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Apple's Tim Cook Discusses Emerging Markets and Plans for Cash — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company's best days are still ahead. It's not a particularly unusual message coming from a CEO. But Apple is facing pointed questions that the iPhone's growth will slow and that the company's innovative run is coming to an end.| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal: |
NSA struggles with cellphone coverage, collects only 20% or less of total US call data — NSA Collects 20% or Less of U.S. Call Data — Program Doesn't Cover Records for Most Cellphones — WASHINGTON—The National Security Agency's phone-data program, which has been at the center …
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| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Apple, Google, Microsoft: Where does the money come from? — Summary: If you want to know why big tech companies act the way they do, follow the money. Based on the latest SEC filings, Apple's still a successful hardware company, and Google's still in the advertising business.| Maxim Lott / Fox News: |
Russia bans bitcoins — If you're going to the Sochi Olympics in Russia, don't bring bitcoins. Yesterday the Russian Prosecutor General's office released a statement that clearly prohibits Russians from using the new digital currency. — “Bitcoin is a money substitute and cannot be used …
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
LinkedIn kills its Intro email service after less than four months — LinkedIn just announced that it'll be shutting down Intro, a service meant to integrate LinkedIn contact details right into the iOS Mail app, after less than four months. LinkedIn simply said it was discontinuing the service …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
GoPro Files For IPO As The Action Camera Maker Prepares To Go Public — Action camera company GoPro has filed the initial documents for its initial public offering, according to a press release from the company this morning and confirmed by GoPro to TechCrunch.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
New Windows 8.1 Update 1 leak reveals boot-to-desktop and UI changes — A near-final version of Windows 8.1 Update 1 has leaked online today, revealing what appear to be final changes that Microsoft is making to its upcoming update. While Microsoft has been testing changes during the beta phase …
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| Brian X. Chen / NYT Bits: |
California Bill Would Require Antitheft Technology for Cellphones — A smartphone is sleek, compact and valuable, which makes it a perfect target for a thief. Californian lawmakers want to require cellphone companies to fix that problem. — In the last year, officials in San Francisco …
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| Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence: |
Mastercard and Visa to switch from swipe-and-sign credit cards to PIN based cards by Oct 2015 — October 2015: The End of the Swipe-and-Sign Credit Card … It's a payment ritual as familiar as handing over a $20 bill, and it's soon to go extinct: prepare to say farewell to the swipe-and-sign of a credit card transaction.| Salvador Rodriguez / Los Angeles Times: |
Hackers can use Snapchat to disable iPhones, researcher says — A cyber security researcher has discovered a vulnerability within the Snapchat mobile app that makes it possible for hackers to launch a denial-of-service attack that temporarily freezes a user's iPhone.| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Now Lets You Edit Your “Look Back” Movie — Earlier this week, we learned that Facebook would soon let you edit the automatically-generated “Look Back” videos the company had made to celebrate Facebook's 10th anniversary. — Sure enough: they just launched the editor.
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
DOJ ends probe of Samsung's essential patents use after sales ban veto by Obama Administration — U.S. ends probe of Samsung's use of essential patents — (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department will close its investigation into Samsung Electronics' use of a special class of essential patents … Sponsor Posts
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