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April 30, 2018, 12:55 PM

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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.
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 …
David McCabe / Axios:
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
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:
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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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.
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 …

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