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A variety of the new Apple Watch is on display in the demo room after an Apple event on Monday, March 9, 2015, in San Francisco. Pre-orders for the Apple Watch start April 10. The device costs $349 for a base model, while a luxury gold version will go for $10,000. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
A variety of the new Apple Watch is on display in the demo room after an Apple event on Monday, March 9, 2015, in San Francisco. Pre-orders for the Apple Watch start April 10. The device costs $349 for a base model, while a luxury gold version will go for $10,000. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Intel signed a standstill agreement with Altera that expires June 1, giving Intel the option to launch a hostile bid after that, Reuters reports.

The $349 Apple Watch cost $83.70 to make, giving it the lowest ratio of cost to price among Apple s products, according to research firm IHS, which did a teardown.

As Apple and Samsung mend their relationship and work together again, chipmakers such as SanDisk — whose biggest customer is Apple — are likely to suffer.

Facebook says there are now 40 million small-business pages on its site, an increase of 10 million in the past year.

Facebook users raise $10 million for Nepal earthquake survivors in 10 days.

Uber China offices raided in crackdown on taxi-hailing services. Elsewhere, Uber SOS button will send live GPS updates to police in India, where passenger safety has been an issue.

Record companies win: Grooveshark, the music-sharing service, shuts down, offers apologies for not obtaining licenses for copyrighted music.

And yet another time suck: You can now play MS DOS games embedded into tweets.

 

Photo of the Apple Watch from Associated Press