"Exclusive: BMW, Daimler Reject Cooperation with Apple over 'iCar'/German carmakers Daimler and BMW have ended talks with Apple over a cooperation deal on an electric car, Handelsblatt has learned from industry sources." Handelsblatt 1:47 PM
"German carmakers Daimler and BMW won't be collaborating with Apple on electric car project" iDownload Blog 1:54 PM
"Report: Apple's negotiations with Daimler & BMW for 'Titan' car project fall apart" 9to5Mac 1:54 PM
"Almost Nothing About the 'Apple Harvests Gold From iPhones' Story Is True" Motherboard 3:12 PM
"No, Apple Isn't Recovering $40 Million in Gold from iPhones" iFixit 3:12 PM
"Apple joins Google, Microsoft and others in an open letter declaring anti-encryption bill 'unworkable'" 9to5Mac 7:01 AM
"Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others express 'deep concerns' over controversial encryption bill: Coalitions representing major tech companies warn of 'unintended consequences' in letter to US senators" The Verge 7:46 AM
"Apple agrees to pay $24.9M to settle Siri patent lawsuit, but it may not end there" 9to5Mac 6:57 AM
"Apple agrees to pay $24.9 million to settle Siri patent lawsuit" Engadget 7:55 AM
"Apple's services income shows its future, but most don't get it" Apple Must 6:46 AM
"As a standalone company, Apple's services business could be worth as much as $260B, Piper Jaffray says" AppleInsider 10:24 AM
"Apple may have a major iPhone problem on its hands" Business Insider 10:26 AM
"Apple Outlook Cut As iPhone 7 Doesn't Seem Like Must-Have Device" Investor's Business Daily 1:48 PM
"Apple obliging most of government's user-data requests" San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 10:32 AM
"Apple discussion sorts out a confusion around Apple IDs, iTunes and iCloud accounts for customers crossing international borders and offers updates on the FBI iPhone hacking and a lawsuit over Siri." MacInTouch 1:18 PM
"User interface discussion talks about iTunes issues; computers as appliances; Jony Ive and Apple design decisions; iPhoto/Photos issues, workarounds and alternatives; iPhones lacking expansion; Apple feedback and more." MacInTouch 1:17 PM
"No One Uses The Mac's Oldest Browsers" Mac360 7:48 AM
Press Releases
"Microsoft Launches Skype Bots For Mac And Web Clients In AI And Search Assistant Harmony" HotHardware 4:23 PM
"Apple App Store makes twice the money Google's Play Store does, despite most of the world using Android" Telegraph 7:59 AM
"Apple's Aggressive App Strategy Is Weakening Android" Forbes 8:08 AM
"Google and Apple among top employers of Bernie Sanders donors: The tech titans' employees are behind Bernie Sanders, according to campaign donation data." CNET 6:51 AM
"FBI Got Useful Information Off San Bernardino iPhone" Fortune 10:32 AM
"FBI found no new information on San Bernardino shooter's iPhone" Cult of Mac 7:20 AM
"How Apple's early VR experiments accidentally led to RSS" The Register 7:58 AM
"700 Million People Just Got Encryption That Congress Can't Touch" Wired 7:02 AM
"The Apple Watch Hermès Just Got Way More Affordable" InStyle 10:08 AM
Non-Apple News
"Tencent, Alibaba Battle for Chinese Office App Users: One focus of the intense rivalry is helping users to separate their work from life" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:02 PM
"Get Used to It: Ad Blocking Isn't Going Away Any Time Soon" Wired 3:56 PM
"Rich Americans seek black market brain implants in bid to plug into artificial intelligence 'matrix'" Mirror Online UK 11:15 AM
"News Sites Start Charging Readers to Comment on Articles: A startup thinks newspapers can profit by getting people to pay to elevate their rants—or advertisements—to the top of the comments section." Bloomberg 11:13 AM
"Choosing to Skip the Upgrade and Care for the Gadget You've Got" ["Mr. Lai's behavior might be extreme, but his experience with the Palm Treo illustrates there is another way: If you simply put some maintenance into electronics as you would a car, you can stay happy with your gadgets for years. It is part of a movement of anti-consumerism, or the notion of cherishing what you have rather than incessantly buying new stuff."] New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 10:13 AM
