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Sources: the T-Mobile-Sprint merger trial judge is expected to rule in favor of the merger, and the decision will be revealed Tuesday; Sprint stock up over 60% — A last-ditch attempt by a coalition of state attorneys general is said to have failed to halt T-Mobile's purchase of a smaller rival.
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| Eric Geller / Politico: |
US DOJ charges four Chinese intelligence officers with hacking Equifax; the breach was disclosed in 2017 and exposed financial records of 150M Americans — Federal prosecutors announced charges Monday against four Chinese intelligence officers for hacking the credit-reporting giant Equifax …
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| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Direct-to-consumer retailer Brandless shuts down, becoming the first company backed by SoftBank's Vision Fund to do so — Today direct-to-consumer retailer Brandless becomes the first SoftBank Vision Fund-backed startup to close down, as it stops taking orders and halts all business operations.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Sources detail how popular email apps like Edison, Slice, and Cleanfox scrape users' inboxes, using harvested data to power market research products — The popular Edison email app, which is in the top 100 productivity apps on the Apple app store, scrapes users' email inboxes …
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| Danielle Abril / Fortune: |
Google's HR head, Eileen Naughton, to step down from her role amid rising employee anger over Google's handling of sexual harassment claims and staff protests — Google's head of human resources, Eileen Naughton, will step down later this year amid rising tensions between the company's top executives and rank and file employees.
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| Nick Bastone / The Information: |
Source: Alphabet quietly moved Jigsaw, a tech incubator that makes tools to curb online misinformation, back under Google last month — Another arm of Alphabet, the holding company for Google and a collection of other businesses, has gone away. — Within the past month … | The Information: |
Sources: YouTube is considering a competitor to Amazon and Apple TV channels for accessing premium video subscriptions from other companies — YouTube is sending signals that it wants to become a destination site for every part of the TV universe. — The Google-owned video giant … | Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
On Monday, Bloomberg's campaign asked hundreds of tech leaders over a conference call to refer their most talented staff to its election operation in New York — Exclusive: Bloomberg gathered hundreds of tech leaders on a call to ask for their most talented friends.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
MWC bans visitors from China's Hubei province and will require those who have been to China prove they were outside the country for 14 days before the event — A couple of weeks out, Mobile World Congress organizer, the GSMA, has issued some fairly sweeping safeguards over growing concerns around the coronavirus.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung shows off the unannounced Galaxy Z Flip in an Oscars ad, ahead of its Unpacked keynote, with small print that says a crease on the main screen is normal — It's not just leaks that let us know what big tech companies plan to announce at their keynotes, increasingly it's the companies themselves.
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| CNBC: |
Filing: AWS wants to depose Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, ex-Defense Secretary James Mattis, and others after losing out on Pentagon's $10B JEDI contract — - Amazon's cloud computing arm wants to depose President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis …
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| Ryan Gilliam / Polygon: |
Sony paid ~$229M, mostly in cash, for Insomniac Games according to Sony's latest financial report; Sony acquired Insomniac in fall 2019 — But still no follow up to Ratchet & Clank (2016)! — In fall of 2019, Sony acquired Insomniac Games, developer of Marvel's Spider-Man, the Ratchet & Clank series, the Spyro series, and more.| Lukasz Olejnik / Wired: |
India's proposed data protection bill, which intends to ban re-identification of user data without consent, could criminalize the work of security researchers — The proposed ban on re-identification discourages researchers from investigating security weaknesses—and encourages criminals to exploit them.Sponsor Posts
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