Jobs had signed the copy of Macworld’s first issue at the grand opening of the Fifth Avenue Apple Store, according to RR Auction. Macworld magazine signed by Steve Jobs sells for more than K – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMark Bergen / Bloomberg: How Huawei is pushing China’s grand tech ambitions forward with a secretive enterprise unit that is estimated to net $10B+ in revenue this year — – Secretive enterprise unit carries on undistracted by U.S. rift — Services for internet, cloud to net $10 billion this year How Huawei is pushing China's
Read MoreThe company said it would update the software of iPhones in China to try to resolve a legal dispute that threatens to block certain iPhone sales there. Apple Will Update iPhones in China to Avoid a Ban on Sales Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreTumblr‘s whiplash-inducing ban on “all adult content” has been about as well-received as a tequila-fart in a car full of strangers with the windows stuck in the up position. Furthermore, it’s offensive, poorly-implemented, and serves little use besides shaming women for having nipples. The company, which is owned by Verizon Media Group, announced it would implement
Read MoreForbes: GE to spin out its industrial IoT software business into a separate company with $1.2B in revenue, sell 90% of ServiceMax to Silver Lake for an undisclosed sum — By Nigel Fenwick, Vice President, Principal Analyst; Frank Gillett, Vice President, Principal Analyst; Michele Pelino, Principal Analyst; Paul Miller, Senior Analyst GE to spin out
Read MoreFruit can be a tricky thing: if you buy it ripe you’ll be racing against time to eat the pieces before they turn into a mushy mess, but if you buy the ones which are a bit before their prime it’s not always easy to tell when they’re ready to eat. Do you smell it?
Read MoreOh, Bing! Not again! Bing recommends piracy tutorial when searching for Office 2019 Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreAlex Sherman / CNBC: Sources: private equity firm Thoma Bravo is in early talks to acquire McAfee from TPG and Intel for a “significant premium” on McAfee’s 2016 valuation of $4.2B — – Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is in early talks to acquire all of McAfee from TPG and Intel, sources say. Sources: private
Read MoreWhy does every movie have to be a spin-off of a reboot of a sequel that only came out five minutes ago? Avengers, X-Men, Glass: Movie sequels, reboots will keep churning in 2019 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreReuters: Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint expect prompt merger approval from CFIUS after SoftBank, Deutsche Telekom agree to consider curbing the use of Huawei’s equipment — WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp expect their merger to be approved by a U.S. national security panel … Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint expect prompt merger
Read MoreAstronaut Snoopy will also be featured in science-related shorts exclusive to Apple. Apple bringing back Charlie Brown, Snoopy as part of new Peanuts series – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreRomain Dillet / TechCrunch: Revolut gets a European banking license via the Bank of Lithuania, which allows it to offer services like current accounts and non-prepaid debit cards across EU — Fintech startup Revolut is now officially a bank. While the startup initially expected to get its European banking license during … Revolut gets a
Read MoreIf you include the $7,500 federal tax incentive, the price dips just below the $30,000 mark. 2019 Hyundai Kona Electric priced at ,450 before incentives – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThe game studio behind Fortnite is pushing to get more people using its Steam competitor. Epic Games is giving away Subnautica for free, if you use its new store – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf you’re into amateur rocketry, you pretty quickly outgrow the dinky little Estes motors that they sell in the toy stores. Many hobbyists move on to building their own homebrew solid rocket motors and experimenting with propellant mixtures, but it’s difficult to know if you’re on the right track unless you have a way to
Read MoreFacebook apparently couldn’t get to the end of its awful 2018 without exposing even more user data — photos, in this case. But at this point, we’re so inoculated to Facebook’s colossal leaks and data breaches that I challenge anyone to summon up a more impassioned response than a slight shrug. It’s just not special or
Read MoreBernadette Tansey / Xconomy: Udacity, which has 10M+ registered users from 160+ countries, says 50,000 students have graduated from its nanodegree programs that cost between $1K and $2.4K — Bernadette Tansey — Udacity, a pioneer in the online teaching of IT skills, is celebrating a milestone today … Udacity, which has 10M+ registered users from
Read MoreFacebook on Friday revealed that a major software bug may have allowed third-party apps to wrongly access 6.8 million users’ photos, including images that people began uploading to the site but ultimately chose not to post publicly. Facebook says a new bug allowed apps to access private photos of up to 6.8 million users Source:
Read MoreMary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Faire, an online wholesale marketplace for local retailers, raises $40M Series B and $60M Series C at a valuation of $535M, bringing the total raised to $116M — In a world where retailers big and small struggle to compete with Amazon, a startup that is working to help local
Read MoreIf you were to invent a time machine and transport a typical hardware hacker of the 1970s into 2018 and sit them at a bench alongside their modern counterpart, you’d expect them to be faced with a pile of new things, novel experiences, and exciting possibilities. The Internet for all, desktop computing fulfilling its potential,
Read MoreBrazil’s Museu Nacional caught fire in September, destroying millions of historical pieces. Google brings fossils and artifacts back to life after fire destroys Brazilian museum – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe Focal Elegia is not your typical high-end headphone. After the highly successful Utopia and Clear, the Elegia is Focal Audio’s first contribution into the high-end closed market. Closed-back headphones have traditionally been something of a rarity in the high-end market, simply because physics makes it harder to reduce resonances and distortion on closed headphones,
Read MoreYou can create presentations from an iPhone or iPad, with nearly all the bells and whistles to make them more visual and less boring. 9 best apps for building presentations in iOS – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMore than 1,500 apps had access to pictures that people uploaded but didn’t post, the social network said. Facebook discloses bug that exposed 6.8 million people’s photos – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Irish Data Protection Commission says that this week it has opened a broad investigation into Facebook’s GDPR compliance in light of numerous data breaches — Facebook is facing a broad investigation from the Irish data regulator into the high number of data breaches this year … Irish Data Protection Commission
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