Yahoo appoints former Broadcom CFO Eric Brandt and former Morgan Stanley banker Catherine Friedman as directors; both have experience in helping sell firms
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China is building software to collate data on citizens' jobs, hobbies, consumption habits, and more to predict terrorist acts
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How Snapchat brings celebrities millions of views and offers advertisers a young audience
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Baidu CEO and Qiyi CEO offer to buy Baidu's 80.5% stake in the streaming video platform, valuing Qiyi at about $2.8B
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Transitioning to digital, banks file more patents and educate USPTO about their operations so examiners won't issue new bad patents
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai awarded 273K Alphabet shares worth about $199M, vesting in quarterly increments through 2019, SEC filing shows
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Apple says it has acquired LearnSprout, a startup that creates software for schools and teachers to track students' performance
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Oracle lawyer, in case against Google, says Android has generated $31B in revenue and $22B in profit; Google says the figures shouldn't have been made public
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Sources: Yahoo reassesses whether to spinoff its main Internet business, considers outright sale
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As private funding cools, more tech firms may IPO in 2016, but will need to show more for higher valuations
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