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After nearly a decade of research, Apple shelved plans over a year ago for the TV set that Carl Icahn expects it to release in 2016 — Behind Apple's Move to Shelve TV Plans — Apple had dropped its TV plans, but investor Carl Icahn sees the firm entering the market next year
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Tweets: @gte, @benthompson, @nickbilton, @tomgara and @awallenstein
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Apple, Google, and leading cryptologists urge President Obama in letter to reject backdoors in smartphones and other devices — Tech giants urge Obama to resist ‘backdoors’ into encrypted communications — Tech behemoths including Apple and Google and leading cryptologists …
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Advocacy organizations from 31 countries say Facebook's Internet.org violates net neutrality, security, privacy, and threatens freedom of expression — Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg Regarding Internet.org, Net Neutrality, Privacy, and Security — We, the undersigned … | Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge: |
Inside Google's secret anti-fraud team battling the bots that siphon billions of digital ad dollars — Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud — Cable News Wars Rage as New Players Join the Battle — In a conference room nine floors above London's St. Giles High Street …
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Apple releases new $1,999 27-inch Retina iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch trackpad — Apple releases cheaper Retina iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch — Apple is starting to bring the price down on its 5K Retina iMac, releasing a new version today that sells …
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| Katie Benner / Bloomberg View: |
Jawbone's recent $300M investment from BlackRock was debt, not equity — Jawbone Gets a Loan and a Leash — Jawbone, the San Francisco maker of wearable technology, recently got a hefty $300 million investment from BlackRock, the largest and one of the most trusted asset management companies in the world.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
YotaPhone2 U.S. pre-orders open on Indiegogo starting at $500 with an August delivery — Russian mobile broadband provider and smartphone manufacturer Yota has finally revealed the U.S. pricing and pre-order details for the second version of its smartphone, the YotaPhone2, six months after its European launch.
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Outlook's smart Clutter filter will be turned on by default for Office 365 customers in June — Microsoft today announced that the Outlook smart filter Clutter will be turned on by default for Office 365 this June. More specifically, the switch will be flipped for tenants in the First Release program …
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EZTV's founder NovaKing quits as scammers take over the domains, brand — EZTV Shuts Down After Hostile Takeover — During the spring of 2005 several large TV-torrent sites were knocked offline, leaving a gaping void that was soon filled by a new torrent distribution group, EZTV.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's New Search Results Interface Expands To All Web Users — Twitter is now rolling out a new search results interface to all logged-in users on the web, introducing a cleaner look-and-feel and more filtering options that let you sort results by top tweets, “live” tweets, accounts, photos, videos, news and more.
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Obama uses someone else's iPhone to post first tweet from his own Twitter account @POTUS — Obama Used Someone Else's iPhone To Tweet His First Presidential Account Tweet — President Obama still carries his secure BlackBerry. On the day of the first tweet from @POTUS, the White House won't say if that device is Twitter capable.
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