"Apple's 2016 report card: A for operations, B- for innovation" USA Today 3:19 PM
"Editorial: Apple survived 2016's onslaught of fake news and failed competitors" AppleInsider 3:53 PM
"Tim Cook's terrible year in review" ["The most recent evidence came Friday, with a report from Nikkei, the Japanese news agency, that Apple will slash production of the iPhone 7 by about 10 percent because it 'has sold more sluggishly than expected.'"] New York Post 8:22 AM
"Three new year's resolutions for Apple" ZDNet 7:27 AM
"From tiny innovations to big brawls, this is how Apple rolled in 2016" Cult of Mac 8:21 AM
"Apple to slice iPhone production 10%: Sluggish sales spur January-March cuts for second year" Nikkei 12/30
"Apple to cut iPhone production in January-March quarter: Nikkei" Reuters 12/30
"Report: Apple to Cut iPhone 7 Production by 10 Percent" PC Magazine 12/30
"Apple Reportedly Cutting iPhone Production...Again: A report in Nikkei Review suggests that Apple is cutting its iPhone production by 10%, the second year in a row it's making cuts." Barron's 12/30
"Is Apple, Inc. Subtly Pushing Back on U.S. Manufacturing? Read between the lines." ["Apple can't just come out and say 'no,' even if it wants to. Yesterday, The New York Times published a thorough investigative report on Zhengzhou, China, known as 'iPhone City.' It's a great read for Apple investors, but if you read between the lines, you may notice the possibility that Apple could be subtly pushing back on the current political pressures."] The Motley Fool 12/30
"Dear Apple, here's what you need to do to succeed in India in 2017" Quartz India 12/30
"Apple Said to Seek Lower Taxes to Start Manufacturing in India" Bloomberg 12/30
"Why iPhone production won't be moving here soon" USA Today 12/30
"A Decade Of iPhone: How Much Has It Evolved?" Tech Times 12/30
"Apple sued over fatal car crash for not including a 'lockout' feature on FaceTime" Business Insider 12/30
"Apple sued for fatal FaceTime car crash" Cult of Mac 12/30
"Family Files Lawsuit Against Apple, Blames Facetime For Daughter's Death" Digital Trends 12/30
"Apple Had Tech To Prevent Fatal Crash On FaceTime: Lawsuit" Jalopnik 12/30
"Foxconn boosting automated production in China" DigiTimes 12/30
"Foxconn has ten fully-automated production lines, aims to totally automate entire factories" 9to5Mac 12/30
"10 Years Later: A Look Back At Apple's First iPhone Event" Benzinga 12/30
"The Biggest Apple Stories of 2016: AirPods, iPhone 7 and More" AppAdvice 12/30
"Three Apple predictions for 2017: What does Apple have in store for 2017? Erik Eckel lists three predictions, including one particularly bold prognostication." TechRepublic 12/30
"Hipster Michelin-starred restaurant uses iPads instead of plates" Telegraph 12/30
"Today in Apple history: Microsoft hits the height of its power" Cult of Mac 12/30
Non-Apple News
"5 ways the new connected agriculture world changed in 2016" ReadWrite 9:08 PM
"Twitter's China director Kathy Chen departs after 8 months" VentureBeat 4:50 PM
"2017 will be an important year for personal electric vehicles of all sizes" The Verge 12:12 PM
"Surprise: Samsung is making AirPods for the Galaxy S8" BGR 11:22 AM
"Samsung Galaxy S7 Camera Shattered Issue Being Reported By Owners" Redmond Pie 10:45 AM
"How VR Holograms Can Train Everyone From Hairdressers to Astronauts" PC Magazine 7:27 AM
"The Year's Biggest Hacks, From Yahoo To the DNC" Wired 7:15 AM
"Samsung ends Android 7.0 beta program, aims for official rollout to Galaxy S7 in January" Neowin 12/30
"Want tech innovation? CES 2017 is about to bring it." Cult of Mac 12/30
