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FBI confirms it won't send method used to hack San Bernadino iPhone to a government review that could have forced FBI to share info about the method with Apple — FBI Makes Official Its Decision to Keep Apple iPhone Hack Secret — Agency says it doesn't have the technical expertise to share
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Apple says it received its first FBI tip via Vulnerability Equities Process on April 14; vulnerability already fixed on iOS9 and El Capitan — Apple says FBI gave it first vulnerability tip on April 14 — The FBI informed Apple Inc of a vulnerability in its iPhone and Mac software on April 14 … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nintendo FY16 misses forecast as profits plunge 60%, NX console to launch in March 2017 — Nintendo earnings plunge 60 percent in fiscal year as it preps new hardware — That's an ugly bottom line. — Nintendo's earnings for the fiscal year ended March 31 fell 60.6 percent to 16.5 million yen …
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Yahoo reaches deal with activist Starboard adding 4 people to board, including Starboard CEO — As Yahoo continues to weigh up acquisition offers, the company has announced that it's reached a deal with activist investor Starboard, which had written one of its famous letters …
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IDC: 334.9M smartphones shipped worldwide in Q1, up just 0.2% YoY, marking the smallest YoY growth on record; Samsung extends lead over Apple — IDC: Smartphone shipments flat for the first time; Samsung widens lead over Apple in Q1 2016 — Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 334.9 million smartphones worldwide last quarter.
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Judge finds Amazon liable for in-app charges racked up by kids — A federal court has ruled that Amazon is responsible for charges billed to parents by their kids through in-app purchases. — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) first lodged the case against Amazon back in July 2014 …
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Google Calendar adds “Find a time” feature that suggests meeting times based on mutual availability; now on Android for Google Apps for Work or Edu users — Google Calendar for Android: Find a time for my meeting — Smartphones have made productivity portable.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Comcast in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation for $3B+, would likely merge DreamWorks with Universal Pictures — Comcast in Talks to Buy DreamWorks Animation for More Than $3 Billion — Deal would join DreamWorks with Comcast's Universal Pictures
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Source: Facebook is offering some content creators around $250K for 20 live video posts per month over a three-month period — As Social Shifts To Video, Content Creators Win Power And Dollars — Photo illustration by Alex Kantrowitz, BuzzFeed News / Thinkstock-Facebook| Sonam Joshi / Mashable: |
Starting 2017, all new mobile phones sold in India must have a “panic button” function that lets users make emergency calls, in move to improve women's safety — From 2017, all new mobile phones in India will have a panic button for women's safety
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None of the changes Twitter made over the past year have broadened the appeal of the core service — Nothing Twitter is doing is working — Twitter reported its first-quarter earnings today, and they came in under expectations: the company's haul of $595 million was less than the $607.8 million … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Smart home company Vivint raises $100M co-led by Peter Thiel and Solamere Capital — Peter Thiel and Mitt Romney invested $100 million in a company that wants to be the Apple of smart homes — Vivint, a smarthome company based out of Provo, Utah, has raised $100 million in its first round of venture-capital funding.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Samsung's Gear 360 camera goes on sale April 29, captures near 4K-quality video for VR via two fisheye F2.0 lenses; price still unknown — Samsung's Gear 360 camera is going on sale in 2 days and we still don't know how much it costs — Samsung unveiled the Gear 360 virtual reality cameralast month at Mobile World Conference.
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Getty Images files EU antitrust complaint against Google for scraping pics from websites, displaying and allowing downloads of hi-res images — Google Accused of Enabling Photography Piracy — Photography company Getty Images is accusing Google of scraping images from third party websites …
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Thanks:@lutherlowe. See also Mediagazer| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple services revenue grows 20% YoY to $5.99B, now higher than Mac revenue — Apple now makes more money from its services than selling Macs — Apple now makes more revenue from its services than it does from selling Macs. Revenue from services like iTunes, the App Store, iTunes … | Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
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