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Apple saw 99% YoY revenue growth in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, hitting $12.51B in Q4 — Apple Revenues In China Shoot Up 99% in Q4 — Despite months of major fluctuations in the Chinese stock market, Apple still managed to have an outstanding quarter in China.
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Android switchers accounted for 30% of iPhone buyers in Q4, highest ratio recorded — During Apple's quarterly conference call on Tuesday, CEO Tim Cook said 30 percent of iPhone buyers switched from Android during the fourth quarter, the highest ratio of “switchers” Apple has recorded in a single three-month period.
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Senate passes cybersecurity bill CISA by a vote of 74-21, remaining differences still to be resolved between House and Senate — CISA Security Bill Passes Senate With Privacy Flaws Unfixed — For months, privacy advocates have asked Congress to kill or reform the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act …
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter reports 320M MAUs in Q3, an increase of just 4M, and EPS of $0.10 against $0.05 expected; stock down more than 12% in after-hours trading — Twitter Stock Tanks on Stagnant User Growth, Lowered Expectations — Twitter's user growth has clearly started to slow down, and that continues to hurt the business.| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
US regulators grant exemptions to DMCA's DRM rules for jailbreaking, remixing DVDs and Blu-rays, preserving video games, researching and modifying car software — Victory for Users: Librarian of Congress Renews and Expands Protections for Fair Uses — The new rules for exemptions …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Message Requests will replace Other Inbox for receiving messages from users outside your network of friends — Facebook Messenger Wants To BE Your Phone Number With New Message Requests — Phone numbers are dumb. Once someone has yours, you can't stop them from contacting you.
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google brings podcasting to Play Music's free and paid tiers, to be available to listeners in coming months — Google Brings Podcasting to Play Music, Swinging at Apple's Dominance — From their earliest days, podcasts were linked closely to Apple. Their very name came from an Apple product: iPod.| Glyn Moody / Ars Technica UK: |
Net neutrality: EU votes in favour of Internet fast lanes and slow lanes — MEPs confused by false claims, tired of the arguments, keen to conclude the file. — The European Parliament has passed the flawed flawed compromise text on net neutrality without including any of the amendments that would have closed serious loopholes.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter turns to TV ads to increase reach; advertisements debut during World Series — This is Twitter's first television ad campaign — This month Twitter unveiled Moments, the simplified way of browsing tweets that the company hopes will return it to rapid growth.
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Google announces $220 ASUS OnHub router which lets you boost the Wi-Fi speed for a device with a wave of your hand; preorders start this week — Google's second OnHub router is built by ASUS, goes on sale this week — Google introduced its OnHub router this summer, promising … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: IBM nears deal to buy digital and data assets of Weather Co., owner of The Weather Channel, as early as Wednesday in $2B+ deal — IBM Nearing Acquisition of Weather Co.'s Digital and Data Assets — Deal could be announced as early as Wednesday — International Business Machines Corp … | Katherine Noyes / PCWorld: |
Oracle pushes into AWS territory with new IaaS services — Pricing and perceived security will be key differentiators, one analyst says — Oracle set its sights on a bigger piece of the cloud pie Tuesday with new IaaS services that put it in more direct competition with Amazon Web Services.
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
ADP drops its defamation lawsuit against Zenefits after judge asks parties to work it out — ADP drops its strange defamation lawsuit against Zenefits and both companies agree to talk nice — After a judge flat-out told HR software giant ADP that “it seems clear to me that ADP has no claim for defamation …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg Business: |
VC investments in bitcoin-related startups slow to $85M in Q3 2015, a 41% drop from Q2 — The Bitcoin Startup Boom Comes Back Down to Earth — Growth in venture capital flowing to bitcoin startups slowed substantially last quarter, and startups are feeling the pinch.
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