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• LinkedIn ranks the 10 most promising jobs of 2017

  25-01-2017 23:36
  
  Professionals looking to change jobs and pursue a better career path, might want to check out LinkedIn’s inaugural list of the “Most Promising Jobs of 2017” in the U.S. The professional social network analyzed its treasure trove of data to determine jobs with high median salaries, strong job openings with year-over-year growth, and jobs most likely to lead to career advancement.[ Related: LinkedIn releases major website redesign ]To read this article in full or to leave a comme
  
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• Tech industry shouldn't ignore the message of the Women's March

  25-01-2017 23:31
  
  On Saturday, I joined the Women's March in Philadelphia's in protest against the new U.S. presidential administration and in support of women's rights, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, immigration reform, economic justice and freedom of religion. I certainly wasn't the only one -- many people i know marched in their cities or went to D.C. to join the protest.
  It's heartening to feel that you are not alone in the struggle for equality, and tech companies should be on the frontlines of this movement
  
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• Apple to build 200MW solar farm to power data center

  25-01-2017 22:19
  
  Apple announced today a joint venture with Nevada Energy (NV Energy) to build out 200MW of photovoltaic solar capacity to power its data center in Reno, Nevada.
  The solar farm is Apple's largest solar project to date and is expected to be live by early 2019.
  Apple’s data center is located at the Reno Technology Park; the company has also submitted plans to build another data center campus adjacent to its existing one.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• BrandPost: The Future of Enterprise Storage

  25-01-2017 21:50
  
  While it remains true that many organizations rely on traditional disk arrays, high-capacity storage is moving away from the spinning disk to flash—and not as gradually as you might think either. One of the primary barriers to entry with flash was its price, but the cost of flash technology has come down quite a bit—and there’s still room for it to get cheaper. So why wait? Invest now!Okay, here’s a more realistic pitch. We know you’ve still got investments in old-s
  
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• Pharmaceutical giant partners to push analytics

  25-01-2017 21:48
  
  Merck KGaA is getting cozier with Silicon Valley, seeking partnerships with leading technology companies and universities to further its fortunes in a pharmaceutical industry undergoing a significant transformation around software and data, says CIO Alessandro De Luca. The German pharmaceutical firm, best known for its cancer and multiple sclerosis drugs, earlier this month inked partnership inked with Palantir, a maker of big data analytics software.Palantir will help Merck research which patie
  
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• BrandPost: Thrive in the Digital Age

  25-01-2017 21:40
  
  IDC Research Vice President Bob Parker has identified, “Digital transformation is not just a technology trend; it is at the center of business strategies across all industry segments and markets.” It is clear companies cannot run from the Omni-channel digital world, but will they simply survive or thrive?Digital disruption will displace nearly 40% incumbents by industry over the next five years.1 Companies that have decided to embark on the journey to a digital business are 26% more
  
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• US Park Service tweets were result of old Twitter passwords

  25-01-2017 21:02
  
  Two instances of tweets from U.S. National Park Service accounts that became political hot potatoes in the last few days were the result of bad password management, according to officials.The first incident took place on inauguration day when the main National Park Service account retweeted images from a CNN reporter that compared unfavorably the crowd size at President Donald Trump's inauguration with that of President Barack Obama's in 2009.When Trump began to openly dispute the images and sma
  
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• Apple takes patent battle with Qualcomm to China

  25-01-2017 20:39
  Apple has filed two new lawsuits against Qualcomm, this time in China, that allege the mobile chip maker abused its market dominance and patents to charge excessively high licensing fees.Apple is seeking 1 billion yuan (US$145 million) in damages from Qualcomm, according to Beijing’s intellectual property court, which announced Wednesday it would hear the lawsuits.  The legal action centers on Qualcomm’s standards-essential patents for its cellular technology. Allegedly, the com
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How big data and AI can combat fake news

  25-01-2017 19:49
  
  Ever since the election, talking heads have discussed how “fake news” could have tipped the election to Donald Trump by disseminating false stories favorable to him or unfavorable to Hillary Clinton. Social media users can spread these fake new stories far and wide, creating an aura of credibility which can make fake stories hard to distinguish from the truth.Social media websites like Facebook have begun to cooperate with human fact checkers to track fake news websites and notify us
  
