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February 9, 2015, 6:15 PM
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple's iOS 9 to have ‘huge’ stability and optimization focus after years of feature additions  —  Following the success of OS X Snow Leopard for Macs in 2009, one of iOS 9's standout ‘features’ will be a directed focus on stabilizing and optimizing the operating system.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iOS 8.4 to be released after Apple Watch starts shipping, possibly with redesigned Beats-based music service  —  Apple working on iOS 8.4 update, may include new music service  —  In addition to working on iOS 8.2, iOS 8.3, and iOS 9.0, Apple is working on yet another update to iOS 8: iOS 8.4.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
iOS 8.3 brings wireless CarPlay, improved Google login, new Emojis, China Apple Pay  —  Earlier today, Apple seeded the first iOS 8.3 build to developers alongside Xcode 6.3 beta with Swift 1.2.  Readers have discovered that the new operating system brings a new wireless CarPlay feature to the iPhone.
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Has 93% of Mobile Profits; 650M Users by 2018, Says Canaccord  —  Canaccord Genuity's Mike Walkley this morning raises his price target on shares of Apple (AAPL) to $145 from $135, writing that his review of market data suggests continued strength for the iPhone 6 upgrade cycle.
Netflix:
Netflix starts offering service in Cuba for $7.99 a month  —  Netflix Is Available in Cuba  —  Cubans Will Gain Access to A Broad Range of Original Series, Movies, Documentaries, Stand-up Comedy Specials and TV Shows Starting At $7.99  —  Los Gatos, California, February 9, 2015 …
Carl / OnePlus Blog:
OnePlus will sell One without invites for 24 hours every Tuesday starting at midnight PT  —  OnePlus One Open Sales, every Tuesday  —  We've been shipping the OnePlus One for half a year, and nowadays we're bumping into lots of people using it when we're out and about.
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Sling TV opens the floodgates, accepts sign-ups without invites  —  Sling TV, the online TV streaming service from Dish Networks, is now available to everyone: The service ended its invitation-only soft launch late Sunday night and began to accept sign-ups from everyone on its website.
Lance Whitney / CNET:
DexCom's body sensor paired with Apple Watch app will track and display glucose levels  —  Apple Watch app will track glucose levels for diabetics  —  Already approved by the FDA, the app is slated to debut in April to help diabetics make sure their blood sugar levels don't go too high or too low.
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Packages with people: Sidecar launches same-day delivery service, partners with Eat24 … Sidecar is no longer just getting people from point A to point B — the company is delivering packages now, too.  —  The San Francisco-based startup announced a new service today rolling out nationwide called Sidecar Deliveries.
Jon Southurst / CoinDesk:
Hong Kong's MyCoin Bitcoin exchange disappears with up to $387M, Ponzi scheme suspected  —  Hong Kong's MyCoin Disappears With Up To $387 Million, Reports Claim  —  Reports are emerging from Hong Kong that local bitcoin exchange MyCoin has shut its doors, taking with it possibly as much as HK$3bn ($386.9m) in investor funds.
Jill Daly / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Teen charged with murder after posting selfie with victim's body to Snapchat  —  Jeannette 16-year-old faces murder charge in teen's shooting death  —  Although officials have not described a motive in the shooting death of a Jeannette teen Wednesday, the young man charged with murder …
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
LinkedIn, American Airlines, and other major developers begin to adopt Apple's Swift, report improved productivity and fewer errors  —  Apple's new Swift programming language takes flight with Getty Images, American Airlines, LinkedIn, and Duolingo  —  Apple's new Swift programming language …
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Ian King / Bloomberg Business:
China Fines Qualcomm $975 Million, Sets Patent Licensing Rates  —  Don't Miss Out —  (Bloomberg) — Chinese regulators fined Qualcomm Inc. $975 million and set licensing rates for its mobile-phone chip technology after finding the U.S. company guilty of antitrust violations.
Liz Gannes / Re/code:
Ten Years of Google Maps, From Slashdot to Ground Truth  —  Ten years ago today, Google Maps launched to the world.  —  When it was born, it was a paper atlas in living form, with no pages to turn.  Instead of online mapping leader MapQuest's printable list of directions, navigation routes were overlaid on top of the map itself.

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New York Times:
WBD says the Ellisons have “consistently misled” shareholders, including claiming Paramount's proposal had a “full backstop” but it “does not, and never has”

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
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Associated Press:
A US federal judge denied Sarah Palin's bid for a new libel trial against the NYT and rejected her motion for his recusal, after a jury found no libel in April

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Paul Carsten / Reuters:
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Samsung's SmartTV privacy policy warns that spoken personal or sensitive information captured by voice recognition may be transmitted to a third party
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