Qualcomm's Board of Directors unanimously rejects Broadcom's unsolicited $103B offer
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) ("Qualcomm" or the “Company") today announced that its Board of Directors unanimously rejected the unsolicited proposal announced by Broadcom Limited ("Broadcom") ...
Lyft to launch its ride-hailing service in Toronto next month, its first market outside the US
The ride-hailing company Lyft, a major rival to Uber in the United States, is moving to gain ground internationally. — Lyft announced on Monday that it would be offering services in Toronto in time ...
KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple has 6.5" OLED, 6.1" LCD, and 5.8" OLED iPhones slated for late 2018 launch, all following the iPhone X form factor
Apple has three new iPhone models in the pipeline for a late 2018 launch, two of which will be the company's biggest handsets ever …
Sources: Amazon is developing a free, ad-supported version of its Prime video streaming service and is considering giving content creators their own channels
Amazon is developing a free, ad-supported complement to its Prime streaming video service, according to people familiar with its plans.
Mining begins of Bitcoin Gold, a fork of Bitcoin that aims to thwart specialized mining chips
The newest fork of the bitcoin blockchain is officially live after a rocky start. — Developers for the project, dubbed bitcoin gold, published software for the breakaway cryptocurrency today, releas...
YouTube decided to treat jihadist recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki as it treats terrorist organizations, removing most of his videos, including his mainstream lectures
WASHINGTON — For eight years, the jihadist propaganda of Anwar al-Awlaki has helped shape a generation of American terrorists …
Current draft of Senate Tax Reform Bill would tax stock options and RSUs upon vesting, which would have a devastating effect on equity compensation in startups
The current draft of the Senate Tax Reform Bill would tax stock options and RSUs upon vesting.
Sources: Uber-SoftBank deal to see investors buying $1B of Uber shares at current valuation, proceed with $9B tender offer for secondary shares in coming weeks
Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg :
Uber says it's entered into an agreement with a consortium led by SoftBank and Dragoneer on a potential investment
The paperwork's done! The long-anticipated SoftBank Group investment into Uber has been agreed upon, a spokesperson confirms to TechCrunch. — We've been provided the following statement.
Inside NSA's Tailored Access Operations group and the investigation into Shadow Brokers, a hack of NSA now considered much more damaging than Snowden leak
A serial leak of the agency's cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
Female VCs from Sequoia, Cowboy, Benchmark, and others launch Female Founder Office Hours, a series of events at which investors will advise women entrepreneurs
The female investors of venture capital are expanding their dinner party, so to speak. — Jess Lee, the former CEO …
As part of a broader effort to diversify its revenue streams outside of streaming, Spotify is now selling beauty products through its partnership with Merchbar
Spotify, the $16 billion digital music “startup” that is hotly tipped for an IPO, continues to lay the groundwork to diversify its platform beyond basic streaming.
UK-based Graphcore, maker of machine learning chips, has raised $50M from Sequoia Capital
UK chipmaker Graphcore has raised $50m from Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms, as the start-up angles to become Britain's biggest maker of artificial intelligence hard...
Sources: even with truce between Benchmark and Kalanick, the deal hinged on the success of SoftBank's tender offer for Uber's secondary shares
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Vulnerability present in many now-patched antivirus products including Malwarebytes allowed malware to leave quarantine and gain full system control
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
Facebook, blamed for unintended consequences of the service in nations like Myanmar, says “product and integrity research team” is headed to SE Asia this month
Zuckerberg needs to stop courting Beijing and start paying attention to the countries where Facebook matters. Tweets: @carnage4life , @mattocko , @_danielsinclair , @kenroth , and @foreignpolicy Tweet...
Chinese online lender WeLab, which tracks users' mobile data including number and nature of apps installed to determine creditworthiness, raises $220M Series B+
Zen Soo / South China Morning Post :
Behind Google's Fused Video Stabilization, combining optical image stabilization and electronic image stabilization, which it uses on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL
Google Research Blog :
Gaming hardware maker Razer's stock rises 18% in Hong Kong trading debut after raising ~$530M in IPO
Alibaba's Vast and Growing Reach South China Morning Post : Razer rallies 23pc in Hong Kong trading debut after US$528m IPO Jack Ellis / Tech in Asia : Razer shares surge early in oversubscribed $528m...
How three ProPublica reporters were attacked with Twitter bots and “email bombs” that forced the closure of reporters' email accounts
and inexpensive — it is for haters to disrupt our work.” https://www.propublica.org/... Micah Lee / @micahflee : After journalists contacted extremist websites to fact-check an article, hate groups em...
Semi-autonomous vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure tech struggles to draw attention away from independent, fully autonomous solutions like Waymo's
Kim Tingley / New York Times :
Study: increases and decreases in Uber's base fare have little effect on long-term driver earnings
Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @scottmaustin Tweets: Scott Austin / @scottmaustin : Fascinating Uber study confirms there is effectively no way to raise drivers' hourly wages Instead ...
Carrier billing startup Boku to raise $60M at a post-money valuation of $164M in London IPO on November 20
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