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• BrandPost: The industry’s largest survey of IT practitioners and managers

  25-01-2017 19:46
  
  Portions of this post were originally posted on the Puppet blog, and are republished here with Puppet's permission.Puppet is pleased to announce our sixth annual State of DevOps survey. It's the biggest, most in-depth survey of IT professionals in the industry. Just as we have for the past few years, we've created the survey in collaboration with the principals of DevOps Research & Assessment (DORA): Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim.To read this article in full or to leave a comment,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Top 26 entrepreneur podcasts to listen to in 2017

  25-01-2017 19:40
  
  At CIO magazine we have witnessed the ascent of podcasts, and some of them are now veritable behemoths in entertainment. One aspect that makes podcasts so popular is that they provide a different perspective on every day subject matter. Listeners hear straight from featured guests and, through the dialogue, capture the intonation, follow-up answers and applications that are otherwise lacking from reading about “best practices” or “hacks” from the most inspiratio
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Trumping up a social venture

  25-01-2017 19:29
  
  Ah, the New Year.  Perhaps we're left to wonder if the 2016 election news will ever end.  But like most, for the sake of newsworthiness I'll do a small crime of glomming onto things observed and learned in the unusual electoral cacophony of 2016.  In no small part because one of the less observed aspects of that cacophony has been an undeniable testimony to the very subject of this column – technology in social venturing, and social venturing right in our own backyards.In th
  
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• Why car companies need to become tech companies

  25-01-2017 19:03
  
  I recently met with Dan Cauchy at Automotive Grade Linux. He spoke to how all the car companies were flocking to participate in his Linux-based open-source platform. Well that’s the way it should be if only as a hedge. It seems that the Japanese car companies are actually excited and engaged, a couple of the European companies are engaged, and virtually none of the U.S. companies are engaged.Whether the car companies like it or not their industry is becoming a tech industry. Virtually all
  
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• Ransomware makes California nursing school feel ill

  25-01-2017 18:45
  
  About three months ago, an instructor at Gurnick Academy, a California-based nursing school, had his biggest fear come alive. When he tried to access his lectures, the files were encrypted. The teacher was literally locked out of his classroom.
  If it wasn’t for a quick acting IT department, the entire school might have been in the same situation. They noticed the incident at the early stage and managed to prevent the encryption from spreading by disconnecting the infected device from the
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How personalized marketing tactics engage users

  25-01-2017 18:30
  
  From a very young age, we’ve all had to deal with two competing forces. There’s the voice inside that tells us we are the center of the universe and everything revolves around us. Then there’s the external voice — usually from a parent or teacher — that tells us we aren’t the most important thing in the world. While everyone is different, this first voice — along with advancements in technology — has fostered a marketplace where customers demand p
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: iOS 10.3: The end of annoying app rating reminders

  25-01-2017 17:26
  
  One of the most annoying things about iOS is finally about to be fixed. I’m referring of course to the irritating habit of some app developers to constantly remind users to rate their apps.Who hasn’t had to deal with this on their iPhone or iPad? I can’t even remember how many times I’ve seen the stupid “rate this app” reminder on my iOS devices. Ugh.But all that is about to change with iOS 10.3, Apple has added restrictions and additional control that lets us
  
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• 41% off Netgear Arlo Security System Wireless HD Camera, Indoor/Outdoor, Night Vision - Deal Alert

  25-01-2017 16:54
  
  The Arlo camera is a 100 Percent Wire-Free, completely wireless, HD smart home security camera – so you can get exactly the shot you need – inside or out. The Arlo camera is weatherproof and includes motion detection, night vision, and apps. It can capture clips and send you alerts whether you’re at home or away for round-the-clock peace of mind.  These motion activated cameras initiate automatic recording and alert you via email or app notifications. Free apps enable remo
  
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• 44% off HAVIT Rainbow Backlit Wired Gaming Keyboard and Mouse Combo - Deal Alert

  25-01-2017 16:43
  
  Keyboard is splash resistant, anti-skid, and features simultaneous operation of up to 19 keys without conflict and 12 multimedia keys. Rainbow LED Backlit with multiple modes including breathing, which exists on the mouse as well. The highly rated gaming keyboard/mouse combo is discounted 44%, from $57 to just $32. See it on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• 10 questions to ask IDaaS vendors before you buy

