continues to inch its way to a sale process, and the latest developments come in the form of alleged bids from potential buyers.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple working on Siri-based smart home device to control appliances, lights, curtains, locks, and more — Bloomberg Anywhere Remote LoginBloomberg Anywhere Login — Product would control appliances, lights, door locks and more — Apple is also trying to improve Siri on iPhones and iPads
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Oculus's Palmer Luckey funding pro-Trump political organization dedicated to “shitposting” and “meme magic” — A Silicon Valley titan is putting money behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and circulating Internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it overestimated average video viewing time metric by 60%-80% for 2 years, according to information Publicis Media says it obtained from Facebook — Social network miscalculated the average time users spent watching videos on its platform — Big ad buyers and marketers …
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See also Mediagazer| David Fischer / Facebook: |
Facebook VP of advertising David Fischer explains video metric miscalculation, apologizes, says the mistake had no impact on billing — Many of you may have seen the reports about our video metric miscalculation - I want to provide further clarity on the issue.
| Paul Szoldra / Business Insider: |
Brian Krebs' site hit by record 620Gbps sustained DDos attack, nearly twice as big as any previous attack seen by Akamai; the site will be “offline for a while” — Cloud hosting giant Akamai Technologies has dumped journalist Brian Krebs from its servers after his website came under a “record” cyberattack.
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Apple releases iOS 10.0.2 update fixing Lightning EarPods bug, Photos crashes, app extension issues — Apple on Friday pushed out a minor update for its newly released iOS 10 platform, squashing a handful of bugs for iPhone and iPad users, most notably one related to controls on Lightning-connected headphones.| Reuters: |
Sources: NSA operative left “Shadow Brokers” hacking tools on remote server 3 years ago, admitted error shortly after, but NSA did not inform affected companies — A U.S. investigation into a leak of hacking tools used by the National Security Agency is focusing on a theory …
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| Brad Sams / Petri: |
Sources: Microsoft has been working on Skype Teams for 18 months, aims for November beta and January full release, will bundle it with Office 365 for business — A few weeks back, it was uncovered that Microsoft was working on a new application under the Skype umbrella that would take on Slack.
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Cloud-based IT management startup Apptio prices IPO at $16 per share, above the expected $13-$15 range, raising around $96M — Bellevue-based Apptio has set the stock price for its initial public offering at $16 per share, above the expected range of $13 to $15 per share.
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Amazon's market cap has more than doubled to $380B since April 2015 as stock crosses $800, closing at all-time high — Amazon shares on Thursday soared past the $800 mark for the first time, closing at an all-time high of $804.70 per share. — That gives Amazon a market cap of over $380 billion …
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