"An independent organization just ranked Google as the best cloud, beating Amazon" Business Insider 4:11 PM
"Google is a 'partially dangerous' website, Google says" The Independent 10:09 AM
"Is Google.com Dangerous? Not Exactly" PC Magazine 10:08 AM
"Google says that YouTube ads are 80% more effective than TV ads" BGR 8:21 AM
"EFF sues Justice Department to discover if secret orders are used to decrypt user data" BetaNews 7:47 AM
"Facebook considers letting users add a tip jar to make money from posts" Re/code 7:20 AM
"These New Phones Don't Bother With A Headphone Jack, But They're Not Made By Apple" Digital Trends 6:53 AM
Publications/Podcasts
"ACM 356: Apple Pencil Rants and Raves, Apple's Recycling Program 1 new message since 2:50 PM About" The Mac Observer 6:18 PM
"Happy Hour Podcast 063 | New MacBooks, future iPhone rumors and what to expect at WWDC 2016" 9to5Mac 3:19 PM
"Clockwise #133: Talk Candidly About Ladies' Pants: Dan and Jason are joined by Kara Platoni and John Moltz to address people who are sad about the MacBook, people who are sad about the iPhone SE, people who are imagining the Apple Car, and people who are sticking technology on and in their bodies." Six Colors 1:55 PM
"Podcast 504: New MacBooks and WWDC 2016 dates" Macworld 1:55 PM
"TMO Daily Observations 2016-04-20: Why People are Bagging on the New MacBook" The Mac Observer 12:58 PM
"Speaking in Tech: Comparing Apples to BlackBerrys and Cooks to Chens" The Register 7:58 AM
"Let's Talk Jailbreak 148: Interview with nitoTV developer Kevin Bradley" iDownload Blog 7:17 AM
"The Committed Podcast on the WWDC, iPad Pro, and Rob's Trip to Europe (and Shakespeare)" Kirkville 7:16 AM
"Apple's emphasis on security makes ARM-powered Macs 'inevitable': Apple convinces analyst that Macs will eventually run on custom silicon, not Intel's processors" Computerworld 2:31 PM
"How Long Should Your Macs And iDevices Last? – The 'Book Mystique" MacPrices 7:47 AM
"In Memory of Bill Campbell: Much has been said about Bill Campbell, but I wanted to add a little more since Bill meant a lot to me personally." PC Magazine 10:37 AM
"Remembering Bill Campbell, Magic Leap's Expose, Intel's Re-Org Implications" Tech.pinions [Insider Content] 7:17 AM
"Apple's MacBook Update Falls Flat, Comes Up Short With Obvious Flaws Unaddressed" HotHardware 4:23 PM
"Why We Should Be Very Pleased With Apple's 2016 MacBook" The Mac Observer 3:18 PM
"Apple's MacBook Refresh Still Doesn't Fix Its Most Obvious Flaw" HotHardware 12:00 PM
"I covet the new MacBook, but I'm sticking with my iPad Pro" iMore 10:24 AM
"On Apple's new MacBook: Wow, that's some Turbo Boost!" The Loop 10:23 AM
"How PC And Smartphone Manufacturers 'Should' Compete Against Apple" NoodleMac 8:28 AM
"Hybrids Won't Save PCs From The Mac" Mac360 8:28 AM
"Apple Boosts MacBook Performance, Battery Life But Leaves Key Design Flaws" Forbes 7:07 AM
"New 12-inch MacBook (2016): It Ain't Broke, So Little To Fix -- Except Price" Forbes 6:53 AM
"What the FBI found on the San Bernardino iPhone" BGR 6:53 AM
"Apple should give customers free iCloud space to match their devices: The newly refreshed MacBook has fixed storage that tops out at 512GB. Some Mac laptops even start at 128GB! That just isn't enough, and we think the answer is in the cloud." Macworld 6:48 AM
Non-Apple
"Comcast may finally let me stream TV on my TV" Six Colors 7:16 PM
"Why Google Flagged Its Own Google.com Domain As Partially Dangerous, As Well As Tumblr And Github" HotHardware 4:24 PM
"Intel to Cut 12,000 Jobs, Forecast Misses Amid PC Blight" Daring Fireball 1:54 PM
"Intel to cut 12,000 jobs from global operations" BBC 7:11 AM
"Intel Cuts 12,000 Jobs Amid Tech's Oversupply Problems" Bloomberg Video 7:08 AM
"Intel Cuts 12,000 as CEO Makes $14.6 Million" 24/7 Wall St. 6:47 AM
"Intel Bears Pain of PC Decline in 12,000 Jobs Cuts" Bloomberg Video 10:24 AM
