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Staples investigating credit card breach at its retail stores after multiple banks report fraud — Banks: Credit Card Breach at Staples Stores — Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern of credit and debit card fraud suggesting that several Staples Inc. office supply locations …
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Mac Mini 2014 teardown: CPU and RAM soldered to logic board, impeding user repairs or upgrades — Mac Mini Late 2014 Teardown — This guide has been found to be exceptionally cool by the iFixit staff. — It's been two years since the Mac Mini's last appearance on iFixit's teardown table …
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Apple clarifies Spotlight Search data and location sharing, says information shared is minimal — Yosemite, iOS 8, Spotlight, and Privacy: What you need to know — A story made the rounds earlier today calling into question the new Spotlight Suggestions feature in OS X Yosemite and iOS 8.| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Scammers hack business phone networks to rack up billions in fraudulent charges, vexing carriers and lawmakers — Phone Hackers Dial and Redial to Steal Billions — SAN FRANCISCO — Bob Foreman's architecture firm ran up a $166,000 phone bill in a single weekend last March.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Banks racing to become your first card in Apple Pay as most users will use the default card — New Gold Rush: why banks are racing to be the first card in your Apple Pay — Beyond the home screen, beyond the lock screen, the battle for the pre-screen — Over the weekend I was hit … | Sharon Profis / CNET: |
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Magic Leap Secures $542M Led By Google For “Lightweight Wearable” Tech That Merges Physical And Digital Worlds — It's rare that a company can stay relatively secretive while raising a huge amount of funding, but Florida's Magic Leap has managed that. The startup, led by CEO Rony Abovitz … | TechCrunch: |
Yahoo In Talks To Buy Video Ad Platform BrightRoll For Around $700M — Yahoo has been building up its video and video advertising content, and we have heard that it may make another key acquisition in the area to further raise its game. The company is in talks to acquire BrightRoll …
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Microsoft launches Azure cloud in a box — Summary: In partnership with Dell, Microsoft is launching its Azure cloud in a box offering, codenamed ‘San Diego.’ — Microsoft is teaming with Dell to create an Azure cloud in a box offering for customers who want to run their own, on-premises datacenters.
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Windows Server Blog, The Register, News Center, CITEworld, VentureBeat, GeekWire, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, Inquirer, Ars Technica, New York Times, eWeek, Tech Times, GeekWire, The New Stack, Gigaom, Wired, The Next Web and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check. Tweets: @sriramk
| Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft Values CEO Satya Nadella's Pay at $84 Million — Call Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella the $84 million man. — Microsoft said it awarded the new CEO compensation valued at more than $84 million for the fiscal year ended June 30. — The majority of the money, $59.2 million … | Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
Tim Cook, in his own words, on why the iPad has a bright future — Apple's iPad business was the lone drag in its otherwise strong earnings report today. iPad sales last quarter dropped 13% from the previous year, to 12.3 million, their third straight quarter of decline.
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| John Ribeiro / PC World: |
NSA approves Samsung Knox devices for government use — Samsung Electronics' Galaxy devices have been approved by the U.S. National Security Agency under a program of the agency to quickly deploy commercially available technologies. — The Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon misses Q3 profit expectations, posts higher revenue, adds 1.5M retail customers — Verizon misses Q3 expectations as it shirks off rival promotional offers — The company did post strong customer growth, driven largely by increased tablet sales.
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