"Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple 'is sort of a lonely job'" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 12:25 PM
"Tim Cook addresses Apple's US taxes, says no repatriation without 'fair rate'" CNBC 4:02 PM
"Tim Cook: I convinced myself Steve Jobs 'would bounce'/In a long interview with The Washington Post, Apple's CEO opens up about succeeding Jobs, the company's iPhone-dependency and who he turns to for advice." CNET 4:31 PM
"Tim Cook just admitted Apple is working on a new computing platform" Business Insider 12:25 PM
"Anyone who says Tim Cook's Apple isn't expanding just isn't paying attention" Apple Must 12:17 PM
"Apple CEO Tim Cook calls up Warren Buffett, Lloyd Blankfein, and Bill Clinton for advice" Business Insider 12:24 PM
"Apple has a funny way of naming its holding companies" ["The most famous of Apple's apple-y subsidiaries is Braeburn Capital, which manages and invests Apple's money. It's based in Reno, Nevada, because the state has a corporate tax rate of zero. Apple lists it as a subsidiary on SEC forms."] Business Insider 8:11 AM
"iPhone 7: This is what happens to Apple stock before and after an iPhone release" Business Insider 8:11 AM
"Apple Car, is that you? Here's a clear look at Silicon Valley's mystery van/Exclusive: It's sporting some major changes" TechRadar UK 10:56 AM
"With Galaxy Note 7, Is Samsung Getting Too Far Ahead Of Apple? Time for the iPhone faithful to panic?" Forbes 8/13
"Apple's most controversial decisions that made the iPhone better" [Slideshow] Telegraph 8/13
"Apple Fixed a Security Issue in iMessage that Researchers from John Hopkins University Discovered" Patently Apple 7:48 AM
"Cryptography Experts Recommend Apple Replace its iMessage Encryption" MacRumors 7:48 AM
"CVS takes the long road to Apple Pay, creates its own solution" The Next Web 12:18 PM
"8 things Microsoft gets criticised for (but not Apple or Google): From upgrade prompts to privacy issues" TechRadar UK 8:20 AM
"Siri Has Quite A Few Pokemon Go Jokes To Tell" Redmond Pie 8/13
"Apple really is printing money with Pokemon Go" Apple Must 8/12
"Pokémon Go: 6 million downloads, 5 million players and 1 million paying users since UK launch" YouGov UK 8/12
"Apps, Gwyneth Paltrow and $10m: what's up with Apple's new TV show? The reaction to Planet of the Apps, in which app developers compete for investment under the guidance of Paltrow and Will.i.am, has been lukewarm" The Guardian 8/12
"Apple's iPads open up new worlds for Oakland youth" USA Today 8/12
"Sales of iOS smartphones up in US and EU, down in China in 2Q16, says Kantar" DigiTimes 8/12
"Apple Music Takes 3 Records To The Top Of Billboard Charts" Benzinga 8/12
"Apple celebrates Independence Day by highlighting apps from Indian developers" Business Today 8/12
"A death in the family inspired an iPhone case that monitors your blood pressure" Tech in Asia 8/12
"Early Apple employee Mike Markkula is selling his California ranch for $45 million" Tech Insider 8/12
"Today in Apple history: Apple's war with IBM commences" Cult of Mac 8/12
Non-Apple News
"With N.F.L. Deal, Twitter Live-Streams Its Ambitions" New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 8:33 PM
"Retail Results Will Show Amazon's Effect" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 7:22 PM
"2016 Nexus w/ rear glass and fingerprint sensor seemingly shown off in first leaked image" 9to5Google 8:56 AM
"Nintendo Takes Down Fan-Made 'Pokemon Uranium' Game" PC Magazine 6:28 PM
"Pokémon Go's augmented reality is augmenting the reality of this small town" Washington Post [Free Registration Required] 7:33 AM
"Pokemon craze challenges Rio Games for popularity" Reuters 7:26 AM
"Google's Fuchsia operating system runs on virtually anything" Engadget 8/13
"The Russian cyberattack on the Democratic Party is getting ugly" Business Insider 8/13
"Samsung Teases Gear S3 Smartwatch With IFA Invitation" HotHardware 8/13
