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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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 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.
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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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| 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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| Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal: |
Bipartisan group of senators move to stop Trump's deal to give ZTE a lifeline amid US export ban, by adding ZTE export ban as amendment to defense spending bill — White House sent top official to Capitol Hill to lobby against bipartisan effort to reverse pact to revive the Chinese telecommunications company
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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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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
HTC U12 Plus review: narrow design is ergonomic and camera is good, but it's slippery, solid-state buttons are a disaster, and it lacks 3.5mm jack and adapter — HTC still does a lot of things well, but its new ideas miss the mark — It's a tough task to review an HTC phone in 2018.| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
At least 5% of all Monero currently in circulation has been mined using malware, based on an analysis of 629,126 malware samples from coin mining operations — At least 5% of all the Monero cryptocurrency currently in circulation has been mined using malware, and about 2% of the total daily hashrate comes …
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Amino raises $45M Series C, with GV, Hearst Ventures, and Time Warner Investments among investors, for its fan communities and niche interests app — Amino has raised a big Series C round of funding — $45 million from GV, Venrock, Union Square Ventures, Goodwater Capital and Time Warner Investments … Sponsor Posts
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