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April 28, 2018, 6:35 PM

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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 …
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 …
Bloomberg:
Sources: T-Mobile, Sprint deal would value Sprint at $24B-$26B; T-Mobile majority owner Deutsche Telekom to get 42% stake, 69% voting interest in combined firm  —  T-Mobile US Inc. and its German owners are advancing toward a deal that would value Sprint Corp. at about $24 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Shara Tibken / CNET:
Source: Apple is working on an AR/VR headset, slated for 2020, with two 8K displays that wirelessly connect to a dedicated box powered by Apple's own 5nm CPU  —  The headset, which would straddle the two technologies and tap into Apple's own chips, is slated for 2020.
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.
More: GeekWire
Bloomberg:
Du Xiaoman Financial, Baidu's new financial services arm that uses AI to provide short-term loans and investment services, raises $1.9B led by TPG and Carlyle  —  SVP Zhu Guang will run newly spun-off finance division  —  New fintech company will be one of China's best-funded
The Guardian:
Nintendo's head of Switch Shinya Takahashi on the firm's creative process, approach to hiring new talent, and why older technologies sometimes surprise players  —  Nintendo's ‘conductor’ takes us behind the game giant's inner workings, how it finds talent and the philosophy that sparks its eccentric ideas
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