  25-01-2017 16:37
  
  Identity as a service (IDaaS), also known as identity and access management as a service, uses a cloud infrastructure for securely managing user identities and access enforcement. At its most basic level, IDaaS enables single sign-on (SSO) for systems in the cloud or on-premises, but it goes well beyond that to include access provisioning and deprovisioning, governance and analytics.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Survey: IT workers worried about US net neutrality repeal

  25-01-2017 16:33
  More than eight in 10 U.S. IT workers support the nation's net neutrality regulations, and many are worried that President Donald Trump administration's likely repeal of the rules will hurt their industry.Eighty-two percent of 411 IT workers responding to an online survey by Spiceworks support the net neutrality rules, while just 11 percent oppose them, the company said Wednesday. If the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules are repealed, 59 percent of respondents said they be
  
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• Kaspersky Lab employee reportedly arrested in Russia on treason charges

  25-01-2017 16:10
  
  One of the leading cybercrime investigators at antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab was reportedly arrested in Russia as part of a probe into activities that could represent high treason.
  According to Russian newspaper Kommersant, Ruslan Stoyanov, the head of the computer incidents investigation team at Kaspersky, was arrested in December as part of an investigation that also targeted Sergei Mikhailov, the deputy head of the Information Security Center at the FSB, Russia's internal security service.
  
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• Veiliger remote toegang tot applicaties

  25-01-2017 16:02
  Akamai Technologies komt met een nieuwe, veiliger manier voor remote en ‘third party’ access tot applicaties, die zonder client-software direct vanuit de cloud werkt en gebaseerd is op technologie van het recent overgenomen Soha Systems.Remote access wordt door organisaties al meer dan twintig jaar... lees meer
  
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• 3 things fitness buffs should know about Apple Watch Series 2

  25-01-2017 15:25
  
  Since the Apple Watch Nike+ ($369 and up) became available in late October, I’ve been wearing the watch to record daily workouts. After nearly three months, I’m still infatuated with Apple’s latest smartwatch (part of its Series 2 line-up), with its built-in GPS and mostly excellent swim workout tracking.But there are three potential disappointments fitness buffs should be aware of — especially if you long to leave your iPhone behind when working out.To read this article
  
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• Apple's plans for manufacturing in India gain momentum

  25-01-2017 15:01
  
  Apple’s plans to manufacture in India made headway on Wednesday as executives of the company presented detailed plans to the country's federal government.
  It may be some time though, before Apple gets permission for its proposal to manufacture in India as it reportedly involves a request for deep cuts in the import duties for components. The meeting on Wednesday is said to have ended inconclusively, according to sources close to the situation.
  The Apple executives included Priya Balasubra
  
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• Apple plans for manufacturing in India gain momentum

  25-01-2017 15:01
  
  Apple’s plans to manufacture in India made headway on Wednesday as executives of the company presented detailed plans to the country's federal government.It may be some time though, before Apple gets permission for its proposal to manufacture in India as it reportedly involves a request for deep cuts in the import duties for components. The meeting on Wednesday is said to have ended inconclusively, according to sources close to the situation.The Apple executives included Priya Balasubraman
  
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• 28% off Panasonic ErgoFit In-Ear Comfort Fit Noise Isolating Earbuds - Deal Alert

  25-01-2017 14:08
  
  If you believe the reviewers on Amazon, you may not find a better sounding pair of earbuds at this price point, which at the current 28% discount is just $10.86. The ErgoFit earbuds from Panasonic are designed to fit comfortably and securely in your ear, isolating outside noise while delivering great sound with a wider frequency range than most comparable buds. The earbuds come in various colors and features a generous 3.6 ft. cord that easily fits through or around your clothes, coats and bags.
  
