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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter may cut 8% of workforce, or 300 people, as soon as this week — Twitter Inc. is planning widespread job cuts, to be announced as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter. — The company may cut around 8 percent of the workforce, or about 300 people …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Twitter to report 2016 Q3 results pre-market instead of post-market on Thursday October 27 at 4am Pacific Time — A lot of the industry watchers that follow Twitter are out here on the West Coast, where the company is based. And for good reason! The Twitter diaspora exists in a large force …
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TechCrunch and Business Insider. Tweets: @shiraovide, @twitterir, @tweeter_ir and @catwoman2011
| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung: South Korean customers who exchanged their Galaxy Note7 for an S7 will be able to trade for Galaxy Note8 or S8 next year at 50% of the cost of their S7 — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it is offering an upgrade program to Galaxy Note 7 customers in South Korea who trade …
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| Hooyeon Kim / Bloomberg: |
Amid Note7 fiasco, hundreds file class action lawsuits against Samsung, and new Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee faces pushback from investment groups — Proxy advisor speaks out against Jay Y. Lee joining the board — Hundreds file class-action lawsuit demanding compensation
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
The New York Times is buying online consumer guide The Wirecutter, founded by former Gizmodo editor-in-chief Brian Lam; sources say NYT will pay more than $30M — The New York Times is buying The Wirecutter, a five-year-old online consumer guide. The Times will pay more than $30 million …
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New York Times, The New York Times Company, VatorNews, CNNMoney, Nieman Lab, Scripting News, Boing Boing, Fortune, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Mashable, Ars Technica UK and The Wirecutter
Tweets: @benfrench, @peterpham, @tomgara, @nichcarlson, @tedr, @ihnatko, @om, @mathewi, @benthompson, @davewiner, @bxchen, @msquinn, @basche42, @kevinroose and @hunterwalk
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Google announces strategic partnerships with Visa and Mastercard; Android Pay users will be able to check out from sites supporting Visa Checkout or Masterpass — Google announced this morning two strategic partnerships with Visa and MasterCard aimed at expanding the reach of its mobile payments service, Android Pay.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases iOS 10.1 with the iPhone 7 Plus' Portrait mode, which is still in beta — Apple has just released the first significant update for iOS 10. As expected, the main focus of iOS 10.1 is that insane Portrait mode for the iPhone 7 Plus. The update is rolling out and is available …
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The Verge, BGR, The Register, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Quartz, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, Digital Trends, The Tech Report, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZDNet and Gizmodo. Tweets: @chriswelch
| Reuters: |
In wake of botnet DDoS attack on DynDNS, Hangzhou Xiongmai issues US recall of webcam models that had easy-to-guess default passwords — Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co Ltd said it will recall some of its products sold in the United States after it was identified by security researchers …
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Techdirt, Krebs on Security, Slate, BBC, Guardian, USA Today, CNET, Tom's Hardware, Ubergizmo, English, TechCrunch, Fusion, Boing Boing, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, SiliconBeat, Gizmodo, GeekWire, Mashable, Engadget, Business Insider and The Register
Tweets: @kashhill and @jeremiahg
| Blaise Zerega / VentureBeat: |
Paxata gets $33.5M Series D led by Intel Capital for machine learning for information management, with Microsoft Ventures, In-Q- Tel, Accel, more participating — Paxata today announced it has raised $33.5 million to bolster the machine learning and semantic analysis foundations of its enterprise information platform.
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BetaNews, The Register, K4Connect, Paxata, Tech.eu, Silicon Valley Business …, Business Wire, Chronocam and PE Hub Blog
| Jason D. Rowley / Mattermark: |
Google acquires Eyefluence, an eye-tracking tech firm for AR and VR — tl;dr: Google has acquired Eyefluence, which has developed a suite of eyeball-sensing technologies for AR and VR, for an undisclosed sum. — Today, Eyefluence quietly announced on its website that it has been acquired by Google.
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Eyefluence, Bloomberg, TechCrunch and Business Insider
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
IDC: Q3 smartwatch shipments down 51.6% YoY to 2.7M with Apple Watch down 72% YoY to 1.1M units, but the impact of new Apple Watch models remains to be seen — Maybe not everyone is convinced they need a smartwatch? According to a new industry report from IDC out this morning …
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9to5Google, SiliconBeat, Tech Trader Daily, Quartz, BGR, Android Authority, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, The Register, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, Wearable Tech Insider, Droid Life, ZDNet, Macworld, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, Android Police, BetaNews, AppleInsider, Business Insider, MacRumors and CNET
Tweets: @lukew, @benbajarin and @rdr0b11
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook Messenger, which currently only supports debit cards, will get new PayPal payment option in US; users will also get in-app PayPal payment notifications — PayPal has announced that it's rolling out as an additional payment option within Facebook Messenger, which currently supports payments via debit cards.
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PayPal, TechCrunch, Fortune, Tech Times, ZDNet, The Next Web and MobileSyrup.com. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Court filings: Magic Leap countersues two ex-VPs over IP who sued for wrongful termination; SF offices appear in disarray relative to Florida operations — Multi-billion dollar startup Magic Leap, which is building a cutting-edge augmented reality headset, is currently in a legal battle … Sponsor Posts
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