"Niantic Catches Pokemon Go Cheaters With Its Ban Ball" PC Magazine 8/13
"Cheating Pokemon GO With Bots And Spoofs May Just Get You The Permaban Hammer" HotHardware 8/13
"Pokémon Go is a small business's dream" VentureBeat 8/13
"Forty U.S. Companies Sign on to EU Data Protection Agreement: Successor to Safe Harbor pact lets companies transfer data on European citizens to servers in U.S" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8/12
"Samsung press invite hints at IFA debut for Gear S3 smartwatch: No confirmation, but tons of rumors and precedent for a reveal at the German trade show." Engadget 8/12
"Toshiba Begins to Sample eMLC-Based ZD6300 7.68 TB SSDs to Customers" AnandTech 8/12
"Chatty Cortana Lets Strangers Use Your PC" LAPTOP Magazine 8/12
"MIT's DuoSkin turns temporary tattoos into on-skin interfaces" TechCrunch 8/12
"People who post their fitness routine to Facebook have psychological problems, study claims" Business Insider Deutschland 8/12
"CVS Pay Aims to Rival Apple, Google" PC Magazine 8/12
"Hackers Can Now Steal Data by Listening to the Sound of a Computer's Hard Drive" Gizmodo 8/12
"Can't afford the latest smartphone? You can lease one, but it won't be cheap" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 8/12
"Taiwan's Foxconn Completes Acquisition of Sharp: The iPhone assembler will begin restructuring efforts to turn around Japanese company" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8/12
"How Facebook's attack on ad blockers screws publishers" VentureBeat 8/12
"Has Facebook outsmarted Adblock Plus in cat-and-mouse ad blocking game?" ZDNet 8/12
"8 smartphone injuries that can seriously affect your future" Greenbot 8/12
Publications/Podcasts
"MGG 618: Quick Tips, iCloud Music and Resistant Clients" The Mac Observer 12:17 PM
"TMO Daily Observations 2016-08-12: Microsoft's Leaked Encryption Key, Explaining Internet Speed Tests" The Mac Observer 8/12
"Vergecast 216: Apple rumors, wireless headphones, and No Man's Sky" The Verge 8/12
"AppleInsider podcast talks 'iPhone 7,' Apple Watch, potential Health device" AppleInsider 8/12
"Email Stuck in Outbox on iPhone or iPad? How to Fix Unsent Mail in iOS" OS X Daily 4:02 PM
"Most of the companies similar to Box and Dropbox will be gone in 2 years - Gartner" Tech Insider 8/12
"What to do when your Mac's Wi-Fi hardware is having problems: Here's what to check if you have a wonky wireless connection and you know your Mac is at fault." Macworld 8/12
"Think your iPod dock is impressive? This 108-decibel monster will shake the plaster from your walls... come on feel the noise!" Daily Mail (UK) 8:46 AM
"Kenu Groovies headphones for kids review" The Gadgeteer 8:48 AM
"Review: Raumfeld One M – a phenomenal-sounding Wi-Fi streaming speaker [Video] 9to5Mac 8/13
"Review: Logitech Create Backlit Keyboard Case for Apple's 9.7" iPad Pro" AppleInsider 8/13
"Microsoft's Surface Book Compared To Apple's MacBook Pro" The News Recorder 8/13
"Gruber & I disagree about a few issues about Apple" Om Malik 8/12
"The iPhone 7 may not surprise us, but it's still a killer phone" Digital Trends 8/12
"The iPhone 7 is going to be so much more exciting than you think" BGR 8/12
"The new MacBook Pro: Will it solve the Apple laptop shopper's dilemma? Commentary: With new MacBook Pro models on the horizon, where does Apple's laptop lineup current stand?" CNET 8/12
"How a digital-only smartphone opens the door to DRM (and how to close the door): Fast Company's Mark Sullivan asked me to explain what could happen if Apple went through with its rumored plans to ship a phone with no analog sound outputs, only digital ones: what kind of DRM badness might we expect to emerge?" Boing Boing 8/12
"The Zelda-Inspired Legend of the Skyfish Is Launching on iOS in a Few Days" AppAdvice 4:42 PM
"Gambia Radio Live 1.0 for iOS - Release Info" prMac 10:54 AM
"Levitating phone charger can power iPhone mid-air" Business Insider 7:27 AM
