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Judge rules that AT&T can complete its $85B merger with Time Warner, did not impose conditions on the approval — - The Justice Department sued last year to block the merger, citing concerns that AT&T, owner of satellite television provider DirecTV, could charge rival distributors …
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Apple changed App Store rules last week to ban iOS developers from making databases of users' address book info and limit what can be shared with third parties — - iPhone maker bans developers building address book databases — Facebook scandal shows risk of sharing data on users' friends
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google disables inline installation for Chrome extensions, which let users install them from third-party sites; existing extensions will be affected in 3 months — Google today announced that Chrome will no longer support inline installation of extensions.
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| Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld: |
Intel has confirmed that its first discrete GPUs are coming as soon as 2020 for data center and gaming PCs — Intel wants to compete with AMD's Radeon and Nvidia's GeForce products — Intel has officially confirmed that its first discrete graphics chip will land as soon as 2020.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: e-scooter company Bird is seeking to raise ~$200M in new funding at a $2B valuation; just three months ago the startup raised at a $300M valuation — E-scooter company Bird is seeking to raise around $200 million in new funding at a $2 billion valuation, according to multiple sources.
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| Andrew Wong / CNBC: |
Toyota says it will invest $1B in Southeast Asian ride-hailing service Grab, and a Toyota executive will be appointed to Grab's board of directors — Japan's Toyota Motor will invest $1 billion into Southeast Asian ride-sharing app Grab, the Singapore-based company said Wednesday.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Translate expands offline translation support to 59 languages including Italian, Greek, Norwegian, and Swahili — Currently, when the Google Translate apps for iOS and Android has access to the internet, its translations are far superior to those it produces when it's offline.| Matthew Hughes / The Next Web: |
Chinese smartphone maker Vivo unveils its latest flagship, the NEX, with a 91.24% screen-to-body ratio and pop-out 8MP selfie camera, only available in China — At an event in Shanghai, Chinese phone manufacturer Vivo today announced the launch of its latest flagship device — called simply the Vivo NEX.| Erin Griffith / Wired: |
Within the crowded crypto industry's deafening hype and bubbly scams, an economy of promoters is thriving, assisting with PR, marketing, moderation, and more — IT TOOK ONLY a few months for Sally, an executive assistant living in British Columbia, to become Crypto Sally … | Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds shopping tags directly into Stories, so now users can tap a shopping bag icon to learn more about buying a particular item — Instagram's shoppable tags are about to pop up in Stories. The company first started testing the feature back in 2016 with a limited set of 20 partners.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google updates Search results with expanded data about four-year US colleges, including acceptance and graduation rates and the average cost after financial aid — Google Search is getting an update today that will put data about colleges front and center when you search for a school's name.
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Seattle's city council votes 7-2 to repeal its “head tax” law, less than a month after unanimously passing the contentious tax on big business — Less than a month after unanimously passing a contentious tax on big business, Seattle's city council has voted to repeal the so-called “head tax.”
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| Anne Marie Roantree / Reuters: |
ZTE shares slide as much as 41% in Hong Kong, wiping $3B off its market cap, after the company agreed to pay up to $1.4B in penalties to the US government — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp (0763.HK) (000063.SZ) had about $3 billion wiped off its market value …
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| Gordon Gottsegen / CNET: |
Valve announces a new Discord-like chat platform called Steam Chat, now in beta — Valve is making it easier to chat with your friends while playing your favorite Steam games. The gaming company just announced Steam Chat, which is currently in beta for anyone to try.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Mesh Wi-Fi router company Plume now requires customers agree to a $60/year subscription fee before buying its hardware — You have to subscribe even to buy a router — A Wi-Fi router startup is trying to shake up how we think about home Wi-Fi in a major way: by turning it into a subscription service.
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| Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it's rolling out a feature to let users rate e-commerce businesses and may ban or reduce ads for those with poor feedback — New feature lets shoppers share their experiences; negative feedback could lead to bans — Facebook Inc. FB 1.29% is cracking down on e-commerce businesses …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French startup Exotec Solutions raised a $17.7M Series B led by Iris Capital for its automated warehouse robots — French startup Exotec Solutions raised a $17.7 million funding round (€15 million) from Iris Capital with existing investors 360 Capital Partners and Breega also participating.
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| Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Internal document: Microsoft is planning for the next Xbox console release to arrive in 2020 — While Microsoft may have been founded as being a software company, there is no question about it that they are a hardware company too. With the Surface family, the Xbox, and peripherals …
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