Broadcom offers $105B to buy Qualcomm for $70/share, a 28% premium to Qualcomm's closing price on Thursday, in deal valued at ~$130B including $25B of net debt
Broadcom is proposing to buy Qualcomm for $70 per share in a cash and stock deal valued at $130 billion, Bloomberg News reports.
Intel and AMD team up to co-design an Intel Core processor with custom AMD Radeon graphics, to bring top-tier games to thin and light notebook PCs
Absolutely incredible! Intel will ship a chip powered by AMD's Radeon graphics next year to bring top-tier, AAA games to the thin-and-light notebook market.
Sources: inability to agree on controlling stake, valuation, and fear of opposition from regulators doomed the T-Mobile-Sprint merger
After months of talks, billionaire Masayoshi Son was unwilling to give up control of his U.S. wireless network — During months of merger talks …
Amazon quietly rolls out a “Discount provided by Amazon” tag, discounting select items from independent merchants by up to 9%
The move allows the retail giant to compete more fiercely with low-cost rivals, but could hurt its relationship with big-name brands, manufacturers and merchants
Apple Says ‘Face With Tears of Joy’ is Most Popular Emoji in United States Among English Speakers
Apple has revealed that “face with tears of joy” is the most popular emoji among English speakers in the United States. — The face topped Apple's list of the top 10 emoji, ahead of a red heart …
Two Russian state-owned companies, VTB Bank and Gazprom, owned stakes in Yuri Milner's DST Global funds that invested in Facebook and Twitter pre-IPO
Institutions with close links to Kremlin financed stakes through business associate of Trump's son-in-law, leaked files reveal
Estonia freezes access to online services for 760K people using national ID cards until certificates potentially compromised via RSA security flaw are updated
Estonia's residents use their mandatory national IDs to access pretty much anything, from online banking to online voting.
Fourth-largest US cable operator Altice USA to start offering mobile voice and data services via MVNO deal with Sprint
(Reuters) - Altice USA (ATUS.N), the fourth-largest U.S. cable operator, said it would introduce mobile service on Sprint Corp's (S.N) network, becoming the latest …
Salesforce's collaboration service Quip launches a developer platform, adding third-party “Live Apps”
Originally a minimalist document editor, Salesforce's collaboration tool adds third-party apps in hopes of building the ultimate digital whiteboard.
US mobile trends in Q3: 62% of carrier net-adds from IoT and cars, smartphone penetration at 92%, phone upgrade cycle at 3 years, data use to pass 6GB/mo in '17
Highlights of the US Mobile Market Q3 2017 — After a brutal first quarter, the US wireless market had its best quarter of the year thus far.
Overview of Bitcoin's contentious SegWit2x fork, projected to occur on November 16, supported by some big Bitcoin startups and miners
Bitcoin has faced turmoil in the past but nothing like this. In two weeks, a massive fight taking place among bitcoin insiders could produce a ruinous schism …
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who holds large stakes in Twitter, Lyft, and Apple, arrested in apparent power consolidation
And How Washington Corruption Enabled It Philip Elmer-DeWitt : Arrested: Saudi prince who once owned 5% of Apple Kareem Fahim / Washington Post : Saudi Arabia detains princes, ministers and billionair...
A behind-the-scenes look at an e-commerce startup's successful ad campaign on Facebook, powered by Facebook's opaque AI ad-targeting algorithm
The platform is so good at “microtargeting” that many small e-commerce companies barely even bother advertising anywhere else. Tweets: @bluegrasscap and @stevendilla Tweets: Bluegrass Capital / @blueg...
Twitter's list of Russian trolls that it supplied to Congress included an account run by a real US citizen
Louise Matsakis / Motherboard :
Researchers find malware with Stuxnet-style use of legitimate digital certificates is much more common than previously believed, going back as early as 2003
Thanks to the Dark Web
Pew: 26% of US adults get news from two or more social media sites, up from 15% in 2013 and 18% in 2016; 50% of Facebook news users get news via Facebook alone
Elizabeth Grieco / Pew Research Center :
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