Marc Andreessen: Apple Pay Is Freaking Out Financial Services -
Andreessen Horowitz Co-Founder Marc Andreessen discusses Apple, Bitcoin, Apple Pay, Apple TV, and Tim Cook. He speaks with “Bloomberg West” Host Emily Chang at Dreamforce 2014 in San Francisco. (Source: Bloomberg Oct 16)
ABC News
What You Missed at the Apple Event: From New iPads to Stephen Colbert
ABC News
Apple's event in Cupertino, California, today was jam packed with product announcements, a hilarious phone call with Stephen Colbert, and new details about the Apple Watch. Apple CEO Tim Cook -- who introduced the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus last ...
Businessweek
Apple Looks for Big Screen Boost as IPhone 6 Hits China
Businessweek
A woman counts Hong Kong dollar banknotes as people resell Apple Inc. iPhones across from the company's Causeway Bay store during the sales launch of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in Hong Kong, China.
CNET
Review: Macs, mobile unite with Yosemite system
Washington Post
CUPERTINO, Calif. — If you've upgraded your iPhone or iPad to iOS 8, the new software update for Mac computers will seem familiar. The Yosemite update to Apple's OS X system, available as a free download starting Thursday, adds several features to ...
USA TODAY
The Short List: Apple unveils 'world's thinnest tablet
USA TODAY
Apple's big event today shows it's obsessed with being thin. Thin is in. Apple had an event today with few surprises where CEO Tim Cook said "magical" a lot and the company made software and hardware announcements. The highlights: 1) Apple revealed ...
Wall Street Journal
Apple Pay Draws Hundreds of Banks
Wall Street Journal
Apple CEO Tim Cook discusses the new Apple Pay product during an event at Apple headquarters on Thursday. Marcio Jose Sanchez/Associated Press. By. Robin Sidel. Robin Sidel. The Wall Street Journal. CANCEL. BiographyRobin Sidel · Robin.
Moneycontrol.com
Nadella Promises Changes After Remark Over Women's Pay
PC Magazine
In an internal memo, the Microsoft CEO called the whole debacle a "humbling and learning experience." 0shares. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Thursday again apologized for his controversial remarks last week about women and pay raises, and outlined a ...
Forbes
Gamergate And The Unbearable Maleness Of Computers
Forbes
The global toilet paper industry is booming. Total Total sales in 2012 were worth around $45 billion, a 7% increase on 2011, driven in large part by growth in Brazil and China. By contrast global revenue from apps sold on the App Store and Google Google ...
The Guardian
Google must be transparent about 'right to be forgotten' deletions, publishers say
The Guardian
Publishers have urged Google to reveal more about how it decides what information to remove from its search results under the “right to be forgotten” at a public event in London. The search company is running a series of public consultations across Europe ...
GameSpot
PS4's 2.0 Update Lets You Listen to Your Music While Playing Games
GameSpot
The system's home screen will also be improved, plus details on other features coming to PS4, Vita, and PS TV. by Chris Pereira on October 16, 2014....
CNET
Zwipe biometric card wins at Detektor International Awards 2014
Biometric Update
Zwipe announced that they are the winners of the Detektor International Award for Innovative Achievement in Access Control. The announcement comes just a few months after the Zwipe biometric card won the first annual American Sesames Award at the ...more technology news below ( @ web version--link below)
Google, not Apple, may be world’s first $1 trillion company | New York Post: "The analyst predicted Google would cross the 10-figure mark in market capitalization by 2020. Over the last five years, Apple has more than doubled — 274 percent vs. 115 percent — Google’s stock performance. “Google is positioned to be the first company on [a] US listed stock exchange to have a market capitalization exceed one trillion dollars,” BGC Capital analyst Colin Gillis wrote in a research note to clients on Friday...." (read more at link above)
The Great Knowledge Box Showdown: Google Now vs. Siri vs. Cortana: "....Google Now has a clear lead in terms of the sheer volume of queries addressed, and more complete accuracy with its queries than either Siri or Cortana. All three parties will keep investing in this type of technology, but the cold hard facts are that Google is progressing the fastest on all fronts."
6 Reasons Carl Icahn Overvalues Apple By $700 Billion
Forbes
Carl Icahn has a reputation for using his big microphone to get technology companies whose businesses he doesn't understand to do something that ...
USA TODAY
Wolff: What next for Yahoo and Marissa Mayer?
USA TODAY
What will happen to Yahoo, really? And, as a both a subset and a wholly independent question, what will happen to Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's CEO, and ...
