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Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:

Tim Cook: a private, disciplined, tough manager crafting a healthier work environment at Apple — The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple — From the moment he became CEO of Apple, Tim Cook found himself in the shadow of his boss — Author of “Haunted Empire, Apple After Steve Jobs” …

More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, CNET, iMore, Business Insider, Mashable, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com …, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacRumors

Tweets: @jyarow, @edwardroussel, @diemkay and @blader

Bryan Chaffin / The Mac Observer:

Tim Cook to conservative think tank on sustainability: if you only care about ROI, stop investing in us — Tim Cook Soundly Rejects Politics of the NCPPR, Suggests Group Sell Apple's Stock — In an emotional response to the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) …

More: Ars Technica, National Center …, Los Angeles Times, CNET, Mashable, Breaking Apple News …, The Verge, I4U News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Fortune, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, MacNN, iMore, 9to5Mac, Business Insider and The Register

Tweets: @monkbent, @fxshaw, @olebegemann, @sgblank, @aral, @sulka and @williampietri

Robin Wauters:

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum scolds writer for 2011 TechCrunch fundraising scoop that inconvenienced him — An unexpected chat with WhatsApp founder Jan Koum — Things were getting pretty quiet in the speaker / press lounge backstage at the 4YFN conference in Barcelona.

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Comcast Is Acquiring Video Ad Company FreeWheel For $320 Million — Over the years, FreeWheel has become the go-to ad-serving platform for many TV networks that stream their content online. And it's about to become part of one of the biggest distributors of content online and off.

More: CNET, Variety and Re/code. Tweets: @qthrul

Nick Bilton / New York Times:

Some Tech Interns Make More Than U.S. Workers — Here's a quiz for you: Who makes more money, a median American household or an intern at Facebook? If you guessed the latter, the tech company, you're right. — According to a report released on Friday by Glassdoor, an online jobs and career company …

More: Glassdoor Blog, Fast Company, AllTwitter, CNET, Mashable and The Register

Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:

Watson Head's Departure Raises Questions About IBM Moonshot — Manoj Saxena, the International Business Machines executive overseeing its artificial intelligence Watson technology, told IBM employees on an internal conference that working on Watson was the highlight of his professional life …

More: A Smarter Planet Blog. Tweets: @wsjd

Dara Kerr / CNET:

IBM laying off up to 25 percent of ‘hardware’ division

More: Guardian, Engadget, eWeek, Wonkblog, TechnologyAdvice, Gigaom, SiliconANGLE and TheStreet.com. Tweets: @qthrul

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:

Secret, Whisper, and Ask.fm can't guarantee anonymity, all make privacy and safety trade-offs — Secret Apps: Your Secrets Aren't Always Safe — What you should consider when using secrecy apps — A secret is hard to keep on a smartphone. — Yet sharing secrets—broadcasting them …

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:

Inside w00w00: hacking group formed in 1996 counted Jan Koum, Shawn Fanning, and Sean Parker as members — Inside The Billion-Dollar Hacker Club — For this group of old friends, assembled for an impromptu reunion, the venue would feel familiar: an online chat room running on a secure private server.

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Nokia X hacked to run Google's Android apps and services — Nokia unveiled its X Android phones less than a week ago, with plans to use the handset to promote Microsoft services and not Google's. After just a few days, hackers have managed to gain root access to the Nokia X and covert …

More: Android Central, VentureBeat, xda-developers, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, AndroidGuys, The Next Web, My Nokia Blog, WMPoweruser and AndroidSPIN. Tweets: @nokiadeveloper

Jake Adelstein / The Daily Beast:

Former employee says incompetent management and faulty accounting led to collapse of Mt. Gox — Inside Japan's Bitcoin Heist — A former Mt. Gox employee says incompetent management and faulty accounting—not virtual robbers—are the real culprits in the missing millions.

More: Reuters and Bitcoin Magazine. Tweets: @bendavenport and @mfilipov

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

GrubHub and Seamless take a 13.5% cut of their average delivery order — GrubHub and Seamless charge an average commission of 13.5% for restaurant orders placed through their websites and apps. And restaurants pay more to appear higher in search results, which isn't apparent to diners.

Tweets: @zseward and @zseward

James Ball / Guardian:

A look at the elaborate ICANN ceremony for its seven keyholders that underpins DNS security — Meet the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security — It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: seven keys, held by individuals from all over the world, that together control security at the core of the web.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @zebrabox, @0xabad1dea, @leashless and @jamesrbuk

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