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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple to introduce new low-cost iPads and software for the education market at its event in Chicago next week  —  Company holding rare education-focused event next week  —  Lower-cost and Pro models have recently reignited iPad sales  —  Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce …
The Daily Beast:
Source: US investigators identify Guccifer 2.0 as a GRU officer, attributed via hacker's login to US social media service without a VPN from a Moscow IP address  —  Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee …
Ina Fried / Axios:
Craigslist pulls all personal ads after passage of sex-trafficking bill FOSTA, says any tool or service can be misused and that it can't take such risk  —  Online classified site Craigslist has pulled its entire personal ad section after Congress passed a new sex-trafficking bill that puts more liability on Web sites.
Sara Salinas / CNBC:
Dropbox opens up ~40% on its first day of trading after pricing its shares at $21, above already increased range of $18-$20/share, and raising $756M in its IPO  —  - Dropbox, once valued as high as $10 billion, reported more than $1 billion in 2017 revenue and 500 million registered users …
Dustin Volz / Reuters:
US DoJ charges nine Iranians and an Iranian company with hacking parts of US government, UN, and hundreds of universities in the US and around the world  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday charged nine Iranians and an Iranian company with attempting to hack into hundreds …
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge:
About 2M Spotify users, or 2.3% of users of its free service, are avoiding ads via modified apps or accounts, according to Spotify's IPO filing  —  Over 2 percent of free users  —  Earlier this month, news broke that Spotify was cracking down on users running modded versions of the Spotify app …
More: Reuters
Adam Behsudi / Politico:
Trump announces plans to levy tariffs on ~$60B of Chinese-made goods; source says list of targeted products, coming within 15 days, will mostly focus on tech  —  President Donald Trump will escalate economic tensions with China by unveiling on Thursday extensive new trade restrictions …
Cyrus Lee / ZDNet:
Baidu granted T3 license plates, which require comprehensive driving abilities, from Beijing's traffic authority to start self-driving vehicle tests in public  —  Local Beijing authority releases temporary licenses for autonomous driving tests in the city soon after the fatal accident caused by an unmanned Uber car in the US.
Jeff Engel / Xconomy:
Profile of Bose Ventures, the investment arm of Bose, which has made eight investments and plans to invest $50M in apps and services that complement its AR tech  —  See below.]  For the first 50 years of its existence, Bose Corporation invested primarily in in-house research and development …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr announces a voluntary campaign for broadcasters to celebrate the United States' 250th birthday by airing patriotic content

New York Times:
A US judge rebukes a DOJ prosecutor for not mentioning a 1980 law protecting journalists when seeking a warrant to search WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson's home

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
California AG Rob Bonta says his office will give Netflix and Paramount bids for WBD a full and robust review; Netflix says 13-14 state AGs are probing the deal

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Martin Arnold / Financial Times:
Saga foundation, representing a group of well-known economists, says it raised $30M and debuts Saga cryptocurrency, which they say will avoid Bitcoin's pitfalls
Bloomberg:
Experts analyzing video of Uber's autonomous car accident say car's sensors should have detected the pedestrian and a human driver could have responded quicker
Lucinda Shen / Fortune:
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey says he believes bitcoin will eventually become the world's single currency, but it will probably take over ten years

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Kara Swisher / Recode:
In interview, Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook has made mistakes in building its platform, the fixes will not be easy and will cost “many millions of dollars”
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