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October 15, 2012, 8:35 AM

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Microsoft To Compete Against Spotify With Xbox Music, Available Soon On Xbox, Windows 8, And Windows Phone Devices — Microsoft will soon become the next player to enter the streaming music business, with a service that will see it competing against the likes of Spotify and Rdio.

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Xbox Music not available on Windows Phone 7 or Windows 7 — Legacy Zune support continues for existing users — Microsoft took the wraps off its Xbox Music service today, with free streaming on Windows 8-based PCs and tablets. However, Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 users will not be able to access the new service.

More: BBC, Inquirer, Guardian, LiveSide.net, CNET, WMPoweruser and Softpedia News

Ben Gilbert / Engadget:

Xbox Music heads to Xbox 360 first tomorrow, PC / tablets on Oct. 26, WP8 soon after; we go hands-on

More: Gizmodo

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display confirmed for Apple event — Alongside the smaller iPad, Apple will debut a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display, according to a consistently reliable source at a high-profile U.S. retailer. — This new 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Retina Display …

More: CNET, Gizmodo, The Verge, MacRumors, Techie Buzz, Electronista, Mashable!, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News and iClarified

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Softbank Confirms It Is Buying 70% Of Sprint For $20.1B — Softbank has confirmed the news that it is buying Sprint, the third-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., for $20.1 billion (¥1.571 trillion). The announcement comes just ahead of Sprint holding a conference call to also announce the news.

More: San Francisco Chronicle, Business Insider, Sprint Newsroom, Bloomberg, InfoWorld, The Verge, Guardian, ZDNet, The Next Web, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, Techie Buzz, FierceWireless, Web 2.0 Asia Blog, Pocketnow, BBC, SlashGear, AllThingsD and NordicHardware. Tweets: @jimcramer. Thanks:@riptari

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Softbank as Sprint's savior: What $20.1 billion does, doesn't do — Summary: Sprint can definitely use the cash infusion from Softbank to complete its 4G LTE rollout and better compete in the U.S. However, Sprint will still be squeezed from above by AT&T and Verizon and below by T-Mobile.

More: GigaOM, IntoMobile, Bloomberg and CNBC

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Google ‘to be told to unravel privacy policy’ — French data protection commissioner's ruling that web giant must separate user data could have global impact, say sources — Google will be told on Tuesday to unravel the controversial changes introduced in March to its European privacy policy, legal sources have told the Guardian.

More: TechWeekEurope UK, Marketing Pilgrim and ITProPortal

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Amazon in talks to buy Texas Instruments' smartphone & tablet OMAP chip activity: Report — Texas Instruments (TI), which recently announced that it will wind down its operations in smartphone and tablet oriented OMAP chips and instead focus on embedded platforms, is engaged in 'advanced negotiations …

More: Gizmodo, The Register, Reuters, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Engadget, Techie Buzz, AndroidOS.in and SlashGear

Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong — Here's a pocket history of the web, according to many people. In the early days, the web was just pages of information linked to each other. Then along came web crawlers that helped you find what you wanted among all that information.

More: A VC, TechCrunch, Felix Salmon and Chris Saad

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @buzzfeedben

Thanks:@megangarber

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Kleiner Perkins On The Past, Present And Future — Forty years ago, Eugene Kleiner and Tom Perkins set out to disrupt the then nascent venture capital industry. Kleiner, who was one of the founders of Fairchild Semiconductor, and Perkins, who was a member of Hewlett-Packard's early computer …

Thanks:@leenarao

Brad Sams / Neowin:

Windows 8 campaign kicks off with first official television commercial — Microsoft has just released its first official Windows 8 commercial that highlights the upcoming release of Windows 8. The advert, which you can see above, first ran at about 12:50 PM EST.

More: The Register, Digits, The Verge, TechCrunch, Microsoft News, AllThingsD, Mashable!, The inneractive Blog, VentureBeat, CNET, GeekWire and AdAge

Tweets: @walterelly and @galenward

Thanks:@bdsams

Natasha Singer / New York Times:

Do-Not-Track Movement Is Drawing Advertisers' Fire — THE campaign to defang the “Do Not Track” movement began late last month. — Do Not Track mechanisms are features on browsers — like Mozilla's Firefox — that give consumers the option of sending out digital signals asking companies …

Tweets: @stkonrath and @dangillmor

Michael Humphrey / Forbes:

Red Bull Stratos On YouTube Live Topped 8 Million Concurrent Views — It's Sunday in October: That means football, presidential politics and Sunday brunch. But never mind any of that. — If you were watching the YouTube live coverage of the Red Bull Stratos, in which skydiver Felix Baumgartner dropped …

More: AllThingsD, Dan Rayburn, USA Today, Associated Press, PC Magazine, Hollywood Reporter, Pocket-lint and CNET

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