TechCrunch (blog)
Facebook's Anonymous App Could Kill Trolls With Secret Identity
TechCrunch (blog)
Wack-a-mole. That's what it's usually like fighting trolls, bullies, and spammers in anonymous communities. Ban them and they just start new accounts.
USA TODAY
What's new in Google Voice: MMS
USA TODAY
Q. How does this new Google Voice MMS support work, and why isn't Verizon ... Here are the limits to Google Voice MMS that his post didn't spell out ...
CNET
Apple's Oct. 16 event: Here's what we expect
CNET
New iPads and Macs, as well as an official launch of the OS X Yosemite computer operating system, should show up at Apple's event this week.
Techaeris
Apple Pay is coming to town
Fortune
There's no Starbucks in the small Western Massachusetts town where I live these days. No Whole Foods, either. No Bloomingdales, Macy's or Disney ...
Another Apple event and lots of earnings: 5 things to watch for this week
Fortune
Earnings season has arrived in full force. Expect a slew of earnings from big banks including Citigroup , Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.
Newsweek
Wary of Privacy Issues? Ditch Dropbox and Avoid Google, Says Edward Snowden
Newsweek
Ditch Dropbox and Avoid Google, Says Edward Snowden ... and to avoid using high-profile online services such as Facebook and Google, if they ... much of the technology the public needs hasn't been invented or popularized yet. ... Major cell phone providers, including Verizon, AT&T and Apple, can be ...
The Guardian
Google Glass v Apple Watch: in form against function, Apple edges it overGoogle
The Guardian
This came to mind as I considered the contrast between Google Glass and the AppleWatch. Here are two giants of the technology industry, with ...
San Jose Mercury News
Is Apple close to cracking the code for TV?
San Jose Mercury News
CUPERTINO -- Ever curious about what the next chapter holds for Apple, some ... A small but growing chorus of analysts and developers say Apple seems ... and Google andAmazon have entered the field with Chromecast and Fire ...
Sprint to shutter WiMAX network around Nov. 6, 2015 - FierceWireless: "In April, Sprint said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it would "cease using WiMAX technology by the end of 2015." As part of that effort, Sprint said it identified approximately 6,000 "redundant sites that we expect to decommission and terminate the underlying leases.""
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Apple sent out invitations to an event on Oct. 16, when the company is said to be planning to reveal its latest iPad tablets ahead of the holiday shopping season. Bloomberg’s Tim Higgins reports on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg Oct 8)
Forbes
Apple Announces Special Event: 'It's Been Way Too Long'. Here's What To Expect
Forbes
The clamour surrounding the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Apple Watch may only just be cooling down, but today Apple has announced another ...
Facebook Readies App Allowing Anonymity - NYTimes.com: "The company is working on a stand-alone mobile application that allows users to interact inside of it without having to use their real names, according to two people briefed on Facebook’s plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the project."
Wall Street Journal
Apple, Others Surprised by GT's Bankruptcy Filing
Wall Street Journal
Apple is expected to use synthetic sapphire for screens on some Apple Watch designs but not for the screen of its latest iPhones. Bloomberg News.
GT Advanced bankruptcy offers warning to Apple suppliers - Reuters
Forbes
Supreme Court To Decide If Amazon Workers Should Be Paid For Security Screening
Forbes
In this Nov. 13, 2002 file photo, an Amazon employee packages an order to be shipped from its Coffeyville, Kan., warehouse. (AP Photo/The Wichita ...
Forbes
Where Does Apple Pay Fall Short?
Forbes
Apple has a long history of making things work that others have previously tried. With the iPod and the iPad, Apple brought ideas to life that many ...
Newsweek
Drone Delivery for Amazon and Google Slowed by Headwinds
Newsweek
Though Google and Amazon have already begun testing, German ... “And the technology has to be adapted and somehow developed so that the ...
CBS News
Justice Dept. will review practice of creating fake Facebook profiles
Washington Post
The Justice Department said Tuesday that it will review federal law enforcement practices in light of an incident in which a federal agent used a ...
CNET
iOS 8.1 beta 2 reveals new Apple Pay screens
CNET
Scoping out iOS 8.1 beta 2, iOS developer Hamza Sood discovered a few new screens related to Apple Pay, the new payment system demoed by ...
CNET
A walk in the park: Google Maps hits the trails in California
CNET
The new views of the state parks underscore the ever-increasing granularity of Google'smaps, as the company invests in technology -- from ...
Teens Are Abandoning Facebook, According To A New Survey
Teens are totally over Facebook, a recent report from Piper Jaffray states, and the kids are flocking to Instagram and Twitter to fill their social media needs....
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