Sources: Apple readies iPhone 5se for March/April with 4-inch screen, curved edges, Live Photos, 8MP rear camera, A8 and M8 chips, barometer, NFC chip, more
Apple readies ‘iPhone 5se’, not ‘6c’, for March/April with curved edges & Live Photos — That purported 4-inch “iPhone 6c” floating around the web yesterday?
Apple to update Apple Watch in mid-March with new bands, OS + full redesign in fall
Jeff Williams announcing September Apple Watch updates - AFP — In addition to launching a new 4-inch iPhone likely called the “iPhone 5se,” Apple plans to announce new Apple Watch models in March.
Skype helps users avoid harassment by hiding IP addresses
Microsoft is finally making IP addresses hidden by default on Skype. Reports surfaced around four years ago noting that a flaw in Skype allowed malicious users to obtain IP addresses through the serv...
Sources: Apple veteran overseeing Project Titan electric-car initiative, Steve Zadesky, leaving company
Apple Veteran Overseeing Electric-Car Project Leaving Company — Steve Zadesky said to be leaving for personal reasons — The Apple Inc. veteran tasked with spearheading …
Obama administration says a newly-created agency will conduct federal background checks, and DOD will store records, after internal review following OPM breach
Pentagon to take over control of background investigation information — Updated: — The government will shift responsibility …
FBI acknowledges it ran a website distributing more than 23,000 child porn images for 13 days in 2015 as part of a sting operation
FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images — WASHINGTON — For nearly two weeks last year, the FBI operated what it described …
Australian VPN uFlix says Netflix started blocking its service to some users, issues a fix, likely triggering a larger whack-a-mole effort by Netflix
Netflix Makes Good On Promises To Crack Down On VPNs, But Blocks Are Short-Lived — Netflix has begun blocking some users of VPN services …
Google reaches settlement with UK to pay £130M in back taxes and higher taxes in future, after multiyear audit by UK tax agency showed a decade of underpayment
Google strikes £130m back tax deal — Google has reached a settlement with the UK to pay £130m in back taxes …
Amazon brings personalized sports updates, movie theater details to Echo
James Risley / GeekWire : … Updates to Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant are coming in thick and fast, with Jeopardy! showing up on the Echo smart speaker last week and the ability to start your car c...
How Larry Page's interests in robots, nuclear fusion, and more are shaping Google's shift to Alphabet
How Larry Page's Obsessions Became Google's Business — Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin's nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch …
Child Porn Sting Goes Global: FBI Hacked Computers in Denmark, Greece, Chile
Joseph Cox / Motherboard :
Fitbit Charge HR and Surge heart rate sensors retested in light of new class-action lawsuit, pass tests handily
Taking the Pulse of Fitbit's Contested Heart Rate Monitors — As Fitbit faces a lawsuit over the accuracy of its fitness trackers, Consumer Reports retests the devices in our lab
Some who invested in failing payments startup Clinkle asked for their money back
Clinkle Up In Smoke As Investors Want Their Money Back — On Sept. 23, 2013, Lucas Duplan was on top of the world. Having finished a computer science degree at Stanford University the year before …
On sale today: 1TB Core i7 Surface Book and Surface Pro 4, and new Gold Surface Pen
Windows Blog :
Oracle lawyer, in case against Google, says Android has generated $31B in revenue and $22B in profit; Google says the figures shouldn't have been made public
Bloomberg Business :
Microsoft unveils plans to modernize its campus in Mountain View's North Bayshore, adding 3.7 acres of green roof and converting surface parking to green space
Nathan Donato-Weinstein / Silicon Valley Business … :
Sources: VMware to lay off up to 900 people next week as EMC, VMware, Dell continue work on merger
Barb Darrow / Fortune :
Online payday loan provider LendUp raises $150M Series B, launches its own credit card and a companion app that can be used to halt or monitor purchases
As it positions itself for further growth …
Apple hires Virginia Tech computer science professor and virtual reality expert Doug Bowman
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times :
FiveStars raises $50M Series C to help small retailers run loyalty programs, led by HarbourVest Partners
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Yahoo accelerated its stock options to try to retain employees
Biz Carson / Business Insider :
In December, Microsoft stopped providing funding to FairSearch, a watchdog behind Google antitrust cases, including the one pending in the EU
Mark Bergen / Re/code :
According to SEC filings, mutual fund manager T. Rowe Price marked down its Dropbox stake by 51% ; MongoDB, 44%; Evernote, 20%
Alfred Lee / The Information :
Inside Facebook's Ambitious Plan to Connect the Whole World
Jessi Hempel / Wired : Tweets: @joshconstine and @stevesi Tweets: Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Nice overview of Facebook's Internet dot org by @jessiwrites http://www.wired.com/... humanizes the ...
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