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Apple's Tim Cook Discusses Emerging Markets and Plans for Cash — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company's best days are still ahead. It's not a particularly unusual message coming from a CEO. But Apple is facing pointed questions that the iPhone's growth will slow and that the company's innovative run is coming to an end.| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
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NSA struggles with cellphone coverage, collects only 20% or less of total US call data — NSA Collects 20% or Less of U.S. Call Data — Program Doesn't Cover Records for Most Cellphones — WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency's phone-data program, which has been at the center …
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Apple, Google, Microsoft: Where does the money come from? — Summary: If you want to know why big tech companies act the way they do, follow the money. Based on the latest SEC filings, Apple's still a successful hardware company, and Google's still in the advertising business.| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
California Bill Would Require Antitheft Technology for Cellphones — A smartphone is sleek, compact and valuable, which makes it a perfect target for a thief. Californian lawmakers want to require cellphone companies to fix that problem. — In the last year, officials in San Francisco … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
GoPro Files For IPO As The Action Camera Maker Prepares To Go Public — Action camera company GoPro has filed the initial documents for its initial public offering, according to a press release from the company this morning and confirmed by GoPro to TechCrunch.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
LinkedIn kills its Intro email service after less than four months — LinkedIn just announced that it'll be shutting down Intro, a service meant to integrate LinkedIn contact details right into the iOS Mail app, after less than four months. LinkedIn simply said it was discontinuing the service …
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Mastercard and Visa to switch from swipe-and-sign credit cards to PIN based cards by Oct 2015 — October 2015: The End of the Swipe-and-Sign Credit Card … It's a payment ritual as familiar as handing over a $20 bill, and it's soon to go extinct: prepare to say farewell to the swipe-and-sign of a credit card transaction.| Maxim Lott / Fox News: |
Russia bans bitcoins — If you're going to the Sochi Olympics in Russia, don't bring bitcoins. Yesterday the Russian Prosecutor General's office released a statement that clearly prohibits Russians from using the new digital currency. — “Bitcoin is a money substitute and cannot be used … | Cade Metz / Wired: |
Facebook Deploys Robots to Save Blu-ray From Extinction — One day, your Facebook photos will sit in the hands of robots. — Behind the scenes at Mark Zuckerberg's social networking giant, Facebook engineers have already built these robots, and one of them was on display last week in downtown San Jose …
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Facebook Now Lets You Edit Your “Look Back” Movie — Earlier this week, we learned that Facebook would soon let you edit the automatically-generated “Look Back” videos the company had made to celebrate Facebook's 10th anniversary. — Sure enough: they just launched the editor.
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Alleged Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Pleads Not Guilty On All Charges — Last November, Ross Ulbricht's lawyer Joshua Dratel told reporters only hours after first meeting his client that he planned to show that Ulbricht is not the “Dread Pirate Roberts” who created the Silk Road anonymous drug site.
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HTC pays up for license to Nokia patents — U.S. import ban could have been ordered on Monday — Nokia and HTC just announced the settlement of their patent infringement dispute spanning seven countries on three continents. HTC already had a license to Nokia's standard-essential patents …
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