Here s what s on the Tuesday menu.
While Apple s general counsel was in Washington today to speak before Congress about the company s standoff with the FBI over unlocking the San Bernardino killer s iPhone, Attorney General Loretta Lynch is at the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco, where she ll be calling on tech and government to find common ground.
Yahoo hints it might write down nearly the entire amount it spent to buy Tumblr. It had already written down $230 million.
Uber s real estate footprint — it s expanding in Oakland and San Francisco, as previously reported — is unmatched among Bay Area startups.
Republican members of a Senate panel issue report saying FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler buckled to White House pressure on net neutrality. (WSJ)
Report: 40 percent of insurers say Google is a potential competitor.
Marvell Technology Group said an independent investigation of its accounting practices found no fraud in the way the company had booked its revenues in the past few quarters.
Netflix s recently released Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon sequel made it onto some AMC screens, supposedly as a favor to IMAX. AMC had previously said it would boycott the theatrical release of the film.
The U.S. plans to hire private contractors to develop a $600 million computer system for a new background check agency being set up after last year s big security breach.
And according to a new tool by AP, Donald Trump dominates Google search and Twitter conversations on this Super Tuesday.
Photo: Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion in May 2013. (FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images)
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