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Spotify has paid music industry $2B to date, $1B since last year; has 12.5M paying subscribers; top artists to exceed $6M/year in payments — $2 Billion and Counting — A blog post written by CEO Daniel Ek (@eldsjal) — Taylor Swift is absolutely right: music is art, art has real value, and artists deserve to be paid for it.
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| Aaron Souppouris / Engadget: |
Groupon says it will end trademark dispute with open-source foundation GNOME — Groupon says it'll end trademark spat with open-source community (update) — Well, this could get messy. The GNOME project is a well-known free and open-source desktop environment for Linux distros.
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| Robert Cookson / Financial Times: |
YouTube signs with indie labels through rights agency Merlin, setting the stage for a subscription streaming service — YouTube signs with indie labels for music streaming service — YouTube has struck a deal to license music from the thousands of independent record labels represented … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rebrands Lync as ‘Skype for Business’; readies 2015 releases — Summary: Microsoft is rebranding its unified-communications line-up from Lync to Skype for Business, and is readying the next releases of those products for the first half of 2015. — Microsoft is rebranding … | Reuters: |
Apple hiring dedicated sales team, working with business app developers in enterprise push — Exclusive: Apple's enterprise assault gets into higher gear — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is embarking on its most aggressive expansion yet onto corporate turf, hiring a dedicated sales force … | Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba, Apple Talks on Payments Tie-Up Focused on China — Alibaba's Joseph Tsai Says Both Companies Are Working Out Details on Potential Partnership — A senior Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. executive said Tuesday that a payment alliance between Apple Inc. and the Chinese e-commerce giant's … | Rob Price / The Daily Dot: |
Controversial anonabox is back, raises $14,000 on Indiegogo in 2 days — Just under a month after Kickstarter suspended the privacy-centric anonabox for misleading its customers, the controversial router is now on Indiegogo for another go—and it's already raised almost $14,000.| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Garmin Vivosmart review: one of the few fitness bands that doubles as smartwatch, but overpriced at $170 — Garmin Vivosmart review: where fitness band meets smartwatch — There are fitness trackers and there are smartwatches, but there's only a small number of devices that attempt to be both.
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| Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC: |
Alibaba Singles' Day sales hit $9.34B — Alibaba's Jack Ma: I don't watch our stock price — Alibaba executive chairman Jack Ma discusses the company's valuation and expectations now that they are bigger than Wal-Mart in market value. — Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman …
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| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
David Marcus on the evolution of Messenger and its future: VOIP, payments, and B2C messaging — Why Facebook Has Entrusted Its Future to the CEO of PayPal — One evening last May, Mark Zuckerberg invited David Marcus to dinner. — It wasn't the first time PayPal's soft-spoken French CEO …
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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Interfering with a competitor's fundraising, as Uber did, while not new, is unethical and ineffective — Messing With A Competitor's Fundraising — I saw a post that described how Uber tried to mess with Lyft's fundraising. This is not a new tactic. I have seen it used for as long as I have been in the VC business.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Revel Systems Raises $100M To Grow Its iPad Point-Of-Sale Business, Sets Sights On IPO — iPad-based point-of-sale platform maker Revel Systems has raised $100 million in a Series C round of funding, multiplying the startup's existing funding raise by almost a factor of ten. The new funding comes …
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| Dan Rayburn / StreamingMediaBlog.com: |
The Net Neutrality Debate Is About Companies & Politicians Own Posturing — This net neutrality debate is getting ugly, political and only going to get worse. Cutting through all the garbage arguments and posturing by companies and politicians makes it clear that they want what's best …
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