"Denmark Radio Live 1.0 for iOS - Release Info" prMac 8/13
"Coming August 13: Gene Steinberg meets blogger/podcaster Peter Cohen and TidBITS Managing Editor Josh Centers, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 8/13
"SteelSeries Siberia 840 is SteelSeries' newest wireless headset" Apple World Today 8/13
"Dual Band System' Let's You Hide Your Apple Watch" The Mac Observer 8/12
"Former Apple Engineer Starts 7sensors, a Hardware Startup That Fully Automates Plant Growing" PRNewswire 8/12
"Navisphere® Carrier is Now Available on the App Store and Google Play" Business Wire 8/12
"This 'flesh sucking phone charger' will haunt your dreams" Express UK 8/12
"This Disturbing iPhone Charger Slurps, Pulsates and... Just Look At It" Gizmodo UK 8/12
"Rome: Total War is coming to iPad. No, seriously" T3 8/12
"'Rome: Total War' is Coming to iPad this Autumn" Touch Arcade 8/12
"Apps don't make a city smart" Boston Globe 8:13 AM
"A new way to fight back when hackers take your data hostage: A new initiative called No More Ransomware may offer a glimmer of hope for victims." Washington Post 8:18 AM
"IBM Needs to Come Clean About Its Cloud Business: Big Blue is up 18% this year as investors chase its 3.5% dividend yield. But it will need to prove itself in the cloud to keep the shares levitated." Barron's [Paid Membership Required] 8/13
"HP leaks details on Intel's Kaby Lake and Apollo Lake chips" IDG News Service 8/13
"HP has announced new Windows 10 Stream laptops" Windows Report 8/13
"MIT and Microsoft Research made a 'smart' tattoo that remotely controls your phone" The Verge 8/13
"Microsoft and MIT Turn Temporary Tattoos Into Touchpads" PC Magazine 8/13
"Microsoft Supporting Windows 7, 8.1 On Skylake PCs Until 2020" InformationWeek 8/13
"Intel's Workforce Diversity Efforts Hampered By Layoffs" InformationWeek 8/13
"AMD Zen ES vs Intel Core i7 5960X AotS Synthetic Benchmarks Are Here" TechFrag 8/13
"Apple Shares Outperform S&P 500 in Past Month, Up 12%" 24/7 Wall St. 8/13
"Possible Supplier for Apple's Project Titan Looks Cheap Today" The Motley Fool 8/13
"How Many iPhones Will Apple, Inc. Sell This Quarter? Here's what to expect this quarter from Apple's most-important segment." The Motley Fool 8/12
"Apple's Chairman and Top Lawyer Cash in Combined $10M in Stock Bonuses" MacRumors 8/12
"Apple's board chair & general counsel sell over $10M in personal stock" AppleInsider 8/12
Industry News
"Experts think bitcoin's tech is the future of finance" Engadget 6:28 PM
"U.S. stocks post modest weekly gains; Nasdaq hits record: Weak data on retail sales, wholesale prices weigh on the benchmarks" MarketWatch 8/12
"Stocks Close Mixed as Crude Enjoys Best Weekly Gain Since April: Stocks ended the day mixed, coming off of the worst of the session's lows, after another increase in crude prices gave oil the best weekly close since April." TheStreet 8/12
"Stiocks end mixed as Nasdaq sets new closing high" USA Today 8/12
"Oil Climbs in Volatile Trading, Propped up by Weaker Dollar: Oil prices rose about 1 percent in choppy trading on Friday, a day after its biggest gains in a month, as a weaker denominating currency, the U.S. dollar, helped support crude." Reuters 8/12
"U.S. Stocks Slip After Hitting Record Highs: S&P, Dow end week slightly higher" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8/12
"Asian stocks come out strong after record day for U.S. indexes: Stocks rose sharply across the board in Asia on Friday, catching an updraft from record highs in the U.S. that offset disappointing economic news from China." MarketWatch 8/12
"European stocks finish lower after lackluster U.S. retail data: European stocks ended a choppy session in the red on Friday after weaker-than-expected U.S. retail sales cast doubt on the health of the world's largest economy." MarketWatch 8/12
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