Researchers: Friday's internet outage, caused by DDoS attack on DynDNS, was powered in part by a Mirai-based botnet of DVRs and cameras with XiongMai components
A massive and sustained Internet attack that has caused outages and network congestion today for a large number of Web sites …
Sources: AT&T reaches agreement in principle to buy Time Warner for about $85B
AT&T Inc (T.N) has reached an agreement in principle to buy Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) for about $85 billion, sources said on Friday, paving the way for a blockbuster deal that would give the telecom com...
New York Governor Cuomo signs bill banning less than 30-day rental unit listings on sites like Airbnb when tenant is not present; Airbnb sues to block the law
Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill that could deal a blow to Airbnb's operations in New York State.
Facebook plans to show more images and stories with graphic content, including violence and nudity, if they're “newsworthy, significant or of public interest”
Facebook will soon display more graphic content including violence and nudity that would normally violate its policies …
Google updated its privacy policy this summer, letting Google combine personal info from Gmail and other tools with DoubleClick browsing data to target ads
When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company's …
David Bunnell, founder of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld, and a social activist, died Tuesday in Berkeley, CA, at age 69
The founder of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld was an entrepreneur who thought like a social activist. — In 1973, a former schoolteacher named David Bunnell got …
Why AT&T would want to buy Time Warner: content packaged with data connections, a shrinking DirecTV business, and competition with Verizon, Facebook, and Google
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson is busy, so we'll answer for him. — More than 16 years ago, AOL bought Time Warner for $160 billion …
Researchers find serious nine-year old privilege-escalation bug in Linux kernel, official patch released this week
Lurking in the kernel for nine years, flaw gives untrusted users unfettered root access. — A serious vulnerability that has been present for nine years in virtually …
Walmart to invest $50M in New Dada, a Chinese online grocery and delivery firm that has over 25M registered customers and delivers in over 300 cities
Wal-Mart Stores Inc will invest $50 million in Chinese online grocery and delivery firm New Dada, the U.S. retailer said on Friday …
App Annie: China overtakes the US in iOS App Store revenue, ending a six year run at the top
China has now overtaken the U.S. to become the largest market in the world for App Store revenue, according to a new report out this morning from app intelligence firm App Annie.
Microsoft reports Q1 2017 revenue of $20.5B, beating estimates, with Intelligent Cloud revenue up 8% to $6.4B, OEM revenue flat YoY as phone revenue drops 72%
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Facebook Launches a Big Ad Campaign for Facebook Live, With User Videos at the Core
Facebook Live is a big, important product for the world's biggest social network. But up to now, many users still don't really know what Live is, or how to use it. Or they might be intimidated by li...
India's Wipro pays $500M to acquire US-based cloud consulting firm Appirio, which works closely with Salesforce and Workday and had raised about $111M
Some more consolidation afoot in the cloud services industry, specifically around integration services.
Microsoft shares closed at the all-time high of $59.66 on Friday
Microsoft shares surged 5% in early trading, on track to pass a high set in 1999, helped by enthusiasm for progress in its cloud business. — The stock was up 5% at $60.30, poised to breeze past the ...
Microsoft says Azure revenue increased by 116% YoY in the most recent quarter, as compute usage doubles
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :
Microsoft's Surface business grew revenue 38% YoY, hitting $926M, in the most recent quarter
Matt Burns / TechCrunch :
Man arrested in Czech Republic, Yevgeniy Nikulin, indicted in US on charges related to hacking of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012
Joseph Cox / Motherboard :
Visa announces 2017 pilot of Visa B2B Connect, a business-to-business payment platform based on Chain's blockchain technology
Stan Higgins / CoinDesk :
Time Out to pay up to $2.94M for Yplan, the London-based event ticketing startup that had raised $37.5M
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Sources: Comcast's NBCUniversal finalizing deal for a second $200M investment in BuzzFeed at a valuation of $1.7B
Peter Kafka / Recode :
Kodak announces the Bullitt-designed Ektra Android smartphone with 5-inch FHD display, 21 MP camera, USB-C, priced at €499, available in Europe later this year
Anton Shilov / AnandTech :
Lyft's CMO, Kira Wampler, and VP of comms, Brandon McCormick, are leaving; ex-Pandora exec Melissa Waters replaces Wampler, Raj Kapoor joins as CSO
Johana Bhuiyan / Recode :
DocuSign introduces DocuSign Payments with support for all major credit cards, Apple Pay, and Android Pay; service to roll out early next year
Stephanie Condon / ZDNet :
Sources: Qualcomm nears a deal worth $34B to acquire NXP Semiconductors; purchase could be announced next week
Bloomberg :
Sources: Expedia-backed Trivago plans IPO by the end of November that could value it at $5B
Portia Crowe / Business Insider :
Verizon Q3 revenue of $30.9B falls short of expectations, 442K subscriber additions disappoint; IoT revenue jumped 24% YoY to $217M
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
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