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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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| James Bridle: |
A look at bot-made YouTube videos for kids, which deliberately target young children with traumatic imagery — As someone who grew up on the internet, I credit it as one of the most important influences on who I am today. I had a computer with internet access in my bedroom from the age of 13.
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New York Times and musictechpolicy.com
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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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New York Times, Fortune, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, MacRumors, The Guardian, Patently Apple, The Daily Caller, Cult of Mac, BBC, and Forbes
Tweets: @raju, @bbcbreaking, and @nytimes
| Wall Street Journal: |
Russian Twitter accounts posing as Americans began to support Trump in June 2015, weeks after he announced campaign and earlier than previously known — In three months after Mr. Trump announced his candidacy, tweets from Russian accounts offered far more praise for the businessman than criticism
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The Hill. Tweets: @congressmanraja, @patrickw, @dabeard, @propublica, @markmaremont, and @eorden
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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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Quartz, Business Insider, Reuters, Axios, Digital Trends, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Retail Dive, BetaNews, and Fortune. Tweets: @matthewstoller
| 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 … | 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.
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DSLreports, Android Police, TechSpot, Mobile World Live, Silicon Valley Business …, and ABC News. Tweets: @axios
| Nan Boden / Google: |
Google announces strategic partnership with Salesforce, will better integrate G Suite with Salesforce's CRM software — Today, we announce a first-of-its-kind strategic partnership with Salesforce that spans Google Cloud and Google Analytics. The partnership will enable smarter, more collaborative experiences for our customers.
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VentureBeat, CNBC, and Forbes
| 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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CNBC, cdn.softbank.jp, Bloomberg, and Bloomberg
| 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 … | 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
| 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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VentureBeat, ZDNet, ZDNet, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch
| 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.| 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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CoinDesk, NEWSBTC, and Virtual Mining Bitcoin News
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