"Data downer: Hackers will grow increasingly bold in 2017" Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required] 12/30
"More calls are being made over WeChat than telecom carriers" Business Insider 12/30
"Tech That Will (Probably) Die in 2017" [Slideshow] PC Magazine 12/30
"Jack Dorsey asks users how to improve Twitter" PCWorld 12/30
"Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says the ability to edit tweets is 'definitely needed'" Business Insider 12/30
"Amazon Alexa Goes Horribly Off Rails With Foul Mouthed X-Rated Echo Dot Search Results In Front Of A Child" HotHardware 12/30
"Review: 'RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic' for iOS is faithful port of '90s title" AppleInsider 12/30
"The Battle of Polytopia (for iPhone)" PC Magazine 12/30
"Burly Men at Sea spins an easygoing, yet entrancing tale: Get lost in this beautiful narrative adventure—and then do it all over again." Macworld 12/30
"'PinOut!' Review - A Pretty, Good Spin on Pinball" Touch Arcade 12/30
"All the ways iOS has gotten worse in recent years" BGR 12/30
"My 2017 predictions for the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV" Apple World Today 12/30
"3 technologies to keep an eye on in 2017: Apple doesn't announce products too far in advance, but it has teased a few areas of interest." Macworld 12/30
"A wish list for the iPhone in 2017" Macworld 12/30
"Pretty soon there won't be any jobs in the iPhone factories" Apple Must 12/30
"Here's Why Your Jet Black iPhone 7 Needs a Case" Tom's Guide 12/30
"Just Like An iMac At Half The Price" Mac 360 12/30
"Apple And The Big Brother Iris Scans" NoodleMac 12/30
"Why would anyone use Digital Crown on an iPhone?" Computerworld 12/30
"Comment: Apple continues to explore bringing the Digital Crown to iPhones & iPads, and I still like the idea" 9to5Mac 12/30
"Evolving iPad Desktop Usage: After a year of iPad Pro usage, here's some thoughts about using it as a desktop machine." The Brooks Review 12/30
"Tech resolution #1: why I'm swapping my Macbook for an iPad Pro/Is 2017 time to ditch the notebook and go full tablet? Craig Grannell thinks so" Stuff Magazine 12/30
Non-Apple
"Investors Are Betting Big Against Fitbit Inc. -- Are They Right?" The Motley Fool 5:45 PM
"The New Year Of Optimisim For Femtech" Forbes 5:16 PM
"New Interview With Satoru Okada Delves Into The Hidden History Behind Nintendo's Gaming Handhelds" Forbes 11:44 AM
"Google Pixel Also Has A Hardware Problem" Forbes 11:22 AM
"I'm a Windows phone fan in an iPhone/Android world. Why? Microsoft has it going on!" Windows Central 10:35 AM
"Tech Trends That Need to Die in 2017" [Slideshow] PC Magazine 7:27 AM
"Here's What Twitter Needs To Do To Save Itself" Seeking Alpha 12/30
"ASUS ZenWatch 3 Review: One of the best Android Wear watches, but that's not saying much" 9to5Google 12/30
"The year of Yahoo's undoing: The company's bad year began with the worst data breach in history and careened downhill from there." Engadget 12/30
"CES 2016 was as drab as the rest of the year" The Verge 12/30
"Amazon's Alexa Vs. Google Assistant : 24 Questions, 1 Winner" Forbes 12/30
"Tech Industry Scandals: Does the Public Really Care?" The Tech Night Owl 12/30
"Samsung Might Have Made A Huge Mistake With The Galaxy S8" Forbes 12/30
"Instant messaging should be instant otherwise I get anxious" Mashable 12/30
Humor/Cartoons
"An abridged history of tech communication." The Joy of Tech [cartoon] 12/30
"Picky, Dashpop, Timebomb Messenger, and other apps to check out this weekend" iDownload Blog 7:15 AM
