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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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Why Google Thinks Two Music Subscription Services Are Better Than None — Alrighty. Time to start sorting out what Google is up to with music. And why it thinks it may make sense to launch two different music subscription services. — Spoiler alert! No one outside of a handful of Googlers really knows.
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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 …
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| 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).
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| 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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| 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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CNET, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, Neowin, Business Insider and We Are Social
| 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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The Verge, Redmond Pie, The Next Web, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, SlashGear, CNET, MACé" blog and nbcnews.com
| 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 …
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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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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Samsung said to be eyeing $107 million investment in Sharp — The ailing consumer-electronics maker is on its last legs, but things could be looking up since Qualcomm bought a minority stake in December and Samsung may be investing in the company too. — As Sharp works to restructure and stay afloat …
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| 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.| 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.| 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
| 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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The Verge, Pocket-lint, digitaltrends.com, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Next Web and AllThingsD
| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Intel Capital makes a big bet on Android with investment in Bluestacks (exclusive) — Add Intel Capital to the growing list of companies eager to work with Bluestacks. — Intel has invested an undisclosed amount in the startup, BlueStacks told VentureBeat today.| 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.
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| 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.
| 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
| Andy Ihnatko / TechHive: |
Why I switched from iPhone to Android — About a month and a half ago, I walked into an AT&T Store, handed over my iPhone 4S, and asked to be switched from my unlimited iPhone data plan to a new LTE data plan. — I bought the first-generation iPhone and I bought it early …
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