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T-Mobile buying Sprint can be explained by its difficulty in competing with bids from AT&T and Verizon for Straight Path and other future spectrum auctions (Alex Sherman/CNBC) אסף מגידש

SCOTUS to hear Google privacy settlement dispute, potentially ending class action settlements that pay charities and other 3rd-parties instead of those affected (Andrew Chung/Reuters) אסף מגידש

Chinese govt-backed surveillance projects deploy headgear units across industries that detect swings in emotional states of employees by monitoring brainwaves (Stephen Chen/South China Morning Post) אסף מגידש

PUBG maker Bluehole says Chinese police arrested 15 people and fined them a total of $5.1M for making and selling cheating programs, some containing trojans (Shabana Arif/IGN) אסף מגידש

Ex-SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, who resigned after harassment allegations, raises $50M for Figure, which plans to use blockchain to quickly approve home-equity loans (Selina Wang/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Fitbit to use Google's new Cloud Healthcare API to make its data available to doctors, allowing them to regularly monitor devices (Brian Heater/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Charlie Kindel, a Microsoft veteran who joined Amazon five years ago and founded the Alexa Smart Home division, is leaving the company to take a break and relax (Taylor Soper/GeekWire) אסף מגידש

Google and NBC to make 10+ multi-episode VR productions to run alongside NBC's core programming; users can watch on YouTube or in VR on Cardboard, Daydream View (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Samsung announces 128GB/256GB models for Galaxy S9/S9+ to be available from Samsung.com in US, preorders starting May 1, after the flagships launched with 64GB (Joe Maring/Android Central) אסף מגידש

Andra Capital raises $500M for Ethereum-based token called Silicon Valley Coin that investors can use to back a group of late-stage VC firms; summer ICO planned (Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss/Reuters) אסף מגידש

Oculus is developing a new kind of VR theater experience where live actors in motion capture suits can perform around users, tentatively slated for next year (Joan E. Solsman/CNET) אסף מגידש

F8 will be a more "muted" event this year, with developers blindsided by API changes and sources saying much of the event has been reworked after data scandal (Casey Newton/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Well-regarded analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has reportedly resigned from KGI Securities and will focus more on companies other than Apple moving forward (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) אסף מגידש

Marketing analytics firms Radius and Leadspace merge, now operating under the Radius brand with Leadspace's Doug Bewsher as CEO (Becky Peterson/Business Insider) אסף מגידש

Mozilla to launch sponsored story recommendations from Pocket for new tabs with Firefox 60 in US (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Starship Technologies launches autonomous robot delivery services aimed at corporate and academic campuses in Europe and US with ~1K robots rolling out in 2018 (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Marketing analytics firms Radius and Leadspace merge to form a new entity which will operate under the Radius brand with Leadspace's Doug Bewsher as CEO (Radius/PR Newswire) אסף מגידש

Didi announces an industry alliance for electric and autonomous vehicles with 31 firms, including Renault and Toyota; sources: a dedicated Didi fleet is planned (Reuters) אסף מגידש

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 (Sarah Jeong/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Dutch police shut down longstanding revenge porn site, Anon-IB, and arrested 3 men from the Netherlands, following an investigation that began in March 2017 (Alfred Ng/CNET) אסף מגידש

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 (Cyrus Farivar/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

German startup Clark, which offers digital insurance brokerage through an app, raises $29M Series B led by Portag3 Ventures and White Star Capital (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

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 (David McCabe/Axios) אסף מגידש

T-Mobile and Sprint agree to a merger valuing Sprint at ~$26B or $6.62/share, John Legere will be CEO; Deutsche Telekom will own 42%, SoftBank 27% of new firm (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint agree to a $26.5B merger that values Sprint at $6.62 a share, John Legere will be CEO, Deutsche Telekom will own 42%, SoftBank 27% (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Mark Zuckerberg says almost 100M people now access the internet via Internet.org, up from 40M in November 2016 (Josh Constine/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

A look at AMD's 6-year old bet that paid off in the Zen CPU microarchitecture inside the new Ryzen processors, which could pose a real challenge to Intel (Alex Cranz/Gizmodo) אסף מגידש

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 (Will Oremus/Slate) אסף מגידש

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 (Paul Roberts/Politico) אסף מגידש

Q&A with Javier Soltero, Cortana's new product lead, on Microsoft's AI, Alexa, and building the "real" assistive experience, as Cortana speakers hit the shelves (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

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 (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

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/Business Insider) אסף מגידש

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 (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Sources: Coinbase valued itself at $8B when pitching an equity package during Earn acquisition; investors received cash, management received at least some stock (Theodore Schleifer/Recode) אסף מגידש

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 (Jessica Nordell/The Atlantic) אסף מגידש

A first-person account on what its like to work as virtual dating assistant, aka "Closer", a professional writer who impersonates clients on sites like Tinder (Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin/Quartz) אסף מגידש

Nintendo's head of Switch Shinya Takahashi on firm's creative process, approach to hiring new talent, and why older technologies sometimes surprise players (The Guardian) אסף מגידש

Twitter confirms it is now pushing news links tweeted by your network into your home timeline and grouping tweets mentioning the link underneath it (Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed) אסף מגידש

Sources: Huawei has been working on a mobile OS in case it is cut off from Android; it began the work in response to US 2012 investigation into Huawei and ZTE (South China Morning Post) אסף מגידש

Cloud-based collaboration and work management platform Smartsheet closes up 30% on its first day of trading after raising $150M in its IPO at $1.48B valuation (Jordan Novet/CNBC) אסף מגידש

DocuSign closes up 37% on its first day of trading after raising $629M in its IPO (Nat Levy/GeekWire) אסף מגידש

Sources: T-Mobile-Sprint deal would value Sprint at about $24B; Deutsche Telekom will receive 42% stake and 69% voting interest in the combined company (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Chinese online education platform Knowbox raises $100M Series C led by Yunfeng Capital (Keyan Lu/China Money Network) אסף מגידש

Amazon's late entry into Brazil has given rivals an opportunity to thrive, like local retailer Magazine Luiza, whose profit quadrupled last year (Brad Haynes/Reuters) אסף מגידש

Source: Apple is working on AR/VR headset with 8K displays, that will wirelessly connect to a dedicated box powered by Apple's own 5nm CPU, slated for 2020 (Shara Tibken/CNET) אסף מגידש

A look at Intel's problems transitioning from 14nm to 10nm chips as it delays high-volume production of Cannon Lake CPU again, this time from late 2018 to 2019 (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware) אסף מגידש

RStor announces $45M Series A led by Cisco for its platform that lets businesses store and process data in many locations and with many cloud service providers (Yevgeniy Sverdlik/Data Center Knowledge) אסף מגידש

Ping An Good Doctor, a Chinese online healthcare platform, raises $1.1B in its Hong Kong IPO (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times) אסף מגידש

Facebook's Messenger Kids gets a sleep mode that lets parents set predetermined off times for the app (Tarunya Govindarajan/Facebook) אסף מגידש

Suspected Golden State Killer caught by searching open source genealogy website GEDmatch for the genetic profile of the DNA from crime scenes (Cyrus Farivar/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש