"Apple 2015: The Force Awakened, But The Rebellion Faces Yet Another Death Star" ["Led by the humble Cook, Apple exists in a world where even its enemies share common interests. Google creates powerful tools for iPhone, even while competing with it. New powers in the galaxy, like Facebook, appear to be rivals only on the far distant horizon. Mobility has won and iPhone is its most powerful embodiment."] Forbes 7:17 AM
"Apple to Pay $347 Million Over Italian Tax Dispute: Italian authorities reach agreement with U.S. company over taxes between 2008 and 2013" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:28 AM
"Apple Settles Tax Dispute With Italian Authorities" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 7:38 AM
"Apple 'to pay €318m' to settle Italy tax fraud case" ["The settlement comes amid a European Commission investigation into the tax arrangements of numerous multinational companies accused of using cross-border structures to reduce their tax bills, sometimes with the help of secret and potentially illegal 'sweetheart' deals."] BBC 7:18 AM
"Apple agrees to pay £234m to settle Italian tax dispute" The Guardian 8:12 AM
"Apple to pay Italy 318 million euros, sign tax deal: source" Reuters 7:21 AM
"Apple to pay Italy 318 mn euros to settle tax fraud probe" AFP 7:28 AM
"Apple agrees to pay $350 million in Italian tax case" Associated Press 7:38 AM
"Apple close to having a rotten year on Wall Street" New York Post 7:29 AM
"With Taps on the Wrist, Apple Watch Points to the Future" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 9:24 PM
"Intel Aquires Altera For $16.7 Billion" Geeky Gadgets 8:44 AM
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"Intel unveils 8 new Broadwell and Skylake processors" BetaNews 8:43 AM
"Intel Corp.'s Apollo Lake to Have Minimal Impact on Advanced Micro Devices, Inc." The Motley Fool 8:43 AM
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"Who will buy our darn DRAM? Micron smacked in wallet again" The Register 7:38 AM
"Google brews a fresh pot of Oracle's OpenJDK Java for future Android" The Register 7:22 AM
"Google will strip Oracle's Java code out of Android" Engadget 7:48 AM
"Cisco gets a big patent win despite Supreme Court loss, overturns $64M verdict: Cisco calls the seven-year litigation initiated by a patent troll a 'travesty.'" Ars Technica 5:26 PM
"The Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2016: Gadgets, breakthroughs and ideas we think will define the state of the art in the year ahead" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:25 AM
"PC Market Sluggishness Hit One of Its Lows in 2015" Market Realist 4:06 PM
"U.S. says its Internet speeds triple in three-and-a-half years" Reuters 1:18 PM
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