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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung ends production of the Galaxy Note7 after global recall due to battery fires; its shares fall 8% wiping out $17B of market value — Samsung Electronics Co. is ending production of its problematic Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, taking the drastic step of killing off a smartphone that became …
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| Samsung Global Newsroom: |
Samsung tells owners of Galaxy Note7 to stop using device, asks global carrier and retail partners to stop sales and exchanges of the phone — We are working with relevant regulatory bodies to investigate the recently reported cases involving the Galaxy Note7.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon halt sales and replacements of Galaxy Note7 amid reports of newer models catching fire — The move follows several incidents, including one smoking phone that caused a Southwest flight to be canceled. — Shawn Minter via The Verge
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| Jordan Golson / The Verge: |
5 cases of replacement Galaxy Note7s catching fire reported in US; Samsung says it is investigating the reports, working with Consumer Product Safety Commission — This time in Texas — Another replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has caught fire, this one in Houston, Texas.
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| Facebook: |
Workplace by Facebook, formerly Facebook at Work, exits beta with global launch, adds Multi-Company Groups to provide secure collaboration between organizations — At Facebook, we've had an internal version of our app to help run our company for many years.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Workplace will cost $3 per user per month for the first 1K users, $2 for the next 1K-10K users, and $1 for additional MAUs — After 20 months in a closed beta under the working title Facebook at Work, (as we predicted it would the other week) today Facebook is finally bringing …
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Cyanogen CEO Kirt McMaster resigns, notes failure of “full stack” OS strategy and shift to modular Cyanogen Now model; Lior Tal promoted from COO to CEO — Kirt McMaster, the controversial CEO of Cyanogen Inc., will be stepping down from his role, we've learned.| Raphael Satter / Associated Press: |
Yahoo disabled email forwarding feature at beginning of October, making it unnecessarily difficult for users to leave service amid coverage of record breach — LONDON (AP) — As Yahoo's embattled email service suffers through a slew of bad news, some users are finding it hard to leave.
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Greylock Partners closes $1B fund, the firm's 15th, bringing total under management to $3.5B — Greylock Partners is getting another $1 billion to invest in startups. The long-time venture capital firm is announcing its 15th fund, bringing the total to $3.5 billion currently under management.
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| Washington Post: |
Dozens of suspicious court cases, with missing defendants, aim at getting web pages deindexed or taken down outright by abusing firms' policies on defamation — There are about 25 court cases throughout the country that have a suspicious profile: — All involve allegedly self-represented plaintiffs …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Google Cast app to be renamed Google Home, will manage Google Home and Cast devices and help users discover new content — Here's another sign for how closely Google Home, the company's answer to Amazon Echo, and its Chromecast streaming adapter are connected: Google will soon rename its Cast app to “Google Home.”| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
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