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Biting the hand that feeds you: why are record labels fighting Pandora? — Labels want streaming and web radio to grow the pie, but want their share too — A few years ago, leaders from the major record companies planted the seeds from which they hoped would spring the next generation of music distributors.| Jordan Golson / MacRumors: |
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New Android Smartphone Is Said to Favor Facebook — Facebook will introduce a special version of Google's Android software system next week that is modified to put the social network front and center on a smartphone. The software will debut on a handset made by HTC, said a Facebook employee who was briefed on the product.
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Actually, Amazon Paid About $150 Million for Goodreads — According to sources, Amazon paid about $150 million for Goodreads, the popular books recommendation service. But that number could close in on $200 million, if certain performance metrics are met.
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iMessage denial of service ‘prank’ spams users rapidly with messages, crashes iOS Messages app — Over the last couple of days, a group of iOS developers has been targeted with a series of rapid-fire texts sent over Apple's iMessage system. The messages, likely transmitted via …
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| Don Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Demand Surges for Supercomputers — Demand is suddenly surging for the largest scientific computers, driven by technology changes seen in two powerful systems unveiled this week. — The supercomputers, installed in Illinois and Texas—each requiring about the space of a basketball court …
Tweets: @thufirhawat, @teddunne and @donal888
| Carol Morello / Washington Post: |
2020 Census will be done by Internet — Add paper census questionnaires to the long list of everyday items becoming quaint vestiges of tired technology, like landline phones, television armoires and butterfly ballots. — The Census Bureau already has started offering an Internet option …
Tweets: @valeriemichelle
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
LivingSocial Co-Founder And CTO Aaron Batalion To Leave The Company — Aaron Batalion, the co-founder and CTO of daily deals site LivingSocial, is leaving the company. He announced his departure in a post on his personal blog published Friday afternoon. — Here is the full text of his blog post:
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Marissa Mayer Tells The Story Of Why She Became Yahoo CEO, Even Though She Was About To Have A Kid — Marissa Mayer told the story today of how she became Yahoo's CEO, even though she was pregnant. — It was part of Sheryl Sandberg's “Lean In” series, which promotes women talking about succeeding in life and business.
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| Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
Password denied: when will Apple get serious about security? — Customers need some real talk about how data is kept and accessed — Last Friday, The Verge revealed the existence of a dead-simple URL-based hack that allowed anyone to reset your Apple ID password with just your email address and date of birth.| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Change of heart? IE11 might speed Web graphics with WebGL — A leaked build of Microsoft's next browser shows signs that the company could be reversing its opposition to a standard for accelerated 2D and 3D graphics on the Web. — Microsoft's next version of Internet Explorer might just support WebGL … | Eytan Bakshy / Facebook: |
Showing Support for Marriage Equality on Facebook — The U.S. Supreme Court this week met to begin debating the future of same-sex marriage in the United States. To accompany this historic event, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) started urging people on Monday, March 25 to change … | Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: |
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