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Apple says it plans a $350B “direct contribution” to US economy over next five years through repatriating overseas profits, new infrastructure projects, more — $350 Billion Contribution to US Economy Over Next Five Years — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced …
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Sources: Apple will issue each employee below director level a $2.5K bonus in restricted stock grants, following passage of tax overhaul, over coming months — Company giving bonuses to most global employees in stock units — Bonus program follows Apple pledge to increase U.S. spending
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| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
A comprehensive look at Apple's cash reserves, how it uses them, and why it is repatriating its foreign cash to US and paying $38B, or ~15% tax on it — - How much cash does Apple have? — To the nearest million, as of the end of September 2017, Apple's cash and investments totaled $268,895,000,000.
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Apple says it expects to make tax repatriation payments of ~$38B and plans to open new US campus later this year that will initially house customer tech support — Apple has previously pledged to invest more in U.S. manufacturing, telling CNBC's “Mad Money” that it would invest $1 billion fund … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Intel admits Spectre and Meltdown patches also affect newer Skylake and Kaby Lake chips, with performance impact between 2% and 25%, promises fix next week — Intel has revealed that even its newer CPUs are affected by the frequent reboot problems brought about by the Spectre/Meltdown patches.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook says you'll be able to turn off battery management that reduces performance of your devices after Apple issues iOS update — Apple had already said that a future iOS update will give users more insight into the state of their battery. In an interview with ABC News …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Project Fi now caps data bills at $60, entering the crowded market of “unlimited data” plans, will throttle speeds at 15GB — Google's Project Fi cell service never played the “unlimited data” game that most carriers in the U.S. like to play (and which is never truly unlimited).
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft promotes Minecraft boss Matt Booty to corporate VP of Microsoft Studios to oversee game development and publishing for console, PC, and mobile — Microsoft has promoted Matt Booty, a leader in the Minecraft games business, as corporate vice president of Microsoft Studios …
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| Mix / The Next Web: |
How Bitconnect, once worth $2.6B+, got so big via promises of daily 1% returns, multi-level marketing schemes, and spamming Google via its own “news” blog posts — In a menacing turn of events yesterday, Bitcoin investment lending platform BitConnect abruptly announced it is shutting down its lending and exchange services.
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Google to make page speed a factor in mobile search ranking starting in July, says change will only affect pages that “deliver the slowest experience to users” — Google today announced a significant change in how it ranks websites for mobile searches: it will now take page speed …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Researchers find that COMPAS algorithm, used to determine if a defendant will reoffend, is no better than average person's guess; developer disputes findings — Our most sophisticated crime-predicting algorithms may not be as good as we thought. A study published today in Science Advances takes …
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| Stef W. Kight / Axios: |
Major tech lobby urges Trump administration to preserve the H-4 visa program, which allows spouses of H-1B holders with pending green cards to work legally — The Information Technology Industry council, a major tech lobby, will send a letter today to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services calling … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Go-Jek closes $1.2B round at $3B+ valuation with commitments from Google, Temasek, Meituan; raise started months ago, with Tencent, others investing — Google is back investing in ride-hailing companies. The U.S. search firm and China's Meituan-Dianping are among the tech giants set …
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| Marie Mawad / Bloomberg: |
Cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Ledger raises $75M Series B led by Draper Esprit; the company sold 1M USB dongle wallets that store private keys — Startup makes dongles to store cyptocurrency private keys — Sold 1 million units last year; targeting hedge funds, banks
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook begins testing Watch Party, a new feature for groups that lets members watch videos simultaneously while continuing to comment and interact — A new feature for groups — Facebook today began testing Watch Party, a new feature available to groups that lets members watch videos …
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| Bloomberg: |
Profile of Jann Horn, a 22-year-old Zurich-based researcher who helped discover Meltdown and Spectre flaws while working for Google's Project Zero — Horn stumbled on problems while reading lengthy Intel manuals — Google researcher has ‘outstanding mind,’ dogged determination| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Flurry data: overall app session activity grew 6% in 2017; shopping app usage grew 54%, media, music, entertainment apps grew 43%, lifestyle apps dropped 40% — The app economy is continuing to grow, with the worldwide revenue from app stores expected to top $110 billion this year, according to recent estimates from App Annie.
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