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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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Apple readies “TVKit” SDK for Apple TV, and Apple Watch updates like “Find my Watch”, irregular heart beat notifications, third-party watch face “complications” — Apple readies first significant Apple Watch updates, ‘TVKit’ SDK for Apple TV
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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.| Tom Dotan / The Information: |
Facebook is in active talks with game developers about games for Messenger app platform — With Messenger Apps Sluggish, Facebook Eyeing Games — The first suite of apps that Facebook announced for Messenger were all for lightweight communication: sending people emojis, sound clips, gifs and the like.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Co-Founder Evan Sharp On International Ambitions, The Apple Watch, The SF Housing Crisis And More — As part of a larger story about Pinterest's Jumpstart program — a new experiment in its international expansion — I sat down with Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp to talk about the company and its current goals.| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
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 … | Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed: |
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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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.| Bloomberg Business: |
Uber Joins Baidu as Nokia's Maps Unit Draws Multiple Bidders — Uber Technologies Inc. is teaming up with Baidu Technologies Inc. and Apax Partners to pursue Nokia Oyj's maps business, people with knowledge of the matter said, as a bidding war for the unit intensifies.| Washington Post: |
Tech industry the largest source of speaking fees for Hillary Clinton, with a total of $3.2M paid since 2014 by companies including eBay, Cisco, and Qualcomm — Hillary Clinton was paid millions by tech industry for speeches — In one of her last gigs on the paid lecture circuit … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
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