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| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
Survey: Fewer than 25% of top 100 US retailers accept Apple Pay, 66% won't accept it this year — Exclusive: In ‘year of Apple Pay’, many top retailers remain skeptical — In a January earnings call with investors, Apple Inc (AAPL.O) Chief Executive Tim Cook made a confident prediction …
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| Bloomberg Business: |
Days before Apple plans to reveal its music streaming service, Apple is still negotiating with record labels, who are pushing for close to 60% of proceeds — Apple's Pushing to Complete Streaming Music Deal Before Event — Just days before Apple Inc. plans to reveal a music streaming service …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple may reduce the 30% cut it takes from publishers on Newsstand and many video providers on Apple TV — Apple rewrites app store economics — Apple is planning a departure from the pricing formula that has defined the economics of digital media for a decade …
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| New York Times: |
U.S. Was Warned of System Open to Cyberattacks — WASHINGTON — The inspector general at the Office of Personnel Management, which keeps the records and security clearance information for millions of current and retired federal employees, issued a report in November that essentially described …
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Ellen Pao recently asked KPCB for $2.7M in order not to appeal, nearly 3X what she was offered as a settlement before the case went to trial — Why Did Ellen Pao File to Appeal? Here's One Expensive Reason. — Less than a week after she said in a wide-ranging interview on the Code Conference stage …
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| Eli Wald / Inside Search: |
Google now surfacing content from apps in search results in Chrome and Google app on iOS — Find app content straight from the Google app—now on iPhone and iPad — No matter what you're searching for, you should get the best answers—whether they're on the web or in an app.| Jonathan Watson / Skype Blogs: |
Skype for Web (Beta) is now available to everyone in the US and UK — Hot on the heels of our recent post announcing improvements to Skype for Outlook , today we're pleased to share more good news for people that use Skype on their browser - Skype for Web (Beta) is now available for all new and existing users in the US and UK.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google will not receive transaction fees for Android Pay like Apple does with Apple Pay because of change in rules by MasterCard and Visa — Google Misses Out on Apple's Slice of Mobile Transactions — Credit-card issuers' standardized security system means a loss of fee revenue
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Mozilla CTO and Firefox OS co-founder Andreas Gal is leaving to launch an Internet of Things startup — Firefox OS in flux as Mozilla loses technology chief to startup — Andreas Gal, co-founder of Mozilla's mobile OS project, joins others from the project in a startup to link new devices to the Net.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple offers delivery within four hours for online store orders of some items in select areas, $19 delivery fee — Apple expands same-day courier options to online store orders — Apple has updated its online store with a quicker, same-day delivery option on select items ordered in certain zip codes.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Pinterest's head of partnerships Joanne Bradford is leaving; Tim Kendall taking on some duties — Pinterest's Bradford Departs as Kendall Takes Over Media and Sales — Joanne Bradford*, the long-time media exec who Pinterest brought in to oversee advertising and media partnerships in 2013 …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple Store no longer sells iPhones on AT&T with 2-year contracts; instead they're sold exclusively through the AT&T Next carrier financing program — Apple Store No Longer Sells iPhone With 2-Year Contract on AT&T — Apple overnight removed the option to purchase a new iPhone …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Sling TV's Web TV Subscriber Numbers Keep Growing, Now Around 250,000 — Sling TV, the “over-the-top” service that delivers pay TV over the Web, has around 250,000 paying subscribers, according to industry executives familiar with its performance. — If you assume that the vast majority …
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