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| Bloomberg: |
Cisco to buy telecommunications software company BroadSoft for ~$1.9B to expand further into software and cloud services — Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to buy BroadSoft Inc. for about $1.9 billion to expand further into software and cloud services. — Cisco will pay $55 a share in cash …
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Cisco Newsroom, Axios, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Reuters, Telecompetitor, Cisco Blog, Reuters, Light Reading, Silicon Valley Business …, and Neowin
Tweets: @bloombergdeals and @ahess247
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google ‘actively investigating’ reports of Pixel 2 XL screen burn-in — Bad to worse — Over the weekend, people with review units of the Pixel 2 XL began noticing a problem. No, not the already-known issues of muddy color and grainy textures when viewed in low-light, but one that's potentially more worrisome: screen burn-in.
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The Verge, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, MacRumors, TheStreet, USA Today, AppleInsider, Android Authority, Gizmodo, Android and Me, Digital Photography Review, Mashable, Fortune, Cult of Mac, Engadget, TalkAndroid.com, Android Police, Android Central, Pocketnow, iPhone in Canada Blog, Stock Market News …, Phandroid, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, Tom's Guide, Gizmochina, Droid Life, Business Insider, Tech Times, Inquirer, Silicon Republic, TechSpot, The Loop, The Mac Observer, Android Central, PhoneArena, Fone Arena, Neowin, 9to5Google, MSPoweruser, Technology Personalized, SlashGear, Android Beat, YouTube, and AndroidGuys
Tweets: @alexdobie, @trixxy, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @vladsavov, @vladsavov, @alexdobie, @backlon, and @reneritchie
| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Google rolls out “Pay With Google”, which lets Android users shop faster by using a debit or credit card setup previously on a Google service, like YouTube — As promised, Google is streamlining online purchases made through Android devices by rolling out Pay with Google.| Tom Dotan / The Information: |
Sources: Snap badly overestimated demand for Spectacles, has hundreds of thousands of unsold units in warehouses, either fully assembled or in parts — Snap badly overestimated demand for its Spectacles and now has hundreds of thousands of unsold units sitting in warehouses …
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Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Quartz, The Verge, and SlashGear
Tweets: @mims, @mattmcgee, @adamsinger, @caro, @moorehn, @daniel_rubino, @shiraovide, @kantrowitz, @stevekovach, @howardlindzon, @rishmishra, and @ow
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Essential Phone price drops $200 to $499, a few months after its debut; current US customers get online credit toward other Essential purchases — Essential has an offer that's honestly very hard to refuse: The price of the Essential Phone (PH-1, going by technical model number), is now $200 cheaper, so $499 off-contract and unlocked.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
FTC failed in allowing Facebook to acquire Instagram, WhatsApp; it should intervene on tbh, regardless of whether the purchase price is enough to mandate review — There was one line in TechCrunch's report about Facebook's purchase of social app tbh [sic] that made me raise my eyebrows (emphasis mine):
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @joshconstine, and @jeffjohnroberts
| Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
Kaspersky offers source code and business operations for review by independent third parties after Russian spying claims — Responding to U.S. government suggestions that its antivirus software has been used for surveillance of customers, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab is launching what it's calling …
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Kaspersky Lab official blog, Reuters, CNET, Reuters, The Guardian, Engadget, Associated Press, CSO, Neowin, TechCrunch, Fortune, WRAL Tech Wire, BetaNews, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @miriamelder, @kaspersky, and @kaspersky
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
T-Mobile reports Q3 profit of $550M, adds 595K postpaid phone subs, meets expectations with $10B in revenue; earnings call skipped amid Sprint merger rumors — The “Un-carrier” boasted another strong quarter, but everyone's just wondering when its deal with Sprint will go down.
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T-Mobile Newsroom, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, DSLreports, FierceWireless, Barron's Online, TmoNews, PhoneDog.com, and GeekWire. Tweets: @shiraovide. Thanks:@rogerwcheng
| Michael del Castillo / CoinDesk: |
LedgerX starts trading first regulator-approved cryptocurrency derivatives in US, clears $1M+ worth of bitcoin swaps and options in the first week — The first regulated cryptocurrency derivative trades have taken place on a U.S. exchange. — In a statement to the press today …
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LedgerX, NEWSBTC, The Merkle, Cointelegraph.com News, and CryptoCoinsNews
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Marketing activation platform ActionIQ raises $30M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, to give marketers better audience insights for more effective campaigns — The trend of using big data analytics to glean more targeted insights for your business continues to be democratized …
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VentureBeat
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google says 64% of Chrome traffic on Android is now protected with HTTPS, 75% on Mac, 66% on Windows; 71 of the top 100 websites now use HTTPS by default — Google's push to make the web more secure by flagging sites using insecure HTTP connections appears to be working.| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Large VC rounds from SoftBank, others contributed to slowdown in tech IPOs; just 12 VC-backed tech firms have IPOed in US in 2017 vs. 27 in same period in 2014 — LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (Reuters) - Big cash infusions for startups from an ever-expanding group of financiers, led by SoftBank Group Corp … | Marc Hochstein / CoinDesk: |
Abra raises $16M Series B led by Foxconn for its multi-currency digital wallet app — Bitcoin startup Abra has completed a $16 million Series B led by manufacturing giant Foxconn. — Announced today at the Money2020 conference in Las Vegas, the new capital brings Abra's total funding to more than $30 million.Sponsor Posts
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