Sources: Lyft recently sought $9B for buyout after GM expressed interest in acquiring the company, but received no bids even after lowering its asking price
It failed to find another buyer after GM expressed interest in acquiring the company. — Lyft may have run out of options.
Google to end support for Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux in early 2018, stop surfacing them in the Chrome Web Store in the second half of 2017
We have always believed in making the open, interoperable web as strong as possible. For a while there were certain experiences the web …
Previously unreleased Snowden documents confirm ShadowBrokers leak contains authentic NSA software that was used to attack systems in Pakistan and Lebanon
On Monday, a hacking group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers” announced an auction for what it claimed were “cyber weapons” made by the NSA.
Facebook launches Lifestage, an app for high school students to create a profile with videos
“What if I figured out a way to take Facebook from 2004 and bring it to 2016? What if every field in your profile was a full video" asks Facebook's 19-year old product prodigy Michael Sayman.
Sources: Pandora nears licensing deals with major record companies for on-demand streaming; $10 per month would give subscribers unlimited access to tracks
The internet radio service is aiming to start offering new paid tiers as soon as next month — Pandora Media Inc. is aiming …
AT&T, Alphabet, Apple, Verizon, Comcast, others form “Robocall Strike Force” that will work with FCC to combat robocalls
The chief executive of AT&T (T.N) will announce Friday that 33 companies including the telecom giant, Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), Apple Inc (AAPL.O) …
Samsung to Close Milk Music on September 22
Samsung is finally pulling the plug on its Milk Music streaming service: The company started to notify users of Milk Music Friday that it will shut down the service on September 22. Samsung told exis...
Researchers reveal how the NSA used BenignCertain exploit to remotely extract decryption keys from Cisco's PIX firewalls for a decade
Exploit against Cisco's PIX line of firewalls remotely extracted crypto keys. — In a revelation that shows how the National Security Agency was able …
Sources: seed-stage firm Rothenberg Ventures near collapse as executives depart; employees blame out-of-control spending by the firm's fame-seeking founder
Rothenberg Ventures, the four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, may be on the brink of implosion, say several sources close to the firm.
Running Fuchsia, the mysterious open-source operating system in development at Google, shows Google's Dart programming language will play an important role
Computers are like cars, we are used to just starting them up and using them. We often forget the complexities and intricacies of what is happening under the hood.
Rakuten acquires IP and assets of Bitnet, a Bitcoin wallet startup it had invested in, for undisclosed sum, and will open a blockchain R&D lab in Belfast, UK
Rakuten has confirmed that it has acquired the assets of Bitnet, a bitcoin wallet startup it invested in …
Oracle says it is funding anti-Google research group The Google Transparency Project
Groups with words like “transparency” in their name are typically very open about how they operate. That's why the “Campaign for Accountability,” a non-profit hatched in Washington this spring …
Windows 10 Anniversary Update breaks millions of webcams using MJPEG or H264 encoded streams; Microsoft engineer says fix is coming, likely in September update
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EFF says T-Mobile's new plan to charge customers extra for unthrottled video may violate the FCC's Open Internet Order
AJ Dellinger / The Daily Dot :
RAND corporation report finds Chicago's predictive policing algorithm doesn't reduce homicides
Matt Stroud / The Verge :
Microsoft launches Evernote to OneNote import tool for Mac, says it has moved 71M Evernote pages to OneNote via OneNote Importer tool on Windows
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Atlassian's HipChat desktop apps get group video chat and screen sharing
Matt Weinberger / Business Insider :
A history of the GIF format, now nearly 30 years old, which has prevailed despite many efforts to replace it
Eric Limer / Popular Mechanics :
Dropbox CFO Vanessa Wittman leaving due to health reasons, her deputy Ajay Vashee will take over on September 1
Kara Swisher / Recode :
Vevo is seeking to raise up to $500M, hired Goldman Sachs for help
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How a Lending Club user mined the company's data to uncover shady loans made to Lending Club insiders and repeat borrowers
very disappointing scandal http://www.bloomberg.com/... Can numbers from fintech upstarts be trusted? Max Chafkin / @chafkin : If you liked our story about a mayo company buying its own mayo, you'll l...
CellSavers raises $15M Series A to expand its on-demand mobile device repair service
Kia Kokalitcheva / Fortune :
Inside Google's push in Indonesia, a key market for start of its Next One Billion Project
Sheera Frenkel / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @sarahcuda , @asim_fayaz , @jrichlive and @nitashatiku Tweets: Sarah Lacy / @sarahcuda : jesus. i reported on this in 2009 when google didn't give a f**k about tha...
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