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Tim Cook talks about Apple Watch, international growth, commitment to privacy, and more in a wide-ranging Goldman Sachs interview — Apple CEO Tim Cook Speaking Live at 2015 Goldman Sachs Technology Conference — Apple CEO Tim Cook is speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple partners with First Solar to build a $850M 130 megawatt solar farm in CA, to produce enough power for new headquarters and all retail stores in the state — Apple will partner with First Solar on $850M California solar farm — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the solar farm will produce enough power …
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Security researcher publishes 10M unredacted usernames with passwords despite risk of FBI raid — Fearing an FBI raid, researcher publishes 10 million passwords/usernames — Move could advance password research—and test prosecutors' tolerance for leaks.| Mathew Ingram / Gigaom: |
Flipboard launches on web, signs ad revenue sharing deals with publishers including National Geographic and Fast Company — Flipboard swims against the tide by launching a website — If there's one word that sums up where most media entities are focused for the future, it's “mobile” … | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Search Whiz Udi Manber Leaves Google — Google veteran Udi Manber, a computer scientist best known for his work on search, has left the company to join the National Institutes of Health. — “I had a wonderful nine years at Google and YouTube, but I could not resist the amazing opportunities at NIH …
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Jeb Bush releases 4GB of emails from his 8 year tenure as Florida governor to demonstrate “transparency”, unwittingly exposing constituents' personal data — Jeb Bush dumps emails, home addresses, and social security numbers of Florida residents online| Mark Prigg / Daily Mail: |
Google-owned Boston Dynamics shows off Spot, its newest, electrically powered robo-dog — Here, Spot! Google reveals smaller version of its robo-dog that can walk, trot and climb up steps - even when KICKED — Google has already shown off several robo-dogs, including one which has even taken part in military trials.
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| Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese hackers reprogrammed Forbes “Thought of the Day” widget to attack readers' computers using zero day exploits in Flash and Internet Explorer — Forbes Website Used to Hack Readers — Users of Microsoft 's flagship Internet browser who visited Forbes.com …
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Dating app The League with a $2.1M seed round and a 75,000 person waitlist aims to be a more “selective” Tinder — There are already 75,000 people trying (and failing) to join The League, a Tinder for the elite — The League, a new dating app that launched in January, has a waitlist that's already 75,000 people long.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple threatens to ban iPhone, iPad accessory makers that design based on leaks — Apple is working to step up the secrecy surrounding future iPhone and iPad models by targeting a frequent source of leaks: third-party accessory makers. 9to5Mac has learned that in fall 2014 …
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Microsoft giving away 100GB of OneDrive storage if you join Bing Rewards — “Free” cloud storage offers can be gimmicky and require you to jump through a few too many hoops sometimes, but Microsoft's offering a pretty solid deal that doesn't call for much effort.| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
US forming Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center to collate intelligence against cyberattacks — New agency to sniff out threats in cyberspace — The Obama administration is establishing a new agency to combat the deepening threat from cyberattacks, and its mission … | Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Google I/O 2015 to be held May 28-29 at Moscone Center West in San Francisco, registration begins March 17 — Mark your calendars: Google I/O 2015 is happening May 28-29, 2015 at Moscone Center West — Google has today announced the dates for this year's Google I/O developers' conference … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yelp Buys Delivery Network Eat24 For $134M To Ramp Up In Food Operations — Another acquisition for Yelp that will take the local listings company even deeper into commerce and food-related services. It's gobbling up Eat24, a U.S. food delivery business that competes with GrubHub …
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| Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
Hitachi acquires Pentaho for between $500M and $600M to bolster data-analysis software tools — Hitachi to Buy Pentaho to Bolster Data-Analysis Software Tools — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Hitachi Ltd.'s enterprise-technology unit plans to acquire data-management company Pentaho Corp …
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Hitachi Data Systems Community, bizjournals, Forbes, Forbes, The Register, bizjournals and Marketwire. Thanks:@knieriemen
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Google adds fact-checked and reviewed health information to Knowledge Graph in search — A remedy for your health-related questions: health info in the Knowledge Graph — Think of the last time you searched on Google for health information. Maybe you heard a news story about gluten-free diets … | Tom Dawson / AndroidHeadlines.com: |
Sony announces mid-range 5-inch Xperia E4 with quad-core 1.3 Ghz MediaTek CPU, 2 day battery life, expected later this year for around $150 — Sony's Xperia E4 is a Mid-Ranger with Two-Day Battery Life — Sony's first device launch of 2015 is here and no, it's no Xperia Z4.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Dish's Sling TV to add AMC, which carries “Mad Men” and “The Walking Dead”, to $20 basic package — Don Draper and Zombies Come to Web TV: In a Surprising Move, Dish's Sling TV Adds AMC — Dish's Sling TV, the low-cost cable-TV-on-the-Web experiment …
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Amazon's Newest Tool Lets Anyone Host Giveaways Online — Amazon announced a new self-service tool this morning that allows customers to host giveaways on its website. Anyone is eligible to run these sorts of promotions on the platform, though in Amazon's case, the feature will likely attract authors … | Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Canon offers $2.8 billion for network video camera maker Axis — Canon, which has watched its financial performance slip in recent quarters, sees possibilities for growth in the corporate world, which Axis caters to. — Digital-camera maker Canon has offered 23.6 billion Swedish krona …
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Axis Communications …, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, New York Times and Reuters
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Apple closes with $711B market cap, becoming the first U.S. company to pass $700B at market close — Apple's $710 billion market cap sets new record — At the close of trading on Tuesday, shares of Apple rested at $122.02 a share. Not only did the closing price represent an all-time stock high … | Maya Kosoff / Business Insider: |
Twitter CFO Anthony Noto's account compromised, company deletes all spam tweets — Twitter CFO's account has been hacked — The Twitter account of Twitter CFO Anthony Noto has been hacked. — Noto's account appears to be tweeting spammy links at other users.
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