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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Apple agrees to pay up to $500M to settle a US class-action lawsuit accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle litigation accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
COVID-19's impact on tech this week: cancelled conferences, supply chain and sales disruptions, murky business outlook for online travel firms, and rise of Zoom — Companies are telling investors that sales are slumping because of the outbreak, conferences are being canceled, and workers are being instructed not to travel.
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Twitter, The Verge, Reuters, Elad Blog, Axios, CNET, GeekWire, Nieman Lab, KXAN-TV, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Redmond Pie, Input, Android Headlines, Business Insider, TechRepublic, PYMNTS.com, Washington Post, Sramana Mitra, SiliconANGLE, The Daily Dot, Reuters, CNBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, Neowin, Engadget, SlashGear, Business Insider, Engadget, MIT Technology Review, Washington Post, Digital Trends, and BuzzFeed News
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| Frank McShan / MacRumors: |
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
AT&T TV launches across the US after rolling out in over a dozen markets last year, with prices that start at $49.99/month but go up dramatically after a year — AT&T's next big TV play has a problem: pricing — AT&T TV is launching nationwide today after initially rolling out to over a dozen markets last year.
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AT&T, Digital Trends, Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Reporter, Thurrott, The Keyword, 9to5Google, Dallas Business Journal, Fast Company, Droid Life, Yahoo Finance, Liliputing, CNBC, MSPoweruser, WRAL TechWire, CNET, Houston Chronicle, Variety, Gizmodo, and Mashable. Tweets: @backlon
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Report: Apple and its suppliers are among the 83 big companies benefitting from China's abusive labor transfer programs for Uyghur Muslims and other minorities — A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think-tank has named Apple among 83 other major companies benefiting …
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ASPI, VentureBeat, ABC, Sydney Morning Herald, Business Insider, Patently Apple, The Mac Observer, BBC, 9to5Mac, and Washington Post
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Verge survey of 1,123 US adults: 72% said Facebook has too much power; 51% said Google and YouTube should be split up into separate companies — Ahead of the election year, we polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information — and which ones should be broken up
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Rajeev Suri to step down as Nokia CEO after over half a decade; Pekka Lundmark, outgoing President and CEO of energy firm Fortum appointed as President and CEO — Rajeev Suri, the chief executive of Nokia, is stepping down from his leadership role after overseeing the Finnish networking giant for more than 10 years.
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Financial Times, CNET, Bloomberg, CNN, The Register, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Nokia Oyj, South China Morning Post, Silicon Republic, Neowin, Axios, Protocol, The Economic Times, and Seeking Alpha
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| New York Times: |
A look at China's new system using color-coded QR codes to dictate people's movements and quarantines, that may be a template for social control beyond COVID-19 — A new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.
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Business Insider, PYMNTS.com, Maps Mania, and Discover and Read …
Tweets: @paulmozur, @paulmozur, @kashhill, @puiwingtam, @alexsteffen, @paulmozur, @leimer, @carlzha, and @nytimes
| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Alphabet's X unveils Tidal, a moonshot project to track thousands of fish using computer vision and AI to protect the ocean and help feed humanity sustainably — Latest Division X project aims to help fish farmers, and the planet — Today Alphabet is announcing Tidal …
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Financial Times, X, the moonshot factory, The Next Web, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, VentureBeat, and 9to5Google
| Financial Times: |
Analysis: one-third of donations from employees at big tech firms went to Sens. Warren and Sanders, despite a lack of enthusiasm from tech executives — Progressive Democratic candidates receive most cash from tech workers ahead of Super Tuesday — Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders … | Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Airbnb's long-planned IPO, previously scheduled for March or April, has been derailed by the coronavirus fallout and could be pushed back to 2021 — - Startup was targeting first half to kick off the process — Shares of rivals dive as travel bookings canceled globally
Tweets: @ericnewcomer
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Spotify is making a big push for artists and record labels to pay to promote their music in its app, complicating talks over long-term music rights — - Music service needs ad revenue source to reach profitability — The three major record labels are balking at Spotify's plans| Ben Gilbert / Business Insider: |
Indie game developers and publishers say Stadia's library is sparse because Google wasn't offering devs enough money and may abandon the platform in the future — - Last November, Google finally launched a major gaming platform that was in development for years: Google Stadia.
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Tom's Hardware, Gamasutra, OnMSFT.com, PC Games Insider, MSPoweruser, The Overspill, GamingBolt, Game Rant, SlashGear, Kotaku, 9to5Google, Blue's News, VG247, and Android Central
Tweets: @tha_rami, @bradfitz, @swiftonsecurity, @mcclure111, @carnage4life, @jerkob, @vgfgamers, @jeremypenter, @whatusaymark, @grummz, @paultassi, and @realbengilbert
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher demos multiple ways of how to take over and repurpose allegedly state sponsored Mac malware — Former NSA hacker repackages in-the-wild Mac malware for his own use. — SAN FRANCISCO—Malware developers are always trying to outdo each other with creations that are stealthier and more advanced than their competitors'.
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Tweets: @patrickwardle, @dangoodin001, @jamfsoftware, @ihackbanme, and @thomasareed
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