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Broadcom offers $105B to buy Qualcomm for $70/share, a 28% premium to Qualcomm's closing price on Thursday, in deal valued at ~$130B including $25B of net debt — Broadcom is proposing to buy Qualcomm for $70 per share in a cash and stock deal valued at $130 billion, Bloomberg News reports.
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Sources: inability to agree on controlling stake, valuation, and fear of opposition from regulators doomed the T-Mobile Sprint merger — After months of talks, billionaire Masayoshi Son was unwilling to give up control of his U.S. wireless network — During months of merger talks …
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| The Guardian: |
Two Russian state-owned companies, VTB Bank and Gazprom, owned stakes in Yuri Milner's DST Global funds that invested in Facebook and Twitter pre-IPO — Institutions with close links to Kremlin financed stakes through business associate of Trump's son-in-law, leaked files reveal
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Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who holds large stakes in Twitter, Lyft, and Apple, arrested in apparent power consolidation — Saudi leadership in recent months has clamped down on any traces of dissent — Saudi authorities carried out a new wave of arrests targeting royals …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Overview of Bitcoin's contentious SegWit2x fork, projected to occur on November 16, supported by some big Bitcoin startups and miners — Bitcoin has faced turmoil in the past but nothing like this. In two weeks, a massive fight taking place among bitcoin insiders could produce a ruinous schism …
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| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon quietly rolls out a “Discount provided by Amazon” tag, discounting select items from independent merchants by up to 9% — The move allows the retail giant to compete more fiercely with low-cost rivals, but could hurt its relationship with big-name brands, manufacturers and merchants| Ted Greenwald / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Intel and AMD are teaming up for a new laptop chip that combines an Intel processor and an AMD graphics unit, in a bid to compete with Nvidia — New laptop-computer chip will combine an Intel processor and an AMD graphics unit — Intel Corp. INTC -1.61% and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. …
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ADT wins temporary injunction against video doorbell maker Ring, preventing it from selling Protect security system until trial ends — ADT, which was suing Ring after the video doorbell company hired away most of the employees of Zonoff, has won a temporary injunction against Ring.| Burt Helm / New York Times: |
A behind-the-scenes look at an e-commerce startup's successful ad campaign on Facebook, powered by Facebook's opaque AI ad-targeting algorithm — The platform is so good at “microtargeting” that many small e-commerce companies barely even bother advertising anywhere else.
Tweets: @stevendilla
| Asn / Tor Blog: |
Tor releasing next-gen onion services with improved cryptography and authentication, a project four years in the making — Hello friends! — We are hyped to present the next generation of onion services! We've been working on this project non-stop for the past 4 years and we officially launched … | Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center: |
Pew: 26% of US adults get news from two or more social media sites, up from 15% in 2013 and 18% in 2016; 50% of Facebook news users get news via Facebook alone — Americans are more likely than ever to get news from multiple social media sites, according to a recent Pew Research Center report.| Associated Press: |
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