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| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
Check Out Gmail 5.0 For Android And Google's Plan To Handle All Your Email Accounts In One App — Google's been updating apps left and right recently to fall in line with its new material design philosophy, and the results have been impressive. There are a few apps it appears Google's saving … | Percy / GreatFire.org: |
Report: Chinese authorities conduct “man in the middle” attack on iCloud.com users to harvest their data — China collecting Apple iCloud data; attack coincides with launch of new iPhone — After previous attacks on Github, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, the Chinese authorities … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 8.1 with Apple Pay, iCloud Photo Library, SMS Relay & Instant Hotspot, more — Just as Apple announced at its iPad & Mac event last Thursday, iOS 8.1 is now publicly available with new features including Apple Pay, iCloud Photo Library, and additional Continuity features.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Eddy Cue expects biggest share of early Apple Pay transactions to be in-app purchases, product “should be huge” — Apple Pay Rolls Out, With Holes in System — IPhone Payment System Arrives Monday; Ubiquitous Use Isn't Assured Immediately
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Updates ‘Apple Store’ iOS App With Apple Pay Support — Apple today updated its Apple Store app, adding support for Apple Pay, which was enabled with the recently released iOS 8.1 update. Following the update, users will be able to use their iPhones to make purchases in the Apple Store app …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Apple pushing to cut the price of Beats Music subscriptions to $5 per month — Spotify Lowers Its Music Prices, Using a Family Plan. Apple Wants to Go Lower. — Apple thinks streaming music should cost less. Spotify agrees. — Spotify is effectively offering a price cut …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Magazine: |
Marc Andreessen on the evolution of Silicon Valley and technology's impact on the economy — Marc Andreessen on Why Optimism Is Always the Safest Bet — The Netscape creator turned Silicon Valley sage on why optimism is always the safest bet. — It's not hard to coax an opinion out of Marc Andreessen.
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Spreadsheet of the day: Final estimates for Apple's fiscal Q4 — Today should be a busy day on the Apple beat. — Apple Pay goes live with the release of iOS 8.1, along with the launch of iCloud Photo Library and a functioning Handoff (which, for many of us on Yosemite, still isn't working).
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
IBM stock drops over 6% after it misses earnings estimates, abandons 2015 earnings forecast — IBM Abandons Long-Promised 2015 Profit Target — IBM abandoned a long-promised plan to deliver $20 a share in profits by 2015 after suffering a significant slowdown in spending by its clients …
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Facebook Sues Lawyers of Discredited “Co-Founder” Paul Ceglia — Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sued a handful of lawyers who represented Paul Ceglia in a 2010 case in which Ceglia claimed he was entitled to 84 percent ownership of the social network. — Ceglia's claim was dismissed earlier …
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Microsoft plans to launch a fitness-focused wearable in the next few weeks with more than two-day battery life, multi-platform support — Microsoft Plans To Launch A Wearable Device Within Weeks — Microsoft is gearing up to launch a wearable device within the next few weeks, Forbes has learned.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Amid pressure from activist investors, Marissa Mayer to detail Yahoo's cost-cutting plan and acquisitions strategy during Tuesday's earnings call — Yahoo CEO Set to Refresh Turnaround Plan — Firm to Release Quarterly Results Tuesday, Detail Its Current Efforts
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Amazon Kindle Voyage review: The best e-reader is also the priciest — When Amazon introduced an updated version of its flagship Kindle Paperwhite last year, it took the easy way out — after all, tweaked internals, improved software and slightly better lighting do not a thrilling e-reader make.
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| Marco della Cava / USA Today: |
Satya Nadella talks inequality, women's rights, company culture, and vision for Microsoft — USA TODAY Exclusive: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — Karma and the cloud at Microsoft: How Nadella plans to upend company culture — REDMOND, Wash. - Satya Nadella takes a seat …
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