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T-Mobile to buy Sprint for ~$26B in stock; John Legere to run combined company that retains T-Mobile name; Deutsche Telekom to get a 42% stake, SoftBank 27% — T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp. agreed to combine in a $26.5 billion merger, creating a wireless giant to compete against industry leaders …
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| David McCabe / Axios: |
In a pitch seemingly aligned with Trump admin's rhetoric and aimed at regulators, T-Mobile and Sprint argue merger will help US beat China in 5G, create jobs — The CEOs of T-Mobile and Sprint argued on an analyst call that their just-announced merger would create jobs and boost America's position …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Well-regarded analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has reportedly resigned from KGI Securities and will focus more on companies other than Apple moving forward — Ming-Chi Kuo, widely considered to be one of the best analysts covering Apple, may no longer focus his research on the iPhone maker.
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Tweets: @markgurman, @ohmdee, and @alexeheath
| Tom Foster / Inc.com: |
How Wharton became a hotbed for direct-to-consumer firms after Warby Parker, as 400+ startups now try to be the next Warby with toothbrushes, bras, and more — Wharton professors, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs are fueling an entire generation of Warby Parkers.
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| Sarah Jeong / The Verge: |
Facebook reduces the labor of networking by helping users create better substitutes for many in-person communication networks, which makes it very hard to quit — Facebook is an emotional labor machine, and if you want to leave it, you're going to have to start doing a lot of work| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Dutch police shut down longstanding revenge porn site, Anon-IB, and arrested 3 men from the Netherlands, following an investigation that began in March 2017 — After seizing the website's servers, police discover hundreds of women fell victim to hackers who stole their photos.
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Owner of the France.com domain since 1994 sues French government for seizing the domain following a court ruling that the site violated French trademark law — Jean-Noël Frydman: “If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.” — A French-born American has now sued his home country because … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Starship Technologies launches autonomous robot delivery services aimed at corporate and academic campuses in Europe and US with ~1K robots rolling out in 2018 — Starship Technologies, a robotics startup created by Skype's cofounders, has launched a large-scale commercial autonomous delivery service aimed …
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Didi announces an industry alliance for electric and autonomous vehicles with 31 firms, including Renault and Toyota; sources: a dedicated Didi fleet is planned — Norihiko Shirouzu, Paul Lienert — BEIJING/DETROIT (Reuters) - China's Didi Chuxing, already disrupting the global ride-hailing market …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's fake “dark ads”, which impersonate people to promote scams, are a systemic problem, and need better solutions above and beyond a “view ads” button — Facebook's admission to the UK parliament this week that it had unearthed unquantified thousands … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla to launch sponsored story recommendations from Pocket for new tabs with Firefox 60 in US — Mozilla has confirmed plans to introduce sponsored content to new tabs in the upcoming Firefox 60 release. — The news comes just a few months after the company revealed it would begin experimenting with …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Starting in Q4 2018, YouTube TV ad inventory will be available through Google Preferred, the premium ad program for the top 5% most popular YouTube channels — Video giant to let marketers pitch spots to cord-cutters, buy inventory in YouTube TV — YouTube wants to siphon off … Sponsor Posts
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