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February 27, 2018, 11:10 AM

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Christina Farr / CNBC:

Sources: Apple is launching AC Wellness, a group of medical clinics for its employees and their families, starting in California this spring — - The company is advertising for doctors, health coaches, and “designers” to create a program to promote healthy behavior.

Tom McKay / Gizmodo:

Google says it received ~2.4M takedown requests from 2014-2017 under EU's right to be forgotten laws and complied with 43% of them — Google has now been complying with the European Union's controversial “right to be forgotten” laws, which the European Court of Justice first ruled applied to search engines in 2014, for three years.

More: The Keyword, Elie on Internet Security …, 9to5Google, Search Engine Land, Engadget, The Verge, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat, and Help Net Security

Tweets: @daphnehk, @brento, @milanzubicek, @glenngabe, @miquelp, and @yonatanzunger

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google releases beta of its open-source Flutter SDK for building iOS and Android apps — Flutter is Google's open source toolkit for helping developers build iOS and Android apps. It's not necessarily a household name yet, but it's also less than a year old and, to some degree …

More: Mehedi Hassan, VentureBeat, Google Developers Blog, Ars Technica, XDA Developers, and Hacker Noon

Karissa Bell / Mashable:

Vero, an ad-free social networking app that first launched in 2015, becomes the top app on the App Store in US as frustration with Instagram's algorithm grows — Every product here is independently selected by Mashable journalists. If you buy something featured, we may earn an affiliate commission which helps support our work.

More: Vero, BBC, Houston Chronicle, iPhone Hacks, Tom's Guide, Refinery29, Fast Company, Slate, and Forbes

Tweets: @thenextwoods, @bernardotowers, @phmai, @ischafer, @pasql, and @caseynewton

Wendy Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:

A look at tech real estate in the Bay Area: Google has 19.9M sq. ft. of office space for 34K+ workers, 38% more than Apple's 14.4M sq. ft. for 25K+ people — Google's parent company, Alphabet, has been adding office space more rapidly than any other tech company in the Bay Area.

More: Quartz. Tweets: @trengriffin, @lifewinning, @mdudas, @semil, and @ronlin

Shannon Liao / The Verge:

Coinbase to comply with court order and send IRS details of ~13,000 users who moved $20K+ through their accounts in a single year between 2013 and 2015 — Within 21 days — Coinbase told its customers on Friday that it plans to comply with a court order and hand over about 13,000 customers' data to the IRS within 21 days.

More: Coinbase, BetaNews, CoinDesk, Slashdot, CNET, Digital Trends, Bitcoinist.com, Bitsonline, Fortune, and International Business Times

Tweets: @aantonop and @jamesgrickards

Wall Street Journal:

Sources detail how tech magnate Masayoshi Son invests in companies, often acting quickly and detached from fund's investor committee and Softbank's directors — SoftBank is on a shopping spree, investing billions in firms such as Uber and WeWork, both directly and through an affiliated tech fund

Tweets: @kushkatakia, @zerohedge, @krisnair, @eliotwb, @eliotwb, @hkanji, @bcdaileywc, @scottmaustin, @gilliantan, @scottmaustin, and @mdudas

Natasha Singer / New York Times:

Researchers and tech firms are using digital phenotyping, an emerging field that aims to assess people's health based on their interactions with digital devices — An emerging field, digital phenotyping, tries to assess people's well-being based on their interactions with digital devices.

More: MacDailyNews. Tweets: @rock_health and @went1955

Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Apple's iOS Security Guide confirms 2016 reports that Google Cloud Platform is one of the third-party services Apple uses to store data for its iCloud services — - The collaboration is around storing iCloud users' data. There's no indication Apple is also relying on Google for additional computing work.

More: Inquirer, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, SlashGear, cloudpro.co.uk, MAC blog, The Next Web, CNET, Neowin, Tech Times, PCWorld, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, CRN, AppleInsider, The Verge, Ubergizmo, On MSFT, Seeking Alpha, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Softpedia News, Fortune, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, and The Register

Tweets: @privacymatters and @bdsams

Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes:

Sources: Cellebrite, popular with governments and law enforcement for hacking into devices, is telling potential clients that it can unlock iOS 11 devices — In what appears to be a major breakthrough for law enforcement, and a possible privacy problem for Apple customers …

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Craig Wright, who once claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, sued for $10B by estate of deceased business partner Dave Kleiman, for allegedly stealing $5B in bitcoin — Dave Kleiman's estate wants ten billion dollars in bitcoin, allegedly taken by fraud — Craig Wright, who once claimed …

More: WizSec, Motherboard, Engadget, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Bitsonline, CoinDesk, Fortune, Finance Magnates, TechSpot, Bitcoinist.com, International Business Times, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Cointelegraph.com News, PYMNTS.com, NewsBTC, and reddit. Tweets: @proffaustus

Christina Farr / CNBC:

Sources: Alphabet's Verily has been talking with insurers about joint bids for contracts that would involve taking on risk for hundreds of thousands of patients — - The company is looking to take on risk for patient populations and sharing in the upside if it can bring down health-care costs, sources tell CNBC.

Tweets: @onceupona

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