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Qualcomm's Board of Directors unanimously rejects Broadcom's unsolicited $103B offer — Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) ("Qualcomm" or the “Company") today announced that its Board of Directors unanimously rejected the unsolicited proposal announced by Broadcom Limited ("Broadcom") on November 6, 2017.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber-SoftBank deal to see investors buying $1B of Uber shares at current valuation, proceed with $9B tender offer for secondary shares in coming weeks — Uber moves closer to selling up to $10 billion in shares — Benchmark agrees to put suit against Uber co-founder on hold
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Uber says it's entered into an agreement with a consortium led by SoftBank and Dragoneer on a potential investment — The paperwork's done! The long-anticipated SoftBank Group investment into Uber has been agreed upon, a spokesperson confirms to TechCrunch. — We've been provided the following statement.
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| New York Times: |
Inside NSA's Tailored Access Operations group and the investigation into Shadow Brokers, a hack of NSA now considered much more damaging than Snowden leak — A serial leak of the agency's cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
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| David Z. Morris / Fortune: |
Bitcoin Cash's market cap is up 130%+ in 2 days to about $26B, briefly overtaking Ethereum's, and Bitcoin Cash's hashrate has surpassed Bitcoin's — The cryptocurrency market is experiencing a complex shakeup this weekend, with a recently created digital token called Bitcoin Cash (BCH) … | Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Mining begins of Bitcoin Gold, a fork of Bitcoin that aims to thwart specialized mining chips — The newest fork of the bitcoin blockchain is officially live after a rocky start. — Developers for the project, dubbed bitcoin gold, published software for the breakaway cryptocurrency today, releasing the code on GitHub as well.
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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Current draft of Senate Tax Reform Bill would tax stock options and RSUs upon vesting, which would have a devastating effect on equity compensation in startups — The current draft of the Senate Tax Reform Bill would tax stock options and RSUs upon vesting.
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
As part of a broader effort to diversify its revenue streams outside of streaming, Spotify is now selling beauty products through its partnership with Merchbar — Spotify, the $16 billion digital music “startup” that is hotly tipped for an IPO, continues to lay the groundwork to diversify its platform beyond basic streaming.
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| Aliya Ram / Financial Times: |
UK-based Graphcore, maker of machine learning chips, has raised $50M from Sequoia Capital — UK chipmaker Graphcore has raised $50m from Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms, as the start-up angles to become Britain's biggest maker of artificial intelligence hardware.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Vulnerability present in many now-patched antivirus products including Malwarebytes allowed malware to leave quarantine and gain full system control — New AVGater flaw provided key ingredient for hacker to hijack computer. — Antivirus programs, in many cases, make us safer on the Internet.
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| Christina Larson / Foreign Policy: |
Facebook, blamed for unintended consequences of the service in nations like Myanmar, says “product and integrity research team” is headed to SE Asia this month — Zuckerberg needs to stop courting Beijing and start paying attention to the countries where Facebook matters.
Tweets: @carnage4life, @kenroth, @mattocko, @foreignpolicy, and @_danielsinclair
| Kim Tingley / New York Times: |
Semi-autonomous vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure tech struggles to draw attention away from independent, fully autonomous solutions like Waymo's — THE TECH & DESIGN ISSUE: LIFE AFTER DRIVING — IN HIS 31-YEAR career delivering frozen patties, ketchup packets … Sponsor Posts
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