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Cue and Iovine talk about Beats acquisition, competing streaming services, Apple TV, more — Apple Shows Off its Newest Product, and Promises Much More to Come — Apple just agreed to pay $3 billion for Beats Music and Beats Electronics. Tim Cook says one of the primary reasons …
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HP can develop products with Beats tech through 2014, sell devices with Beats tech and logo through 2015 — The Beats go on at HP (at least until 2015) — Consumers looking to buy an HP desktop or laptop with integrated Beats Audio have another year and a half before the companies dissolve … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Tim Cook Explains Why Apple Is Buying Beats (Q&A) — The Apple Beats deal has already generated lots of debate, and now that it's official, we will see even more. Here's Apple CEO Tim Cook's extended explanation, via an interview he conducted with Re/code this afternoon.
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Jimmy Iovine's four decades of experience and celebrity connections lend credibility to Apple's music plans — Jimmy Iovine, a Master of Beats, Lends Apple a Skilled Ear — CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple's new music impresario, Jimmy Iovine, didn't start out writing code or studying computer engineering … | Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
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| Laszlo Bock / The Official Google Blog: |
Diversity at Google: 70% men; 61% White, 30% Asian, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black — Getting to work on diversity at Google — We've always been reluctant to publish numbers about the diversity of our workforce at Google. We now realize we were wrong, and that it's time to be candid about the issues.
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
YouTube starts rating U.S. ISPs, puts its weight behind settlement-free peering — Google released an U.S.-focused version of its video quality report Tuesday, which offers users a way to check which of their local ISPs deliver the best-looking YouTube streams.
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Snowden on lax NSA security, the “dirty” business of spying, wanting to go home, his training as a spy, and more — Edward Snowden's Motive Revealed: He Can ‘Sleep at Night’ — In the wide-ranging and provocative interview, Snowden: — Suggested that a deal could be reached …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Snapchat CEO ‘Mortified’ by Leaked Stanford Frat E-Mails — Snapchat Inc. Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel apologized for e-mails he sent during his fraternity days that celebrated getting drunk and convincing sorority women to perform sexual acts. — The profanity-laced e-mails …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft, Salesforce Said to Discuss Cloud Partnership — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) are close to an agreement that will enable customers of Microsoft's cloud computing service to use Salesforce's customer management programs, said people familiar with the talks, signaling a thaw between two longtime rivals.| Cynthia Littleton / Variety: |
Dish Network to Accept BitCoin Payments for Pay-TV Service — Charlie Ergen has always been a gambler. Now the Dish Network CEO is taking a flier on accepting the Internet currency bitcoin as payment for pay-TV bills. — Dish trumpeted its decision in a news release on Thursday …
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London's transport authority believes Uber is legal, leaves final decision to London's High Court — Uber app taxi row referred to London's High Court — London's transport authority has announced it does not believe Uber's car service is breaking the law by using an app to determine charges.
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
ExtraHop looks to build business analytics powerhouse, lands $41 million from early Splunk investor — ExtraHop CEO Jesse Rothstein doesn't think his business analytics startup is simply creating a great product. The pony-tailed entrepreneur — who prior to co-founding ExtraHop worked …
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| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Data cleaner Trifacta raises a $25M series C round — Trifacta, a startup focused on getting raw data into shape so data scientists, analysts or whomever can get started analyzing it, has raised $25 million in series C financing. Ignition Partners is a new investor in the latest round round …
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| Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post: |
Real estate crowdfunding website Fundrise raises $31M led by Chinese social media giant Renren — Fundrise lands $31 million in financing, led by Chinese social media firm — Fundrise has gone from an ambitious Dupont Circle start-up to probably the country's leading real estate crowd-funding platform, and now it has money to grow.
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New York Times, Crowdfund Insider, Inman News, Jewish Business News, tech.co, The Real Deal New York, bizjournals and Fortune. Tweets: @oconnellpostbiz
| Matthew Miller / ZDNet: |
IDC: Smartphone growth to continue, reach 1.2 billion in 2014 — Summary: It seems everyone has a smartphone today, but there are still millions of potential customers and it is in these emerging markets where we will see continued steady growth. — Matthew Miller| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Iranian hackers use fake Facebook accounts to spy on U.S., others — (Reuters) - In an unprecedented, three-year cyber espionage campaign, Iranian hackers created false social networking accounts and a fake news website to spy on military and political leaders in the United States … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
OpenSSL to get a security audit and two full-time developers — A Linux Foundation project inspired by the Heartbleed security flaw announced that it will fund a security audit for the OpenSSL code base and the salaries of two full-time developers. — The Heartbleed flaw shone a spotlight …
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| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
SoftBank's Son acknowledges Sprint lags in LTE, voices admiration for T-Mobile's Legere — SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said that Sprint (NYSE: S) needs “greater scale” if it is going to effectively compete in the U.S. wireless market, laying yet more groundwork for a potential combination between Sprint and T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS).
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Apple's Eddy Cue touts ‘best product pipeline’ in 25 years coming this year — Apple's iCloud and iTunes chief Eddy Cue says the products the company plans to show off later this year are the best he's seen in 25 years at the company. — “Later this year, we've got the best product pipeline …
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