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| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne Benioff, to buy Time Magazine for $190M from Meredith Corp., expecting to close within 30 days — Benioffs won't have day-to-day operational role at Time Magazine — Time magazine will have a new home.
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| Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle: |
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Tweets: @sfchronicle, @salesforcejobs, @benioff, @valaafshar, and @sfchronicle
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Mobile social network Path, which Google reportedly tried to acquire for $100M and which was once raising money at a $500M valuation, is closing down on Oct. 18 — It's that time again, folks, time to say goodbye to a social media service from days past. — Following the shuttering …
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Path, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, CNET, SlashGear, Engadget, The Mac Observer, and Tech in Asia
Tweets: @path, @buzzfeedben, @etherington, and @path
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Current and former Apple execs including Eddy Cue, Tony Fadell, Greg Joswiak, and John Sculley recount anecdotes from their time at the Infinite Loop campus — Apple's old HQ holds stories of pizza ovens, iPhone secrets, baseball bats, and what happened to Steve Jobs' office.
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AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @waltmossberg and @pschiller
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Security researcher finds a new CSS-based attack that crashes and restarts iPhones after malicious HTML is rendered, like when a user visits a malicious link — Vulnerability most likely affects any iOS and macOS app that uses the WebKit rendering engine to display web pages. Apple is investigating.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon adds a new section to its website called Amazon Storefronts, a retail hub exclusive to SMBs from US, featuring 1M+ products from ~20K companies — Amazon would really like to convince you that it isn't putting small businesses out of work — Amazon is introducing a new section …
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| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Italian court sentences a man who sold hospitality businesses fake reviews on TripAdvisor to nine months in jail — Fake reviews are a blight on the Internet, but in many jurisdictions they are also illegal. For example, in the European Union, they've been outlawed for more than a decade.
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| Linus Torvalds / LKML Archive on lore.kernel.org: |
Linux creator and project lead Linus Torvalds apologizes for years of rude behavior, says he is temporarily stepping away from Linux maintenance to get better — From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Subject …
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Gizmodo, Thurrott.com, ZDNet, Jono Bacon, SiliconANGLE, Motherboard, Inquirer, BetaNews, and The Register
Tweets: @zekjur, @timbray, @aprilwensel, @emolyfong, @filosottile, @jeanqasaur, @garybernhardt, @shanselman, @johnnysunshine, @anildash, @erratarob, and @profjeffjarviss
| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
WeWork acquires Teem, an office space scheduling and workplace analytics platform, to add to Powered by We product suite; sources: WeWork paid $100M for Teem — FOR AS LONG as WeWork has been selling memberships to its coworking spaces, investors and analysts have quibbled about whether it's …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google remotely enabled Battery Saver mode for users running Android 9 Pie, during an “internal experiment”, has since apologized and reset settings to default — You'd think there would be more safeguards for preventing this kind of thing — Yesterday a mix of people …
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BBC, Thurrott.com, Android Police, TechSpot, Softpedia News, and Boing Boing. Tweets: @backlon
| Danah Boyd / Data & Society: |
How extremists exploit tech's respect of “free speech” and media's bias to cover “both sides” to amplify fringe messages and get into mainstream conversation — This is a crib of a talk that Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd gave at the Online News Association conference … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Sisense, a startup that helps customers understand and visualize their data across multiple sources, raises $80M Series E led by Insight Venture Partners — Sisense, a company that helps customers understand and visualize their data across multiple sources, announced an $80 million Series …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
AR startup Blippar announces the close of a $37M financing round, bringing total raised to $137M; the company says it hopes to reach profitability in 12 months — Blippar, the AR startup that launched in 2011, has today announced the close of a $37 million financing led by Candy Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures.
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