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AT&T has completed its $85.4B acquisition of Time Warner — AT&T Inc. has completed its acquisition of Time Warner Inc., bringing together global media and entertainment leaders Warner Bros., HBO and Turner with AT&T's leadership in technology and its video, mobile and broadband customer relationships.
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Tweets: @brianstelter, @brianstelter, @darth, @pkafka, and @glennf
| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Elliot Schrage, Facebook's VP of Communications and Public Policy and a key player in company's response to data scandal is leaving after a decade at the firm — The longtime exec has been criticized recently for the social networking giant's rocky responses to a series of controversies.
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| Bob Pisani / CNBC: |
SEC's William Hinman, head of Division of Corporate Finance who oversees cryptocurrencies, says Bitcoin and Ether are not securities but many ICOs are — The SEC's point man on cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs) says that bitcoin and ether are not securities but that many …
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Tweets: @venturecoinist, @melt_dem, @barrysilbert, @haileylennonbtc, and @valkenburgh
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft begins rolling out Redstone 5 preview of Windows 10 to Insiders with SwiftKey support on desktop, new gaming features, and more — Testers can try it out today — Microsoft is planning to bring its SwiftKey keyboard to Windows 10 later this year.
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Tweets: @msftenable, @tomwarren, and @maryjofoley
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
In first diversity report since Damore memo, Google says its employees were 30.8% female, 2.4% black, and 3.5% Latinx in 2017, barely increasing from 2016 — The company has the hardest time retaining black and brown employees — Google has released its first diversity report since … | Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
Ripple's chief cryptographer says banks are unlikely to use blockchain to process cross-border payments for now due to scalability and privacy issues — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Banks are unlikely to use distributed ledgers to process cross-border payments for now because of scalability and privacy issues …
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Google refreshes its Ad Settings tool and Why this ad? feature to help users control information that is used to target ads and understand the ads that appear — Facing growing questions about how personal data is used to target advertising, Google today announced a series of updates …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Apple details ResearchKit 2.0, with new features to help collect information about speech, hearing, and vision, a new PDF viewer, a refreshed UI, and more — After announcing ResearchKit 2.0 last week, Apple has shared more specifics on what the latest version will offer in iOS 12.
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ResearchKit, VentureBeat, and The Mac Observer
| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed: |
Instagram says it is no longer testing a feature that would show users who has taken screenshots of their stories — Let's go back to February, 2018. It was a dark time. — A girl flushed her hamster down the toilet after an airline told her she couldn't bring it on the plane.
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Gizmodo, 9to5Google, Search Engine Journal, The Verge, and New York Magazine. Tweets: @katienotopoulos
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat launches Snap Kit developer platform, letting other apps use Snap's login, Bitmoji avatars, public Stories, and Snap Map content — Developers join the Stories war — Today Snapchat finally gets a true developer platform, confirming TechCrunch's scoop from last month about Snap Kit.| Eli Hodapp / TouchArcade: |
Two weeks after Apple's rejection, Valve removes game purchasing option from its beta Steam Link app for iOS, paving the way for potential approval — Late last month we were lucky enough to be included in a TestFlight beta of Valve's upcoming Steam Link app, and I posted a hands-on preview …
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Engadget, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, MSPoweruser, InvestorPlace, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Gamasutra
| Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
Samsung announces second generation Chromebook Plus with 12.2-inch touchscreen, 2-in-1 form factor, Intel CPU, 32GB storage, and more for $500 — Chromebooks — laptops running on Google's browser-based Chrome OS — are generally designed for affordability, making the term “premium Chromebook” something of an oxymoron.
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Samsung Newsroom, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, Android and Me, About Chromebooks, XDA Developers, Droid Life, Android Police, TechSpot, Thurrott.com, Liliputing, Neowin, BetaNews, Laptop Mag, Android Authority, and Engadget. Thanks:@byjoshg
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Inside Facebook's complicated relationship with academics: retaining the right to veto or edit papers, limits on access to data, and offers of research funding — The professor was incredulous. David Craig had been studying the rise of entertainment on social media for several years …
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Facebook. Tweets: @sarahfrier, @sarahfrier, @kyweise, @sarahfrier, @kyweise, @kyweise, @kyweise, and @kyweise
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Sources: Chinese regulators approve Qualcomm's proposed $44B acquisition of Dutch chip maker NXP Semiconductors — The ruling clears an antitrust roadblock caused by trade tensions between the US and Beijing — Chinese regulators have approved US semiconductor company Qualcomm's proposed …
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SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, CNBC, MarketWatch, and Reuters
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google says its Tasks app will become part of the core G Suite service on June 28 — Google has revealed that its Tasks app will graduate to become a G Suite core service on June 28. — Google Tasks, if you recall, has existed in something of an odd place for years …
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G Suite Updates Blog, Android Authority, 9to5Google, and 9to5Google
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says App Maker, its tool for quickly building and deploying business apps on the web, is now generally available as part of G Suite — It's been a year and a half since Google announced App Maker, its online tool for quickly building and deploying business apps on the web.
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The Keyword, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, ZDNet, G Suite Updates Blog, and Google Developers
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Didi Chuxing will launch its DiDi Express service on June 25 in Melbourne, its third international market; the business will be run by a Didi subsidiary — Didi Chuxing, China's dominant ride-hailing company, is continuing its international expansion after it announced plans to launch in Australia this month.
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Financial Times, Business Insider Australia, xinhuanet.com, Financial Review, and CNET
Tweets: @jonrussell and @jonrussell
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Kristin Binns, Twitter's head of corporate communications, is leaving to join Activision Blizzard as SVP and chief communications officer — (Reuters) - Video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc said it appointed Twitter Inc's corporate communications head, Kristin Binns, as its chief communications officer.
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