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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, SiliconANGLE, Axios, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Reuters, Cisco Blog, Light Reading, Silicon Valley Business …, Telecompetitor, Neowin, Reuters, and PE Hub Blog
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, Android Police, TechCrunch, MacRumors, TheStreet, USA Today, AppleInsider, Android Authority, Phandroid, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Fortune, Android and Me, Digital Photography Review, Mashable, Pocketnow, iPhone in Canada Blog, Stock Market News …, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, Tom's Guide, TalkAndroid.com, Droid Life, Business Insider, Tech Times, Inquirer, Silicon Republic, TechSpot, The Loop, The Mac Observer, Gizmochina, Patently Apple, Cult of Mac, Engadget, YouTube, Android Central, PhoneArena, Neowin, Fone Arena, MSPoweruser, Technology Personalized, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Android Beat, Android Central, and AndroidGuys
Tweets: @alexdobie, @trixxy, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @vladsavov, @vladsavov, @alexdobie, @backlon, and @reneritchie
| 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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Marketing Land, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Quartz, The Verge, and SlashGear
Tweets: @jessicalessin, @digiphile, @caro, @moorehn, @daniel_rubino, @mattmcgee, @adamsinger, @shiraovide, @kantrowitz, @stevekovach, @howardlindzon, @rishmishra, @ow, and @mims
| 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.
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The Keyword, CNET, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Android Police, BetaNews, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Inquirer, The Verge, 9to5Google, The Memo, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, Droid Life, VentureBeat, Neowin, ZDNet, The Next Web, and Android Beat
| 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
| 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.| 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, Ars Technica, Reuters, Associated Press, The Guardian, CSO, The Hacker News, Engadget, Neowin, TechCrunch, WRAL Tech Wire, BetaNews, Fortune, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @kaspersky, @miriamelder, 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, BGR, TechSpot, FierceWireless, TmoNews, PhoneDog.com, Barron's Online, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, and DSLreports. Tweets: @shiraovide. Thanks:@rogerwcheng
| 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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AdExchanger, SiliconANGLE, and VentureBeat
| Michael Balsamo / Associated Press: |
FBI Director Christopher Wray says in first 11 months of fiscal year, agents were unable to unlock over half the mobile devices it tried to access, over 6,900+ — https://apnews.com/04791dfbe30a4d3596e8 d187b16d837e — Link copied! — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The FBI hasn't been able … | 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
| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it received 238 proposals from across North America for its second HQ — More than 200 metro areas entered to win Amazon's massive HQ2 contest before the Oct. 19 deadline — 238 to be exact. — Those proposals came from 54 states, provinces, districts, and territories across North America, Amazon announced Monday.
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The Hill, VentureBeat, USA Today, Business Insider, and Wall Street Journal. Thanks:@johnhcook
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