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Oculus Touch controller bundle for Oculus Rift will be available on December 6th for $199; pre-orders open on October 10 — The Oculus Touch will be available for the Rift on December 6th for $199, the company announced today. Oculus's Input API works with three different devices … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Oculus demos augmented social VR with facial expressions, immersion in real-world scenes, chess and card playing, taking a phone call and taking a selfie — Today on stage at Oculus' Connect conference, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated a new facial tracking social VR experience that overlays VR avatars …
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Report: Snap Inc., formerly Snapchat, is planning an IPO for March 2017 that could value the company at $25B+ — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Snap — the now-parent company of Snapchat — is working on an initial public offering for as early as March that could value the company at $25 billion or higher.
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Tweets: @miriamgottfried, @wsj, @scottmaustin, @djtgallagher and @mattlynley
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
LG's V20 flagship phone available in US on October 28 for $830 on AT&T; preorders start October 7 — Following an announcement from T-Mobile earlier today, AT&T has now confirmed that preorders for LG's new V20 flagship smartphone will kick off tomorrow Oct. 7 ahead of a launch on Oct. 28.
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Sources: Facebook in talks with US government and wireless carriers to launch Free Basics-like service in the US, for low-income and rural Americans — Facebook has been in talks for months with U.S. government officials and wireless carriers with an eye toward unveiling an American version …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC to vote Oct. 27 on broadband privacy rules, requiring users to opt in on sharing sensitive data like location, children's information, and browsing history — Pay-for-privacy plans won't be banned, but ISPs face new opt-in requirements. — The Federal Communications Commission plans … | Jordan Golson / The Verge: |
US Consumer Product Safety Commission opens investigation into Galaxy Note7 that forced evacuation of flight — Federal regulators are moving quickly to investigate the replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that caught fire on a Southwest Airlines flight today, with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Verizon reportedly pushing for $1B price cut on pending $4.8B Yahoo deal after recent report of 2014 hack — Verizon may not have bailed out of its deal to purchase Yahoo for $4.8 billion, but amid a growing case of bad news at the search engine company, the telecommunications giant …
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Sources: Apple to move services teams, including Maps, Siri and iCloud, from separate campuses to One Infinite Loop in attempt to improve services — Cue to move cloud service engineering teams to single campus — Company continues shifting services to its own infrastructure
| 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 …
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Official LinkedIn Blog, Tech Times, SiliconANGLE, Washington Post, Socialnomics, SocialTimes, GeekWire, The Next Web, Business Insider, Recode, CNET, VentureBeat, Engadget, WinBeta and ZDNet. Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sources: BitTorrent fires its co-CEOs and an unknown number of staffers, is closing its Los Angeles production studio and Now streaming service — BitTorrent has fired its two co-CEOs Robert Delamar and Jeremy Johnson and laid of an unknown number of staffers, Variety has learned from multiple sources.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey was absent from the Connect 3 keynote, as other top executives appeared on stage — Oculus co-founder and Trump troll financier Palmer Luckey was conspicuously missing from the keynote stage at today's Oculus Connect 3 conference in San Jose, CA.
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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.| 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.
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