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Apple Daily Report for Feb. 6, 2018

The AWT News Update is on hiatus while my compadre, Steve, deals with a death in the family. Prayers go out to the entire Sande family. In the place of the AWT News Update, I’ll offer a text-only (no podcast) summary of breaking stories with a tip o’ my hat to my former website, Apple Daily Report.

Yikes! Apple has apparently sent several developers report emails for Search Ads Basics that belong to other developers, according to MacRumors

Apple is pulling back on buying corporate bonds with its overseas cash as it prepares to bring the money home to the U.S., reports Bloomberg, quoting unnamed “people with knowledge of the matter.”

An app for Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre glucose reader is said to be the first third-party iOS title to make use of the NFC chip in Apple’s iPhone, previously reserved only for Apple Pay.

Apple has released new developer betas of macOS 10.13.4, iOS 11.3 and tvOS 11.3. Registered developers can download it from Apple’s Developer Center — or over-the-air once the proper configuration profile has been installed from the Developer Center.

Dennis Sellers

Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.

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