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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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| 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 … | Frank X. Shaw / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft explains 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 … | 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.
Tweets: @alfrehn, @frankpasquale, @dmoberhaus, @mattsaccaro, and @chloerosewrites
| 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 …
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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 …
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| 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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| 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.
Tweets: @t4america, @politico, @kimmaicutler, and @politico
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
German startup Clark, which offers digital insurance brokerage through an app, raises $29M Series B led by Portag3 Ventures and White Star Capital — Clark, one of a plethora of so-called ‘insurtech’ startups offering something akin to a digital insurance brokerage all delivered through … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg says almost 100M people now access the internet via Internet.org, up from 40M in November 2016 — Facebook is getting the developing world online, even as the developed world criticizes its privacy practices. Mark Zuckerberg said today on Facebook's Q1 2018 earnings call that …
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