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February 13, 2015, 9:20 PM

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Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

WSJ confirms Apple has several hundred employees designing a minivan-like electric vehicle, codenamed Titan, with former Ford exec Steve Zadesky leading team — WSJ: Tim Cook approved Apple electric car project a year ago, hundreds of employees working on it

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple hires head of Mercedes-Benz R&D, other auto experts for new secret research lab — Apple has hired former president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Research & Development Johann Jungwirth to join the company as Director of Mac Systems Engineering. The hire was confirmed by Jungwirth's LinkedIn page …

More: Business Insider, MacRumors, The Daily Dot, VentureBeat, Financial Times, Reuters, CBS San Francisco, NPR, bizjournals, The Mac Observer, Yahoo Tech, VentureBeat, SlashGear, ValueWalk and Fusion

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Tim Cook at cybersecurity summit: “History has shown us that sacrificing a right to privacy can have dire consequences” — Apple's Cook: ‘Everyone has a right to privacy and security’ — The CEO, speaking at President Barack Obama's cybersecurity summit …

More: Re/code, The Technology Chronicles, MacRumors, The Hill, National Journal and Reuters

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple Pay will be accepted for US government services starting in September; Apple also working to make Apple Pay work with government credit cards — Apple Pay Coming To Federal Institutions Starting In September — Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at the White House summit on cybersecurity …

More: Bloomberg Business, Re/code, The White House, eWeek, CNET, Washington Post, Mercury News, Gigaom, Macworld, , Computerworld, 9to5Mac, InfoWorld, ABC News, Electronista, Engadget, The Next Web and GeekWire

Katie Zezima / Washington Post:

Obama signs executive order Friday urging companies to share cybersecurity-threat information with one another and the government

More: The White House, The White House, The Verge, Reuters, Gizmodo, NPR, Techdirt, GeekWire, Channel EYE, MacDailyNews, Seeking Alpha, ITworld.com, USA Today and GamePolitics blogs

New York Times:

Obama meets with top technologists to discuss cybersecurity at Stanford amid increased tensions between Silicon Valley and government

More: Techdirt and US News. Tweets: @tim, @tomrisen, @kashhill, @dannyyadron, @tomrisen, @cryptomeorg and @ggreenwald

Abhijeet M. / SamMobile:

Galaxy S6 may have Microsoft's Skype, OneNote, OneDrive, and Office Mobile app preinstalled — Exclusive: Galaxy S6 software will bring some amazing changes — Software has always been the Achilles heel for Samsung. The Korean manufacturer has always been at the forefront of making amazing hardware …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Helpouts service shutting down on April 20; history available for download until November 1 — Google Is Shutting Down Google Helpouts, Its Expert Video Chat Service — Updated: Google is shutting down its Google Helpouts service on April 20, 2015, the service's website has now been updated to reflect.

More: Digital Trends, Quartz, 9to5Google, CNET, PhoneDog.com, Small Business Trends, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Droid Life, Android Authority, TechSpot and WebProNews

Tweets: @rolfewinkler, @aaronwall and @mblumenthal

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

“Shopping cart” patent beaten by Newegg comes back to court, loses again — Patent troll won't get more money from Avon, Victoria's Secret—or anyone else. — As patent reform moved into the political spotlight during the last Congress, one patent that kept coming up was the “online shopping cart.”

More: internetretailer.com. Tweets: @newegg and @mattcutts

Edward C. Baig / USA Today:

Mattel partners with Google to build $30 Cardboard VR-based View-Master, for sale in fall — View-Master rides Google Cardboard into virtual reality — USA Today with a sneak peek at the upcoming Virtual Reality version of the classic View-Master Robert Deutsch

Amir Efrati / The Information:

Google exploring broad zero-rating platform in emerging markets to spur mobile app use — Google's Next Bid to Lower Mobile Data Costs: Zero Rating — Global Web companies like Google and Facebook know that most of their future growth will need to come from emerging markets.

More: Android Police, 9to5Google, BGR, Gigaom, Phandroid, AndroidHeadlines.com and Business Insider

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Apple's App Store now allowing marijuana-related apps that enforce geolocation checks and rejecting apps depicting gun violence in screenshots — Apple's App Store Says No To Guns But Yes To Weed — Apple's definition of morality is on display this week with a couple of changes to its policies regarding App Store submissions.

Christian Dolmetsch / Bloomberg Business:

Wrongfully convicted Goldman Sachs ex-programmer sues the FBI agents who arrested him for malicious prosecution — Goldman Sachs Ex-Programmer Sues FBI Agents Who Arrested Him — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. programmer sued the FBI agents who arrested …

More: The Register and Reuters

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Department of Justice obtains first guilty plea in Megaupload criminal case after three years, sentences programmer Andrus Nõmm to one year in prison — Megaupload programmer pleads guilty, sentenced to a year in prison — Andrus Nõmm “was aware that copyright-infringing content was stored” on-site.

More: PC World, Techdirt, TorrentFreak, Boing Boing and Slashdot

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