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<h1 style="text-align: center;">tnt - 2015-02-13</h1>
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<li><strong>[00:00] hairgate </strong></li>
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<li>] canadian iphone 6's pull the hair from your face, beard&nbsp;</li>
<li>] mashable tested it, said it wasnt a thing</li>
<li>] mashable conclusion was that american iphone 6's dont do it, canadian iphone 6's</li>
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<li><strong>[04:00] <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-13/obama-tries-to-draw-companies-into-sharing-on-network-threats" target="_blank">obama meeting with tech leaders in SV</a> w/</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/ToluseO" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Toluse Olorunnipa</a>&nbsp;@bloomberg news,</li>
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<li>] an executive order, the idea is to share informaton about cyber threats between tech companies, so it&nbsp;will make it easier for all involved</li>
<li>] voluntary</li>
<li>] president was snubbed by SV tech&nbsp;ceos including those from&nbsp;google,yahoo,msft are NOT attending</li>
<li>] likely because of&nbsp;tension due to NSA, gov spying,</li>
<li>] some credit card companies are talking about new measures to increase security, incorporating biometrics, 2 factor authentication, voice recognition</li>
<li>] so far just research, new initiatives</li>
<li>] will also be talking about&nbsp;the govs&nbsp;new cyberthreat intelligence agency,</li>
<li>] another fed agency to disseminate 'security info' to all other gov agencies</li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #ccffff;"><strong>[00:00] AD </strong></span><a href="http://legalzoom/twit" target="_blank"><strong><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">legalzoom.com/twit</span></strong></a></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">] self help legal services, helped millions of people over 10 years, <strong>OFFER CODE=TNT will get you $10 off</strong></span></li>
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<li><strong>[09:15] <a href="http://recode.net/2015/02/12/pinterest-is-working-on-a-plan-to-introduce-a-buy-button-as-soon-as-this-year/" target="_blank">pinterest may be adding a&nbsp;buy button</a> -&nbsp;w/</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/DelRey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jason Del Rey</a>,<strong> @recode</strong></li>
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<li>] will it turn pinterest into fancy ecommerce platform</li>
<li>] likely yes in the long run</li>
<li>] pinterest just lauched its ad program, &lt; 1 year ago, dont know advertisers results in conversion</li>
<li>] may have been forced by competitors in market pushing similar products who have&nbsp;offer buy direct</li>
<li>] will be removing all affiliate links currently in their product,</li>
<li>] getting serious about their buinsess model, as all social networks eventually need to do</li>
<li>] may start testing around the holiday season</li>
<li>] company will likely will work with stripe for payments</li>
<li>] retailers want the&nbsp;ability to sell directly throught pinterest b/c of the interest in pinterest, lots of referrals</li>
<li>] retailers may or may not adopt, depending on the user experience and amount of control they have over the purchase</li>
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<li><strong>[13:40] <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/02/12/xiaomi-will-enter-u-s-sort-of/" target="_blank">xiaomi announced mi.com plans to sell accessories in US</a> w/</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/RolfeWinkler" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rolfe Winkler</a>&nbsp;<strong> </strong></li>
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<li>] why no phones? -&nbsp;harder to get carriers to move fast to bring new phones to market, can be a long process</li>
<li>] phones may also be bacing legal challenges, not likely the primary concern</li>
<li>] hugo barra(company exec, formerly form google) spoke about the advantages of their phones, why?</li>
<li>] this event was more of a "get to know the company" for the US tech press</li>
<li>] incredibly fast growing company, mostly in china, almost exclusivley</li>
<li>] interesting business model - strategy of selling quality devices, basically at the cost of mfg</li>
<li>] challenges samsung, gives you the same quality of phone, at cost instead of at retail</li>
<li>] company CEO/cofounder ben linnet says we are not a phone company we are an internet company&nbsp;</li>
<li>] key challenge in android ecosystem is differentiation, all handsets are "effectively" the same</li>
<li>] they are brilliant marketers,gigantic fan based ecosystem,&nbsp; word of mouth sales, flash sales, constraint sales</li>
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<li><strong>[18:45] <a href="/view/Mattel's%20View-Master%20gets%20a%20Google%20VR%20makeover" target="_blank">Google and&nbsp;Mattel partner&nbsp;to create&nbsp;new VR&nbsp;version of View Master</a> w/</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/benfoxrubin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ben Fox Rubin</a>.<strong> @</strong></li>
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<li>] based on Google cardboard, which is a super cheap Virtual Reality(VR) headset</li>