"Intel Slashes 12,000 Jobs, Shifts Focus To Cloud, IoT: With PC sales on the decline Intel looks to cut 11% of the company's workforce: about 12,000 positions: and refocus on IoT businesses, as well as cloud computing and data centers." InformationWeek 10:38 AM
"Intel reaffirms its diversity commitment, even with 12,000 layoffs coming" VentureBeat 7:18 AM
"Intel announces corporate restructuring; to reduce staff by 11%" DigiTimes 7:47 AM
"'Elephant' Intel Dances, But 12,000 Layoffs Could Signal Recession" Investor's Business Daily 12:20 PM
"Intel cuts add to past year's 72,000 tech jobs cuts" SiliconBeat 12:20 PM
"Here's what the new Intel will look like: The chip maker is scaling back its PC efforts and going deep on 3D memory, FPGAs and silicon photonics" Computerworld New Zealand 9:00 PM
"Intel's tablet adventure is looking more like its netbook disaster" IDG News Service 1:56 PM
"Intel layoffs are a hard reset for post-PC era" MarketWatch 7:08 AM
"Cramer: I Get Why Intel Needs to Lay Off 12,000 People" RealMoney 6:53 AM
"Intel reports 1Q16 GAAP revenue of US$13.7 billion" DigiTimes 7:47 AM
"How Microsoft Is Reclaiming Its Former Glory: As Microsoft's stock approaches its record, Thursday's earnings report could help the rally maintain its momentum" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 1:56 PM
"Microsoft opens Azure Container Service offering a choice of orchestration tools" V3 6:55 AM
"Microsoft Gains In SaaS Market, Report Finds" InformationWeek 10:38 AM
"Why Intel's Earnings Spell Bad News for Hewlett-Packard" TheStreet 12:20 PM
"How HP's brilliant new logo came to be: Just the tip of a massive rebranding iceberg from 2011" The Verge 10:23 AM
"IBM: Turnaround Isn't Here Yet" Seeking Alpha 11:04 AM
"IBM Boosted Watson Capabilities through Strategic Acquisitions" Market Realist 7:54 AM
"IBM, ODH launch Mentrics, a cognitive platform for behavioral healthcare" ZDNet 7:19 AM
"IBM Emerging as Cognitive, Cloud Power Amid Transformation" eWeek 7:41 PM
"What to Expect When Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Reports Earnings" The Motley Fool 7:54 AM
"AMD plans release of Polaris GPUs, Zen CPUs to boost sales in 2H16" DigiTimes 7:46 AM
"Digitimes Research: AMD discrete GPU market share expected to rise" DigiTimes 7:47 AM
"Oracle security update patches 136 vulnerabilities" ZDNet 7:18 AM
"Oracle releases 136 security patches for wide range of products: The company has adopted the new CVSS 3.0 vulnerability rating system, resulting in a larger number of flaws rated as high and critical" IDG News Service 8:20 AM
"PC sales in Europe continue to decline with 10 per cent drop in Q1" V3 7:47 AM
"FY 16 Second Quarter Results: Apple's conference call to discuss second fiscal quarter results is scheduled for Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET" Apple Investor Relations 4:29 PM
"Apple pushes Q2 2016 earnings call livestream to April 26" 9to5Mac 6:14 PM
"PSA: Apple's Quarterly Earnings Report Delayed Until Tuesday, April 26th" The Mac Observer 6:34 PM
"Apple Moves Q2 2016 Earnings Announcement to April 26" MacRumors 4:29 PM
"Apple Q2 Earnings: What to Expect this Time Around?" Zacks 1:48 PM
"Apple: Tough To Tap China's New 385-Million Smartphone Market" Seeking Alpha 6:19 PM
"Where's Apple Trading Compared to Its Moving Averages?" Market Realist 10:32 AM
"This Surefire Apple Trading Strategy Is Set to Fail in 2016" Fortune 10:32 AM
Industry News
"U.S. stocks close at 2016 highs as oil rally continues: Coke tumbles on weak earnings, weighs on Dow" MarketWatch 4:26 PM
"Stocks Gain as Crude Scores 2016 Best" TheStreet 4:26 PM
"U.S. Stocks Keep Rising, Helped by Energy Shares: Shares of commodity-sensitive firms have been some of the biggest winners in recent rally" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:25 PM
"Shanghai stocks slide 2.3% for biggest loss since February: More than 1,000 stocks in Shanghai retreat into negative territory" MarketWatch 8:11 AM
"European stocks slip from three-month high: Apple supplier ARM Holdings rallies after quarterly results" MarketWatch 8:11 AM
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