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February 8, 2014, 2:15 PM

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Daisuke Wakabayashi / Digits:
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.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
From fashion to fitness: the experts behind Apple's wearable future  —  Apple has been developing a sensor-laden, fitness- and medical-focused wearable computer as indicated by several notable recent hires and information we have received from sources.  —  New Apple hires on both the senior executive …
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Kyle Wilhoit / Trend Micro Simply Security:
Behind the NBC report that Olympic visitors can expect to be hacked: all attacks required user interaction, could happen anywhere  —  Details Behind the NBC Honeypots: Part 2  —  Recently, I was asked by NBC to participate in an experiment to deploy honeypots in Moscow, Russia, to see how fast they would be compromised.
The Coinbase Blog:
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Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal:
Programmatic ad tech plaform PubMatic planning IPO, aiming for a valuation of over $1B  —  Ad Platform PubMatic Working on IPO  —  PubMatic Inc., which automates the buying and selling of digital advertising space, has tapped bankers for a potential initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said.
More: Bloomberg and Beet.TV
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Cisco to pay “patent troll” Innovatio only 3.2 cents per router in settlement  —  Wi-Fi “patent troll” will only get 3.2 cents per router from Cisco  —  Innovatio IP Ventures has become arguably the most infamous sender of patent demand letters in recent memory …
James Niccolai / Computerworld:
Judge rebukes Apple for invoking nationalist bias but denies Samsung a retrial  —  A U.S. judge has denied Samsung's request for a retrial in a patent dispute with Apple, but she also chastised Apple's lawyers for making the Korean firm's “foreignness” an issue in closing remarks to the jury.

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