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Apple CEO Tim Cook announces plans to manufacture Mac computers in USA — In an exclusive interview with Brian Williams airing tonight at 10pm/9c on NBC's “Rock Center,” Apple CEO Tim Cook announced one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the United States next year.| Josh Tyrangiel / Business Week: |
Tim Cook's Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks — Prior to his death on Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs made sure that the elevation of Tim Cook—his longtime head of operations and trusted deputy—to Apple chief executive officer would be drama-free. “He goes, ‘I never want you to ask what I would have done,’” recalls Cook.| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn Plans American Expansion as Clients Seek Made in U.S.A. — Foxconn Technology Group, the major supplier to Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), seeks to expand its operations in North America as customers request more of their products be Made in U.S.A.| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Tim Cook publicly hints that Apple plans to redefine the television set — Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has poured gasoline on the growing fire of speculation that his company plans to build a full-fledged television set in the near future. — The bombshell comments came from an interview … | Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple, Samsung Back in Court — Companies Battle Over $1.05 Billion Damages From Patent Trial's August Verdict — Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. return to a Silicon Valley courtroom Thursday, as Samsung fights to get a federal judge to throw out or soften a $1.05 billion patent judgment against the Korean company.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
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T-Mobile and Apple sign agreement to launch products in 2013 — T-Mobile and Apple have entered an agreement and will be launching products beginning next year. The announcement was posted —nearly as an afterthought, oddly enough — as part of a press release in which Deutsche Telekom spelled out its financial plans through 2015.| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Meet Google+ Communities: Google's answer to Facebook Groups aimed at helping you meet new people — Google has launched a new feature to its social network, Google+, that will aid in meeting new people. It's called Google+ Communities and it's Google's attempt of competing against Facebook Groups.| Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: |
They Screwed Us. Right Before They Screwed Us Again. #poohead — We just got screwed. More on this below. — Nobody says “Web 2.0” anymore. The term just didn't stand the test of time, long ago it became cliched. — But a handful of years ago it had real meaning to a lot of us.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
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Deep Dive With Google's Snapseed Team: Android App Launches, iOS Is Free And Instagram Should Watch Out — One of the things that we hear the most from pundits when Google acquires a company, much like it did Nik Software, makers of the gorgeous and dead-simple to use app Snapseed, is “What will they end up doing with them?”| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Lenovo exec: We didn't realize how big touch would be — Gerry Smith, Lenovo's recently named president of the North America region, tells CNET that the industry underestimated demand for touch on computers. He also says Lenovo will eventually become the top PC vendor in the U.S., not just worldwide.| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Inside the IPO pipeline: It's all B2B, all of the time — It's shaping up to be an average year for initial public offerings, with about 125 companies listing shares to date. — But who are the up-and-comers in the technology industry that could break out in 2013 and beyond, and how many of them are there?| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Lack of Distribution Is “Killing” Surface — If Microsoft is being coy about revealing Surface sales data, it may be for good reason. Early demand for the company's first tablet is lousy. How lousy? Put it this way: If Microsoft really did manufacture three million to five million Surface tablets … | Lee Chyen Yee / Reuters: |
Apple's ranking in China smartphone market falls to No.6: IDC — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's rank in China's smartphone market, which is set to become the world's largest this year, fell to No.6 in the third quarter as it faced tough competition from Chinese brands, research firm IDC said on Thursday.| Zack Whittaker / CBS News: |
Patriot Act can “obtain” data in Europe, researchers say — European data stored in the “cloud” could be acquired and inspected by U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies, despite Europe's strong data protection laws, university researchers have suggested.| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
Spotify announces 5M+ paid subscribers globally, 1M paid in US, 20M total active users, 1B playlists — Music streaming service Spotify has shared that it now has over 5 million paying customers globally, 1 million in the US, 20 million total active users and 1 billion playlists.| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
SwiftKey Flow enters beta, bringing its Swype-style ‘gliding’ gesture keyboard to Android — Back in October we reported on SwiftKey's upcoming Flow feature, designed to bring ‘gliding’ gesture input to its Android keyboard app. And today, well, it's launching in beta to SwiftKey's 75,000 community of VIP users.| Jeff Blagdon / The Verge: |
Nationwide Mutual hack leaves 1.1 million Americans' information exposed — More details are coming out about a massive October 3rd data breach at Nationwide Mutual Insurance. The company reported to the North Carolina Attorney General that as many as 1.1 million Americans' personal information … | T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Senator Al Franken reintroduces privacy act requiring user consent for location sharing — Senator Al Franken (D-MN), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, plans to reintroduce legislation that would require companies to obtain express consent from users before collecting … | Reuters: |
Guatemala detains software guru McAfee, to expel him to Belize — (Reuters) - Guatemalan police arrested U.S. software guru John McAfee on Wednesday for illegally entering the country and said it would expel him to neighboring Belize, which he fled after being sought for questioning over his neighbor's murder.| Brian McClendon / Google LatLong: |
Building a better map of Europe — More than a billion people use Google Maps each month to find their way around town and around the world. To help these people get exactly the information they need, the Google Maps team works constantly to ensure that the geographic data behind our maps is comprehensive and accurate.| Wall Street Journal: |
The More Pandora Sells, the More It Loses — A tenth of a cent might not sound like a lot of money. But Pandora Media Inc.'s 18% stock drop Wednesday is a sobering reminder that those fractions add up—especially when advertising sales don't keep pace. — Pandora's music royalty costs … | Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Facebook And Microsoft Are Working On A Deal, And It Could Change Everything About Advertising — Facebook and Microsoft are working on a deal that, if completed, would put Facebook one huge step closer to launching an ad network that could rival Google's in size, and change the way advertising is done online forever.
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Website traffic analytics: How to read your data and take action — Traffic is up. Sessions look healthy. The dashboard is full of green arrows and yet — conversions are flat, revenue targets are slipping, and the leads coming through aren't closing.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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