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Blockchain technology and crypto-tokens enable new business models for creating open protocols, financed by the tokens protocol creators retain at launch (Fred Wilson/AVC) אסף מגידש

How the rise of the Internet of Things threatens to make it much easier for cyberattacks to cause damage in the real world (Bruce Schneier/Motherboard) אסף מגידש

Source: Uber to invest $500M into its own global mapping project (Leslie Hook/Financial Times) אסף מגידש

Walgreens to shutter Drugstore.com and Beauty.com, which were a part of a $429M acquisition in 2011, to focus on its own website (Paul Ziobro/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Google has issued patches for 115 Android Stagefright-related flaws since vulnerability was made public a year ago (Sean Michael Kerner/eWeek) אסף מגידש

Cisco cybersecurity report: 9.5K ransomware victims pay ransoms each month, the average ransom is about $300, generating up to $34M a year for hackers (Jonathan Vanian/Fortune) אסף מגידש

Verizon's goal with Yahoo and AOL: compete with Google and Facebook in digital advertising by sharing data on its wireless customers with advertisers (David Gelles/New York Times) אסף מגידש

Chinese consortium led by Giant to buy Playtika, a virtual goods social casino game company, for $4.4B (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Sarah and Peiter "Mudge" Zatko create Cyber Independent Testing Lab to test and score the security of software (Kim Zetter/The Intercept) אסף מגידש

Navy officials say the US uses submarines to carry out cyberattacks (Brian Fung/Washington Post) אסף מגידש

British Spies Used a URL Shortener to Honeypot Arab Spring Dissidents (Mustafa Al-Bassam/Motherboard) אסף מגידש

Samsung Galaxy Note 7, new Gear VR specs and pics leak; Note 7 will have iris scanner, 5.7-inch QHD display, 4GB of RAM, 12 MP f/1.7 camera, 3500 mAh battery (Stephen Hall/9to5Google) אסף מגידש

Clinton campaign: DNC's data analytics program we used was breached; no evidence hackers accessed internal systems (Hillary Clinton 2016) אסף מגידש

Only two of 21 tech companies acquired in 2016 for $1B+ were venture-backed unicorns (CB Insights) אסף מגידש

Baidu suffers record profit drop after instituting new policies limiting ads on its pages following the death of a man who used treatment he found via Baidu (Jon Russell/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

IRS delivers a notice of deficiency for $3B-$5B to Facebook, claims Facebook undervalued assets transferred to Irish subsidiary in 2010 (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Density raises $4M series A as it unveils new people-counter device and service (Mary Catherine O'Connor/IOT Journal) אסף מגידש

Clinton campaign: DNC's data analytics program we used was accessed; no evidence of internal systems breach found (Sam Thielman/Guardian) אסף מגידש

Recent hacks indicate US election systems and voting machines could be targeted too; government must take urgent steps to secure them, and consider retaliation (Bruce Schneier/Schneier on Security) אסף מגידש

Sources: Clinton campaign computer network hacked in addition to Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (Reuters) אסף מגידש

Instagram will soon let users filter comments on their posts, turn off comments on individual posts, or turn off comments on their posts entirely (Hayley Tsukayama/Washington Post) אסף מגידש

Big data integrator Talend pops 54% in Nasdaq debut, raising $94.5M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Source: several private equity firms contemplate a buyout of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information) אסף מגידש

Deleted WhatsApp messages leave behind forensic artifacts that could be reconstructed by someone with access to your device or iCloud backups (Jonathan Zdziarski/Zdziarski's Blog ...) אסף מגידש

Amazon reaches new high of 268,900 employees - skyrocketing 47% in just one year (Nat Levy/GeekWire) אסף מגידש

US district court rules Facebook must refund in-app purchases made by minors in the US should they or their parents request it (Olivia Solon/Guardian) אסף מגידש

Sony posts $205M profit as downsized mobile business stops bleeding cash (Jon Russell/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Filing: Microsoft to layoff 2,850 from mobile and sales divisions as it completes Nokia cuts, which started in 2015 (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Sources: FBI investigates cyber intrusion into DCCC, following DNC breach, and its potential ties to Russian hackers (Reuters) אסף מגידש

Gurbaksh Chahal out as CEO of Gravity4, will be replaced by his sister Kamal Kaur, after judge finds he violated probation (Kate Conger/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Uber launches UberCentral, a website for businesses to book and pay for multiple Uber rides (Kia Kokalitcheva/Fortune) אסף מגידש

Earning $857M in Q2, Amazon posts record profit for the third straight quarter (Jason Del Rey/Recode) אסף מגידש

Alphabet shows strong growth in non-ads business, reporting $2.17B in "other revenues" from segments like enterprise, Google Play, and hardware, up 33% YoY (Mark Bergen/Recode) אסף מגידש

Amazon Web Services posts $2.88 billion in revenue in Q2 2016, up 58% from last year (Jordan Novet/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Alphabet beats expectations with net profit of $4.88B, up 24% YoY, on revenue of $21.5B, up 21% YoY (Jack Nicas/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Amazon beats expectations in Q2 with $1.78 earnings per share vs. $1.11 expected and $30.4B in revenue vs. $29.55B expected (Katie Roof/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales up 31% to $30.4 Billion (Business Wire) אסף מגידש

Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2016 Results (Alphabet) אסף מגידש

Google introduces add-ons for Docs and Sheets on Android; initial integrations include DocuSign and Scanbot (Saurabh Gupta/Official Google ...) אסף מגידש

IDC: Smartphone shipments flat for second quarter in a row; Samsung widens lead over Apple in Q2 2016 (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Source: Apple's car project switches focus to developing an autonomous driving software system, though Apple isn't ditching efforts to create its own vehicle (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Dropbox launches AdminX, a new dashboard allowing IT admins to better control their companies' files and users on Dropbox Business accounts (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

How Apple's assertive negotiating style alienated cable providers and networks, and hurt its efforts to revolutionize the TV industry (Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Garrett Camp's Expa Studios launches Haus, a startup that digitizes the buying and selling of residential property to increase transparency (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Didi Chuxing and Uber to become legal in China starting November; drivers must be licensed, have three years experience, and no criminal record (Paul Mozur/New York Times) אסף מגידש

Keys to Chimera crypto ransomware allegedly leaked by rival crime gang (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Upthere, a cloud storage service letting all your devices see the same files, exits beta, announces $77M in funding led by KPCB and Western Digital (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Oracle to Buy Cloud-Software Provider NetSuite for $9.3 Billion (Jay Greene/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Cortana in Windows 10 Anniversary Update can't be turned off fully, but its reach can be limited (Ian Paul/PCWorld) אסף מגידש

Groupon stock up 20%+ after hours as company tops estimates with Q2 rev. of $756M vs. $711M expected, adjusts guidance to $3B-3.1B, up from $2.75B-$3.05B (Amina Elahi/Chicago Tribune) אסף מגידש