Amazon to buy Whole Foods Market for $13.7B in all-cash deal; John Mackey will remain CEO of Whole Foods Market, which will continue to operate stores
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WikiLeaks documents show how CIA infected WiFi routers from 10 manufacturers including D-Link and Linksys to monitor and manipulate traffic, infect more devices
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Qualcomm unveils reference design for smart speakers with support for Alexa and Google Assistant, also announces new chips for wireless audio products
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The story of Whole Foods, its founder John Mackey, and his battle with an activist hedge fund that led to the Amazon acquisition
Editor's Note: On June 16, 2017, Whole Foods agreed to sell itself to Amazon for $13.7 billion. This is the exclusive story that led up to that momentous decision for the Austin-based grocery giant.
Instacart, with four years left in its Whole Foods contract, says “Amazon just declared war” on grocery stores, faces difficult opportunity after Amazon deal
Yesterday, Amazon and Whole Foods ruined a perfectly slow news day on a Friday in June with the announcement …
Amazon has been laying groundwork to acquire a grocery chain, and Whole Foods has a strong brand and high-income demographic that lines up with its own
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Sources: NSA and Britain's National Cyber Security Centre link WannaCry ransomware attack to North Korean hacking group Lazarus
British security officials believe that hackers in North Korea were behind the cyber-attack that crippled parts of the NHS and other organisations around the world last month, the BBC has learned.
Amazon wants to become Walmart before Walmart can become Amazon
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YouTube intros heatmaps for VR, letting creators see where viewers look during 360° videos, says viewers spend 75% of their time looking at front 90 degrees
YouTube's growing library of VR content is a definite asset in Google's struggle to dominate the virtual reality sphere.
A look at Jeff Bezos' charitable donations, after he asks for ideas on philanthropy focused on “the right now”, for causes with “urgent need and lasting impact”
Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, is well on his way to becoming the richest person in the world …
Before Whole Foods the biggest Amazon acquisitions were Zappos for $1.2B (2009), Twitch for $970M (2014), Kiva Systems for $775M (2012), Souq for $650M (2017)
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After The Information reported Tencent is exploring a $3B bid for Rovio, the Angry Birds maker says an IPO is possible in the future
Finnish mobile game and animation studio Rovio, maker of the Angry Birds game, said it could list on the stock exchange in the future …
Analysis: at least 45 instances of violence, including rapes, murders, and suicides, have been broadcast via Facebook Live since its debut in December 2015
According to a new BuzzFeed News analysis, Facebook Live has a violence problem far greater than the one portrayed in national headlines.
Top EU court rules that ISPs can be ordered to block The Pirate Bay and other torrent sites
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Inside the DAO, an Ethereum crowdfunding project, the flaw that let a still unknown hacker steal $55M in ether, and the effort to save the DAO project
In June 2016, a hacker targeted a virtual currency known as ether. This is the story of the bold attempt to rewrite that history.
Last year a Facebook bug exposed the personal profiles of 1,000+ content moderators to administrators of the groups with removed terrorist content
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After teasing Ataribox, Atari CEO confirms company is working on a game console
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Experts detail how Russia is targeting US military personnel and veterans via a multi-pronged cyber espionage campaign involving phishing, catfishing, and more
With hacks, pro-Putin trolls and fake news, the Kremlin is ratcheting up its efforts to turn American servicemembers and veterans into a fifth column. Tweets: @natashabertrand , @kenvogel , and @natas...
Sources: Reddit is raising funding at a valuation of around $1.7B
The link-sharing website bulks up with venture capital — Snoop Dogg, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel among earlier backers — Reddit is one of the few relics of the mid-2000s internet that has not onl...
Chinese online used car trading platform Guazi.com raises $400M Series B led by Sequoia China; Guazi was valued at $1B during $250M Series A in September 2016
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Profile of Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims he invented email and is running as a Republican in a 2018 senatorial election, amid his libel lawsuit against Techdirt
Ars Technica : Tweets: @shanselman and @rmac18 Tweets: Scott Hanselman / @shanselman : Absolutely fascinating story about a sad an delusional man who insists he invented email decades after it starte...
Crowdfunding for medical expenses on sites like GoFundMe and YouCaring is on the rise and could grow even further if more Americans become uninsured
Suzanne Woolley / Bloomberg : Tweets: @kamalaharris and @sarahkliff Tweets: Kamala Harris / @kamalaharris : Americans shouldn't have to turn to the internet and the kindness of strangers to pay for t...
Gym membership startup ClassPass raises $70M Series C led by Temasek, at what the CEO says is a $470M post-money valuation
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @stevekovach Tweets: Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : This is a quote from the ClassPass CEO https://www.wsj.com/... pic.twitter.com/CMj4UFgEuj
Intellectual Ventures spin-out Pivotal Commware, developing antenna from metamaterials for software defined radios, raises $17M Series A from Bill Gates, others
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