Welcome to ICYMI, a rundown of news that you might have missed today.
From VB:
No surprises here: Asus attacks Apple for making products for the crazy ones.
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You’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead pixels. Turkey’s Family and Social Policies Ministry wants to ban Minecraft because it is too violent.
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From around the web:
Jamba Juice is now accepting Apple Pay. Does that make it AAPL Juice?
Uber introduced a dashboard of “parental controls” for business administrators, making it easier for employees to expense rides.
Weak yuan, a booming economy, and an abundance of miners are the reasons that 80% of bitcoins are exchanged for Chinese currency. Bonus ICYMI: This Chinese Bitcoin mine makes $1.5M per month.
Cloud and mobile app developers, listen up – Microsoft announced an event with the Azure team scheduled for March 24.
The Intercept’s recent report about the CIA spying on Apple devices may have been a bit overblown, but terrorists still love their iPhones.
You might not be able to decipher that CAPTCHA, but the ‘Podec’ Trojan can on Android devices.
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Waze introduced the Time in Traffic Bar, giving drivers an exciting new way to quantify their frustration.
Greg Russell, a VP at Amazon, is joining the Seattle Police Department as Chief Information Officer. I wonder if they’ll offer a Prime membership for speeding tickets?
Apple’s App Store and iTunes Store went down today, forcing me to only distract myself with apps I already own.
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