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October 6, 2016, 12:55 PM

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Recode:
Sources: Google will not make a Twitter bid and Apple is also an unlikely suitor; Twitter stock falls around 20% after the news  —  Amid speculation, the tech giants have other aims  —  According to sources close to the situation, Google does not currently plan to make a bid for Twitter.
Peter Kafka / Recode:
Sources: Disney will not bid for Twitter, leaving Salesforce as the last potential bidder  —  Which leaves Salesforce, for now.  —  Cross another potential Twitter buyer off the list: Disney isn't pursuing a bid for the social platform, either.  —  Sources familiar with Disney …
Reuters:
Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:
Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by the creators of Apple's Siri  —  Samsung has agreed to acquire Viv, an AI and assistant system co-founded by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham — who created Siri, which was acquired by Apple in 2010.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn now lets users privately signal to recruiters when they are looking for a new job; feature initially available in US, Canada, UK, and Australia  —  One of the hallmarks of any social network is how it pushes people to share their experiences with others, but increasingly we've seen …
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
Marc Andreessen on why AI can spawn a new generation of big, important technology companies  —  Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning are enabling computers to understand the world and respond intelligently to it.  Google is already embracing these technologies for Android …
Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge:
Netflix signs deal with theater chain iPic Entertainment to screen its original movies, which will debut on the streaming service simultaneously  —  Next year, some of Netflix's original movies will have a debut home on the big screen.  The streaming service just signed a deal …
Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom says that over 100M people use its new Stories feature daily  —  Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom in front of a photo wall at the Blue Bottle café inside the company's new headquarters building.  —  It's been a hell of a year for Instagram.
More: TechCrunchTweets: @benbajarin and @fwd
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple to move services teams, including Maps, Siri and iCloud, from separate campuses to One Infinite Loop in attempt to improve services  —  @markgurman , More stories by Mark Gurman  —  Cue to move cloud service engineering teams to single campus  —  Company continues shifting services to its own infrastructure
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Many features available on Pixel phones will not be available on Android 7.1, including Google Assistant, unlimited photo/video backup, smart storage, more  —  At Google's hardware event this week, the new version of the Android operating system, Android 7.1 (Nougat 7.1), was barely mentioned.
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
NoSQL database startup ReThinkDB to shut down, says its engineering team is joining Stripe  —  Stripe has picked up the engineering team behind the NoSQL database startup RethinkDB, ending days of speculation in forums about the company's future.  RethinkDB itself is closing its doors …
More: RethinkDBTweets: @patrickc

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