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Tim Cook to conservative think tank on sustainability: if you only care about ROI, stop investing in us — Tim Cook Soundly Rejects Politics of the NCPPR, Suggests Group Sell Apple's Stock — In an emotional response to the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) …
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| Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal: |
Tim Cook: a private, disciplined, tough manager crafting a healthier work environment at Apple — The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple — From the moment he became CEO of Apple, Tim Cook found himself in the shadow of his boss — Author of “Haunted Empire, Apple After Steve Jobs” …
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| Robin Wauters: |
WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum scolds writer for 2011 TechCrunch fundraising scoop that inconvenienced him — An unexpected chat with WhatsApp founder Jan Koum — Things were getting pretty quiet in the speaker / press lounge backstage at the 4YFN conference in Barcelona.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Comcast Is Acquiring Video Ad Company FreeWheel For $320 Million — Over the years, FreeWheel has become the go-to ad-serving platform for many TV networks that stream their content online. And it's about to become part of one of the biggest distributors of content online and off.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia X hacked to run Google's Android apps and services — Nokia unveiled its X Android phones less than a week ago, with plans to use the handset to promote Microsoft services and not Google's. After just a few days, hackers have managed to gain root access to the Nokia X and covert …
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| Jake Adelstein / The Daily Beast: |
Former employee says incompetent management and faulty accounting led to collapse of Mt. Gox — Inside Japan's Bitcoin Heist — A former Mt. Gox employee says incompetent management and faulty accounting—not virtual robbers—are the real culprits in the missing millions.| Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Ferrari, Volvo, and Mercedes to unveil first iOS in the Car-integrated vehicles next week — When announcing iOS 7 last year, Apple previewed an upcoming featured called iOS in the Car that will allow automotive manufacturers to integrate iOS-powered mobile devices into the media centers in their cars.| Billboard: |
Apple Presses Labels For More 'Beyonce'-Type Exclusives In Wake of Downloads' Slide — Apple Inc.'s music chief Robert Kondrk has been pressuring major labels for releases similar to last year's Beyonce exclusive, excluding services like YouTube and Spotify to help shore up slowing download sales …
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See also Mediagazer| James Ball / Guardian: |
A look at the elaborate ICANN ceremony for its seven keyholders that underpins DNS security — Meet the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security — It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: seven keys, held by individuals from all over the world, that together control security at the core of the web.| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
At the RSA Security Conference, Things Get Testy and Then They Get Awkward — SAN FRANCISCO — It was hard to avoid the shadow of Edward J. Snowden at the annual RSA security conference this week. — The sprawling computer security conference held in the city's Moscone Center had protesters …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle set to cap ride-sharing drivers that are ‘active’ at any given time — Seattle councilmember Bruce Harrell, right, speaks at Thursday's committee meeting. — Seattle is set to regulate the number of drivers that companies like UberX, SideCar and Lyft have active on their systems at any given time.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Adds Full Restaurant Menus To Its Search Results Pages — Here is a small but nifty update to Google Search: if you ask it to find a restaurant menu for you, it will now often just show you the menu right on the search results page. Try this for a search like “show me the menu for fogo de chao” … Sponsor Posts
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Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
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