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Apple sues Qualcomm for ~$1B, says Qualcomm charged royalties for tech the chip giant didn't invent, retaliated for Apple's cooperation in Korean antitrust case — Apple is suing Qualcomm for roughly $1 billion, saying Qualcomm has been “charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with.”
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| Hudson Hongo / Gizmodo: |
President Trump reportedly trades in his Android phone, believed to be his primary tweeting device, for a Secret Service-approved device — While rising to our nation's highest office is an unparalleled honor, becoming President also involves many personal sacrifices.
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| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
Viral selfie app Meitu requests permissions like GPS, call, and carrier info that are unrelated to core use, raising questions from security and privacy experts — You've probably seen a Meitu selfie in your Instagram or Facebook feed in the past 24 hours.
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| Politico: |
Sources: President Trump will tap sitting GOP FCC commissioner Ajit Pai, a fierce critic of net neutrality, to lead the agency — President Donald Trump will tap Ajit Pai to lead the FCC in the new administration, elevating the sitting GOP commissioner to the top spot overseeing … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber hires former Google search chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering — Uber's latest hire has a storied and accomplished history in Silicon Valley - Amit Singhal, former Senior Vice President of Search and employee number 176 at Google, has joined the ride-hailing company as SVP of Engineering.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft releases Windows 10 Creators Update test build with support for ebooks and more, delays “My People” quick-access links until later this year — Microsoft's latest Windows 10 Creators Update test build: Ebook support is in. My People sharing is out until later this year.
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon just launched virtual ‘Dash’ buttons for one-click buying from the homepage — Just let me live in the warehouse already. — Another day, another attempt by Amazon to make buying something as easy as humanly possible. — The e-commerce leader just unveiled digital versions of its Dash buttons … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
WSJ sources: Samsung investigation finds Galaxy Note7 fires were caused by irregularly sized batteries that didn't properly fit the phone, manufacturing issues — Samsung's official investigation into the cause of widespread faults with the Galaxy Note 7 will blame “irregularly sized” …
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| Paul Resnikoff / Digital Music News: |
Norwegian newspaper: Tidal publicly claimed 3M members in March 2016, but paid music labels for just 850K subscribers a month later — How many subscribers does TIDAL really have? A new study is now accusing the Jay Z-owned service of completely fabricating their numbers. And not by a little bit.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
SEC filing: AT&T gained 200K+ paying video subscribers in Q4, “entirely driven by DirecTV Now”; DirecTV Now launched on November 30 — Telco also discloses $1 billion charge in quarter related to pension and postemployment benefit plans — AT&T added more than 200,000 … | Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair: |
Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy and professionally photographed travels suggest the 32-year-old billionaire may harbor political aspirations — He visited Texas, shook some hands, talked to some kids, and, quite literally, got down in the dirt. Don't read too much into it.
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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
How WhatsApp's intimacy and immediacy have greatly increased the spread of misinformation in India, its largest market — At 8 p.m. on Nov. 8, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi unexpectedly banned 86% of the country's legal tender from circulation. The goal was to wipe out “black money” …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Brian Krebs accuses founder of DDoS mitigation provider ProTraf Solutions as co-author of Mirai IoT worm; founder denies involvement — On September 22, 2016, this site was forced offline for nearly four days after it was hit with “Mirai,” a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things …
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