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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
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| 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 … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Kara Swisher Interviews President Barack Obama on Cyber Security, Privacy and His Relationship With Silicon Valley — President Barack Obama took the hot seat with Re/code's Kara Swisher Friday as the two talked about a range of tech-focused topics, including cyber warfare …
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Google's co-founders are about to sell $4.4 billion worth of shares — Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are going to sell about $4.4 billion worth of company shares, according to a new filing with the SEC (which we first spotted thanks to Footnoted).
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| Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo: |
Wink's promise of a simple, affordable smart home proves false; not one product worked as advertised out of the box — Why Is My Smart Home So F**king Dumb? — A few weeks ago, a couple friends and I were about to watch a surprisingly bad scifi movie in my crowded apartment.| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
China's two largest taxi-hailing apps Alibaba-backed Kuaidi Dache and Tencent-backed Didi Dache announce merger; brands to remain independent — China taxi apps Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache announce tie-up — (Reuters) - Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache, two of China's leading taxi-hailing apps …
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Michael Zhang / PetaPixel: |
Flickr beta-testing Camera Roll, a sleeker interface for browsing, editing, and organizing photos — Flickr Rolling Out Camera Roll: A New Way to Browse, Edit, and Organize Your Shots — Flickr is rolling out a new feature called Camera Roll that's designed to make it even easier for users to browse …
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| Chelsey Dulaney / Wall Street Journal: |
Credit card companies boosting security; Visa expanding tokenization to devices beyond Apple; Mastercard to spend $20M on biometrics, fingerprint matching — Visa, MasterCard to Roll Out New Cybersecurity Features — Credit-Card Companies Beefing Up Security Amid Growing Concerns About Data Breaches
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Business Wire, NASDAQ.com, CBS News, RTTNews, Planet Biometrics.com, BiometricUpdate, ZDNet, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Consumerist, PYMNTS.com, Payments News, PE Hub Blog and Fortune. Tweets: @aaronlucchetti
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Candy Crush Saga Players Spent Over $1.3 Billion on In-App Purchases in 2014 — Candy Crush Saga may have reached peak popularity, with quarterly spending declining over the past eighteen months, but that hasn't stopped the sweet-swapping puzzle game from raking in the cash.
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| 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.
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