"Apple met with Chinese regulators to discuss the iPhone's mysterious battery drain problem: An Apple representative traveled to Beijing this week to discuss iPhone battery malfunctions with a consumer watchdog organization affiliated with the government. The meeting, held yesterday, shows that as Beijing ramps up scrutiny of Apple, the tech company continues to try and appease the government." Quartz 12:22 PM
"Apple may have paid Qualcomm approx. $40 per iPhone, accounted for third of Qualcomm's revenues" Foss Patents 1:58 PM
"How Apple can make music sound sweeter: Apple Music is a good start, but the company should also fix iTunes, improve AirPlay, and consider getting back into the speaker game." Macworld 6:58 AM
"Apple CEO Tim Cook: Fake news 'is one of today's chief problems'" Business Insider 6:51 AM
"Apple 'optimistic' about post-Brexit UK" BBC 7:01 AM
"Apple CEO Tim Cook says UK will be 'just fine' after Brexit" V3 6:41 AM
"Tim Cook says UK will be 'just fine' after Brexit, visits iPad-centric school and Tate Britain art gallery" 9to5Mac 6:34 AM
"Apple, Inc. CEO Tim Cook Talks Up Augmented Reality's Potential (Again)" FOXBusiness 9:23 PM
"How Apple Inc. Hopes to Grow Its Services Business to $50 Billion by 2020" The Motley Fool 12:54 PM
"Apple Pay boss says CBA, NAB, Westpac risk missing the future of payments: The global head of Apple Pay has put three of Australia's big banks on notice that the technology giant's global payments system will steal their customers and they risk being left behind in the development of digital wallets." Australian Financial Review 9:40 AM
"What file service should you use with network drives and Time Machine? A network-attached storage device needs to use the proper file service with Apple's Time Machine." Macworld 7:10 AM
"macOS app: BackupLoupe examines Time Machine backups" The Robservatory 9:43 AM
"First Thoughts: Microsoft Office for MacBook Pro w. Touch Bar" Apple Must 10:05 AM
"Apple ships 6 million smartwatches in 4Q16, says Canalys" DigiTimes 6:49 AM
"It looks like Apple Watch had a monster holiday quarter" Cult of Mac 6:40 AM
"Apple CEO Tim Cook believes augmented reality is 'a big idea, like the smartphone'" Business Insider 3:35 PM
"Why Apple CEO Tim Cook visited London startup ustwo Games" Business Insider 6:50 AM
"Apple's Tim Cook visits UK's Regent Street store, Tate gallery & ustwo Games, talks 'fake news' in interview" AppleInsider 9:43 AM
"Sportbrain Sues Apple Claiming that the Apple Watch Collects Sports Related Data in a Manner that Infringes their Patent" Patently Apple 8:04 AM
"BeatsX Earphones Launch on Apple Store for $150" MacRumors 6:34 AM
"Apple's W1-equipped BeatsX earphones now available to purchase after months-long delay" AppleInsider 6:34 AM
"AirPods TV commercial took sales of Marian Hill's song 'Down' from 'negligible' to 'magical'" AppleInsider 2:52 PM
"Can I trust a fertility app to stop me getting pregnant?" BBC 6:59 AM
"How an iPhone 4 and OKCupid led to love: I'd almost given up on finding love until my future husband, intrigued by my dating profile, tracked down a video of me talking about the next iPhone. The rest is history." CNET 7:24 AM
"Today in Apple history: Color Classic Mac ditches monochrome" Cult of Mac 8:17 AM
Non-Apple News
"Ford to Invest $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence Start-Up" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:50 PM
"Sprint has crazy-cheap new deal, but there's a catch: Sprint is offering new customers five lines of unlimited data, talk and text for $90/month. The only problem is that prices go up after a year." CNET 10:10 AM
"How Google Chromebooks conquered schools" Associated Press 8:54 AM
"7 Things You Never Knew About VR" Computerworld 7:55 AM
"Superscreen puts your smartphone in the body of a tablet" ZDNet 7:24 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"The Talk Show: 'Corporate Stiffy', With Special Guest John Moltz" Daring Fireball 8:19 PM
