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Profile of Johny Srouji, Apple's SVP for hardware technologies, who is leading the development of company's chips — The Most Important Apple Executive You've Never Heard Of — A visit with Cupertino's chief chipmaker, Johny Srouji. — A little over a year ago, Apple had a problem: The iPad Pro was behind schedule.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweets in support of Apple, says forcing companies to enable hacking could compromise user privacy — Google CEO Sundar Pichai backs Tim Cook over Apple-FBI controversy — Google CEO Sundar Pichai just weighed in on the ongoing issue over device encryption between Apple …
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Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon declined to comment when asked about Apple's opposition to iPhone court order, showing muted tech industry response — Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response — After a federal court ordered Apple to help unlock …
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Skype starts rolling out group video calling for iOS and Android, beginning with North America and Western Europe today, with worldwide availability in March — Announcing group video calling for mobile phones and tablets — Just a few weeks ago, we announced the next evolution of Skype …
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Apple Pay launches in China, will use UnionPay's point-of-sale network for off-line payments — Apple Joins With China's UnionPay to Introduce Mobile Payments — Clients of 19 Chinese lenders can shop with Apple Pay — Alipay and Tencent dominate China's online payment market| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Netflix updated its recommendation algorithms to highlight titles based on global viewing habits earlier this year, ditching regional approach — How Netflix completely revamped recommendations for its new global audience — Before Netflix got into the business of producing its own programming … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out updates for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 that address power management bugs and Intel driver issues — Microsoft's new Surface Book update will fix sleep problems — When we reviewed Microsoft's Surface Book back in October we noticed a number of weird issues.| Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times: |
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid $17K ransom in bitcoins to hackers who took over its network for more than a week — Hollywood hospital pays $17,000 in bitcoins to hackers who took control of computers — The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in 2004.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Neverware updates CloudReady, an operating system based on Chromium, with dual-booting capability for Macs and PCs — How to turn your sluggish old Mac or PC into a faster Chromebook — Earlier today we published a story about Neverware, a New York City startup that is helping schools …
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Uber CEO says firm loses $1B+ a year in China due to price war with unprofitable competitor — Uber losing $1 billion a year to compete in China — Uber Technologies Inc is burning through more than a billion dollars a year in China as it wages a fierce price war against local rival Didi Kuaidi, its chief executive said.
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Google Translate adds 13 new languages bringing total to 103, now serves 99% of online population — Google Translate Update Adds New Language Support — Google Translate is a very powerful and useful tool which has been getting better over time. The service can be used to translate text … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
IBM Acquiring Truven Health Analytics For $2.6 Billion And Adding It To Watson Health — IBM announced its intent to buy Truven Health Analytics today for a whopping $2.6 billion. It is the fourth major purchase for Watson Health since the unit was established in 2014.
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Jana raises $57M Series C led by Verizon Ventures for mCent ad-subsidized free internet service for emerging markets, Tim Armstrong joins the board of advisors — Jana Raises $57 Million to Bring Internet to Developing World — Jana is a Boston-based mobile Internet company … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquihires Work Chat Startup Pie To Build Engineering Team In Southeast Asia — Google today announced that it is building its first engineering team devoted to Southeast Asia, and the search giant has gobbled up Pie, a Slack-like team communications service based in Singapore, to kick-start things.
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