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Latest from Edward Snowden leaks: The NSA and others (Canada, U.K., Australia and New Zealand) planned to hijack Google and Samsung app stores to infect smartphones with spyware.
Hoping to boost sales to state-owned companies in China, Hewlett-Packard is selling a majority stake in its Chinese server, storage and technology business, H3C, for $2.3 billion to Tsinghua University.
Google is developing a software platform called Brillo for Internet of Things, according to the Information.
Study: Connected cars could cause data traffic jams.
Promoted tweets from fake account supposedly belonging to a feminist campaigner targets transgender people, including a tweet urging them to kill themselves.
Marc Andreessen and his wife, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, team up with HP to donate nearly $170,000 worth of computers, printers and other equipment to libraries in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri.
Oracle is reportedly cutting 40 percent of the employees in its industry-solutions business.
San Francisco-based payments startup Stripe is reportedly raising funds at $5 billion valuation.
Nikesh Arora, a former Google executive, has been named chairman of Yahoo Japan. Arora was named president of SoftBank last week, and is expected to succeed CEO Masayoshi Son, who will remain on Yahoo Japan s board as a director. SoftBank owns a 43 percent stake in Yahoo Japan.
EBay is testing a shipping program similar to Amazon Prime in Germany.
ICYMI: NetApp is laying off 500 employees. Cisco is being accused of altering sales records to dodge sanctions against selling products in Russia, a charge the company denies. And Spotify moves into video, podcasts and news.
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