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Apple's iTunes Store is having problems and iTunes Connect is down — It looks like Apple is having a bad Wednesday. The iTunes Store, App Store and Mac App Store are suffering outages and the company's app submission service iTunes Connect is down. — While the front pages of both the App Store …
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Thanks:@gautamp777| Graham Ruddick / Telegraph: |
Google opens first ever Google Shop in London — Google to sell Android phones, Chromebook laptops, and Chromecast TV service through site at Currys PC World store in London — Google has opened its first-ever branded shop, choosing the Currys PC World on London's Tottenham Court Road as the location.| Suzanne Kapner / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Stores drive mall traffic and lift sales by 10%, enabling company to demand lower rents — Apple Gets Sweet Deals From Mall Operators — As a traffic magnet, iPhone maker is able to negotiate lower terms for rent — Apple stores are so popular that they can increase overall mall traffic and sales.
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| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: next iPhones will include Force Touch technology from Apple Watch and may include pink color option — Apple Plans Force of Touch Technology for New iPhones — Apple's Force Touch technology can distinguish between a light tap and deep press — HONG KONG— Apple Inc. plans …
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| Corinne Gretler / Bloomberg Business: |
Swatch Co-Inventor: Apple Will Succeed and an Ice Age Is Coming for Swiss Watches … (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. may soon sell as many timepieces as all of Switzerland, threatening the country's four-century-old industry, the co-inventor of the Swatch predicted.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Cloud Storage Nearline, A Low-Cost Storage Service For Cold Data — Google is launching a new cloud storage service today that has the potential to change how many companies, ranging from startups to enterprises, view online storage. With Google Cloud Storage Nearline …
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| David Meyer / Tech.eu: |
Dutch court suspends metadata surveillance law over privacy — When Europe's highest court struck down the EU's Data Retention Directive, it didn't invalidate EU countries' national metadata snooping laws — but it did set a handy precedent. — On Wednesday, a court in the Hague suspended …
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Apple's new MacBook has just one USB-C port, a compromise for portability that could signal the start of an industry trend — The quiet computing revolution built into Apple's 12-inch MacBook — Phil Schiller, senior VP of worldwide marketing for Apple, speaks about Apple's new MacBook during …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
‘So When Is It Going to Be Time?’ Now, as Google CFO Pichette to Retire From Search Giant. — Longtime Google CFO Patrick Pichette is retiring from the company. — The move was disclosed in an SEC filing, and, in a post on Google+ and also in an internal memo, Pichette acknowledged the decision …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Groupon India Has Picked Up $20M From Sequoia — Daily deals and local commerce service Groupon has made no secret of its plans to explore strategic options for its holdings in Asia, and it looks like it's not just Ticket Monster that is on the block.| Matt Elliott / CNET: |
A closer look at Apple's new MacBook Force Touch pressure-sensitive trackpad — What you can do with the new MacBook's Force Touch trackpad — Apple announced a new MacBook model that features an entirely new trackpad design. Learn what tricks hide below its surface.
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Peter Thiel joins Y Combinator as a part-time partner — Welcome Peter — I'm delighted to announce Peter Thiel is joining YC as one of the (now 10!) part-time partners. — In addition to founding PayPal and Palantir and being the first investor in Facebook, Peter has been involved …
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