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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 — Brian Lam sells his online consumer guide to the paper of record. — Amelia Krales for Recode
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The New York Times Company, Nieman Lab, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Mashable and The Wirecutter
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Samsung's rushed replacement of Galaxy Note7 before finding the root cause of fires doomed the smartphone — On the verge of challenging Apple's mobile phone dominance, the South Korean company made a rushed decision, based on incomplete evidence, that later forced it to kill the model.
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Reuters, Business Insider, CNET, AppleInsider, NDTV Gadgets 360, Bloomberg, Engadget, AndroidHeadlines.com, Redmond Pie, TalkAndroid.com, Android Authority, Liliputing, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, Android Beat, Softpedia News, Pocketnow, Tom's Guide, SamMobile, SlashGear, Android Central, Gizmodo, The Verge and Mashable
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| Reuters: |
Hangzhou Xiongmai issues recall of insecure webcam models in US that had easy-to-guess default passwords, in wake of botnet DDoS attack on Dyn — Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology Co Ltd said it will recall some of its products sold in the United States after it was identified …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
IDC: Q3 smartwatch shipments were down 51.6% YoY to 2.7M with Apple Watch down 72% YoY to 1.1M units, but the impact of the new Apple Watch 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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Business Wire, Tech Trader Daily, Android Police, ZDNet, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, CNET, AppleInsider, Business Insider, MacRumors, Investor's Business Daily, Wearable Tech Insider and Neowin. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Bloomberg: |
TD Ameritrade and Toronto-Dominion Bank to acquire Scottrade for $4B — Acquisition would combine two of the largest online brokerages — Industry has been facing pressure from lower trading volumes — TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. and its largest stakeholder, Toronto-Dominion Bank …
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| David Henry / Reuters: |
19 US banks to offer a money-transfer app Zelle with instant deposits by early next year, to compete against PayPal, Venmo, and Square Cash — By the end of December some U.S. bank customers may begin to notice features of the new Zelle instant payments network appearing on their mobile phone …
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Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, CoinTelegraph.Com News, TechSpot, Tom's Guide and NFC World. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Brendan I. Koerner / Wired: |
Inside the discovery, investigation, and attempted mitigation of the devastating OPM breach last year — The US OFFICE of Personnel Management doesn't radiate much glamour. As the human resources department for the federal government, the agency oversees the legal minutiae of how federal employees … | Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Study: share of women in the US computing workforce on pace to decline from 24% to 22% by 2025 if nothing is done — SAN FRANCISCO — New research warns that the number of women in the computing workforce will decline to 22% from 24% by 2025 if nothing is done to encourage more of them to study computer science.
Tweets: @sumaya
| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
T-Mobile Q3 earnings beats estimates with revenue up 18% to $9.2B, 969K new postpaid customers, net income of $366M up from $138M a year earlier — Unlimited data, Binge On attracts 969,000 monthly users — Carrier driving profits despite price cuts, giveaway promos
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GeekWire, GeekWire, ZDNet, AppleInsider, Business Insider, MarketWatch, NASDAQ.com and Reuters. Tweets: @business
| Ben Sullivan / Motherboard: |
Researchers phish their way into a 3D printer-connected computer to sabotage blueprints for a drone propeller, causing the drone to crash 2 minutes into flight — It's 2016, and mostly anything is hackable. And while the ramifications of computer hacks are usually limited to leaks … | 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.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers demonstrate exploiting the Rowhammer hardware flaw from app with no special user permissions, rooting devices from LG, Motorola, Samsung, OnePlus — Permission-less apps take only seconds to root phones from LG, Samsung and Motorola. — Researchers have devised an attack …
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Inquirer, Wired, NDTV Gadgets 360, The Hacker News and Tech Times
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