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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
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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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
White House Plays With Words, Says Department Of Justice Isn't Asking Apple To Create A Backdoor — Following Tim Cook's letter, the White House has reacted to Apple's strong stance against backdoors. According to Reuters, the White House has said that the Department of Justice isn't asking …
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| Elise Viebeck / Washington Post: |
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| Bloomberg Business: |
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
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| 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.| Skype Blogs: |
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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| Diego Macias / Android Headlines: |
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 … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Neverware updates CloudReady, a modified version of 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 refurbish old Windows PCs …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
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 … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo Tech Editor in Chief Dan Tynan is out; Yahoo's tech site will be integrated into its larger news site; David Pogue will stay with the company — If It's Wednesday, It's Layoffs Day at Yahoo: Today, Digital Magazines Get Hit — According to sources close to the situation … | 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.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Twitter will now let you record and share videos in Direct Messages — Twitter may be in the middle of an existential crisis of sorts over where to take its slow-growing social network, but the company keeps plugging away at basic features to bring the service up to speed with competitors like Facebook Messenger.
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Tweets: @support, @davezatz and @robinwauters
| Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook announces that all publishers and bloggers worldwide can adopt Instant Articles beginning April 12 — Facebook Will Make Instant Articles Available to All Publishers — As of April 12, almost a year after launch, any publisher can host content directly on the social media site| Mari Saito / Reuters: |
Select Amazon Flex drivers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have started to handle standard Amazon.com deliveries, in addition to Prime Now orders — Exclusive: Amazon expanding deliveries by its ‘on-demand’ drivers — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is quietly inviting drivers for its new “on-demand” … | Reuters: |
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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| Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
Vevo CEO Erik Huggers says company is working on a paid music video subscription service, could launch this year — Vevo Is Working on a Paid Music Video Subscription Service (Video) — The Internet's dominant music video service is working on a subscription offering.
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Variety, Ubergizmo, Associated Press, FACT Magazine and ZDNet
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Tianjin Tianhai buys tech distributor Ingram Micro for $6 billion — Ingram's management is expected to stay in place as the company fetches a nice premium. — Tech distributor Ingram Micro will be acquired by a unit of Chinese conglomerate HNA Group. — In a statement …
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Verizon to update Hum, its OnStar-like service for cars, with geofencing and speed alert features later this month — Verizon's Hum connected car gadget is now a teen driver's worst nightmare — Hum, the aftermarket connected car add-on from Verizon, is about to get a little less friendly to the younger drivers in the household.
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The Next Web, news.sys-con.com, Ad Age, Fortune, TechnoBuffalo, Consumerist, Droid Life, Digital Trends and Gizmodo
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Marvell Technology to pay $750M to Carnegie Mellon University to settle a lawsuit over hard disk drive patents — Marvell Technology to pay Carnegie Mellon $750 million over patents — Marvell Technology Group Ltd on Wednesday said it will pay Carnegie Mellon University $750 million …
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TechEye, Carnegie Mellon University, Press Association, StreetInsider.com, The Register and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @mp3michael
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