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Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Associated Press Apple   AAPL   +0.19%  responded to China’s influential state broadcaster, which called the iPhone a  “national security concern”  because of a feature that learns the locations of places a user visits most frequently. In a statement titled  “Your Location Privacy”  published on Apple’s China website, the company said it does not track users or share their locations with outsiders. Apple said it created the “frequent locations” feature so users can “quickly and reliably determine their current locations for specific activities such as shopping, travel, finding the nearest restaurant or calculating the amount of time it takes them to get to work.” The statement came in response to a report on Friday by state-run China Central Television, which criticized the frequent locations function in Apple’s iOS 7 mobile operating system, because it records the time and lo...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban In  its latest filing  with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Alibaba disclosed in more detail why the Alipay payment business had to be separated from the Chinese e-commerce giant back in 2011. Bloomberg The additional disclosure came ahead of Alibaba’s U.S.initial public offering , which could happen as early as next month. When Alibaba founder Jack Ma separated the Alipay payment unit from Alibaba Group and took it under his control in 2011, the move prompted objections from major shareholders like  Yahoo   YHOO   +1.43% . At the time, Alibaba said the transfer ensured Alipay could get the license to continue its payment business in China. Yahoo at the time complained that it was blindsided by the transfer, while Alibaba said its board, which included Yahoo’s seat, had previously discussed the matter. Alibaba and Yahoo later reached an agreement on t...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Michael Acton Smith, CEO and founder of children’s entertainment company Mind Candy ,the creators of Moshi Monsters.   Jason Alden for The Wall Street Journal. The chief executive officer of British children’s entertainment company Mind Candy is stepping down as the company tries to crack the difficult mobile children’s games market. Michael Acton Smith, 39, who has run the company for 10 years and become an icon of the London tech scene, said he will step down when the company finds a new chief executive. Mr. Smith, known to fans as Mr. Moshi, posted the news in a  YouTube video . He sat on a couch in front of a wall decorated with colorful Moshi characters, with a pile of notebooks at his side he said were “filled with ideas and sketches and scribbles and doodles” for new stories and characters. He spoke directly to the camera for nearly three-and-a-half minutes. “I’ve been doing some deep thinki...

Quoting from the site wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban Carly Zakin, left, and Danielle Weisberg are co-founders of theSkimm.   Sophie Elgort As morning television news shows struggle to build loyal audiences of women who once started their days with Katie Couric, Jane Pauley and Erma Bombeck, two young former NBC News producers have quietly built a following for their morning news service, theSkimm. TheSkimm is a daily email newsletter that is transmitted to subscribers weekday mornings at about 6 a.m. Eastern Time. It delivers the news of the day along with a short explanation of the context and import in a just-us-girls voice that manages neither to patronize news junkies nor alienate infrequent readers. Earlier this week, for example, it presented this  under its Quote of the Day rubric : “‘I think it’s my job to work with every president –if she is, regrettably, if she obtains the presidency’ — Sen.  John McCain  (R-AZ) yesterday, on Hillz ...

Quoting from the site  wsj.com Posted by:Dr Ahmed.M.Shaban An unusual chip at the heart of a D-Wave quantum computer.   D-Wave System D-Wave Systems, which has been developing a radically different kind of computer since 1999, has installed a grand total of two systems outside its premises. But management, and investors, seem undaunted. The Vancouver-based company said Friday it has landed a new infusion of 30 million Canadian dollars ($28 million) from investors that include  Goldman Sachs   GS   +0.84% . D-Wave says it has raised 160 million Canadian dollars ($149 million) over the years in a half-dozen funding rounds. Prior investors have included an investment vehicle for Amazon.com CEO  Jeff Bezos and In-Q-Tel, a venture fund that invests on behalf of the U.S. intelligence community. D-Wave has also attracted considerable media attention–including a Time magazine cover story–for its quest to develop what scientists call a quantum ...