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Spotify tries to go mainstream, launches splashy ad campaign — The music service will launch its first ever ad-campaign tonight as it tries to speed up growth in the U.S. — From Spotify's first TV ad campaign — Spotify today is rolling out a major advertising blitz …
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Spotify Plans To Take On Netflix And HBO With Streaming Video Service — Spotify, the on-demand music service, is planning a major change. According to two sources briefed on the company's plans, Spotify intends to become an on-demand music and video service - one that would invest … | Paul Sloan / CNET: |
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
T-Mobile will talk iPhone at tomorrow's event — CNET has confirmed that the iPhone will play a part at T-Mobile's ‘Uncarrier’ event. — Yep, T-Mobile will finally get the iPhone. — Apple's flagship device, long a gap in T-Mobile's smartphone line-up, will play a prominent role in tomorrow's … | Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo Paid $30 Million in Cash for 18 Months of Young Summly Entrepreneur's Time — Earlier today, Yahoo said it had acquired the trendy and decidedly stylish news reading app Summly, along with its telegenic and very young entrepreneur Nick D'Aloisio. — Yahoo said it plans to close … | Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
Just do it, says Yahoo's teen app millionaire — (Reuters) - Got a tech idea and want to make a fortune before you're out of your teens? Just do it, is the advice of the London schoolboy who's just sold his smartphone news app to Yahoo for a reported $30 million.| Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal: |
Beijing Strikes Again at Apple — BEIJING—The Chinese Communist Party's main propaganda outlet assailed Apple Inc.'s customer-service practices, the latest indication that China might move to check foreign companies' domination of the country's smartphone market.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8 Mail update now available, Google Calendar support removed for existing users — Microsoft has started pushing out its latest Windows 8 Mail, Calendar, and People app updates to users today. A little ahead of the schedule, the application updates are now available in the Windows Store …
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| Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web: |
What, exactly, WiFiSLAM is, and why Apple acquired it — A couple of days ago the news broke that Apple had acquired indoor location startup WiFiSLAM. Since the company immediately pulled its website and Apple isn't exactly forthcoming about its plans for its acquisitions, much of the chatter since then has been speculation.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple's first quarter of negative income growth since 2003 — It ends this week. Investors might as well get ready for the negative headlines. — FORTUNE — The bad news is that every analyst we've surveyed — even the most bullish — believes that for the first time in a decade Apple …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
OS X app launcher Quicksilver ends its decade-long beta — After ten years, Quicksilver finally leaves beta with its version 1.0.0 release. — Quicksilver blog — After years of development, a shift from closed source to open source, and the advent of popular competitors like Alfred …
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The Next Web, Macgasm, MacNN, AppleInsider and MacRumors
| Times of India: |
Apple plans to scale up presence in India, to triple exclusive stores to 200 by 2015 — KOLKATA/ NEW DELHI: Buoyed by the success of the iPhone in India, Apple Inc has decided to scale up its presence in the country and plans to triple its exclusive stores to around 200 by 2015, said three of its dedicated franchisees.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows Blue: a video preview of what's next for Windows 8 — Windows Blue made an early appearance on the internet over the weekend and we've had a chance to experience some of its new features. The upgrade to Windows 8 looks like it's going to bring a host of improvements, fixes … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Samsung updates high-end Series 9 ultrabook, catching up as 1080p screens become the norm — Nine months ago, the 1600 x 900 display on Samsung's Series 9 laptop was relatively impressive for its time, but it has since been bested by a number of 1080p (and occasionally even higher) ultrabook displays.
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The Droid Guy, ZDNet, Neowin, Ubergizmo, CNET, GigaOM and Liliputing
| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Microsoft, Spotify and The Echo Nest launch Mixshape, an engaging tool for ordering playlists — Microsoft, Spotify and music intelligence firm The Echo Nest have joined forces to create Mixshape, a visual tool that automatically sorts playlists based on the properties and moods of individual songs.| Thomas Lee / Minneapolis Star Tribune: |
Best Buy poised to ax its venture capital unit — CEO Hubert Joly is focusing on more pressing issues, like reviving store sales. — Best Buy Co. Inc. is exiting the venture capital business. — Over the past five years, the company's venture capital unit — Best Buy Capital …
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| Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM: |
Google to ship LTE Chromebook Pixel by April 8; here's the LTE service pricing — Few may have ordered one, but the LTE version of Google's Chromebook Pixel is set to ship by April 8. That's the date currently showing on the Pixel product page in the Google Play store, as noted by Jeff Jarvis.| Jason Palmer / BBC: |
Mobile location data ‘present anonymity risk’ — Location data may not seem personal in a crowded place - but a mobile user's path can give identity away — Scientists say it is remarkably easy to identify a mobile phone user from just a few pieces of location information.
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| Tomio Geron / Forbes: |
Sherpa, The Latest Personal Assistant App, Focuses On Location — Personal assistant apps are the latest flavor of utopian vision from tech startups. The promise of these services is to sift through people's deluge of emails, documents and calendar events to extract actionable insights …
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CNET, Rachel Metz, VentureBeat, PandoDaily and AllThingsD
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Potential Buyers Emerge For Hulu, Disney and News Corp. Still Talking — Two years ago, Hulu's corporate owners put the video site up for sale — and then took it off the block. — New version of a similar story: Hulu's corporate owners still aren't sure what they want to do with the site.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Court Tosses Lawsuit That Said MMS Was An Illegal File Sharing Network — A few years ago, we wrote about a really ridiculous lawsuit filed by (then) regular Techdirt commenter Max Davis against all of the mobile operators: AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile.
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Ars Technica, Wired and MediaPost
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches TV White Spaces Trial In South Africa — Google's first trial to use the unused channels in the broadcast TV spectrum to provide wireless broadband access launched in 2010 in Logan, Ohio. Since then, Google has shown a lot of interest in this topic and today it is launching its second trial.
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Official google.org Blog, CNET, GigaOM, WAPA, dailywireless.org and Engadget
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
BlackBerry's Million-Smartphone Mystery Partner: Brightstar — Who bought one million BlackBerry 10 devices? — We posed that question here earlier this month, following the announcement of the largest single handset purchase in BlackBerry's history. And we answered it with a simple theory …
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BGR, FierceWireless, PhoneArena, ValueWalk, TechCrunch and Digits
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
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