Sources: Disney will not bid for Twitter, leaving Salesforce as the last potential bidder
Which leaves Salesforce, for now. — Cross another potential Twitter buyer off the list: Disney isn't pursuing a bid for the social platform, either. — Sources familiar with Disney …
Sources: Google will not make a Twitter bid and Apple also an unlikely suitor; Twitter's stock down 15%+ after news
Amid speculation, the tech giants have other aims — According to sources close to the situation, Google does not currently plan to make a bid for Twitter.
Netflix signs deal with theater chain iPic Entertainment to screen its original movies, which will debut on the streaming service simultaneously
Next year, some of Netflix's original movies will have a debut home on the big screen. The streaming service just signed a deal …
Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by the creators of Apple's Siri
Samsung has agreed to acquire Viv, an AI and assistant system co-founded by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham — who created Siri, which was acquired by Apple in 2010.
Government official: Yahoo got FISA order to scan incoming email for terrorist digital signature, used existing spam filtering, no longer collecting this data
Yahoo was ordered last year to search incoming emails for the digital “signature” of a communications method used by a state-sponsored …
Sources: Twitter has told potential acquirers it's seeking to conclude negotiations by Oct. 27, the day it reports its Q3 earnings
Many features available on Pixel phones will not be available on Android 7.1, including Google Assistant, unlimited photo/video backup, smart storage, more
At Google's hardware event this week, the new version of the Android operating system, Android 7.1 (Nougat 7.1), was barely mentioned.
LinkedIn now lets users privately signal to recruiters when they are looking for a new job; feature initially available in US, Canada, UK, and Australia
One of the hallmarks of any social network is how it pushes people to share their experiences with others, but increasingly we've seen …
Q&A with Didi CEO Cheng Wei on his journey from obscurity to China business hero, the Kuaidi merger, battle with Uber, self-driving cars, and Didi's future
Photographs by Ka Xiaoxi — At the Beijing offices of the ride-hailing startup Didi, many employees refer to Cheng Wei …
ASUS ZenBook 3 review: lots of powerful hardware, thin, cheaper than competitors, but keyboard and trackpad hard to use
Apple's tiny MacBook was a revelation when it debuted last year. It was thinner and lighter than most ultraportables on the market, and its refined design brought over some cues from Apple's mobile h...
Yahoo says the report that it built program to scan customers' incoming mail is “misleading”
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Washington state regulator orders Valve to stop facilitating the gambling of virtual items earned in video games, in cease-and-desist letter
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Sources: Apple's cloud services teams under Eddy Cue, including Siri, Maps, iCloud, Apple Pay, and others, to move together into a single campus
@markgurman , More stories by Mark Gurman — Cue to move cloud service engineering teams to single campus — Company continues shifting services to its own infrastructure
US Justice Department confirms arrest of NSA contractor accused of stealing classified information
Snowden Says ‘This Is Huge’ Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek : Another NSA Contractor Charged With Theft of Classified Info Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes : After Snowden, Another Booz Allen Contractor Accus...
Marc Andreessen on why AI can spawn a new generation of big, important technology companies
Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning are enabling computers to understand the world and respond intelligently to it. Google is already embracing these technologies for...
Pebble 2 review: battery life still lasts several days, water resistance is convenient, and heart rate monitor is accurate, but the fitness software disappoints
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Apple to open its iOS Developer Academy in Naples on October 6, with 200 students getting free tuition in the first year and 400 in the second year
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NoSQL database startup ReThinkDB to shut down, says its engineering team is joining Stripe
Stripe has picked up the engineering team behind the NoSQL database startup RethinkDB, ending days of speculation in forums about the company's future. RethinkDB itself is closing its doors …
Cloud startup Coupa Software prices IPO at $18 per share, raising $133M but its valuation drops from $1B to about $866M
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Behind the struggles of 3D Robotics, a once-promising US drone startup that has burned through almost $100M and laid off 150+ employees
On a clear March day last year, Chris Anderson led FORBES onto the outdoor deck at 3D Robotics' Berkeley, Calif. headquarters to discuss the future of flying robots. Tweets: @mattdrange , @rmac18 , @e...
eBay acquires visual search engine Corrigon for less than $30M
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Samsung Gear 360 review: an easy-to-use unit that takes good pictures but is held back by poor image stitching and durability issues
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Google says 20M+ students are using Chromebooks worldwide, up from 10M a year ago
I started working actively on K12 education … Chance Miller / 9to5Google : Google says more than 20M students now using Chromebooks, up from 10M last year Rajen Sheth / The Keyword : It takes a teache...
Shopify launches a Facebook Messenger integration to let businesses sell directly to customers from within the app
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Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom says that over 100M people use its new Stories feature daily
Mat Honan / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @benbajarin Tweets: Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin : This is likely from people not Snapchat users. So it's additive to the medium. http://twitter.com/...
Shazam launches an iMessage app for easily identifying and sharing songs
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Justin Bieber-backed Shots pivots from a social app to a content creation platform, which will sell video to competing platforms and share revenue with creators
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Profile of MailChimp, the 16-year-old Atlanta-based startup that makes marketing tools for SMBs, hasn't taken VC funding, and is on pace for $400M+ 2016 revenue
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times : Tweets: @avdi , @mims , @krogsgard , @caseynewton , @jasonlk , @wadefoster , @fmanjoo , @puiwingtam and @cfair1 . Thanks: @johnthebeeler Tweets: Avdi Grimm / @avdi : ...
Google says it will shut down its mobile app prototyping tool Pixate on October 31, after acquiring it a year ago
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