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Microsoft offers EU hardware, software LinkedIn concessions: sources

BRUSSELS Microsoft will still allow LinkedIn's rivals access to its software and give hardware makers the option of installing other services to try to win EU approval for its takeover of the U.S. firm, people familiar with the matter said.

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Amazon explores live sports streaming: WSJ

Amazon.com Inc is exploring live sports streaming and has held talks with leagues including the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and the National Football League for live game rights, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources.

4:31pm EST

Blockchain startup R3 cuts fund-raising target to $150 million: source

NEW YORK Blockchain company R3 CEV has reduced the amount it aims to raise from bank members in its first large round of equity funding to $150 million from $200 million and is changing the structure of the deal, according to a person familiar with the plans.

Deals 5:10pm EST

EU rules to stem payment fraud may disrupt six billion euros of e-commerce: Visa

BRUSSELS The European Union's planned rules to reduce fraud by forcing the use of passwords or codes to authenticate electronic payments above 10 euros ($10.60) risk disrupting online shopping and may not increase security, Visa said on Tuesday.

6:03pm EST

Oracle to buy internet infrastructure provider Dyn

Business software maker Oracle Corp said on Monday it would buy Dyn, a monitor of global internet performance and traffic, to allow cloud customers to optimize their infrastructure costs and increase web-driven revenue.

Deals, Cybersecurity 9:13am EST

Hackers target ATMs across Europe as cyber threat grows

Cyber criminals have remotely attacked cash machines in more than a dozen countries across Europe this year, using malicious software that forces machines to spit out cash, according to Russian cyber security firm Group IB.

Cybersecurity 2:49pm EST