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Tweet In a meeting two years ago, Uber was allegedly threatened with removal from the App Store, due to “fingerprinting”, which allowed the service to track users’ whereabouts even with the app uninstalled. Read more… Neowin

Tweet In 2015, Nintendo denied that its next-gen console would run Android – but Cyanogen’s Kirt McMaster said Nintendo asked his company to build a custom version of the OS, and he “told them to stick it”. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Nvidia has announced that starting later this year its GeForce Now would be available on desktop computers. Unfortunately, this isn’t the same game streaming service found on Shield devices. Read more… Neowin

Tweet After weeks of back-and-forth between the Department of Justice and Apple, the federal judge overseeing the ebooks antitrust case issued an injunction against Apple in a filing released Friday. The Department of Justice will be happy, because the final injunction contains a lot of what it had asked for. In July, Judge Denise Cote found Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to set ebook prices at the launch of…

Tweet Hortonworks, the Hadoop startup that spun off from Yahoo in 2011, has been a bit of a mystery. Top personnel have changed places without so much as a press release, venture capital investment hasn’t been disclosed, and there are semi-regular rumors about the company spurning acquisition offers (namely from Microsoft and Intel). During a wide-ranging interview last week, Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden touched on all of these things, as…