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VMWare to acquire cybersecurity company Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7B
Overstock CEO Partick Byrne has resigned from the e-commerce company after his comments about being involved in a "Deep State" investigation of 2016 election
Krishna Bharat, who led the team that built Google News, returns to the company as a distinguished research scientist after a four-year hiatus
Fitbit wins a Singapore government contract to provide fitness trackers for free for up to a million citizens who subscribe to the $10/month premium service
Sources: a slew of staff have left Apple's health unit as some feel it could be tackling more ambitious projects but is limited to wellness and prevention goals
Trump tweets without evidence that Google ‘manipulated’ votes in the 2016 election and ‘should be sued’
Facebook, Twitter accuse China of running disinformation campaign against Hong Kong protesters
Amazon is passing along costs of a new digital tax to thousands of French sellers
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Amazon executives gave campaign contributions to the head of Congressional antitrust probe two months before July hearing
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A look at donations by major tech execs to 2020 presidential candidates, with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders notably absent from the list of recipients
Japan surpasses China as largest foreign holder of US Treasurys
Beto O’Rourke goes after key immunity for social media companies if they allow users to incite violence
Nvidia CEO says Google is the only customer building its own silicon at scale
GE falls the most in 11 years after Madoff whistleblower calls it a ‘bigger fraud than Enron’
AOL held talks to buy YouTube, Facebook in 2006, ex-CEO reveals
Web security company Cloudflare files to go public
Amazon launches program to donate unsold products, after reports millions being destroyed
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VMware says it is in talks to acquire Pivotal Software for $15 per share in cash, an 80% premium on Pivotal's $8.30 closing price on Wednesday
Amazon is launching a new program to donate unsold products, after reports that millions were being destroyed
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Cisco reports Q4 revenues of $13.43B, up 6% YoY, and revenues of $7.88B for Infrastructure Platforms, up 6% YoY; stock down 6%+ after hours after weak guidance
WeWork warns in its S-1 filing that it may have violated the Securities Act when its CEO gave media interviews in May, violating SEC's quiet period rules
Facebook hired people to transcribe voice calls made on Messenger
4chan user posted about Jeffrey Epstein’s death before it was public
Wheels Up, a subscription-based private aviation company that wants to be the Airbnb of private aviation, raises $128M Series D at a valuation of $1.1B
Sources: Goldman Sachs is approving Apple Card applications for some users with low credit scores as Apple wants as many of its customers as possible approved
Trump says US will cut ties with Huawei, but that could change if there's a trade deal with China
Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber considered buying food delivery startup Caviar before DoorDash acquired it for $410M, but decided to pass on the deal
After denying it broke Instagram's rules, Hyp3r says it has taken its services offline for now, and is planning to meet with Facebook as soon as next week
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Broadcom acquires Symantec's enterprise business for $10.7B in cash
Amazon is developing high-tech surveillance tools for an eager customer: America’s police
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Apple, Eli Lilly, and health data startup Evidation team up on a study on how iPhones, Watches, and Beddit sleep monitors may help detect dementia
Jay Leno loves his Tesla: ‘There’s almost no reason to have a gas car’
Big Tech lost $162 billion in value in Monday’s market route, led by plunge in Apple
Profile of Jeremi Gorman, Snap's chief business officer, credited with turning around Snap's ad business, which is expected to make $1.36B this year, up 30% YoY
Apple CEO Tim Cook calls US inaction on gun control ‘insanity’ after mass shootings
Senators demand Google make contractors full-time employees after 6 months
Twitter users are escaping online hate by switching profiles to Germany, where Nazism is illegal
Apple spent $4.2B, or 7.9% of its revenue, on R&D in Q3, the highest percentage of R&D spending since 2003, and is on track to spend $16B in 2019
Apple will add 5G to 2020 iPhones to compete with Android, analyst says
Former Building 8 employees shed light on Facebook's challenges in trying to break into consumer hardware, as it struggles to turn Portal into a success
Square Q2: revenue of $563M, up 46% YoY, gross payment volume of $26.8B, Cash app revenue of $135M, but guidance below expectations; stock down 6%+ after hours
Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades
Pinterest beats with Q2 revenue of $261M, up 62% YoY, global MAUs of 300M, up 30% YoY, and an EBITDA loss of $26M, vs. $39M est.; stock up 12%+ after hours
Jeff Bezos sells $1.8 billion worth of Amazon stock in three days
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