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Sources: Twitter board consulting advisers on how to deal with internal disagreement over possible sale, with Ev Williams in favor of and Dorsey against it — A few days before Twitter's Sept. 8 board meeting, as the company's finance team readied a presentation, it received conflicting directions on a crucial question.
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See also Mediagazer| Reuters: |
Sources: Twitter has told potential acquirers it's seeking to conclude negotiations by Oct. 27, the day it reports its Q3 earnings — Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) has told potential acquirers it is seeking to conclude negotiations about selling itself by the time it reports third-quarter earnings on Oct. 27 …
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| Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post: |
US Justice Department confirms arrest of NSA contractor accused of stealing classified information — A government contractor has been arrested and charged with stealing highly classified information from the U.S. government, authorities announced Wednesday.
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| New York Times: |
Government official: Yahoo got FISA order to scan incoming email for terrorist digital signature, used existing spam filtering, no longer collecting this data — Yahoo was ordered last year to search incoming emails for the digital “signature” of a communications method used by a state-sponsored …
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| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Yahoo says the report that it built program to scan customers' incoming mail is “misleading” — @brianwomack , More stories by Brian Womack — Carefully worded statement calls Reuters article ‘misleading’ — CEO Mayer is under increasing scrutiny ahead of Verizon deal
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| New York Times: |
Signal received federal subpoena with gag order earlier this year, demanding IP addresses, browsing histories, cookies, and more, but could hand over little — SAN FRANCISCO — It has been six months since the Justice Department backed off on demands that Apple help the F.B.I. break the security of a locked iPhone.
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Johnson & Johnson warns of vulnerability in 114K insulin pumps across USA and Canada that could cause overdose if exploited — Johnson & Johnson is telling patients that it has learned of a security vulnerability in one of its insulin pumps that a hacker could exploit to overdose diabetic patients …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon rolls out Prime Reading, giving Prime members free access to more than 1,000 Kindle books and magazines — Amazon has unveiled the latest perk for Prime members in the U.S.: access to “over a thousand” Kindle books, comics, magazines, and more. — With Prime Reading …
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See also Mediagazer| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
PlayStation VR review: a decently priced and comfortable headset with some good launch titles, but held back by its motion controllers — This was supposed to be the year virtual reality broke out. The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the first two high-end consumer devices on the market …
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Tweets: @kotaku, @engadget, @film_girl, @tim, @starfire2258, @latoyapeterson, @davidwalshblog and @mims
| Justin Yu / CNET: |
Google confirms delayed Lenovo Phab2 Pro phone with Google Tango AR tech will be available in November for $499 in the US — Clay Bavor, head of VR and AR at Google, has confirmed the release date of the first phone with Google's depth-sensing 3D camera system. — 2016 is set to be a very big year for Google phones.
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
A look at MailChimp, the Atlanta-based startup that makes marketing tools for SMBs, which has never taken VC funding and is on track for $400M revenue in 2016 — No venture capital, no Bay Area presence, no crazy burn rate: MailChimp's founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers' needs and following their instincts.
Tweets: @krogsgard, @jasonlk, @caseynewton, @wadefoster, @mims, @fmanjoo, @puiwingtam and @cfair1. Thanks:@johnthebeeler
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Scratch testing suggests iPhone camera lens exterior may not be as hard as pure sapphire — Apple has been using sapphire on its iPhone camera lenses for a few years now since the launch of the iPhone 5S, but it might not be as scratch resistant as you'd expect.
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