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| Tom Foster / Texas Monthly: |
The story of Whole Foods, its founder John Mackey, and his battle with an activist hedge fund that led to the Amazon acquisition — Editor's Note: On June 16, 2017, Whole Foods agreed to sell itself to Amazon for $13.7 billion. This is the exclusive story that led up to that momentous decision for the Austin-based grocery giant.
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New York Times, GeekWire, CNBC, Eater, Recode, Austin Startups, Bloomberg, Business Insider, and Fortune. Tweets: @stevesi
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Instacart, with four years left in its Whole Foods contract, says “Amazon just declared war” on grocery stores, faces difficult opportunity after Amazon deal — Yesterday, Amazon and Whole Foods ruined a perfectly slow news day on a Friday in June with the announcement …
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Bloomberg, Fortune, New York Times, VentureBeat, Tech Times, Quartz, Recode, The Seattle Times, Slate, TechCrunch, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, BuzzFeed, GeekWire, Fortune, FOX2now.com, Vox, and PE Hub Blog
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Gizmodo, Bloomberg, New York Times, CNNMoney, Forbes, ReadWrite, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Recode, CNBC, GeekWire, Business Insider, ZDNet, Cult of Mac, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, CNET, HBR.org, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Fortune, Mashable, Washington Post, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Socialnomics, TechSpot, diginomica, EE Times, PE Hub Blog, eWeek, Refinery29, Seeking Alpha, TechCrunch, socalTECH.com, VentureBeat, Silicon Valley Business …, and The Precursor Blog
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
WikiLeaks documents show how CIA infected WiFi routers from 10 manufacturers including D-Link and Linksys to monitor and manipulate traffic, infect more devices — Latest Vault7 release exposes network-spying operation CIA kept secret since 2007. — Home routers from 10 manufacturers … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Qualcomm unveils reference design for smart speakers with support for Alexa and Google Assistant, also announces new chips for wireless audio products — The smart speaker trend started with Amazon's Echo, and now includes Google Home and Apple HomePod, but it could get a lot more crowded thanks to Qualcomm.
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Qualcomm, The Verge, Qualcomm, Qualcomm, ZDNet, MobileSyrup, Digit, GSMArena.com, xda-developers, Wccftech, The Tech Portal, TrustedReviews, gizbot.com, What Hi-Fi?, NDTV Gadgets 360, Digital Trends, Phandroid, TechSpot, Liliputing, bgr.in, SlashGear, Android Authority, and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @stevesi
| Kent Walker / Google: |
Google's new anti-extremist steps: targeted AI algo training, more content flaggers, no inflammatory video monetization, ads targeting potential ISIS recruits — Editor's Note: This post appeared as an op-ed in the Financial Times earlier today. — Terrorism is an attack on open societies …
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Engadget, VentureBeat, CNET, Bloomberg, Mashable, The Verge, and Slashdot. Tweets: @profcarroll
| New York Times: |
A look at Arianna Huffington's growing influence at Uber, where she has become one of Travis Kalanick's closest confidantes — SAN FRANCISCO — In April, Wan Ling Martello, the head of Nestlé in Asia, found herself seated across from Arianna Huffington, an Uber director and a founder … | Gordon Corera / BBC: |
Sources: NSA and Britain's National Cyber Security Centre link WannaCry ransomware attack to North Korean hacking group Lazarus — British security officials believe that hackers in North Korea were behind the cyber-attack that crippled parts of the NHS and other organisations around the world last month, the BBC has learned.
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ZDNet, Ubergizmo, BGR, Wired, International Business Times, Washington Post, PaymentsSource, and Wired. Tweets: @nxthompson
| Matthew Leising / Bloomberg: |
Inside the DAO, an Ethereum crowdfunding project, the flaw that let a still unknown hacker steal $55M in ether, and the effort to save the DAO project — In June 2016, a hacker targeted a virtual currency known as ether. This is the story of the bold attempt to rewrite that history.| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Huawei Matebook X review: good performance, comes with useful features like integrated fingerprint sensor and Dolby speakers, pricey and has a laggy trackpad — Good in many ways, but you're really paying for the Apple-like design. — Huawei has been slowly pushing its way into the PC market.| Cam Simpson / Bloomberg: |
US semiconductor industry phased out chemicals discovered to be reproductive toxins in the 1990s but failed to ensure that their Asian suppliers did the same — Twenty-five years ago, U.S. tech companies pledged to stop using chemicals that caused miscarriages and birth defects.| David Lumb / Engadget: |
YouTube intros heatmaps for VR, letting creators see where viewers look during 360° videos, says viewers spend 75% of their time looking at front 90 degrees — YouTube's growing library of VR content is a definite asset in Google's struggle to dominate the virtual reality sphere.
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International Business Times, YouTube Creator Blog, VRFocus, The Verge, YouTube, TechCrunch, Tubefilter, 9to5Google, and Adweek. Tweets: @pogue
| Kayla Matthews / Bitcoin Magazine: |
A study of 100+ companies in 38 countries estimates 3M+ people are using cryptocurrencies — Bridging the gap between financial systems and computer whizzes, cryptocurrencies are poised to gain ground in today's markets. These peer-to-peer systems utilize blockchain technology to conduct and verify transactions.Sponsor Posts
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