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| Billboard: |
Sources: Jimmy Iovine to leave Apple Music in August, a time believed to coincide with the full vesting of his Apple stock — His planned departure is likely timed to his shares fully vesting, sources tell Billboard. — Look for Jimmy Iovine to leave Apple Music in August.| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Sources: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his scheduled appearance at CES after receiving death threats — The threats have intensified following an FCC vote to repeal net neutrality rules. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his scheduled appearance …
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Digital Music News, GeekWire, CNET, Android Central, The Verge, Axios, Ars Technica, Business Insider, Engadget, DSLreports, Mashable, The Hill, Neowin, Fortune, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, Android Authority, and New York Magazine
Tweets: @gastonmooney, @pkafka, and @karlbode
| Tony Romm / Recode: |
FCC releases final text of the order overturning net neutrality and statements from Pai, O'Rielly and Carr in support and Rosenworcel and Clyburn in opposition — It's long! — Roughly a month after the Federal Communications Commission voted to scrap the U.S. government's net neutrality rules …
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Federal Communications …, TechCrunch, FCC, FCC, Motherboard, FCC, FCC, FCC, and Fight for the Future. Tweets: @jrosenworcel
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Intel begins issuing patches to combat Spectre and Meltdown flaws, with plans to release updates for 90% of chips from past five years this week — Following up on yesterday's confirmation that security exploits can compromise computers with Intel processors, Intel today announced a timetable …
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Intel Newsroom, Google Online Security Blog, The Verge, CSO, CNET, Gizmodo, MacRumors, PCWorld, 9to5Google, SlashGear, The Verge, CNBC, Engadget, Business Insider, ZDNet, iPhone Hacks, MSPoweruser, On MSFT, Liliputing, Neowin, The Tech Report, 9to5Mac, and Windows Central
Tweets: @theregister, @selenalarson, and @jeremiahg
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Apple says all Mac, iOS devices affected by Meltdown and Spectre; Meltdown defense added in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2; Spectre patch for Safari coming within days — After more than a day of silence, Apple confirmed Thursday that the Mac, iPhone and iPad are all affected by the recently disclosed massive chip vulnerability.
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Apple Support, The Verge, MacRumors, USA Today, New York Times, Bloomberg, CNNMoney, The Register, TechCrunch, CNET, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, AppAdvice.com, MacStories, PhoneDog.com, Gizmodo, CNBC, Seeking Alpha, iPhone Hacks, The Mac Observer, Cult of Mac, and Mashable. Tweets: @erratarob. Thanks:@inafried
| Troy Wolverton / Business Insider: |
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CNET, Ars Technica, Quartz, The Hill, The Next Web, Axios, Silicon Valley Business …, MarketWatch, Neowin, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @jgreendc. Thanks:@lexnfx
| Spectreattack.com: |
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Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, The New Stack, Ubuntu Wiki, Reuters, The Verge, Mashable, ZDNet, eWeek, Flashpoint, CNET, SecurityWeek, Windows Central, SlashGear, The Next Web, insideHPC, Keeper Blog, SiliconBeat, Tom's Hardware, BBC, Slate, New York Magazine, POPSUGAR Living, Cointelegraph.com News, Softpedia News, Phoronix, Recode, Online - Blog, BleepingComputer.com, Bloomberg, Security Intelligence, The Guardian, Laptop Mag, CircleID, iPhone in Canada Blog, International Business Times, TechRepublic, and Computerworld
| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg says his 2018 personal challenge will be addressing issues like interference by nation states, abuse, quality of time spent on platform — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's mission in 2018 is to fix Facebook's mounting issues from last year, including state interference and harassment on its platforms.
