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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.
| 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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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 … | 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 … | 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces its first non-Nokia Windows phone, the Lumia 535: 5" display, 5MP front camera, 1GB RAM, single/ dual SIM, for $130 — Microsoft's first Lumia defines Windows Phone's future — Microsoft's first Lumia device is being officially unveiled as the Lumia 535 today …
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Conversations, Microsoft News Center, Re/code, ReadWrite, PC World, Engadget, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Blogging Windows, PC Magazine, AnandTech, Reuters, The Register, Phones Review, BGR, Digital Trends, Neowin, Gigaom, TechnoBuffalo, Inquirer, Forbes, Technology Personalized, Tech in Asia, PhoneNews.com, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, GeekWire, LiveSide.net, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, CNET, Associated Press, Wpxbox, Windows Phone Central, The Next Web, MobileSyrup.com, CNET, Ars Technica and Pocketnow. Tweets: @nokia
| Brian R. Fitzgerald / Wall Street Journal: |
Tim Cook on Apple Watch, Payments and Getting TV Right (Full Video) — In a Q&A at the WSJD Live Conference, Apple CEO Warns Retailers That They Will Only Stay Relevant if Customers ‘Love’ Them — Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, joins WSJ's Gerard Baker at WSJD Live to talk about the growth of Apple and new products.
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| 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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