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Oracle selling $10 billion in bonds, giving hint to buying spree

FTC: T-Mobile made hundreds of millions from unwanted SMS features

Apple patches iOS, OS X and Safari on Mega Monday

Israeli security startup firm Hexadite automates cyber incident response

Dropbox for Business folders can now be shared in read-only mode

Netflix open sources its Amazon cloud security enforcer

Security Monkey keeps Netflix’s cloud safe, and can do the same for yours.

Ericsson hits 5Gbps in 5G labs demo

Microsoft boosts anti-snooping protection in Outlook.com, OneDrive

How to recover after a cloud computing misstep

Europe investing €5 billion to boost electronics sector

Spec showdown: HTC One mini 2 vs. Samsung Galaxy S5 mini

Samsung’s S5 mini: Slimmer and slower than S5, but still scans fingerprints

Microsoft’s takedown of No-IP pushes innocents into the crossfire

Four million domains have been shutdown, despite the fact that Microsoft only wants 18,472 of them

Twitter to acquire mobile advertising company TapCommerce

HP reaches agreement in shareholder suits over Autonomy acquisition

Energy providers hacked through malicious software updates

Google launches ‘cookie choices’ site to let Europeans know how they’re being tracked

Microsoft’s crusade against malware advances to Kuwait, Algeria

Databricks takes on Google streaming analysis with Spark

Senators question US surveillance transparency report

Bugcrowd adds ‘flex’ pricing model to bug-bounty programs

Idea is to get security researchers to vie to find unknown vulnerabilities in software.

Supreme Court declines to hear Google’s request in Street View lawsuit

Google is killing off Orkut

Google's longest-lived social project yet will shutter in the fall.

Hadoop distributor MapR gets $110M from Google

MapR’s product lets customers run Appache Hadoop on premises.

CoreOS Linux does away with the upgrade cycle

Oracle hopes to entice mobile developers with new framework

New malware program hooks into networking APIs to steal banking data

India a hotbed for next-generation smartphones on the cheap

Hewlett-Packard close to settling shareholder lawsuit over Autonomy

Privacy-focused Blackphone starts shipping to early adopters

Free Wi-Fi networks in SF, San Jose join hands through Hotspot 2.0

Europe cuts roaming charges, plans to eliminate them by end of next year

Cisco acquires tiny collaboration company

Assemblage develops one-click web collaboration tools

Microsoft to shutter security notification service

The Internet of Things at home: Why we should pay attention

Google terminates Quickoffice apps on Android, iOS

SIP global roll-out to accelerate through 2019

SIP market penetration today is the tip of the iceberg finds Eastern Management Group worldwide study of more than 15,000 businesses.

Avoid the gotchas of Office 365 migrations

It’s a complex task that benefits from experience

IT spending growth to be slower than expected in 2014 due to pricing pressure, Gartner says

Facebook researcher defends controversial psychology experiment on users

California law removes ban on alternative currencies

Aereo to “pause” service after Supreme Court defeat

With components, Google agitates for a revolution in Web development

Wall Street Beat: GoPro continues to soar after IPO as Nasdaq surges

Turning network resource management on its head through software-defined WANs

MonkeyParking says SF shut-down demand is bananas

Mark Hurd lays out Oracle’s cloud progress, plan to be number one

Smartwatches at work: Boon or bane for IT?

Groups pressure US lawmakers with NSA surveillance scorecard

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending June 27

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