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June 13, 2018, 9:40 AM
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Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Judge rules that AT&T can complete its $85B merger with Time Warner, did not impose conditions on the approval  —  - He also urged the government not to seek a stay when issuing his decision in a closed-door room with reporters.  — Shares of Time Warner jumped roughly 5 percent in extended trading.
Bloomberg:
Apple changed App Store rules last week to ban iOS developers from making databases of users' address book info and limit what can be shared with third parties  —  - iPhone maker bans developers building address book databases  — Facebook scandal shows risk of sharing data on users' friends
Andrew Wong / CNBC:
Toyota says it will invest $1B in Southeast Asian ride-hailing service Grab, and a Toyota executive will be appointed to Grab's board of directors  —  Japan's Toyota Motor will invest $1 billion into Southeast Asian ride-sharing app Grab, the Singapore-based company said Wednesday.
Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld:
Intel has confirmed that its first discrete GPUs are coming as soon as 2020 for data center and gaming PCs  —  Intel wants to compete with AMD's Radeon and Nvidia's GeForce products  —  Intel has officially confirmed that its first discrete graphics chip will land as soon as 2020.
Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:
Researchers say campaign of price manipulation using Tether via Bitfinex may have accounted for at least half of the increase in the price of Bitcoin last year  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A concentrated campaign of price manipulation may have accounted for at least half of the increase in the price …
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
Google disables inline installation for Chrome extensions, which let users install them from third-party sites; existing extensions will be affected in 3 months  —  Google today announced that Chrome will no longer support inline installation of extensions.
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Sweden's Truecaller acquires Indian mobile payments startup Chillr, which had raised $7.5M from Sequoia Capital and Blume Ventures  —  Sweden's Truecaller started out life as a service that screens calls and messages to weed out spammers.  In recent times the company has switched its focus to India …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google Translate expands offline translation support to 59 languages including Italian, Greek, Norwegian, and Swahili  —  Currently, when the Google Translate apps for iOS and Android has access to the internet, its translations are far superior to those it produces when it's offline.
Erin Griffith / Wired:
Within the crowded crypto industry's deafening hype and bubbly scams, an economy of promoters is thriving, assisting with PR, marketing, moderation, and more  —  IT TOOK ONLY a few months for Sally, an executive assistant living in British Columbia, to become Crypto Sally …
Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal:
Bipartisan group of senators move to stop Trump's deal to give ZTE a lifeline amid US export ban, by adding ZTE export ban as amendment to defense spending bill
Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo:
Seattle's city council votes 7-2 to repeal its “head tax” law, less than a month after unanimously passing the contentious tax on big business  —  Less than a month after unanimously passing a contentious tax on big business, Seattle's city council has voted to repeal the so-called “head tax.”
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Qualcomm president says company has no plans to sell its server chip unit but is making staff reductions and folding it into Qualcomm's CDMA Technologies unit  —  (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc has no plans to abandon its efforts to create processors for data centers, the company's president, who oversees the chip division, said.
More: ZDNet
Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica:
Garmin launches Vivoactive 3 Music smartwatch with space for ~500 songs, 7-day battery life, and improved sleep tracking, for $299  —  Garmin's Vivoactive 3 held one of the top stops in my list of last year's best wearables.  With its sleek design, comprehensive fitness capabilities …
Chloe Aiello / CNBC:
Home-flipping startup Opendoor raises $325M Series E at a $2B+ valuation led by General Atlantic and Access Technology Ventures  —  Opendoor, a start-up that buys and sells homes online, has just pulled in $325 million to expand its team, add more cities and move deeper into residential real estate.
Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
Salesforce and Google say they will share data between Google Analytics 360 and the Salesforce Marketing Cloud  —  Last Fall at Dreamforce, Salesforce announced a deepening friendship with Google .  That began to take shape in January with integration between Salesforce CRM data and Google Analytics 360 and Google BigQuery.
More: ZDNet and GeekWire

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
NPR retracts an article saying Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring; he has made no such announcement, and a spokesman called the story “inaccurate”

Reuters:
The UK says it is leaning towards intervening in Paramount's $110B WBD takeover, citing concerns over media freedom and the provision of on-demand programming

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Axel Springer closes its £575M acquisition of Telegraph Media Group, ending a three-year saga, and names Carolin Hulshoff Pol as TMG CEO, replacing Anna Jones

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Brad Sams / Thurrott.com:
Internal document: Microsoft is planning for the next Xbox console release to arrive in 2020
Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook says it's rolling out a feature to let users rate e-commerce businesses and may ban or reduce ads for those with poor feedback
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Instagram adds shopping tags directly into Stories, so now users can tap a shopping bag icon to learn more about buying a particular item
Dan Primack / Axios:
Sources: e-scooter company Bird is seeking to raise ~$200M in new funding at a $2B valuation; just three months ago the startup raised at a $300M valuation
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