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)
Don't go looking for Windows 9--it doesn't exist--Microsoft officially unveiled the name of its next of Windows on Tuesday, and for some reason Microsoft decided to skip "9" and go straight to 10--"Windows 10." read more at: Windows 10 is the official name for Microsoft's next version of Windows | The Verge. And unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows 8 did a lot more damage than just kill the idea of Windows 9, it alienated millions of loyal customers who have since moved on to Google (Android and Chrome OS) and Apple (iOS and OS X). Here's the hard truth for Microsoft: with the advent of the Cloud and the ubiquity of connectivity, there's decreasing need for a Windows PC--a good Chromebook [tip: always get 4GB RAM] costs less, is more secure, and can satisfy all needs of over 90% of all users (consumers and knowledge workers), and Chromebooks can now work offline.

Fortune
Microsoft unveils its new Windows 10 operating system
Fortune
Microsoft has unveiled its new Windows operating system, and has given it a surprising name: Windows 10. Most in the techie media had expected ...
Microsoft Offers First Peek of Windows 10 - Wall Street Journal
5 things Microsoft users should know about Windows 10 - USA TODAY
Why Did Microsoft Brand Its Next OS Windows 10? - Forbes

Wall Street Journal
Microsoft Skips Windows 9 to Emphasize Advances - ABC News
Microsoft unveils first look at Windows 10 - USA TODAY

New York Times
As PayPal Spins Off, Apple Pay Signals New Era at Cash Register
New York Times
But the service, expected in the coming weeks, already has the technology industry ...Google Wallet, for example, was hamstrung by limitations on the types of ... And other competitors to Apple — like Samsung or Microsoft, which ...
Will Google Buy PayPal? - 24/7 Wall St.

Slate Magazine
Facebook Atlas ad platform: Your data will follow you across Web, apps, devices.: "... a new advertising platform called Atlas. ... they’ll be drawing on all of Facebook’s knowledge of you as an individual in order to target you. They’ll be able to do that even if you’re not logged into Facebook and have cookies turned off... Facebook [is now] in direct competition with Google’s DoubleClick service, offering advertisers the chance to target users and measure their ads’ reach on a potentially wide array of sites as well as mobile apps... Atlas won’t rely on browser cookies... they’re notoriously ineffectual on mobile devices. Google has been working to address this problem... If you’ve ever logged into Facebook on your phone, Facebook has linked your phone’s unique identification number to your Facebook account. So when you use another app or a different browser on the same device, Facebook’s computers still know it’s you..."

The New Yorker
Does a Yahoo–AOL Merger Make Sense?
The New Yorker
In a profile of Yahoo C.E.O.'s, Marissa Mayer, from August of 2013, Vogue suggested that, since leaving Google to join Yahoo the previous year, ...

Reuters
Google searches for right note in online music business
Reuters
Google's YouTube service has become a low-profile titan in streaming ... The new version will incorporate technology acquired by Google with the ... going to continue to see the big players like Apple and Google experiment,” ... E-commerce giant Amazon launched its music service in June, providing ...
We Now Know Nearly Everything About Google's Giant New
Lisa Eadicicco
Google hasn't confirmed its new smartphone yet, but we may have a pretty good ...
Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Golden Master Candidate to Developers
Eric Slivka
Apple today released a candidate golden master version of OS X Yosemite to developers, just over two weeks after releasing the eighth Developer ...
Google announces Drive for Education: free, unlimited storage & more security
Harrison Weber
... Drive for Education, a new service that bolsters Google's existing Google Apps for Education service with unlimited storage, ...
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