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Jeff Williams named Apple COO, Phil Schiller takes over App Store leadership — Apple Names Jeff Williams Chief Operating Officer — Johny Srouji Named to Executive Team; Phil Schiller Adds Ecosystem Responsibilities — Tor Myhren Joins Apple — Apple® today announced …
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Tweets: @alexeheath, @bzamayo, @neilcybart, @viticci and @usatodaytech
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple announces Apple Pay partnership with China UnionPay, expects ‘early 2016’ launch — Apple on Thursday announced an agreement with Chinese card processor UnionPay to offer Apple Pay services in China, opening the vast Asian market to its in-house iOS-based payment product.
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Apple, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, New York Times, TechCrunch, The Verge, iMore, Re/code, Associated Press, MacRumors, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, MacStories and iPhone in Canada Blog. Thanks:@mikeycampbell81
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Netflix announces rebuilt Universal Windows 10 app for PCs and tablets, coming to smartphones early next year — Netflix's new Windows 10 app embraces Microsoft's universal dream — Netflix is making the most of Windows 10 today. Netflix is updating its Windows Store app …
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Tweets: @gcaughey, @simevidas, @satyanadella and @reedhastings
| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Juniper discovers backdoor in its NetScreen enterprise firewalls that allows decrypting VPN traffic, admin access, recommends patching immediately — Juniper Finds Backdoor that Decrypts VPN Traffic — Juniper Networks today has released an emergency patch that removes what it's calling …
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
FCC wants to meet with T-Mobile, Comcast, AT&T by Jan. 15 to discuss their zero-rating programs — Regulators want to talk to AT&T, Comcast and T-Mobile about sponsored data — Federal regulators have asked AT&T, Comcast and T-Mobile to meet with them to discuss a growing …
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
ID theft monitoring company LifeLock to pay $100M fine for violating 2010 FTC settlement that required LifeLock protect customer data — LifeLock to pay $100 million to settle U.S. contempt charges: FTC — LifeLock Inc, which sells identity theft monitoring and fraud detection services …
| Tesla Motors: |
Tesla, in a “correction” of Bloomberg that states it will continue using MobilEye chips, argues George Hotz's homemade self-driving car won't succeed — Correction to article: “The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car” — The article by Ashlee Vance did not correctly represent Tesla or MobilEye.
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Tweets: @elonmusk, @fmanjoo, @drbarnard, @bradwieners, @jowyang and @pmarca
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Technology investors describe the cooling in Silicon Valley: lower valuations for top-tier companies, and trouble for weaker startups — Silicon Valley's cash party is coming to an end — Silicon Valley is cooling, not crashing. Valuations are falling. The era of cheap money is over.
Tweets: @joshmedia, @danprimack, @harri8t, @mcwellons, @victorandrekong, @benwerd, @reformedbroker and @semil. Thanks:@mattmhunter
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Facebook Messenger rolls out Photo Magic, its face recognition tool that suggests photos to send to friends, to all outside Canada and the European Union — Facebook Messenger's face recognition tool rolls out to everyone outside of Canada and the EU — The releases keep on coming for Facebook's Messenger service.| Cade Metz / Wired: |
IBM, JP Morgan, and others build the Open Ledger Project, a blockchain for business services, overseen by the Linux Foundation — Tech and Banking Giants Ditch Bitcoin for Their Own Blockchain — Several major companies from across both the technology and financial industries—including IBM …
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Fortune, Bitcoin Magazine, Fortune, Crowdfund Insider, Bloomberg Business, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, The Stack, PYMNTS.com, NEWSBTC and Business Insider. Tweets: @marshallk
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Vine introduces personalized Twitter Moment's-like curated channel, For You — Vine will now curate a channel of posts it thinks you'll want to see — It can be a pain for new users to find stuff on Twitter, so the company spent a big part of its year trying to show users things from people they don't already follow.
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Vine Blog, VentureBeat, Engadget and SlashGear
| Reuters: |
Brazilian judge orders lifting of 48-hour WhatsApp ban, recommends WhatsApp pay higher fine instead; services restored after several hours — Brazil court lifts suspension of Facebook's WhatsApp service — A Brazilian judge on Thursday ordered the lifting of a 48-hour suspension …
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Tweets: @telegram, @telegram and @joshuafoust
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Pinterest launches a tool that notifies users when a product they've pinned drops in price — Pinterest Launches A New Way To Track Price Drops On Buyable Pins — Pinterest has a new way to entice users to come back and buy things: keeping tabs on the price.
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VentureBeat, Digital Trends, The Next Web, Marketing Land, SocialTimes, Seventeen and internetretailer.com. Thanks:@jamiefavazza
| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Microsoft forms joint venture with Chinese government to deliver a custom version of Windows 10 for public sector agencies — Microsoft aims to supply Chinese government with customized Windows 10 — After signing a deal with China's answer to Google in September, Microsoft is again strengthening …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens a HoloLens playground for developers at its New York store — Millions of people have seen Microsoft's astonishing HoloLens videos. Far fewer have seen the limited, but still impressive, reality. And that's something Microsoft wants to change.
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The Next Web, Windows Blog, TechnoBuffalo, WinBeta, BetaNews, Pocketnow, Wired, SlashGear, Windows Central, Gizmodo, Neowin, Tech Times, TechSpot, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, TIME, ZDNet, ZDNet and Microsoft News
| Jared Newman / TechHive: |
Amazon Fire TV's new apps include NBC, Fox Now, Food Network, and GoPro — The battle for streaming-app supremacy continues. — The TV-app arms race is showing no signs of slowing down as a slew of new apps land on Amazon's Fire TV streamers. — The latest additions include NBC … Sponsor Posts
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