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(FILES Apple Watches are seen on display during an Apple media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California in this March 9, 2015 file photo. Wearable technology devices are seeing a growth surge that is likely to continue over the next few years, helped by the soon-to-be-released Apple Watch, a market tracker said March 30, 2015. The International Data Corporation(IDC) said it expected some 45.7 million wearable tech gadgets to be shipped globally this year, up 133 percent from 2014. AFP PHOTO/JOSH EDELSON / FILESJosh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
(FILES Apple Watches are seen on display during an Apple media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California in this March 9, 2015 file photo. Wearable technology devices are seeing a growth surge that is likely to continue over the next few years, helped by the soon-to-be-released Apple Watch, a market tracker said March 30, 2015. The International Data Corporation(IDC) said it expected some 45.7 million wearable tech gadgets to be shipped globally this year, up 133 percent from 2014. AFP PHOTO/JOSH EDELSON / FILESJosh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
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Here s what s on the Friday menu.

Comcast drops $45.2 billion bid to buy Time Warner Cable.

In case you didn t know, the much-hyped, long-awaited Apple Watch ships today. Here are some must have apps for it. Also, Apple reportedly made it really tough to take apart the Apple Watch.

Elon Musk received $102 million in stock options last year, did not accept his minimum-wage salary of about $38,000.

ICYMI: Nasdaq agreed to pay $26.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit involving its handling of the Facebook IPO in 2012, when trading was delayed and trades got stuck in Nasdaq s system for hours.

More tweaking of Twitter s abuse policy: It s asking users to report accounts promoting terrorism.

KLA-Tencor to cut 10 percent of its workforce. The Milpitas maker of chip equipment also reported better-than-expected results for the third quarter.

San Francisco-based Riverbed Technologies is now a private company after being bought by private equity firm Thoma Bravo and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan. Business Insider reported Thursday that layoffs had begun.

Zynga COO Clive Downie has left the company a couple of weeks after Mark Pincus became CEO again.

An Android robot peeing on an Apple logo is spotted on Google Maps. It has since been removed.

 

Photo: Apple Watches on display during an Apple media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on March 9, 2015. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)