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• Apple CEO urges Bloomberg to retract spy chip story

  Apple CEO Tim Cook believes Bloomberg should retract a story that claimed Apple's internal computer systems had been infiltrated.

• How Bloomberg journalists use data science to move financial markets

  Bloomberg journalists have been breaking business news since 1990, but these days their reporting relies increasingly on data science.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, April 17

  WikiLeaks publishes stolen Sony info... IBM opens up threat data... China suspends rule on foreign IT vendors... and more tech news

• Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks out: 'I'm proud to be gay'

  Apple CEO Tim Cook has published a moving essay in Bloomberg Businessweek in which he publicly announced for the first time that he is gay. Cook is the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company.

• Torpedo-shaped robot joins search for missing Malaysian flight

  As the hunt for missing Malaysian flight 370 narrows, searchers are preparing to use the Bluefin 21, a 16-foot-long autonomous robot, to look for wreckage beneath the ocean's surface.

• More top-tier Microsoft execs head to the exit

  Two of Microsoft's top executives will leave the company, including its head of marketing and the former CEO of Skype.

• Bloomberg clamps down with data-access policies after scandal

  Financial data and news company Bloomberg has developed in-house access controls and embraced several other technological fixes after it emerged last year that the company's journalists had routinely accessed data on how Wall Street clients were using the company's computer terminals.

• Microsoft tries to jumpstart cheap Windows devices with license price cut

  Microsoft has cut the price of Windows 8.1 by nearly three-fourths to device makers who produce lower-cost laptops and tablets.

• Apple shifts to hardware-first TV strategy with revamped set-top box

  Apple is gearing up to launch a revamped Apple TV, but will not push into the television market this year, as many assumed.

• Report: Microsoft may boot Gates as chairman, replace Ballmer with Nadella as CEO

  Microsoft founder Bill Gates may be out as chairman as part of the move to replace CEO Steve Ballmer, Bloomberg is reporting

• Tip of the Hat: Will smartphone failure slow Google's 'Internet of Things' plans?

  Google is moving aggressively -- and paying billions of dollars -- on the technology and talent it needs to create successful smart home and robotics businesses even as it acknowledges its failure to run a strong smartphone business.

• Gates talks Microsoft CEO search: Nothing to see, move along

  Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates dodged questions yesterday about the lengthening search for a new chief executive to run the company he co-founded nearly 39 years ago.

• Gates will surrender Microsoft shareholder crown to Ballmer in 2014

  Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates' once-invulnerable position as the company's biggest stockholder continued to erode in the fourth quarter of 2013.

• iPhone 6 rumour rollup for the week ending November 15

  Fortunately for the iOSphere, Bloomberg found a "person familiar with Apple's plans" to spill the beans and provide a week's worth of rumour cud-chewing over the iPhone 6 display.

• iPhone 6 to get curved screen: Apple to follow Samsung and LG

  Apple's iPhone 6 will feature a curved screen larger than existing models.