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Beats Music creates satisfying playlists by relying more on human curation than artist and genre matching algorithms — Beats Music Streams With a Human Touch — For years and years, people have predicted that subscription streaming music services would eventually overtake paid download services in the hearts of average consumers.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Beats Will Shut Down MOG Music April 15; MOG Founder Joins Stealth Mobile Startup Chosen.fm — As Beats Music turns up the volume on its new streaming service (which is now live in the App Store), it is calling it a day on MOG, the streaming service its parent Beats Electronics acquired …
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Verizon agrees to buy Intel's failed internet TV project — After publicly announcing and failing to follow through with a big plan to launch a set-top box, Intel is selling the project to Verizon. The telecoms company will purchase assets of Intel Media, a division set up to develop “over the top” TV services.
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Why Verizon is buying Intel Media: it's all about taking on Comcast — Verizon made it official on the day of its Q4 2013 earnings call: The company is indeed buying the assets of Intel Media, the Intel subsidiary that has been developing an internet TV service called OnCue.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Analysts' estimates for iPhones sold last quarter range from 50M to 60M, or 55.3M on average — How many iPhones did Apple sell last quarter? — The analysts' estimates range from 50 million to nearly 60 million. Average: 55.3 million. — FORTUNE — There's a lot chatter …
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| Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO: |
The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO — Okay, I'm calling it: if you're using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it's become a more and more spammy practice, and if you're doing a lot of guest blogging then you're hanging out with really bad company.| Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
While Dropbox leads in consumer adoption, Box's early focus on enterprise sales a key strength — Battle of the Box — The problem with the old thin client model was the assumption that processing power was scarce. In fact, Moore's Law and the rise of ARM has made the exact opposite the case - processing is abundant.| Terence Kawaja / Re/code: |
Color by Numbers: A new valuation framework for the Ad Tech sector — Ad-Tech Valuation: Color by Numbers — This past summer, trade press commentary focused on the impending doom of the ad-tech space, pointing to the industry's fragmentation and noting the underperformance of recent IPOs: Millennial Media, Tremor Video and YuMe.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Verizon posts Q4 profit of $7.9B, adds 1.7M net connections — Verizon swung to a fourth-quarter profit as it continued to add wireless customers at a healthy clip. — The New York company on Tuesday posted a net income of $7.9 billion, or $1.77 a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $1.9 billion, or $1.48 a share.
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| David Barboza / New York Times: |
On WeChat's phenomenal rise, which may doom Facebook's chances for market leadership in China — A Popular Chinese Social Networking App Blazes Its Own Path — SHANGHAI — Every half-hour or so, Jenny Zhao, young and wired, unlocks her iPhone 5 to connect with friends using Weixin, China's wildly popular social messaging app.| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Airbnb Design May Lead Black Hosts to Charge Less, Say Researchers — Airbnb's prominent and large profile photos may facilitate discrimination against home-rental hosts who are black, according to a study conducted by two Harvard Business School professors.
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| David Talbot / MIT Technology Review: |
In Developing Countries, Google and Facebook Already Defy Net Neutrality — In much of the world, the concept of “net neutrality” generates less public debate, given there's no affordable Net in the first place. — Net neutrality—the idea that all Internet traffic should generally be treated equally … | Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Google encourages employees to attend SF hearing on shuttle regulations, issues talking points — Google's “High Handed” Bus Memo — Like the last time people tried busing as a solution to a socioeconomic problem, the tech busing in San Francisco has become a hot-button topic.
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Yahoo tops the most-trafficked Web site list for desktop in US — While Yahoo's earnings haven't been exactly stellar over the past few months, its Web traffic certainly has. According to new data from analytics firm ComScore, Yahoo had more than 195 million unique US visitors …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Andreessen Horowitz Brings On Londoner Benedict Evans — Andreessen Horowitz is widening its talent pool once again. Today the company is adding Benedit Evans, a long-time mobile analyst and pundit, to its team. He is currently based in London but will be relocating to Menlo Park.| Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Time for an international convention on government access to data — General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft — Last week, President Obama spoke about the role of the National Security Agency and announced some important changes to the surveillance practices of the U.S. government.
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Microsoft Research adopts Open Access policy for publications — In a recent interview with Scientific American, Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Research, discussed three main motivations for basic research at Microsoft. The first relates to an aspiration to advance human knowledge …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Expedia Lost 25% Of Their Search Visibility In Google Possibly Over Unnatural Links — The major travel website, Expedia, seems to have lost 25% of their search visibility in Google according to Search Metrics. It appears that drop was due to an unnatural link penalty … | Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter Users' Diversity Becomes an Ad Selling Point — Microblogging Social-Media Site Trying to Capitalize on Its Demographics — For most of its rather short life, Twitter Inc. rarely mentioned that its user base is more racially diverse than U.S. Internet users as a whole.| Jeffrey Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Tencent's CrossFire and League of Legends top 2013 revenue rankings for free-to-play PC games — 10 online PC games that made more than $100M in microtransaction sales last year — The developer is one of many that is making a huge amount of cash by selling virtual goods in its online PC games.| JC Torres / SlashGear: |
Initial D-Wave 2 quantum computer benchmarks show mixed results — Google gives an update on D-Wave 2 quantum computer benchmark status — As a tech company, Google has been known to branch out into different areas of interests, from self-driving cars to smart wearable technology and, more recently, to robotics.
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