Note 7 recall, chips, and Samsung's China conundrum and other top stories.

• Note 7 recall, chips, and Samsung's China conundrum

  

  Samsung's chip business is half its profits and China is looking for its own success in chips.When a Chinese Baidu user alleged that their Galaxy Note 7 exploded, Samsung Electronics was swift in conducting its internal investigation and denying the allegations. In its recall announcement for the handset earlier this month that followed reports of the phones catching fire, Samsung Electronics singled out China as unaffected by the recall because batches there did not use faulty batteries. A rel..

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• Big email hack doesn't exactly send the message Yahoo needed

  

  FILE - In this June 5, 2014, file photo, people walk in front of a Yahoo sign at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Yahoo says the personal information of 500 million accounts have been stolen in a massive security breakdown that represents the latest setback for the beleaguered internet company. The breach disclosed on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, dates back to late 2014. Yahoo is blaming the hack on a “state-sponsored actor.” (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) ..

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• Marketers say Facebook video metrics scandal is overblown

  

  “The issue is being hugely overblown. Marketers do not care about it, and it has zero impact on spend.” That’s the response of Jason Stein, founder and CEO of 250-employee social marketing agency Laundry Service, to a Wall Street Journal report strongly criticizing an error in Facebook’s “average duration of video viewed” metric. The paper called the miscalculation “an embarrassment to Facebook”, which spurred a firestorm of criticism amongst the media. But TechCrunch spoke to a dozen social m..

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• Snapchat Releases First Hardware Product, Spectacles

  

  Sept. 23, 2016 10:05 p.m. ET IN AN UNMARKED BUILDING on a quiet side street just off the beach in Venice, California, 26-year-old Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel stands in a small conference room. He’s draped a towel over a mysterious object sitting on a table. He is eager to the point of jitters. “You wanna see it?” he asks, grinning widely. There’s drama in this reveal: I’m about to join an exceedingly small circle of people whom Spiegel has shown the object to. As he lifts the to..

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• Twitter Takeover: Google, Salesforce Express Interest In Acquiring Struggling Social Media Giant, Reports Say

  

  Twitter Inc. is inching closer to being sold. According to several media reports Friday — all of which cited unnamed sources — many technology companies, including Google and Salesforce, have expressed interest in acquiring the struggling social media giant.According to the two sources cited by Recode, selling Twitter is likely to fetch at least $30 billion.“I think [a Twitter acquisition] would be a way for a media or technology company to have immediate access to a sizable platform,” Anthony d..

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Bullies tormented a 9-year-old boy. Relatives say it may have driven the child to suicide. .	Study: Half of kids live in homes with guns but few pediatricians talk firearm safety .
Gold, silver gain on more bets the Fed will take it slow on raising rates .	FHP arrests St. Petersburg driver wanted in pedestrian death .