"Podcast 545: Assault on batteries" Macworld 2:06 PM
"iPhone Iris Scanner, Smart TV Privacy Tips -TMO Daily Observations 2017-02-10" The Mac Observer 12:56 PM
"Kyle Lambert made his illustration career on the iPad" iMore 12:22 PM
"Happy Hour Podcast 106 | BeatsX launch, Android Wear 2.0 versus Apple Watch, and $1000 iPhone 8 rumors" 9to5Mac 9:01 AM
"AppleInsider podcast talks wireless charging, 'iPhone 8' rumors, Apple Watch weather apps, more" AppleInsider 7:36 AM
"Weekly Podcast 5: Highlighting The App Store Heroes Of Fire & Ice" Apple'n'Apps 6:39 AM
"Dell EMC not hurrying distribution review" ComputerWeekly 7:55 AM
"KKR goes up against Michael Dell for stakes in German market research business GfK" ALT Assets 7:54 AM
"Intel's new Xeon chip has 24 cores and sells for $8,898" InfoWorld 7:53 AM
"Intel Coffee Lake Processors Arrive 2H'17" PC Magazine 7:38 AM
"Intel working on next-gen Optane SSDs and memory" Tech Central 7:52 AM
"Intel pledges 8th Gen Coffee Lake launch by year's end" bit-tech 7:52 AM
"Intel Cannonlake touted to offer >15pc performance improvement" Hexus 7:51 AM
"Plan for $10 Billion Chip Plant Shows China's Growing Pull" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:51 AM
"Intel 3D XPoint Optane DC P4800X NVMe SSD Leaks - its 375 GB" Guru3D 7:51 AM
"Intel Says 8thGen Core Is Coming On 14nm, Talks About Datacenter and Optane" CDR Info 7:52 AM
"Next Gen Intel Cannon Lake 15% faster and again a 14nm processor" Guru3D 7:50 AM
"Intel uses White House Oval Office for splash on Arizona factory" The Star: Malaysia 7:49 AM
"Specs for first Intel 3D XPoint SSD: so-so transfer speed, awesome random I/O/Sequential transfer rates aren't class-leading, but latency and longevity impress" Ars Technica 8:20 PM
"AMD Ryzen R7 1700 Details, Wraith Ghost Cooling, Energy Efficient" SegmentNext 7:47 AM
"AMD Ryzen Prices Leaked, Top Version Could Cost About $500" Softpedia 7:47 AM
"Bengaluru to house Oracle's largest software development centre outside USA" The Indian Express 7:44 AM
"Oracle settles court case with fired cloud services finance 'whistleblower'" The Register 7:44 AM
"Cisco to Produce Azure Stack Hybrid Cloud Systems" eWeek 9:24 PM
"Cisco Debuts Umbrella: First Secure Internet Gateway in the Cloud" Data Storage Today 7:43 AM
"Cisco Launches 'Umbrella' Secure Internet Gateway" SecurityWeek 7:42 AM
"Cisco Umbrella Promises Secure Internet Gateway in the Cloud" Converge! 7:41 AM
"Cisco Offers Integrated Azure Stack in its UCS Platform ~ Converge! Network Digest" Converge! 7:40 AM
"Apple Short Interest Hits 47 Million Shares" 24/7 Wall St. 6:21 AM
Industry News
"Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq book records, log 3rd straight weekly gain: Mead Johnson, Nvidia, Activision among top performers" MarketWatch 3:58 PM
"Wall Street Scores New Records Amid Trump's Tax Reform Promises: All three major U.S. indexes closed at record highs for the second consecutive day as investors hope for a U.S. tax reform plan in the coming weeks." TheStreet 3:57 PM
"Stocks Close At Record Highs; Video Games Lead On Activision's Surge" Investor's Business Daily 3:57 PM
"Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq close out strong week at record highs" Associated Press 3:57 PM
"U.S. Stocks Rise to New Records: President Donald Trump said his goal of lowering taxes for businesses was moving 'ahead of schedule'" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:57 PM
"Nikkei soars, other Asian markets gain on Trump's tax-reform remarks: Stocks and the dollar rebounded Friday, with Asian markets coming back to life after a listless Thursday as President Donald Trump said he would soon announce tax-reform measures." MarketWatch 7:24 AM
"European stocks end at 2-week high, boosted by Chinese data, earnings: European stocks advanced for a fourth straight day on Friday, boosted by optimism over strong export data from China and a round of upbeat corporate results." MarketWatch 11:16 AM
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