Apple opposes court order over shooter's iPhone, says US government is asking it to build a backdoor to the iPhone, calls it a “dangerous precedent”
It Might Be Cops' Best Bet Katie Collins / CNET : Family of murdered soldier criticizes Apple's refusal to hack San Bernadino shooter's iPhone Don Reisinger / Fortune : Google CEO's Tepid Support Won'...
Profile of Johny Srouji, Apple's SVP for hardware technologies, who is leading the development of company's chips
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A look at early reactions from lawmakers and candidates Trump and Kasich to Apple's encryption standoff with the FBI
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Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon declined to comment when asked about Apple's opposition to iPhone court order, showing muted tech industry response
Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry Response — After a federal court ordered Apple to help unlock …
Google CEO Sundar Pichai tweets in support of Apple, says forcing companies to enable hacking could compromise user privacy
Google CEO Sundar Pichai backs Tim Cook over Apple-FBI controversy — Google CEO Sundar Pichai just weighed in on the ongoing issue over device encryption between Apple …
Skype starts rolling out group video calling for iOS and Android, beginning with North America and Western Europe today, with worldwide availability in March
Announcing group video calling for mobile phones and tablets — Just a few weeks ago, we announced the next evolution of Skype …
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid $17K ransom in bitcoins to hackers who took over its network for more than a week
Hollywood hospital pays $17,000 in bitcoins to hackers who took control of computers — The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in 2004.
Apple Pay launches in China, will use UnionPay's point-of-sale network for off-line payments
Apple Joins With China's UnionPay to Introduce Mobile Payments — Clients of 19 Chinese lenders can shop with Apple Pay — Alipay and Tencent dominate China's online payment market
Microsoft rolls out updates for Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 that address power management bugs and Intel driver issues
Microsoft's new Surface Book update will fix sleep problems — When we reviewed Microsoft's Surface Book back in October we noticed a number of weird issues.
White House Plays With Words, Says Department Of Justice Isn't Asking Apple To Create A Backdoor
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Google Translate adds 13 new languages bringing total to 103, now serves 99% of online population
Google Translate Update Adds New Language Support — Google Translate is a very powerful and useful tool which has been getting better over time. The service can be used to translate text …
Netflix updated its recommendation algorithms to highlight titles based on global viewing habits earlier this year, ditching regional approach
How Netflix completely revamped recommendations for its new global audience — Before Netflix got into the business of producing its own programming …
Neverware updates CloudReady, an operating system based on Chromium, with dual-booting capability for Macs and PCs
How to turn your sluggish old Mac or PC into a faster Chromebook — Earlier today we published a story about Neverware, a New York City startup that is helping schools …
IBM Acquiring Truven Health Analytics For $2.6 Billion And Adding It To Watson Health
IBM announced its intent to buy Truven Health Analytics today for a whopping $2.6 billion. It is the fourth major purchase for Watson Health since the unit was established in 2014.
Uber CEO says firm loses $1B+ a year in China due to price war with unprofitable competitor
Uber losing $1 billion a year to compete in China — Uber Technologies Inc is burning through more than a billion dollars a year in China as it wages a fierce price war against local rival Didi Kuaid...
Jana raises $57M Series C led by Verizon Ventures for mCent ad-subsidized free internet service for emerging markets, Tim Armstrong joins the board of advisors
Jana Raises $57 Million to Bring Internet to Developing World — Jana is a Boston-based mobile Internet company …
Google Acquihires Work Chat Startup Pie To Build Engineering Team In Southeast Asia
Google today announced that it is building its first engineering team devoted to Southeast Asia, and the search giant has gobbled up Pie, a Slack-like team communications service based in Singapore, t...
Verizon to update Hum, its OnStar-like service for cars, with geofencing and speed alert features later this month
and where your kids are Bryan Lufkin / Gizmodo : Verizon's Car Gadget Now Gives Meddling Parents Access to Teens' Driving Habits
Twitter will now let you record and share videos in Direct Messages
Twitter adds support for capturing and sharing video in Direct Messages Richard Woods / Neowin : Twitter now allows users to record and send videos through Direct Messages Tweets: Twitter Support / @s...
Vevo CEO Erik Huggers says company is working on a paid music video subscription service, could launch this year
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Select Amazon Flex drivers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have started to handle standard Amazon.com deliveries, in addition to Prime Now orders
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Marvell Technology to pay $750M to Carnegie Mellon University to settle a lawsuit over hard disk drive patents
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Tianjin Tianhai buys tech distributor Ingram Micro for $6 billion
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Yahoo Tech Editor in Chief Dan Tynan is out; Yahoo's tech site will be integrated into its larger news site; David Pogue will stay with the company
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FCC votes 3-2 to proceed with plan to give customers more choice over set top boxes; proposal now moves into comment period
Colin Lecher / The Verge : Tweets: @reckless See also Mediagazer Tweets: Nilay Patel / @reckless : Tom Wheeler, dragonslayer. The FCC just took the first big step toward changing the cable box busine...
Shopify beats estimates as quarterly revenue grew 99% YoY to $70.2M, gross merchandise volume up 109% YoY; stock up 9%
Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg Business :
X Prize partners with IBM, announcing $5M competition for teams that best show AI's potential to positively impact people's lives
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Nvidia reports quarterly revenue up 12% to $1.40B on higher chip demand, GAAP net income up 7% YoY to $207M, rising interest in deep learning tech; stock up 6%+
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
Priceline beats estimates with quarter earnings of $504.3M, up nearly 12% YoY, forecasting 12-19% YoY increase in bookings for next quarter; stock up over 11%
NetApp to cut 12 percent of its workforce amid weaker sales
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NBCUniversal's Fandango buys Rotten Tomatoes and Flixster; Warner Bros. will take minority stake in Fandango
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Plenty of Google X moonshot ideas are ditched, with 100 investigations killed last year, including vertical farming and variable buoyancy cargo ship projects
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GitHub launches templates for new issues and pull requests
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