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YouTube to launch music streaming service, take on Spotify — Exclusive: Google is planning to roll out a music streaming service to capitalize on the power of YouTube. FORTUNE — YouTube, the world's largest digital repository of streaming media, will launch a subscription music service later this year.
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Warner Music Inks Deal With Google for Music Subscription Services — Warner Music Group has struck a licensing deal with Google for two music services the technology giant is launching later this summer, according to executives familiar with the agreement.
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Exclusive: Apple's Cook, music mogul Iovine discuss new music service — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has held talks with Beats Electronics LLC, the audio technology firm co-founded by influential hip-hop producer Dr Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine, on a potential partnership involving Beats … | Greg Sandoval / The Verge: |
Billionaire Len Blavatnik part of group investing $60 million in Beats' music service — This is the kind of money that will help Beats' new music service keep pace with Spotify and Rdio — Billionaire mogul Len Blavatnik is part of a group that will invest $60 million in Daisy …
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The new $99 Roku 3: Overhauled interface, faster chip, and private listening mode (hands-on) — CNET Editors' Take — Roku is turning up the heat in the battle of the living room streaming boxes, announcing today its newest flagship model, the Roku 3 ($99).| Mark Hachman / ReadWrite: |
Roku 3: There's A Great Video Search Engine In That Box — Roku debuted its next-generation streaming set-top box, the $99.99 Roku 3, on Tuesday night, complete with a faster processor, an updated interface, plus an innovative remote control that hides a headphone jack.
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Valve readies prototype Steam Box video game console — Gabe Newell is being given Bafta's highest accolade at the 2013 awards — Valve expects to offer prototypes of its upcoming video games console for testing within four months time. — The firm's chief executive Gabe Newell revealed …
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Launches $1099 21.5-Inch iMac With 3.3 GHz Dual-Core i3 Processor for Educational Institutions — Apple appears to have quietly introduced an updated version of its low-end 21.5-inch iMac for educational institutions, taking advantage of a cheaper dual-core Intel Core i3 processor …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Will Launch Content-Specific News Feeds, Bigger Photos And Ads On Thursday — At a big press event on Thursday, Facebook plans to launch new ways to filter the news feed. These include a Photos feed of Facebook and Instagram photos, as well as a revamped Music feed of what friends …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Why the Galaxy S4 won't be shedding its plastic roots — Samsung will likely stick to a design aesthetic that has worked in the past, despite its rivals opting to use metal and other premium-feeling materials. — As great an all-around smartphone as the Galaxy S III is … | Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
iPhone 5S planned for August, next iPads may debut as soon as April — iMore has learned that Apple is planning the release of the iPhone 5S for this summer, currently for August. Next generation iPads, presumably the iPad 5 and potentially the iPad mini 2, may also debut as soon as this April.
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CNET, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Macworld, App Advice, Edible Apple, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors, The Register, Examiner, Pocket-lint, InvestorPlace, Gotta Be Mobile, TechSpot, Computerworld, WebProNews, The Full Signal, LAPTOP Magazine, Neowin, ReadWrite, TG Daily, PC Magazine, Telegraph, MobilesPie, digitaltrends.com, Softpedia News, Electronista, dailywireless.org, Apple Bitch, Business Insider, Macgasm, VentureBeat, Pocketnow, MobileSyrup.com, Ubergizmo, Phones Review, iClarified, everythingiCafe, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, T3 News, iHackintosh and DevOpsANGLE. Tweets: @asymco
| Mathew J. Schwartz / InformationWeek: |
Evernote: We're Adding Two-Factor Authentication — After data breach and wide password reset, Evernote accelerates plans to offer additional security to users. Evernote, after suffering a data breach that caused the company to reset passwords for all of its 50 million users …
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| Reuters: |
Venture capital kingpin Kleiner Perkins acknowledges weak results — (Reuters) - Blue-chip venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers expressed frustration with poor fund performance and promised to do better at gatherings for investors last month, according to people familiar with the discussions.| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google's Secret Weapon — John Wilkes says that joining Google was like swallowing the red pill in The Matrix. — Four years ago, Wilkes knew Google only from the outside. He was among the millions whose daily lives so deeply depend on things like Google Search and Gmail and Google Maps.
Tweets: @qthrul
| Seth Fiegerman / Mashable!: |
Jerry Yang's Next Act: Startup Investor and Mentor — Jerry Yang shares at least one thing in common with Marissa Mayer besides briefly holding the title of Yahoo CEO: Both Yang and Mayer are keeping a close eye on startups in the mobile space. But while Mayer is searching for mobile startups … Thanks:@sfiegerman
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Microsoft Offers Windows 8 Price Breaks to Spur Touch-Screen Laptops — Discounts on Windows 8 and Office Designed to Spur More Touch-Screen Laptops — Microsoft Corp. has recently been offering price breaks on its Windows 8 and Office software to help spur the development of small …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Adds Android Support To Windows Azure Mobile Services — Last year, Microsoft launched Azure Mobile Services, a cloud backend for mobile applications. But at the time, it only supported Windows 8, and the team then added iOS and Windows Phone 8 support a short while later.
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MSDN Blogs, The Register, IntoMobile, SiliconANGLE, OakLeaf Systems, Neowin, Techmeme and InfoQ
| Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg: |
Pandora Gains Access to $14 Billion Radio Ad-Sales Market — Pandora Media Inc. (P), the music- streaming service, will compete directly with radio stations for the first time on the industry's biggest advertising services, gaining better access to the $14 billion annual ad-sales market.
| Eric Engleman / Bloomberg: |
Google Exception in Obama's Cyber Order Questioned as Unwise Gap — Telecommunications companies want President Barack Obama's administration to rethink a decision that may exempt Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Gmail, Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone software and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows from an executive order on cybersecurity.
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Tumblr to Introduce Mobile Advertising to Help Achieve Profit — Tumblr Inc., the six-year-old blog network that months ago began letting advertisers pay for prominent placement, expects to make its first annual profit this year after extending the feature to smartphones.| Bloomberg: |
Verizon Is Said to Seek to Resolve Vodafone Relationship — Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) is working to resolve its relationship with Vodafone Group Plc this year, having weighed options that range from ending its wireless venture with its European ally to a full merger of the two phone companies …
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CNET, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Next Web, FierceWireless, The Consumerist, BGR, Ars Technica, Tech Trader Daily and The Verge
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Google Shares How Often The FBI Sends National Security Letters For User Information — How do you talk about requests for user information that legally, you can't talk about. In the case of National Security Letters that Google receives from the US Federal Bureau Of Investigation …
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The Official Google Blog, Wired, Digits, The Verge, CNET, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Hillicon Valley, Forbes, BetaNews and WebProNews. Tweets: @kashhill
| Alexis Santos / Engadget: |
Google Play celebrates first birthday with week of free downloads and discounts — It's already been a year since the Android Market was renamed Google Play, and the folks in Mountain View are offering up a boatload of free party favors throughout the week to celebrate.
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CNET, The Next Web, The Verge, Android Central, PhoneArena, UnleashThePhones and Pocketnow
| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Google services should not require real names: Vint Cerf — (Reuters) - In the face of increasing government-led crackdowns on social media, Google Inc (GOOG.O) should not force Internet users to reveal their real names for some services, including its Google+ social network, said Vint Cerf …
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