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March 13, 2018, 12:30 AM

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Chloe Aiello / CNBC:
President Trump signed an order blocking Singapore-based Broadcom's proposed acquisition of US-based Qualcomm, citing national security concerns  —  President Donald Trump killed Broadcom's proposed buyout of Qualcomm, citing national security concerns, according to a statement issued by the White House on Monday.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Apple acquires digital newsstand Texture, which gives its readers access to ~200 magazines for $10/month, as it doubles down on content “from trusted sources”  —  As the debate continues over fake news and the role that aggregators like Facebook have played in spreading it …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Gabriele Boland / NewsWhip:
Study: top reporter ranked by Facebook engagement is from The Onion, others are from sites like Breitbart and Daily Wire; two in top 50 are from fake news sites  —  With social platforms like Facebook putting an emphasis on meaningful engagements, publishers and content creators have to reassess …
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
YouTube could be one of the most powerful radicalizing tools of this century, given its billion users and algorithms that recommend ever more extreme videos  —  At one point during the 2016 presidential election campaign, I watched a bunch of videos of Donald Trump rallies on YouTube.
Andrew Marantz / New Yorker:
Inside Reddit as it rolled out the October 2017 policy update that resulted in the ban of numerous subreddits, including ones for Nazis and bestiality  —  The trolls are winning.  How do we fix life online without limiting free speech?  —  Which Web sites get the most traffic?
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
A year after its launch, Microsoft says Teams is used by 200K organizations and will soon have support for Cortana and inline message translation  —  Microsoft has never shared how many individuals are using Teams, its chat-based collaboration tool that's part of Office 365 and competes …

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