WSJ confirms Apple has several hundred employees designing a minivan-like electric vehicle, codenamed Titan, with former Ford exec Steve Zadesky leading team
WSJ: Tim Cook approved Apple electric car project a year ago, hundreds of employees working on it
Apple hires head of Mercedes-Benz R&D, other auto experts for new secret research lab
But It's Top Secret Reuters : iCar in the works? Apple hiring auto engineers, designers Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat : Apple is recruiting automotive engineers — and it ain't just to work on CarPlay
Source: Apple is gathering advice from carmakers and automotive suppliers about parts and production methods as it learns to build a self-driving electric car
Apple learning to make self-driving car: source — (Reuters) - Technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) is learning …
South Carolina prisons have imposed heavy penalties on over 400 prisoners for using social media, mostly Facebook
Hundreds of South Carolina Inmates Sent to Solitary Confinement Over Facebook — In the South Carolina prison system, accessing Facebook is an offense on par with murder, rape, rioting, escape and ho...
Kara Swisher Interviews President Barack Obama on Cyber Security, Privacy and His Relationship With Silicon Valley
President Barack Obama took the hot seat with Re/code's Kara Swisher Friday as the two talked about a range of tech-focused topics, including cyber warfare …
Tim Cook at cybersecurity summit: “History has shown us that sacrificing a right to privacy can have dire consequences”
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Wink's promise of a simple, affordable smart home proves false; not one product worked as advertised out of the box
Why Is My Smart Home So F**king Dumb? — A few weeks ago, a couple friends and I were about to watch a surprisingly bad scifi movie in my crowded apartment.
Snapchat Discover has sent some publishers millions of views per day
Snapchat Discover could be the biggest thing in news since Twitter — A few weeks ago, Snapchat updated its app. The new version had a little purple dot in the upper-right corner of the app's Storie...
China's two largest taxi-hailing apps Alibaba-backed Kuaidi Dache and Tencent-backed Didi Dache announce merger; brands to remain independent
China taxi apps Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache announce tie-up — (Reuters) - Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache, two of China's leading taxi-hailing apps …
Flickr beta-testing Camera Roll, a sleeker interface for browsing, editing, and organizing photos
Flickr Rolling Out Camera Roll: A New Way to Browse, Edit, and Organize Your Shots — Flickr is rolling out a new feature called Camera Roll that's designed to make it even easier for users to browse...
Google exploring broad zero-rating platform in emerging markets to spur mobile app use
Google's Next Bid to Lower Mobile Data Costs: Zero Rating — Global Web companies like Google and Facebook know that most of their future growth will need to come from emerging markets.
Credit card companies boosting security; Visa expanding tokenization to devices beyond Apple; Mastercard to spend $20M on biometrics, fingerprint matching
Update Planet Biometrics.com : MasterCard to invest US$20m in cybersecurity, launch biometric pilot Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet : MasterCard, Visa make plays for payment security Jonathan Berr / CBS New...
Candy Crush Saga Players Spent Over $1.3 Billion on In-App Purchases in 2014
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How Pavel Durov lost control of Russia's largest social network VKontakte to the Kremlin
Crime, Punishment, and Russia's Original Social Network — Pavel Durov, founder of the Russian social network VKontakte, was home alone in his apartment in St. Petersburg on a weekend when a continge...
Microsoft improves 2013 free desktop version of OneNote, removes feature restrictions
Today's post was written … Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat : Microsoft makes OneNote for Windows completely free by removing all feature restrictions Napier Lopez / The Next Web : The free version of O...
Google's co-founders are about to sell $4.4 billion worth of shares
Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are going to sell about $4.4 billion worth of company shares, according to a new filing with the SEC (which we first spotted thanks to Footnoted). Tweets: ...
S.E.C. Asks Alibaba About Dispute With Chinese Regulator
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times :
Wrongfully convicted Goldman Sachs ex-programmer sues the FBI agents who arrested him for malicious prosecution
Christian Dolmetsch / Bloomberg Business :
Department of Justice obtains first guilty plea in Megaupload criminal case after three years, sentences programmer Andrus Nõmm to one year in prison
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica :
Apple's App Store now allowing marijuana-related apps that enforce geolocation checks and rejecting apps depicting gun violence in screenshots
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
NBA to film All-Star Game with virtual reality cameras, to be available for free on Samsung's Milk VR store for Gear VR devices
Tim Moynihan / Wired :
Apple Pay will be accepted for US government services starting in September; Apple also working to make Apple Pay work with government credit cards
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch :
FTC clears Zillow's $1.8 billion acquisition of Trulia, deal could close next week
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
“Shopping cart” patent beaten by Newegg comes back to court, loses again
Joe Mullin / Ars Technica :
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