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• Cisco scrambling to fix a remote-code-execution problem in WebEx

  25-01-2017 14:01
  
  Cisco’s Webex Browser Extension contain a critical bug that can open up customers’ entire computers to remote code execution attacks if the browsers visit websites containing specially crafted malicious code.
  The company says it is in the process of correcting the problem, and has apparently made a few initial steps toward a permanent fix. It says there is no workaround available.
  +More on Network World: 10 of the latest craziest and scariest things the TSA found on your fellow trav
  
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• Café owners putting the smackdown on Wi-Fi freeloaders

  25-01-2017 13:11
  
  There aren’t many cities that are as connected as San Francisco. The tech-savvy young people who make up an increasing share of this city’s burgeoning population are seemingly never without their smartphones and laptops.And that can be a problem for café owners like Chris Hillyard.Chris Hillyard Chris Hillyard at Farley’s East in Uptown Oakland.“We had people who would come in and sit with their laptops all day and just order a cup of coffee,” says Hillyard,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Trump’s executive order on the ACA: early scenarios for healthcare tech firms

  25-01-2017 12:35
  
  President Trump wasted no time getting down to business after his inauguration last week. His very first action in office was to sign an executive order that gives federal agencies broad powers to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Through the order, federal agencies were advised to minimize the “unwarranted economic and regulatory burdens” of the ACA. There are direct and indirect implications for different segments of the healthcare industry and the technology sector, bo
  
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• IoT and business model transformation: We're not there yet

  25-01-2017 12:30
  
  They say predicting the future is like predicting how a drop of water rolls down a car window. Everyone knows the general direction of the water drop: Gravity inevitably pulls it downward. But to predict the specific path, such as how it interacts with other drops and how it reacts to microscopic imperfections in the glass, is next to impossible. We are currently on the brink of new technological breakthrough that's easy to predict in general terms but impossible to predict in specific term
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: What is a hackathon, and why should you care?

  25-01-2017 12:30
  
  What is a hackathon and why should you care? A hackathon is a gang activity. It's an event where lots of people of the same mindset form teams to solve a problem in technology. Participation may occur in group meetings, websites or through mobile apps. And collaboration is both the means and end of the process.
  A hackathon is a marathon of intense work to build solutions from scratch within about 48 hours. Writing for TechTarget.com, Margaret Rouse calls it "a social coding event... a chance fo
  
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• That online job candidate may be carrying a virus

  25-01-2017 12:18
  
  January is the month when employees are most likely to think about changing jobs, according to a survey by Glassdoor. Almost one in five jobseekers cited January as the most popular month to make a move, which means that resumes, cover letters and reference contacts are eagerly shared through social media, email and company websites.
  Cyber thieves are eager to take advantage of the busy hiring season, too, and they’ve come up with several ways to infiltrate corporate systems. Security pro
  
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• Project promises packaging panacea for Python

  25-01-2017 12:00
  
  Pipenv, a brand-new experimental tool, is offered as a packaging panacea for Python developers.
  Developed over last weekend, the tool is intended to bring the "best of all packaging worlds" to Python, harnessing PipFile, Pip, and Virtualenv into a single toolchain, according to developer Kenneth Reitz, who works in Python-related product development at cloud provider Heroku.[ Download the InfoWorld megaguide: The best Python frameworks and IDEs. | Keep up with hot topics in programming with Inf
  
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• At the start: Pat McGovern and the birth of Computerworld

  25-01-2017 12:00
  
  Editor's note: 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of Computerworld's founding. We'll be celebrating that milestone each month throughout the year with a look back at the IT industry over five decades, new interviews with tech luminaries, old photos, videos, timelines and even cartoons. (Editor in chief Scot Finnie has more details here.)
  In 1967, Thursday mornings were special at the gray house at 355 Walnut St. in Newtonville, Mass. That's when the first issues of Computerworld were usually deliv
  
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• 50, and proud of it

  25-01-2017 12:00
  
  Normally, we don't feel the need to talk about our age. But this year, we're trumpeting the fact that Computerworld is having its golden anniversary.
  Welcome to Computerworld's 50th year of publishing!Computerworld
  Fifty years ago in 1967, our founder, Patrick J. McGovern, was a sharp 30-year-old entrepreneur with a photographic memory and a vision about how technology could change the world. He had launched the research firm International Data Corp., now known as IDC, three years earlier. McGo
  
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• Strategisch belang uitbesteding groeit

