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Analysis From Apple’s Developer Conference: A Series of Upgrades

By BRIAN X. CHEN, FARHAD MANJOO and VINDU GOEL

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At its annual conference for software developers on Monday, Apple was trying to demonstrate that it was still a purveyor of high-quality software and services.

Apple announced new features for the operating systems running its products, reflecting pressure to improve its software and services as hardware sales slow.

Apple Starts to Woo Its App Developers

By VINDU GOEL and KATIE BENNER

With growing competition from the likes of Google and Amazon, Apple appears to be working to improve its relationship with app makers.

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From left, Jeff Weiner, chief executive of LinkedIn; Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft; and Reid Hoffman, a founder of LinkedIn.

Microsoft to Buy LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion

By NICK WINGFIELD

The companies said that Microsoft would pay $196 a share to acquire LinkedIn, the business social network site.

Advisers Are Winners in Microsoft-LinkedIn Deal For Microsoft, LinkedIn Deal Could Be a $26.2 Billion Time Machine 7:03 PM

Oren Falkowitz, left, and Blake Darché, two of the founders of Area 1 Security, at Cate Machine and Welding in Belleville, Wis. Cate is among the businesses allowing Area 1 to monitor activity on their servers in order to alert potential victims of an attack.

A Computer Security Start-Up Turns the Tables on Hackers

By NICOLE PERLROTH

Area 1 Security heads off cyberattacks by tapping into servers known to be compromised by hackers, and monitoring the attackers’ activities.

The Chinese Hackers in the Back Office 5:00 AM

Cate Machine & Welding has allowed Area 1, a digital security company, to monitor the activity on a dusty, old server taken over by Chinese hackers so that potential victims of an attack can be warned.

The Chinese Hackers in the Back Office

By NICOLE PERLROTH

A dusty old computer in a mom-and-pop Wisconsin welding shop is giving a digital security firm a window into the operations of Chinese hackers.

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What You Need to Know About Apple’s Software Upgrades

By BRIAN X. CHEN

The Apple operating systems of iOS, tvOS, MacOS and WatchOS will be upgraded in the fall.

Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox, announced the Microsoft Xbox One S at E3, a video game trade show in Los Angeles.

Microsoft Takes Aims at Sony With Cheaper Xbox, Virtual Reality and Cross-Platform Games

By KATIE BENNER

Fighting to hold on to console players, Microsoft will sell a cheaper Xbox One and introduce a virtual reality console next year.

Microsoft’s extraordinarily generous takeover bid harks back to a time of higher valuations for technology companies.

For Microsoft, LinkedIn Deal Could Be a $26.2 Billion Time Machine

By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and LESLIE PICKER

Microsoft’s extraordinarily generous takeover bid harks back to a time of higher technology valuations, but some analysts say there’s no going back.

Microsoft to Buy LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion 3:09 PM

Craig Federighi, a software engineering executive at Apple, at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Apple is struggling with flat sales.

Apple to Offer App Developers Access to Siri and iMessage

By VINDU GOEL

In an effort to keep developers happily writing apps for its software, as well as to reinvigorate its products, Apple will allow access to two of its crown jewels, hoping to spur creativity.

Analysis From Apple’s Developer Conference: A Series of Upgrades 3:31 PM

Microsoft and Apple Making Headlines

By PUI-WING TAM

Microsoft’s planned acquisition of LinkedIn and Apple’s developer conference were the talk of tech on Monday.

Tech Tip

Keeping an iPhone Online When the Signal Is Weak

By J. D. BIERSDORFER

Wi-Fi Assist in iOS 9 can keep your device connected to the internet even when your wireless network signal is wobbly, but you may have to pay for it.

A Walgreens store in Union Square in Manhattan. The drug retailer said on Sunday it would no longer offer Theranos lab services, which were available in Arizona.

Walgreens Cuts Ties to Blood-Testing Company Theranos

By REED ABELSON and ANDREW POLLACK

In another blow to Theranos, the embattled blood-testing company, Walgreens said it would no longer offer its laboratory services in 40 of its stores.

“We’re completely revising the chain of book production because we’re a bookseller, a publisher, a printer and also a distributor,” said Alexandre Gaudefroy, Les Puf’s director.

New Chapter for Classic Paris Bookstore: Books Printed on Demand

By CIARA NUGENT

Les Puf, which shut about 10 years ago because of falling profits and soaring rent, has a new location and business model: books printed before customers’ eyes in five minutes.

A Comcast worker in Miami. The cable giant is fighting new proposals by the Federal Communications Commission as part of the industry’s largest lobbying effort since the government set net neutrality rules in 2009.

Cable Industry Mobilizes Lobbying Army to Block F.C.C. Moves

By CECILIA KANG

Giants like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon oppose plans to limit broadband providers’ ability to share users’ data and to open the market for set-top boxes.