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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Report: analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the most prolific sources of Apple scoops, resigns from KGI Securities, will focus more on non-Apple firms moving forward — Ming-Chi Kuo, widely considered to be one of the best analysts covering Apple, might no longer focus his research on the iPhone maker.
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CTnews, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iMore, Cult of Mac, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, and MacDailyNews
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| 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.
Tweets: @thecuriousrose, @ataussig, @ainsleyoc, and @stevesi
| Bloomberg: |
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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Tweets: @marceloclaure, @marceloclaure, @cnn, @jerrymoran, @saschasegan, @b_fung, @fiercewireless, @danprimack, @rakeshlobster, @johnlegere, @greengart, @ldignan, @saschasegan, @danprimack, @harrymccracken, @axios, @rbrome, @marceloclaure, @backlon, @eriqgardner, @marceloclaure, @rbrome, @johnlegere, @tonyromm, @tonyromm, @benedictevans, @wsj, @stevekovach, and @claireatki
| David McCabe / Axios: |
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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 arrest 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 …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Starship Technologies launches autonomous robot delivery service 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 … | Reuters: |
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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South China Morning Post, Nikkei, PR Newswire, and Financial Times
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla to launch sponsored story recommendations from Pocket for new tabs with Firefox 60 in the 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 …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
F8 will be a more “muted” event this year, with developers blindsided by API changes and sources saying much of the event has been reworked after data scandal — The theme for F8 this year: lowered expectations — Type with your brain. “Hear” with your skin.| Becky Peterson / Business Insider: |
Marketing analytics firms Radius and Leadspace merge, now operating under the Radius brand with Leadspace's Doug Bewsher as CEO — - Two competing startups in the marketing and sales intelligence space have decided to merge. — Radius and Leadspace are combining products and teams to better compete with Salesforce.
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PR Newswire and CRM Magazine
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
“Dark ads” on Facebook, 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 of dark fake ads … Sponsor Posts
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