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Dell announces it will become a public company again by subsuming its tracking stock DVMT in a cash and share-swap deal worth $21.7B — - Dell to offer DVMT shareholders Dell stock or cash buyout — Total deal size comes to $21.7 billion, Dell to list on NYSE
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HTC plans to cut around a quarter of its global workforce, or 1,500 jobs, at its manufacturing unit in Taiwan; layoffs will be completed by the end of September — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Smartphone maker HTC plans to slash around a quarter of its global workforce through job cuts at its manufacturing unit …
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Tweets: @samsonellis and @somospostpc
| Facebook: |
Facebook says it's notifying ~800,000 users who were hit by a bug in Facebook and Messenger from May 29 to June 5 that unblocked some people they had blocked — Starting today we are notifying over 800,000 users about a bug in Facebook and Messenger that unblocked some people they had blocked.
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Lyft is buying the core operations of Motivate, parent of CitiBike; the business will be renamed Lyft Bikes and keep contracts with NYC and seven other cities — Lyft competes with Uber for ride-hailing customers. Now it is following its rival into bike-sharing, as the companies move … | Neer Varshney / The Next Web: |
Coinbase's cryptocurrency custodial service for institutional customers, Coinbase Custody, announced in November 2017, is now open for business — Coinbase's cryptocurrency custody service is officially open for business, the company announced on its blog today.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast's Xfinity Mobile service now throttles personal hotspot usage on its “unlimited” plan to 600kbps and caps videos at 480p quality unless users pay extra — Comcast's Xfinity Mobile service is imposing new speed limits on video watching and personal hotspot usage …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook rolls out changes to some APIs, shutting down some while adding restrictions and mandatory app reviews to others, in wake of Cambridge Analytica — Following the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal and the more recent discovery of a Facebook app that had been leaking data on 120 million users …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Facebook to buy London-based natural language processing startup Bloomsbury AI whose team and tech it plans to use to combat fake news and other issues — Perhaps rightly, there has long been a perception that Google-owned Deepmind has been the most aggressive in hoovering up a lot …
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| Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
UK-based Micro Focus sells its Germany-based Linux distribution vendor SUSE to investment firm EQT Partners for $2.535B — NEWS ANALYSIS: SUSE is set to become an independent business once again, as growth investment firm EQT acquires the Linux vendor from Micro Focus.
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SiliconANGLE, Reuters, MarketWatch, Linux Journal, PE Hub Blog, and The Register
| Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
The moment when Intel lost mobile happened around 2008, when it gave up on producing low-power chipset for phones and refocused on Atom SoC and netbooks — Disruption is simple to say but there many factors at play. Disruption is never one feature, but a full set of assumptions that go into a business.
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| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
500px stops allowing licensing of photos under Creative Commons, closes 500px Marketplace in favor of licensed pics from Getty and its owner Visual China Group — The photo-sharing site is also closing down 500px Marketplace, its stock photo platform — Photography platform 500px …
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TechCrunch, PetaPixel, gHacks Technology News, The Next Web, DigitalKoans, Engadget, CNET, and PetaPixel
Tweets: @textfiles and @stshank
| NASDAQ.com: |
Norway-based Opera Limited, maker of the Opera browser, filed for US IPO on Friday to raise up to $115M, says it booked $148M in sales in 12 months ending 3/18 — Opera Limited, a leading provider of web browsers and digital content discovery platforms, filed on Friday with the SEC to raise … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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