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document.write('<p class="rss-title"><a class="rss-title" href="http://www.techmeme.com/" target="frame0">Techmeme</a><br /><span class="rss-item">Tech Web, page A1</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200930/p8#a200930p8" target="frame0">Baidu\'s Smart Living Group division, which focuses on voice assistants and smart devices, raises an undisclosed sum at a $2.9B valuation (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 30 Sep 2020 02:55:02 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Baidu\'s Smart Living Group division, which focuses on voice assistants and smart devices, raises an undisclosed sum at a $2.9B valuation&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; - Chinese internet giant Baidu has raised an undisclosed sum of money for its business division focused on voice assistants and smart devices.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200930/p7#a200930p7" target="frame0">Taipei-based travel startup KKday raises $75M Series C, says a pivot to domestic package tours has helped after sales plunged 90% in March (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 30 Sep 2020 02:40:01 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Taipei-based travel startup KKday raises $75M Series C, says a pivot to domestic package tours has helped after sales plunged 90% in March&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; - KKday closes $75 million Series C funding despite Covid-19&nbsp; &mdash; Sales from domestic travel in Taiwan grew five times in summer');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200930/p6#a200930p6" target="frame0">Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian national convicted by a San Francisco federal jury in July for hacking LinkedIn and Dropbox in 2012, sentenced to 7+ years in prison (DataBreaches.net)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 30 Sep 2020 02:25:00 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('DataBreaches.net: Yevgeniy Nikulin, a Russian national convicted by a San Francisco federal jury in July for hacking LinkedIn and Dropbox in 2012, sentenced to 7+ years in prison&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; More than two years after he was extradited from Czechoslovakia where he was arrested in 2016 for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200930/p5#a200930p5" target="frame0">Coinbase offers an exit package with four to six months severance pay and six months COBRA for employees who are not comfortable with its apolitical mission (Frank Chaparro/The Block)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 30 Sep 2020 01:50:02 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('Frank Chaparro / The Block: Coinbase offers an exit package with four to six months severance pay and six months COBRA for employees who are not comfortable with its apolitical mission&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Coinbase is offering a package for employees seeking an exit after the release of a blog post from its CEO outlining &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200930/p4#a200930p4" target="frame0">Sonos files another patent lawsuit against Google, alleging infringement of five wireless audio patents across the entire line of Nest and Chromecast products (Nilay Patel/The Verge)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 30 Sep 2020 01:30:03 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('Nilay Patel / The Verge: Sonos files another patent lawsuit against Google, alleging infringement of five wireless audio patents across the entire line of Nest and Chromecast products&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Rocket docket, engage&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Sonos has filed another patent lawsuit against Google, alleging that the search giant &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200930/p3#a200930p3" target="frame0">Sources: DOJ is expected to sue Google as soon as next week and is currently urging state attorneys general to sign onto the lawsuit (Reuters)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 30 Sep 2020 01:05:01 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('Reuters: Sources: DOJ is expected to sue Google as soon as next week and is currently urging state attorneys general to sign onto the lawsuit&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is expected to sue Alphabet\'s Google as soon as next week, and is currently urging state attorneys general &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200930/p2#a200930p2" target="frame0">LG says its Wing smartphone will be available in the US beginning October 15 from Verizon and later this fall from AT&T and T-Mobile, starting at $1,000 (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:50:01 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: LG says its Wing smartphone will be available in the US beginning October 15 from Verizon and later this fall from AT&amp;T and T-Mobile, starting at $1,000&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; LG\'s wild sliding phone won\'t be cheap&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; LG\'s wild-looking Wing smartphone has gotten a US price and release date &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200930/p1#a200930p1" target="frame0">Cloudflare launches a free \"privacy-first\" analytics tool to rival Google Analytics that records how users engage with websites without invasive tracking (David Meyer/Fortune)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 30 Sep 2020 00:15:10 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('David Meyer / Fortune: Cloudflare launches a free &ldquo;privacy-first&rdquo; analytics tool to rival Google Analytics that records how users engage with websites without invasive tracking&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The cybersecurity and content-distribution company Cloudflare has become a major part of the Internet\'s infrastructure &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200929/p41#a200929p41" target="frame0">Clubhouse courted fresh controversy after a conversation with hundreds of listeners devolved into a platform for anti-Semitic comments on a Jewish holy day (Bloomberg)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:40:02 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('Bloomberg: Clubhouse courted fresh controversy after a conversation with hundreds of listeners devolved into a platform for anti-Semitic comments on a Jewish holy day&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Controversial private social app Clubhouse was again the target of criticism on Monday, after a conversation with hundreds &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200929/p40#a200929p40" target="frame0">Apple and Epic Games stated in a court filing on Tuesday that their coming court battle should be decided in a bench trial by a judge, not a jury (Mikey Campbell/AppleInsider)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:00:29 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: Apple and Epic Games stated in a court filing on Tuesday that their coming court battle should be decided in a bench trial by a judge, not a jury&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Apple and Epic have agreed that the coming court battle should be decided in a bench trial by a judge, not a jury.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200929/p39#a200929p39" target="frame0">Apple says several of its services including App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple Arcade are back online after facing outages on Tuesday evening (Juli Clover/MacRumors)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:20:01 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple says several of its services including App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, and Apple Arcade are back online after facing outages on Tuesday evening&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Several of Apple\'s services appear to be experiencing issues, with MacRumors readers reporting problems with Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple News+, the App Store, and more.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200929/p38#a200929p38" target="frame0">Tencent to take private NYSE-listed Chinese search engine Sogou in a $3.5B deal; Tencent had previously revealed that it had a 39.2% stake in Sogou in July (Reuters)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:05:00 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('Reuters: Tencent to take private NYSE-listed Chinese search engine Sogou in a $3.5B deal; Tencent had previously revealed that it had a 39.2% stake in Sogou in July&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; (Reuters) - Sogou Inc said on Tuesday shareholder Tencent Holdings Ltd would take the web search firm private in a $3.5 billion deal &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200929/p37#a200929p37" target="frame0">DivvyDose, an online pharmacy competing with Amazon\'s PillPack and Walmart\'s CareZone, is acquired by UnitedHealth; source says deal was worth $300M+ (Christina Farr/CNBC)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:30:00 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('Christina Farr / CNBC: DivvyDose, an online pharmacy competing with Amazon\'s PillPack and Walmart\'s CareZone, is acquired by UnitedHealth; source says deal was worth $300M+&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; - UnitedHealth Group has acquired DivvyDose, a competitor to Amazon-owned PillPack.&nbsp; &mdash; A spokesperson declined to comment.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200929/p36#a200929p36" target="frame0">Twitter hires Rinki Sethi as its new CISO following its July 15 hack; Sethi previously worked at cloud data management company Rubrik (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:00:13 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Twitter hires Rinki Sethi as its new CISO following its July 15 hack; Sethi previously worked at cloud data management company Rubrik&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Sethi previously served in security roles at Rubrik, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, Intuit, and eBay.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; After leaving the position unfilled for months &hellip;');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.techmeme.com/200929/p35#a200929p35" target="frame0">Prior to their Wednesday direct listing debuts, the NYSE set reference prices for Palantir at $7.25 and Asana at $21 per share (Wall Street Journal)</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:45:02 -0400</span><br />');
document.write('Wall Street Journal: Prior to their Wednesday direct listing debuts, the NYSE set reference prices for Palantir at $7.25 and Asana at $21 per share&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Both companies are poised to do direct listings on Wednesday; only two other notable companies have done them before&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Data firm Palantir Technologies Inc &hellip;');
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