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| Alex Sherman / Bloomberg: |
CenturyLink to buy Level 3 Communications for $34B in cash, stock deal, which values Level 3 at 42% above its stock price before reports of acquisition surfaced — @sherman4949 More stories by Alex Sherman — CenturyLink Inc. agreed to buy Level 3 Communications Inc. for about $34 billion cash …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft PowerApps and Flow to be generally available November 1 — Microsoft's PowerApps and Flow development tools will be generally available on November 1, not coincidentally the same day that Dynamics 365 goes on the company's price list. — Microsoft will be making PowerApps and Flow … | Joseph Rosensteel / Unauthoritative Pronouncements: |
Apple TV: the only streaming media device without HDR above $90, and an app lacking integration with Netflix or cable providers, needs a total strategy revamp — The accessibility video at the start of Apple's October 27th event was the best thing in the event.
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| Reuters: |
How OPPO became number one smartphone vendor in China and number four worldwide via savvy marketing and sales tactics — Chinese smart phone company OPPO doesn't believe in subtle marketing. — It has built a massive network of 320,000 retail outlets across China and other parts of Asia … | Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi / Reuters: |
Swiss rail's 1,000+ ticket machines to exchange francs for bitcoins in two-year test from Nov. 11 — Switzerland's national railways firm SBB is branching out next month with the launch of a new service on its ticket machines to sell bitcoins, the web-based digital currency.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Clarifai raises $30M from Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, and others for its AI-based image and video search API — Matt Zeiler grew up in a Canadian farming community — but fast forward a few decades and he's now running a startup that's looking to bring the same kinds …
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PRWeb, New York Business Journal, VentureBeat and Wall Street Journal
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Apple says developers should avoid using animation and displaying alerts on the Touch Bar, limiting potential uses — The Touch Baris serious business . Apple's interface guidelines warn against all kinds of fun things that developers probably started thinking about when the new MacBook Pros leakedearlier this week.
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Ubergizmo, BetaNews, SiliconANGLE and Tech Times
| Tom Mendelsohn / Ars Technica: |
Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court rules that all drone cameras count as surveillance devices and can only be used with special filming permit — Only cops and users with special filming permits can attach cams to drones. — Cameras attached to drones fall foul of Sweden's strict surveillance laws …
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| Jamie Feltham / UploadVR: |
Starbreeze, maker of the StarVR headset, says it has acquired Belgian visual effects studio Nozon for about $7.75M — Over the past few months Starbreeze's StarVR headset has gone from an industry oddity to a genuine contender in the location-based VR scene.
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Starbreeze, TechCrunch and Engadget
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Fortune: |
Vine co-founders Rus Yusupov and Colin Kroll launch Hype, a live broadcasting app that lets users add music and animations to their videos — As Twitter continues its attempts to get its business back on track, the company announced on Thursday that it's shutting down Vine, a short-form video service it acquired in late 2012.
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TechCrunch, Believe The Hype, The Huffington Post, Sky News, WIRED UK, CNBC and hypebot
| Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal: |
Many publishers say an AMP pageview generates half the revenue of a pageview on their full mobile website due to reliance on standardized banner ad units — Some publishers aren't generating as much ad revenue as they had hoped — Google is stepping up its efforts to serve speedy content …
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Search Engine Watch and Forbes
| Sam Rutherford / Tom's Guide: |
LG V20 review: rear cameras with manual controls are great, second screen is practical, but Galaxy S7 Edge is cheaper, waterproof, and has better battery life — With the demise of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7, Android fans looking for a premium big-screen phone have been left high and dry.| Jason Costa / GGV Capital: |
Comparing how Twitter and Slack managed their API ecosystems, and why Twitter, which let developers replicate core functionality, stumbled — Opening up an API is a big commitment, one that needs to be managed well over time in order to ensure a healthy and thriving ecosystem.| Naomi Tajitsu / Reuters: |
Report: Toyota's investment fund has invested around $10M in car-sharing startup Getaround — Toyota Motor Corp on Friday said it has invested in U.S. car-sharing company Getaround, a move that comes as global automakers seek to shore up their presence in new technology sectors amid growing competition from transport startups.
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