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Apple’s iTunes, App Stores back online after unusually long outage

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By Joseph Menn and Edwin Chan SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc's iTunes and App Store came back online on Wednesday afternoon after an unusually long service disruption that the company blamed on an internal technical error. Apple updated its status page at 5:04 pm ET to show that the disrupted services, including the Mac App Store and iBooks, were now functioning normally. The App Store and iTunes are a source of pride for the world's largest tech company and form the centerpiece of its mobile user experience.

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Fidelity tech fund trounces all rivals without holding Apple

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The best performing technology fund since the peak of the dot com boom did it all without owning Apple Inc , whose soaring stock price has pushed the Nasdaq near a new record high.

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Blocked online, Islamic State supporters launch CaliphateBook

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Islamic State supporters, facing regular bans and blockages on Facebook and other social networks, have launched their own CaliphateBook to spread their militant message over the Internet. The site 5elafabook.com, which resembled Facebook but appeared unfinished, went live on Sunday then went offline again a day later and its linked Twitter account was shut down.

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CIA sought to hack Apple iPhones from earliest days: The Intercept

March 10, 2015 admin apple, commonly-used, customer-holds, intercept, islamic-state, mobile-phone, most-investors, nsa, said-the-latest, security, since-the-peak, social-networks, spread-messages, stock-price, technology-fund

By Eric Auchard FRANKFURT (Reuters) – CIA researchers have worked for nearly a decade to break the security protecting Apple phones and tablets, investigative news site The Intercept reported on Tuesday, citing documents obtained from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The report cites top-secret U.S.

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Twitter opens Hong Kong office, gains China foothold

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By Gerry Shih BEIJING (Reuters) – Twitter Inc has opened a Hong Kong office, its first in the Greater China region, the company whose microblogging services are blocked on the mainland said on Tuesday. The office, to be headed by Twitter executive Peter Greenberger, will allow the San Francisco-based company to tap China for advertising revenue, the company said, even if Internet users on the mainland cannot see those ads.

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N.Y. man missing ahead of fraud trial over Facebook claim: lawyer

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By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – An upstate New York man, who was set to face trial in May for attempting to defraud Facebook Inc and founder Mark Zuckerberg, is missing, his lawyer said on Monday. Paul Ceglia, 41, had been required to wear an electronic bracelet before his trial. Representatives for Bharara's office and the Marshals Service did not respond to requests for comment.

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Snapchat management holds talks with Saudi’s Prince Alwaleed

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Senior management of Snapchat held talks with Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on potential cooperation, the prince's investment company said in a statement on Sunday. The meeting, which included the mobile messaging company's Chief Executive Evan Spiegel and Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan, comes as Snapchat embarks on a new funding round that values the business at up to $19 billion

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CIA to make sweeping changes, focus more on cyber ops: agency chief

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By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Central Intelligence Agency will make one of the biggest overhauls in its nearly 70-year history, aimed in part at sharpening its focus on cyber operations and incorporating digital innovations, CIA director John Brennan said. Brennan said he is creating new units within the CIA, called “mission centers,” intended to concentrate the agency's focus on specific challenges or geographic areas, such as weapons proliferation or Africa

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U.S. charges three in ring that stole one billion email addresses

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By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Jim Finkle WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) – Two Vietnamese citizens and a Canadian have been charged with running a massive cyberfraud ring that stole 1 billion email addresses, then sent spam offering knockoff software products, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday. The Justice Department described the hacking spree as “one of the largest” data breaches uncovered in U.S.

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Microsoft warns Windows PCs also vulnerable to ‘Freak’ attacks

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By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of Windows PC users are vulnerable to attacks exploiting the recently uncovered “Freak” security vulnerability, which was initially believed to only threaten mobile devices and Mac computers, Microsoft Corp warned. News of the vulnerability surfaced on Tuesday when a group of nine security experts disclosed that ubiquitous Internet encryption technology could make devices running Apple Inc's iOS and Mac operating systems, along with Google Inc's Android browser vulnerable to cyber attacks