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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.
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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
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| 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.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase opens its crypto index fund, first announced in March, to accredited US investors for investments between $250K and $20M — Fresh from revealing plans to add Ethereum Classic to its exchange, crypto giant Coinbase today announced that its cryptocurrency index fund …
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Fired employee alleges in a lawsuit that Clarifai, an AI startup working on Project Maven, was hacked from Russia and did not promptly report it to the Pentagon — LAST SUMMER, A sign appeared on the door to a stuffy, windowless room at the office of Manhattan artificial intelligence startup Clarifai.
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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 … | Anne Marie Roantree / Reuters: |
ZTE shares slide as much as 41% in Hong Kong, wiping $3B off its market cap, after the company agreed to pay up to $1.4B in penalties to the US government — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp (0763.HK) (000063.SZ) had about $3 billion wiped off its market value …
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| 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.”
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| New York Times: |
New research suggests e-commerce might be responsible for low inflation in the US, although measuring online shopping's impact on inflation remains a challenge — Unemployment is sinking and businesses are churning out more goods and services. Yet even with the economy standing on tippy toes …
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| 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.
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Google updates Search results with expanded data about four-year US colleges, including acceptance and graduation rates and the average cost after financial aid — Google Search is getting an update today that will put data about colleges front and center when you search for a school's name.
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| Gordon Gottsegen / CNET: |
Valve announces a new Discord-like chat platform called Steam Chat, now in beta — Valve is making it easier to chat with your friends while playing your favorite Steam games. The gaming company just announced Steam Chat, which is currently in beta for anyone to try.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French startup Exotec Solutions raised a $17.7M Series B led by Iris Capital for its automated warehouse robots — French startup Exotec Solutions raised a $17.7 million funding round (€15 million) from Iris Capital with existing investors 360 Capital Partners and Breega also participating.
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