"Coming December 31: Gene Steinberg meets Stephen Baker, of the NPD Group, and Derek Kessler, of Mobile Nations, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 12/30
"Opera and Vivaldi kick off 'Browser Wars' over Microsoft's falsified claim" Neowin 7:31 AM
"Microsoft Surface Pro 5 Tablet To Launch In Q1 2017: 4K Display And Magnetic Charging Stylus Expected" Tech Times 7:30 AM
"Microsoft Surface Pro 5 release date pegged for Q1 2017" Yibada 7:31 AM
"Microsoft HoloLens could help you find your lost keys" TechShout 7:31 AM
"AMD's 2017 Launches: AMD Zen Launching High End X370 AM4 Motherboard Display at CES 2017" DailyTech 7:23 AM
"Is Microsoft's Surface Studio a $300 million business - and does it matter? The Surface Studio is selling better than expected, according to Digitimes, but it's still very far from being a mass-market product. However, it could have other benefits for both Microsoft and the PC industry..." ZDNet 12/30
"Why Microsoft isn't the smartphone leader it should be" The Next Web 12/30
"Microsoft Surface Pro 5 could arrive before March, may have 4K display" Neowin 12/30
"Microsoft new Surface Pro set for 1Q17 launch; to boost Pegatron performance, says paper" DigiTimes 12/30
"Microsoft to launch next-gen Surface Pro tablet in the first quarter of 2017" BGR 12/30
"Microsoft Patent Puts HoloLens on Hunt for Lost Wallets, Keys" eWeek 12/30
"Microsoft 'Belize' appears to be a new media-sharing platform" Neowin 12/30
"HPE bucks trend to retain high-end server crown: Technical and HPC gains offset commodity server losses" The Register 12/30
"Will 2017 Be International Business Machines Corporation's Best Year Yet?" The Motley Fool 12/30
"Is IBM Poised to Benefit from the next Computing Cycle?" Market Realist 12/30
"IBM & Rice University Partner to Build a Robot for the Elderly" Zacks 12/30
"Intel Corporation begins work on architecture successor of Tiger Lake" Benchmark Monitor 12/30
"AMD Will Dominate Intel In 2017 Thanks To Zen & Its Cheap Pricing" MobiPicker 12/30
"AMD Drops Hints On Its Upcoming Next-Gen Vega GPU Architecture" Mobile & Apps 12/30
"AMD Radeon RX 500 Releasing Next Year Instead of RX 490" Bitblog 12/30
"Can AMD Keep Up with Nvidia in 2017?" Market Realist 12/30
"How Tesla copied AMD Zen strategy" Fudzilla 12/30
"AMD's Insiders Unloaded $20M Worth Of Shares" Seeking Alpha 12/30
"Will Oracle's Balance Sheet Lighten up in 2017?" Market Realist 12/30
"Apple shares dip after report of production cut" CNBC 3:20 PM
"Apple Inc.: AAPL Stock Chart Suggests New Highs in 2017" Profit Confidential 12/30
Industry News
"Dow industrials post best annual gain in 3 years: Stocks log solid yearly gains but end final trading day on down note" MarketWatch 12/30
"Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Close Out 2016 With Strong Gains: Stocks closed lower on the final trading day of 2016, but all three indices close the year with gains." TheStreet 12/30
"Stocks End Down, But Up For 2016; Apple, Microsoft Drag On Dow, Nasdaq" Investor's Business Daily 12/30
"Stocks dropping: No Dow 20K for 2016, looks like" Associated Press 12/30
"Stocks Cap 2016 with Double-Digit Growth, Await Uncertain New Year" FOXBusiness 12/30
"Stocks on Track for Quiet End to 2016: Investors have appeared less eager to take on risk during the past two weeks" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 12/30
"Asian stocks rise ahead of New Year's weekend: Nikkei dips but Toshiba shares recover; weaker dollar boosts China indexes" MarketWatch 12/30
"European stock set for first yearly slide since 2011: But Stoxx 600 rises 5% in December" MarketWatch 12/30
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