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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Every Mac in Apple's current lineup except the 12-inch MacBook is outdated; the 13-inch non-Retina MacBook Pro was last updated in June 2012, still costs $1.1K — One thousand, five hundred and fourteen days. Or: four years, one month, and twenty-four days.
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| Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech: |
Apple's slow Mac refresh cycle is mostly driven by the low rate of improvements in the PC hardware today — Most of Apple's product lines are severely overdue for a refresh. Apart from the recently refreshed MacBook, many of the company's Mac products are well over a year old.| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
China floods Silicon Valley with cash: $6B+ invested total, $3B+ in the last 18 months; Alibaba's troubled investment in Quixey shows how such deals can go bad — SAN FRANCISCO — Mountain View, Calif., start-up Quixey was the envy of many in Silicon Valley when the company announced … | Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Elite dealmakers like Carmen Chang and Connie Chan facilitate the deluge of deals between China and Silicon Valley — SAN FRANCISCO — When Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick wanted advice about whom to hire to run his ride-hailing business in China, he asked Carmen Chang …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom gives full credit to Snapchat for Stories format, and looks at how tech companies build on each others' innovations — The one thing you never hear in Silicon Valley is an entrepreneur admit they copied someone else. Yet there in the headquarters of Facebook …
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FTC to crack down on sponsored celebrity social media posts that aren't explicitly disclosed — The agency says brands and the social media stars who promote their products need to be more transparent about sponsored content — Snapchat star DJ Khaled raves about Ciroc vodka.| Recode: |
Chris Urmson, CTO of Google's self-driving car project, announces he is leaving after seven years — A key executive of Google's self-driving car project is leaving the company. Chris Urmson, who serves as CTO and technical lead, announced that he was leaving after seven years.
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| Rich / Securosis Highlights: |
Apple's bug bounty program is a good start, focuses on finding high-quality exploits in a few key areas on iOS and iCloud, will grow and evolve over time — It should surprise no one that Apple is writing their own playbook for bug bounties. Both bigger, with the largest potential payout I'm aware of …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Sources: Apple acquires Seattle-based machine learning startup Turi for around $200M — Machine learning and artificial intelligence startup Turi has been acquired by Apple in a deal characterized as a blockbuster exit for the Seattle-based company, formerly known as Dato and GraphLab, GeekWire has learned.
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Thanks:@johnhcook| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Wal-Mart's $3B acquisition of Jet.com would require Jet founder Marc Lore to head the retailer's online division for several years — Marc Lore said to stay to run retailer's e-commerce division — Purchase for $3 billion would help Wal-Mart challenge Amazon
Tweets: @ericnewcomer, @fmanjoo, @mdudas, @ericnewcomer and @gregbettinelli
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Disney launches its own messaging app, Disney Mix, aimed at kids and families — Disney today is wading into the mobile messaging marketwith a new chat applicationcalled Disney Mix, aimed at kids, tweens and families. While the app will compete to some extent with popular messaging clients like WhatsApp …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US Copyright Office sides with cable companies on set-top boxes, says proposed FCC rules may encourage piracy — Set-top box rules could enable piracy, copyright official warns. — The United States Copyright Office has sided with cable companies in their fight against a Federal … Sponsor Posts
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