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Sources: Disney working with a financial adviser to evaluate a possible bid for Twitter, and Salesforce is working with Bank of America to assess potential bid — Salesforce said to be working with Bank of America on bid — Twitter presentations to prospective buyers said to start soon
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Sources: Google planning to launch an ultra-thin convertible laptop, nicknamed Pixel 3 running combined Android-Chrome OS “Andromeda” in Q3 '17 starting at $799 — Two independent and reliable sources have confirmed to us that Google is planning a new Pixel laptop to be released in Q3 2017.
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Sources: Google plans a Huawei tablet with Nexus branding, likely running Andromeda OS — We've learned from multiple sources that Google plans to launch its forthcoming Andromeda Android/Chrome OS hybrid OS on two devices: a Huawei Nexus tablet and a “convertible laptop”.
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US Department of Labor files administrative lawsuit against Palantir, alleging discrimination against Asian job applicants — The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday filed an administrative lawsuit against Palantir Technologies, alleging the data analysis company systematically discriminated against Asian job applicants.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Plex partners with Amazon to launch a hardware-free media server, Plex Cloud, available to Plex Pass users that have an Amazon Drive account — You no longer need an always-on PC or any other network-attached hardware in order to use Plex's media player. The popular service …
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Roku unveils new range of streaming media players from the $30 Express box to the $130 Ultra with 4K, HDR video support, USB port, and a more advanced remote — The fall hardware refresh that will surprise no one — After weeks of leaks about the new products, Roku has officially announced its new line of streaming media boxes.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos' PLAY:1 and PLAY:5 speakers that connect over Wi-Fi are now being sold in Apple's online store and will come to Apple's physical stores on October 5 — Apple insists that the best path forward for audio is going wireless. And if that's going to be true, the future needs to involve a lot more than just earbuds.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Windows 10 surpasses 400M active devices, up from 300M in May, and announces new container-based isolation security feature for Edge browser, coming next year — Microsoft officials said Windows 10 has hit the 400 million ‘active’ device milestone, up from 300 million in early May.
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| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Lenovo laying off about 1,100 employees globally, or 2% of its workforce — According to two sources close to the matter, Lenovo just laid off hundreds of employees at Motorola, potentially more than 50% of the remaining workforce at the mobile device maker.
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Android Police, The Verge, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Pocketnow and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @rdr0b11
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
A look at Microsoft's Project Catapult, a multi-year effort to design FPGA chips in-house to power cloud services including Bing, Azure, Office 365, more — It was December 2012, and Doug Burger was standing in front of Steve Ballmer, trying to predict the future.
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Sources: Benchmark's Peter Fenton, early Twitter investor, is leading funding round of about $20M in French location sharing app Zenly, after $11M raise in May — Location sharing apps have always bordered on the creepy, but investors are starting to bet that an app out of France might be the one to finally make it cool.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Mobile ad startup AppLovin, which has raised less than $5M to date, agrees to be acquired by Chinese PE firm Orient Hontai Capital for $1.4B — Unlike most advertising technology startups, San Francisco-based AppLovin never raised any traditional venture capital.
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