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SiliconANGLE, ABC News, BBC, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Recode, The Next Web, Axios, Slate, Fast Company, CNNMoney, Bitcoinist.com, Forbes, The Guardian, Washington Post, Neowin, CNET, Associated Press, New York Magazine, LarrysWorld.com, Mashable, GeekWire, Bloomberg, SiliconBeat, Reuters, BuzzFeed, Quartz, Newser, Marketing Land, and The Verge
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @kantrowitz, @rhhackett, @kottke, @bendwalsh, @econ_marshall, @jwherrman, @jillianiles, @buzzfeednews, and @ericnewcomer
| Apple: |
App Store customers spent $300M worldwide on New Year's Day and spent over $890M in the week starting Dec. 24; developers earned $26.5B in 2017, up 30%+ YoY — New Year's Day Sets Record With $300 Million in Purchases — Cupertino, California — App Store customers around the world …
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MacRumors, The Verge, CNET, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Quartz, CNBC, Mashable, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, MacStories, and AppAdvice.com
Tweets: @_inside, @neilcybart, @benedictevans, @scotttaylor, and @benedictevans
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen reportedly owns 5.19B XRP tokens and a 17% stake in the company, valued at ~$59.9B after 36,000% increase in XRP value — - With Ripple's XRP coin hitting a high of $3.84, the company's co-founder and executive chairman, Chris Larsen, is now worth about $59.9 billion on paper.
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Forbes, New York Times, Slate, Gizmodo, Bitcoinist.com, San Francisco Chronicle, TechSpot, ValueWalk, Telegraph, The Independent, ValueWalk, Business Insider, and CoinSpeaker
Tweets: @novogratz, @cnbc, and @tsimonite
| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Kalanick plans to sell ~29% of his 10% Uber stake, worth about $1.4B, to SoftBank consortium after offering 50%, the maximum allowed for board members — Former Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick, who has long boasted that he's never sold any shares … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Spotify says it has 70M paying subscribers, up from 60M in late July 2017, as the company prepares for an IPO — Spotify today announced on Twitter that it has hit a new milestone, with the streaming music service reaching a total of 70 million paid subscribers.
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9to5Mac, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Axios, AppleInsider, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, and AppAdvice.com
Tweets: @spotify, @shiraovide, @apollozac, and @alexeheath
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Apple quietly joined the Alliance for Open Media, focused on video compression tech, which counts Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook as members — For months, powerful companies including Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook have been working to shrink online video sizes.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, VentureBeat, iMore, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, FierceCable, Engadget, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @stshank, @juberti, and @digitalreb
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Johnson Controls unveils $319 Cortana-powered thermostat called GLAS, which runs Windows 10 IoT Core; available now for preorder, ships in March — Beauty comes at a price — Microsoft has partnered with Johnson Controls to build a thermostat. The software giant first unveiled …
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PR Newswire, Windows Experience Blog, GeekWire, Pocket-lint, MSPoweruser, ValueWalk, Mashable, CNET, and Engadget
| Rebecca Savransky / The Hill: |
White House says it has banned guests and employees from using personal cell phones in the West Wing, will only allow use of government-issued devices — The White House is going to start barring employees from using their personal cellphones at work, press secretary Sarah Sanders said early Thursday.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Canalys predicts worldwide smart speakers sales will reach 56.3M in 2018, with 38.4M sales in the US, outpacing AR, VR, and wearables — Amazon and Google were willing to lose money on smart speaker sales over the holidays by discounting their hardware in order to gain market share. The reason?
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Canalys, MacRumors, ZDNet, AppAdvice.com, and 9to5Mac
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Instagram confirms it's testing a feature that allows cross-posting of Stories to WhatsApp as a Status — Last October, Facebook extended the usage (and flexibility) of Instagram Stories — the Snapchat-like feature that lets you patch together photos and videos into a slide show …
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SlashGear, Ubergizmo, MSPoweruser, Android Authority, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, Digital Trends, Android Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, and BGR India. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Calls for Twitter to ban President Trump are misguided and counterproductive; the biggest threat posed by @realDonaldTrump is to Trump's own presidency — Ever since Donald Trump became president, some liberal activists have called for Twitter to suspend his account.
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getrevue.co, New York Times, and Firstpost
Tweets: @willoremus, @tonyromm, @slate, @gabrielroth, @caseynewton, @mikeisaac, @tonyromm, @tonyromm, and @caseynewton
| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Gaming hardware company Mad Catz, bought by a Chinese firm after March 2017 bankruptcy, says it will start making products again — The company's Rat mice, Strike keyboards and Freq headsets are alive and well. — It looked like an early April Fools' joke.
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Mad Catz, PCWorld, TechSpot, Android Authority, Kotaku, destructoid, and Polygon
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