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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Eric Lundgren is going to prison for counterfeiting labels, not software; judges may not know the difference, but Microsoft does and still helped prosecute him — In a sickening concession to bad copyright law and Microsoft's bottom line over basic technical truths and common sense …
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| Frank X. Shaw / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft defends its role in the conviction of e-waste recycler Eric Lundgren, says he was counterfeiting Windows software in China and importing it to the US — In the last few days there have been several stories about the sentencing of Eric Lundgren in a case that began in 2012 …
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| Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin / Quartz: |
A first-person account of a virtual dating assistant, called a “Closer”, who is a professional writer that impersonates clients on apps like Tinder — Every morning I wake up to the same routine. I log into the Tinder account of a 45-year-old man from Texas—a client.
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| Jessica Nordell / The Atlantic: |
How Slack has made its US workforce more diverse than other Silicon Valley companies by forgoing a diversity chief and focusing on hiring efforts from the start — Last week, Slack, the company whose popular, plaid-themed messaging app has simplified office communications and introduced custom fox emoji …
Tweets: @cultureshiftlab, @mediadissector, @vauhinivara, and @kennethn
| Paul Roberts / Politico: |
As tech-fueled demand raises Seattle house prices, activists wage a data-driven campaign to change zoning to allow more density in single-family neighborhoods — In Seattle's red-hot housing market, a group of millennial techies is using data skills to alter the look, and affordability, of their adopted city.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: T-Mobile, Sprint deal would value Sprint at $24B-$26B; T-Mobile majority owner Deutsche Telekom to get 42% stake, 69% voting interest in combined firm — T-Mobile US Inc. and its German owners are advancing toward a deal that would value Sprint Corp. at about $24 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Mathias Döpfner / Business Insider: |
In a Q&A after receiving the Axel Springer award for 2018, Jeff Bezos discusses The Washington Post, Trump admin, privacy concerns, and the early days of Amazon — Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, recently sat down with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos … | Will Oremus / Slate: |
A history of the Facebook critique “if you're not paying, you're the product” and why it wrongly paints users as powerless pawns incapable of demanding change — The history of a dangerous idea. — On March 21, at the height of the scandal over Cambridge Analytica's harvesting …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with Javier Soltero, Cortana's new product lead, on Microsoft's AI, Alexa, and building the “real” assistive experience, as Cortana speakers hit the shelves — This year has brought a fair number of shakeups at some of the world's biggest tech companies.
Tweets: @mmarshall
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: Coinbase valued itself at $8B when pitching an equity package during Earn acquisition; investors received cash, management received at least some stock — That's how much it felt it was worth when it set out to acquire Earn. — Coinbase valued itself at about $8 billion … | Bloomberg: |
Du Xiaoman Financial, Baidu's new financial services arm that uses AI to provide short-term loans and investment services, raises $1.9B led by TPG and Carlyle — SVP Zhu Guang will run newly spun-off finance division — New fintech company will be one of China's best-funded
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| Alex Cranz / Gizmodo: |
A look at AMD's 6-year old bet that paid off in the Zen CPU microarchitecture inside the new Ryzen processors, which could pose a real challenge to Intel — There are few gambles in the tech world as big as spending billions to build a new computer processor from scratch.
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