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| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne Benioff, to buy Time Magazine for $190M from Meredith Corp., expecting to close within 30 days — Benioffs won't have day-to-day operational role at Time Magazine — Time magazine will have a new home.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Mobile social network Path, which Google reportedly tried to acquire for $100M and which was once raising money at a $500M valuation, is closing down on Oct. 18 — It's that time again, folks, time to say goodbye to a social media service from days past. — Following the shuttering …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Security researcher finds a new CSS-based attack that crashes and restarts iPhones after malicious HTML is rendered, like when a user visits a malicious link — Vulnerability most likely affects any iOS and macOS app that uses the WebKit rendering engine to display web pages. Apple is investigating.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Current and former Apple execs including Eddy Cue, Tony Fadell, Greg Joswiak, and John Sculley recount anecdotes from their time at the Infinite Loop campus — Apple's old HQ holds stories of pizza ovens, iPhone secrets, baseball bats, and what happened to Steve Jobs' office.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon adds a new section to its website called Amazon Storefronts, a retail hub exclusive to SMBs from US, featuring 1M+ products from ~20K companies — Amazon would really like to convince you that it isn't putting small businesses out of work — Amazon is introducing a new section …
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| Linus Torvalds / LKML Archive on lore.kernel.org: |
Linux creator and project lead Linus Torvalds apologizes for years of rude behavior, says he is temporarily stepping away from Linux maintenance to get better — From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Subject …
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
WeWork acquires Teem, an office space scheduling and workplace analytics platform, to add to Powered by We product suite; sources: WeWork paid $100M for Teem — FOR AS LONG as WeWork has been selling memberships to its coworking spaces, investors and analysts have quibbled about whether it's …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google remotely enabled Battery Saver mode for users running Android 9 Pie, during an “internal experiment”, has since apologized and reset settings to default — You'd think there would be more safeguards for preventing this kind of thing — Yesterday a mix of people … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Sisense, a startup that helps customers understand and visualize their data across multiple sources, raises $80M Series E led by Insight Venture Partners — Sisense, a company that helps customers understand and visualize their data across multiple sources, announced an $80 million Series …
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| Danah Boyd / Data & Society: |
How extremists exploit tech's respect of “free speech” and media's bias to cover “both sides” to amplify fringe messages and get into mainstream conversation — This is a crib of a talk that Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd gave at the Online News Association conference … | Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it plans to expand its New York City office, which caters to institutional clients, to 150 employees next year, up from 20 currently — The crypto industry unicorn Coinbase has aggressive growth plans for its newly opened New York office, which caters to institutional clients.
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| Mihir Dalal / Livemint: |
Sources: Flipkart has held early-stage talks with Indian video streaming service Hotstar about acquiring a stake in the company — Flipkart already has some ties with Hotstar, having launched a new video advertisement platform with Hotstar in July
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