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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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9to5Mac, The Register, Business Wire, The Verge, VentureBeat, Washington Post, PC World, Quartz, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, ITworld.com, Ubergizmo, KitGuru, New York Times, Engadget, Gigaom, Re/code, ZDNet, Data Center Knowledge, iMore, Mercury News, GeekWire, ifoAppleStore, Business Insider and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @mhelft
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
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.
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Xato, Yahoo Tech, TechSpot, TechCrunch, Geek.com, Gizmodo, CIO.com, Inquirer and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @chrismessina
| 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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Search Engine Land, Business Insider and 9to5Google
| 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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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Prezi Launches Nutshell, An App To Turn Photos Into ‘Mini-Movies’ — Prezi's online presentation software already offers a popular alternative to creating otherwise tedious and visually uninspiring PowerPoint presentations, but now it seems the startup wants in on the consumer ‘video’ sharing trend.
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
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.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Republicans launch attack on FCC's net neutrality plan — A commissioner, a former chairman, and Congress target Obama and Tom Wheeler. — Republicans are launching a multi-pronged assault on the net neutrality plan proposed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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.| 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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iSIGHT Partners, BBC, darkREADING, SecurityWeek, PC World, Fortune and The Register
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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 … | 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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SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow, InvestorPlace, Engadget, Business Insider and Gigaom
| 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, bizjournals, Forbes, Forbes, The Register and Marketwire. Thanks:@knieriemen
| 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 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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 … | Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
Scribd expands its ebook library to include comic books — The subscription service has partnered with more than 10 comic book publishers — Scribd will expand its library to include comic books today. The ebook subscription service just announced it has acquired more than 10,000 comic books …
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The Next Web, The Scribd Blog, TechCrunch, Wired, Gigaom, Hollywood Reporter, Publishers Weekly, Robot 6, Engadget, Mashable, io9, Digital Trends and CNET
| 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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Yelp Official Blog, yelp-ir.com, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Business Insider, The Next Web, Wired, CNET, WebProNews, GeekWire, Engadget and Reuters
Tweets: @panzer and @mikeisaac
| 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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Business Wire, Variety, Wall Street Journal and DSLreports
| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Jive Software Names Elisa Steele Permanent CEO — Elisa Steele, the former chief marketing officer of Skype, has been named CEO of Jive Software after holding the position on an interim basis for about three months, the company said today. — The move, which is not entirely a surprise …
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Google confirms it put $900M into SpaceX's $1B round — Google's SpaceX deal cost it $900 million. — It's been three weeks since SpaceX confirmed its $1 billion funding round led by Google and Fidelity. At the time, SpaceX said, “Google and Fidelity will collectively own just under 10% of the company.”
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