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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweets in support of Apple, says forcing companies to enable hacking could compromise user privacy — Google CEO Sundar Pichai backs Tim Cook over Apple-FBI controversy — Google CEO Sundar Pichai just weighed in on the ongoing issue over device encryption between Apple …
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @sundarpichai, @gartenberg, @sundarpichai, @sundarpichai, @fart, @charlesarthur, @sundarpichai, @harrymccracken, @xor and @csoghoian
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
White House Plays With Words, Says Department Of Justice Isn't Asking Apple To Create A Backdoor — Following Tim Cook's letter, the White House has reacted to Apple's strong stance against backdoors. According to Reuters, the White House has said that the Department of Justice isn't asking …
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| Elise Viebeck / Washington Post: |
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Tweets: @mlevchin, @kailanikm, @debate_central and @jennamc_laugh
| Skype Blogs: |
Skype starts rolling out group video calling for iOS and Android, beginning with North America and Western Europe today, with worldwide availability in March — Announcing group video calling for mobile phones and tablets — Just a few weeks ago, we announced the next evolution of Skype …
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Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, PCWorld, iMore, The Next Web, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, VentureBeat, The Verge, ZDNet, SlashGear, WinBeta and iDownloadBlog.com
| Bloomberg Business: |
Apple Pay launches in China, will use UnionPay's point-of-sale network for off-line payments — Apple Joins With China's UnionPay to Introduce Mobile Payments — Clients of 19 Chinese lenders can shop with Apple Pay — Alipay and Tencent dominate China's online payment market| Bloomberg Business: |
Profile of Johny Srouji, Apple's SVP for hardware technologies, who is leading the development of company's chips — The Most Important Apple Executive You've Never Heard Of — A visit with Cupertino's chief chipmaker, Johny Srouji. — A little over a year ago, Apple had a problem: The iPad Pro was behind schedule.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, Business Insider, BGR, The Verge, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, Tech Insider, Patently Apple and Cult of Mac. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out updates for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 that address power management bugs and Intel driver issues — Microsoft's new Surface Book update will fix sleep problems — When we reviewed Microsoft's Surface Book back in October we noticed a number of weird issues.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Neverware updates CloudReady, a modified version of Chromium with dual-booting capability for Macs and PCs — How to turn your sluggish old Mac or PC into a faster Chromebook — Earlier today we published a story about Neverware, a New York City startup that is helping schools refurbish old Windows PCs …
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The Verge, docs.google.com, Neverware, Popular Mechanics, TechnoBuffalo, PR Newswire, AndroidHeadlines.com, 9to5Google, Ars Technica and Liliputing. Tweets: @mims
| Diego Macias / Android Headlines: |
Google Translate adds 13 new languages bringing total to 103, now serves 99% of online population — Google Translate Update Adds New Language Support — Google Translate is a very powerful and useful tool which has been getting better over time. The service can be used to translate text … | Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times: |
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid $17K ransom in bitcoins to hackers who took over its network for more than a week — Hollywood hospital pays $17,000 in bitcoins to hackers who took control of computers — The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in 2004.| Reuters: |
Uber CEO says firm loses $1B+ a year in China due to price war with unprofitable competitor — Uber losing $1 billion a year to compete in China — Uber Technologies Inc is burning through more than a billion dollars a year in China as it wages a fierce price war against local rival Didi Kuaidi, its chief executive said.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
IBM Acquiring Truven Health Analytics For $2.6 Billion And Adding It To Watson Health — IBM announced its intent to buy Truven Health Analytics today for a whopping $2.6 billion. It is the fourth major purchase for Watson Health since the unit was was established in 2014.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquihires Work Chat Startup Pie To Build Engineering Team In Southeast Asia — Google today announced that it is building its first engineering team devoted to Southeast Asia, and the search giant has gobbled up Pie, a Slack-like team communications service based in Singapore, to kick start things.
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Google Asia Pacific Blog, 9to5Google, ZDNet and Tech in Asia
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Jana raises $57M Series C led by Verizon Ventures for mCent ad-subsidized free internet service for emerging markets, Tim Armstrong joins the board of advisors — Jana Raises $57 Million to Bring Internet to Developing World — Jana is a Boston-based mobile Internet company … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo Tech Editor in Chief Dan Tynan is out; Yahoo's tech site will be integrated into its larger news site; David Pogue will stay with the company — If It's Wednesday, It's Layoffs Day at Yahoo: Today, Digital Magazines Get Hit — According to sources close to the situation … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Twitter will now let you record and share videos in Direct Messages — Twitter may be in the middle of an existential crisis of sorts over where to take its slow-growing social network, but the company keeps plugging away at basic features to bring the service up to speed with competitors like Facebook Messenger.
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SlashGear, Tech Times, Android Police, Ubergizmo, Social Media Today, iMore, The Next Web, Neowin and Adweek
Tweets: @support, @davezatz and @robinwauters
| Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
Vevo CEO Erik Huggers says company is working on a paid music video subscription service, could launch this year — Vevo Is Working on a Paid Music Video Subscription Service (Video) — The Internet's dominant music video service is working on a subscription offering.
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Consumerist, Associated Press, Variety, Ubergizmo, FACT Magazine and ZDNet. Tweets: @whatthebit
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