7 October
- BMW, iVentures, Toyota & Allianz: Investing In NAUTO (Tech Crunch)
- Google: ‘Made By Google’ Shop Opening Soon In NY; Google Play Music Teamed Up With Runtastic; and To Shut Down Panoramio (Google; Google; Cnet)
- Facebook: ‘Events From Facebook’ (FB)
- Samsung: US Carriers Allows Second Replacement Of Galaxy 7 Note; To Pay Apple $120m (The Wall Street Journal; Mac Rumors)
- Snapchat: Bringing Big Changes To Stories (RE/Code)
6 October
- LinkedIn: LinkedIn Career Pages Next Generation (LinkedIn)
- Didi: To Invest In Silicon Valley And Develop A Self-Driving Car (Bloomberg)
- Google: ‘Noto Project’; ‘Code Next’; Partnership With Verizon On System Updates For Pixels; and Adwords Conversion Import For Salesforce (Google; Wired; 9to5Google, Google)
- Instagram: Turns 6 And ‘Stories’ Hits 100m Daily Views (BuzzFeed)
- Facebook: Social Virtual Reality With Oculus; Oculus Prototype For Wireless VR; and $250m Investment In VR (Cnet; Cnet; Tech Crunch)
- Snapchat: Working On $25bn IPO Valuing Firm (The Wall Street Journal)
- Spotify & Apple Music: Unofficial Dj Remixes (Tech Crunch)
- Verizon: Claims $1bn Discount On Yahoo Deal (The New York Post)
- Uber & Lyft: Ordered To Stop Operating In Philadelphia (Philly.com)
5 October
- Amazon: ‘Prime Reading’; and ‘Amazon Fresh’ Price Reduction (Amazon; Amazon)
- Shopify: Now Sells Through FB Messenger (Tech Crunch)
- Google: 2m Miles With Self-Driving Cars (NewCo Shift)
- Samsung: Replacement Galaxy Note 7 Ignites On A Plane; and To Buy Viv (The Verge; RE/Code)
- eBay: To Acquire Corrigon (eBay)
- Theranos: Closing Labs And Wellness Centres (Theranos)
- Apple: iOS App Development Centre In Naples; App Store Displays Search Ads In The US (The Guardian; Venture Beat)
- Twitter: Shares 9% Down; and Bidders Are Increasingly Far (Reuters; Re/Code)
4 October
- Yahoo: ‘Newsroom’; and Email Snooping (Yahoo; Reuters)
- Mastercard: ‘Selfie Pay’ Comes To Europe (Daily Mail)
- Google: ‘Hardware Event’ 2016 Today; ‘Pixel’; ‘Daydream View’; Wi-Fi New System; ‘Chromecast Ultra’; ‘Google Home’; and ‘Actions On Google’ (Tech Crunch; The Verge; Google; Google; The Next Web; Fortune; Google)
- Facebook: Messenger’s Encryption is Now Available (Wired)
- Netflix: Signs Agreement With iPic Entertainment (The Wall Street Journal)
- Apple: Apple Pay Launched In Russia; Discontinues Older Apple TV (TASS; Mac Rumors)
3 October
- Microsoft: $3bn European Cloud Investment (Microsoft)
- Facebook: ‘Marketplace‘; ‘Messenger Lite’ For Emerging Markets; and To Build Data Centre In Denmark (FB; Reuters; Business Insider)
- Shopify: Boltmade Acquisition (Shopify)
- Egnyte: A Deep Partnership With Microsoft (Egnyte)
- Google: Gets An Extension To Reply To EU Antitrust Charges (Reuters)
- Amazon: Customer Reviews New Rules (Amazon)
- Apple: iTunes ‘Spoken Edition’ (Applelnsider)
- Salesforce: To Buy Krux (The Wall Street Journal)
- WhatsApp: New Camera Features (WhatsApp)
- Uber: Last-Mile Pilot Program In News Jersey (BuzzFeed)
- Faraday Future: Announced Partnership With LG (Faraday Future)
- Luxottica & Intel: Launching ‘Radar Pace’ (Luxottica)