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| Bloomberg: |
Broadcom offers $105B in cash and stock to buy Qualcomm for $70/share, a 28% premium to Qualcomm's closing price on Thursday — 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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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Intel and AMD team up to co-design an Intel Core processor with custom AMD Radeon graphics, to bring top-tier games to thin and light notebook PCs — Absolutely incredible! Intel will ship a chip powered by AMD's Radeon graphics next year to bring top-tier, AAA games to the thin-and-light notebook market.
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| BBC: |
Paradise Papers: Apple shifted to new tax haven of Jersey, after crackdown by European regulators of its Irish tax arrangement, sought to keep move secret — The world's most profitable firm has a secretive new structure that would enable it to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show.
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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
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
SoftBank reports Vision Fund has secured $97.7B in commitments through end of Sept., up from ~$93B in May, has deployed $18.4B, will increase holdings in Sprint — Japan's SoftBank Group today released its latest quarterly earnings, which included a note that its tech-focused Vision Fund …
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| Chetan Sharma: |
US mobile trends in Q3: 62% of carrier net-adds from IoT and cars, smartphone penetration at 92%, phone upgrade cycle at 3 years, data use to pass 6GB/mo in '17 — Highlights of the US Mobile Market Q3 2017 — After a brutal first quarter, the US wireless market had its best quarter of the year thus far.| Rani Molla / Recode: |
Survey: about 60% of Prime customers say they definitely don't want Amazon Key, which lets the courier inside the house, while 5% say they definitely do want it — But 5 percent of Prime subscribers would definitely buy an Amazon Key. — Next week, Amazon will start delivering packages straight …
Tweets: @jandawson
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple Says ‘Face With Tears of Joy’ is Most Popular Emoji in United States Among English Speakers — Apple has revealed that “face with tears of joy” is the most popular emoji among English speakers in the United States. — The face topped Apple's list of the top 10 emoji, ahead of a red heart … | Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Salesforce's collaboration service Quip launches a developer platform, adding third-party “Live Apps” — Originally a minimalist document editor, Salesforce's collaboration tool adds third-party apps in hopes of building the ultimate digital whiteboard.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Estonia freezes access to online services for 760K people using national ID cards until certificates potentially compromised via RSA security flaw are updated — Estonia's residents use their mandatory national IDs to access pretty much anything, from online banking to online voting.
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E-Residency Blog, Reuters, BBC, Silicon Republic, BleepingComputer.com, and Phys.org
| 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: @bluegrasscap and @stevendilla
| 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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| Wall Street Journal: |
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 … | Reuters: |
Fourth-largest US cable operator Altice USA to start offering mobile voice and data services via MVNO deal with Sprint — (Reuters) - Altice USA (ATUS.N), the fourth-largest U.S. cable operator, said it would introduce mobile service on Sprint Corp's (S.N) network, becoming the latest …
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DSLreports, PYMNTS.com, FierceWireless, Telecompetitor, ZDNet, Light Reading, FierceCable, Broadcasting & Cable, and BetaNews
Tweets: @basche42 and @marceloclaure
| Louise Matsakis / Motherboard: |
Twitter's list of Russian trolls that it supplied to Congress included an account run by a real US citizen — Robert Delaware is now part of the Congressional record, despite having no apparent ties to Russia. — Robert Delaware is a US citizen, a former Microsoft contractor, and an avid Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) filer.Sponsor Posts
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