  25-01-2017 11:56
  Outsourcing van IT is in een fase gekomen waarin strategische ondersteuning van business een hoofdrol speelt. Snel capaciteit kunnen schalen en toegang tot kennis die binnen de organisatie niet voorhanden is, zijn momenteel de belangrijkste drijfveren voor uitbesteding. Dat stellen Cegeka en CIOnet naar aanleiding van... lees meer
  
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• Top 10 technology colleges and universities

  25-01-2017 10:35
  
  The highest ranked technology colleges and universitiesImage by PixabayU.S. News and World Report released its annual National University Rankings , which are determined by a mix of surveys and other objective data. U.S. News states that 77.5 percent of the results are based on information including graduation rates and admissions data, while the remaining 22.5 percent is based on peer assessment surveys from the president, provost and dean of admissions at each school.In those surveys, responde
  
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• 8 tips for organizing your workspace

  25-01-2017 10:06
  
  Did you know that January 12, 2017 was national Clean Off Your Desk day? No? You're not the only one who missed the official day of observance, but you can still start the year off with a clean workspace. Organizing your workspace can help to organize your mind, too.
  Dan Lee, Director of standing desk company NextDesk, knows a little something about the design and functionality of desks; here are his eight tips for cleaning and organizing your workspace (and your mind) for the year ahead.1. Disi
  
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• US safety agency wants improved safety standards for batteries

  25-01-2017 09:07
  
  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday that industry needs to learn from the Galaxy Note7 experience and put more safeguards in place during the design and manufacturing stages of lithium-ion batteries.CPSC said Samsung Electronics “has been accountable in taking steps to drive up the recall response rate and keeps pushing.” Samsung and the agency are working with the wireless industry, battery makers and electrical engineers to review voluntary standards for lithiu
  
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• Cisco's Spark Board looks like an iPad -- and acts like one

  25-01-2017 04:01
  
  The Spark Board meeting device that Cisco Systems introduced on Tuesday is not so much a whiteboard or a videoconferencing screen as a giant tablet that everyone in the room can share.There’s even a “home” button in the center of the bottom bezel that takes you back to the main menu. If Apple didn’t have a partnership with Cisco, you might even expect it to accuse the networking giant of copying its iPad design.But Apple and Cisco are in fact working together, so closely
  
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• Cisco snatches AppDynamics from IPO market for $3.7B

  25-01-2017 02:29
  
  Cisco has agreed to acquire AppDynamics for $3.7 billion in cash and assumed equity awards, scooping up the application performance management company just days before its expected initial public offering. The deal, which Cisco announced late Tuesday, is expected to close by the end of April.AppDynamics was going to be the first tech company to go public in 2017, with its initial offering set for Thursday, January 26. Tech industry insiders and investors were watching AppDynamics’s IPO clo
  
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• Microsoft's OneDrive for Business gets Mac client, shared folder sync

  25-01-2017 01:22
  
  Microsoft gave users and administrators of OneDrive for Business some new features on Tuesday that they’ve requested for a while.The company also launched a new Mac client for its business-focused cloud storage service that can be deployed outside the confines of the Mac App Store. Users will also be able to sync files from SharePoint sites and OneDrive for Business shared folders to their desktops, like they have been able to for files that they own.IDC Research Manager Chandana Gopal sai
  
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• Cybercriminals avoid fraud within their own ranks with new site

  25-01-2017 01:12
  
  Sometimes it's not easy being a cyber criminal. In addition to law enforcement and private security companies, cyber thieves have to battle fraudsters out to beat them at their own game, but a web site offers to help.
  Ripper.cc has been maintaining a database of known “rippers” or scammers since June last year and security firm Digital Shadows, which has been investigating it, says it may help online black markets flourish.
  Fraud is a nagging problem in the cyber criminal world, acc
  
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• Target is bringing mobile payments in-store but not through Apple Pay

  25-01-2017 00:05
  
  You’ll soon be able to use your iPhone to pay at Target stores, but not in the form of Apple Pay.
  Target is developing its own in-store mobile payments system this year, the company’s Chief Information and Digital Officer Michael McNamara told Recode. Target confirmed that its iOS apps will soon include the capability to pay with smartphones, but it won’t be adopting Apple Pay for in-store checkout.
  The retailer has a flagship app (iTunes link) for online shopping, as well as
  
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