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Apple Orders More Than 5 Million Watches for Initial Run — Apple has asked its suppliers in Asia to make a combined five to six million units of its three Apple Watch models during the first quarter ahead of the product's release in April, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
WSJ: Apple struggled to find purpose for Apple Watch after many planned health features were cut, 5 million units ordered — The Wall Street Journal revealed tonight that many of the planned health features that Apple intended to include in its first-generation wearable were cut from the final product.
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| Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs: |
Office mobile and web apps now support more third-party cloud storage services, including iCloud and Box — New cloud storage integration for Office — Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. — We want Office to be the preferred …
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| Amy Zima / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter launches TweetDeck Teams, allowing sharing of accounts without sharing passwords, rolling out today for TweetDeck for web, Chrome, and Windows — Introducing TweetDeck Teams — Introducing TweetDeck Teams, a simple way to share access to your Twitter accounts without sharing passwords.
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| Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft announces its cloud services are compliant with ISO 27018, a new international standard for privacy — Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard — Today marks a major milestone, as Microsoft is the first major cloud provider to adopt the world's first international standard for cloud privacy.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sparrow Flies Away, As Google Finally Pulls iOS And Mac Email Apps From Apple's Stores — As Google sharpens the focus on its new Inbox email app, the company has quietly made another move on the email front: it appears to have pulled the Sparrow iOS and Mac apps from their respective Apple App Stores.
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Sony opens pre-orders for SmartEyeglass Developer Edition in the UK and Germany; $840 device ships in March — Sony Announces Pre-Orders Of SmartEyeglass Developer Edition, Starting Today In The UK And Germany For $840 — Sony slipped the official SmartEyeglass app into the Play Store yesterday … | Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
NSA-linked “Equation Group” can infect computers repeatedly via spyware inserted in hard disk firmware — Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program — (Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
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| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
EMC's Pivotal open sources big data tech, joins newly formed Hadoop-focused Open Data Platform with Hortonworks, IBM, GE, Verizon, Infosys, others — Pivotal open sources its Hadoop and Greenplum tech, and then some — Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz at Structure Data 2014. Credit: Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz / Jakub Mosur
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Parker Harris: The little-known nice guy who helped turn Salesforce into San Francisco's most powerful tech company — Parker Harris was sitting by the windows of Kinkaid's, a steakhouse in Burlingame, California, gazing at the lake of Anza Lagoon, when Marc Benioff walked in.| TechCrunch: |
Facebook's New Ads Automatically Show A Business' Products That You'll Want Most — You've probably seen plenty of products advertised on Facebook, but today the company is announcing a new unit called product ads, with features aimed specifically at helping businesses sell their products.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
With IPO on Hold, Gilt Groupe Raises $50 Million Investment — Gilt Groupe just got some breathing room. — The online retailer, which sells fashion apparel at discount prices in so-called flash sales, has raised a new investment of around $50 million, multiple sources told Re/code.
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| Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
Google X head Astro Teller says Neural Network Project, formerly Google Brain, produces value comparable to total Google X costs — Astro Teller, Google's ‘Captain of Moonshots,’ on Making Profits at Google X — Google is all over the place. From biotechnology and robots to satellites …
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
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