<li>] since introduction they have added a lot of apps and partnerships, trying to make it a bigger platform</li>
<li>] is this VR device for kids?</li>
<li>] hard to tell what direction the device will go, adults could find it useful too, viewmaster has 75 year history,</li>
<li>] device will work with&nbsp;a&nbsp;smartphone, will&nbsp;be x-platform</li>
<li>] price&nbsp;expected to be&nbsp;$30</li>
<li>] release for OCT in time for xmas holiday selling season</li>
<li>] mattel has been struggling in business, CEO recently resigned, sales have been bad</li>
<li>]&nbsp;kids playing more with electronics then tradditional, but Mattel competitors like&nbsp;hasbro and lego are still growing sales&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>[24:15] Apple product updates</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;Apple enabled 2 step authenication for imessage and facetime on all apple platforms. Its about time. imessage is now super secure</li>
<li>] iwork apps pages, numbers and keynote are now available to users on other platforms through their icloud platform. Very late to the collaborative app game, big players like Google Docs and Msft Office, may not gain big market share but will be handy for non apple users to view apple iwork produced content.</li>
<li>] Apple also increased the max iOS&nbsp;app size from 2GB to 4GB, cell downloads are still limited to 100MB.</li>
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<li><strong>[26:30] .BIZ - AQUISITIONS</strong></li>
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<li>] London based King Digital Entertainment, maker of the&nbsp;candy crush games series&nbsp;buys Seatle based&nbsp;z2 for 150M, King has been working hard to diversify from candy crush, &lt; 50% of their revenue is from Candy crush series.</li>
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<li><strong>[27:30] .GOV crackdown</strong></li>
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<li>] chinese gov - will crack down on the fraud rings and prostitution that&nbsp;are operating&nbsp;on dating sites. sites are very popular, 1 site claims over 100M users.</li>
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<li><strong><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">&nbsp;</span></strong><span style="background-color: #ccffff;"><strong>[00:00] AD <a href="http://gazelle.com" target="_blank">gazelle.com</a> </strong></span></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">] <strong>buy sell electronics</strong> - gazelle will buy your USED&nbsp;electronic gadges, its very easy to do, use the website to find out how much they will pay you. They also have new trade in program, you can now buy devices directly from gazelle, find out what USE OFFER CODE = ??, to SAVE x %</span></li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] </strong><strong>FOLLOWUP -&nbsp;on PREVIOUSLY REPORTED STORIES</strong></li>
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<li>] none</li>
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<h2>[objects]</h2>
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<li>+] mattel VR Viewmaster</li>
<li>x] xiaomi accesori</li>
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<h2>[systems]</h2>
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<li>+] pinterest buy button</li>
<li>+] apple iwork</li>
<li>+] apple authentication&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[people]</h2>
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<li><strong>] <a href="/view/people?id=88" target="_blank">twit.tv - tnt show</a></strong></li>
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<li>] host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=202" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a></li>
<li>] producer - <a href="/view/person?id=307" target="_blank">Jason Cleanthes</a></li>
<li>] guest host&nbsp;- <a href="/view/person?id=304" target="_blank">Christina Warren</a>&nbsp;- coming soon - more on the Apple car rumours,</li>
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<li><strong>] <a href="/view/chapters?id=288" target="_blank">business/companies</a></strong></li>
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<li>] apple</li>
<li>] google</li>
<li>] pinterest</li>
<li>] mattell</li>
<li>] xiaomi&nbsp;</li>
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<h2>[events]</h2>
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<li><strong>&nbsp;] xiaomi</strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/12/liveblog-xiaomi-explains-itself-to-silicon-valley/#S8u1b9:EPm" target="_blank">press event</a>&nbsp;- live blog</li>
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<h2>[places]</h2>
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<li><strong>] twit.tv - tnt show</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today/1196" target="_blank">show url</a>&nbsp;- shows home page with video of show and links</li>
<li>]&nbsp;show notes&nbsp;- detailed show notes, transpcript, links to resources&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/content/top-news-february-13-2015" target="_blank">show notes summary</a>&nbsp;-</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://irc.twit.tv/" target="_blank">twit chat room</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;</li>
<li>] <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/technewstoday/" target="_blank">subreddit</a> -&nbsp;News item submissions for TWIT's Tech News Today</li>
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