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Apple negotiates with music labels for streaming licenses that would forego free tier, allow high-profile artists to distribute with Apple first — Big Music Labels Want to Make Free Music Hard to Get, and Apple Says They're Right — Right now it's easy to stream any song you want …
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Oracle now bundles Ask toolbar adware with Java for Mac installations by default — Oracle extends its adware bundling to include Java for Macs — Summary:For years, Oracle has tormented Windows users by bundling adware with its Java installer for Windows PCs.| New York Times: |
Study finds at least 46K Twitter accounts linked to ISIS; from September to December Twitter suspended 1K accounts — ISIS Is Skilled on Twitter, Using Thousands of Accounts, Study Says — The Islamic State, the violent extremist group that espouses a return to a seventh-century caliphate … | Leila Abboud / Reuters: |
Shazam plans to add object recognition capabilities to its music ID app — Music app Shazam to add sights to sounds — (Reuters) - Shazam, the company behind the mobile phone app that enables its 100 million users to recognize music they hear, and buy the recordings …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Gmail for iOS updated w/ share sheet support, ability to archive & reply to email via notifications — Google this morning has released a major update for Gmail on iOS. The update bumps the app to version 4.0 and packs a handful of new features. First off, Gmail on iOS now supports …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Sling TV's Web-TV Service Attracts at Least 100,000 Sign-Ups in Its First Month — Sling TV, Dish Network's Web-TV service, has been open to U.S. customers for just over a month. And so far, it seems like Sling has generated some attention: Sources say at least 100,000 people have signed up to check out the $20-a-month service.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and hundreds of other companies file an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court for nationwide marriage equality — Apple, Facebook, Comcast, and hundreds of others ask Supreme Court for nationwide marriage equality — Marriage equality is actually good for business, so these companies claim
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Amazon to bring four of its Game Studios titles to iOS, release date not yet announced — Amazon is bringing its premium mobile games to iPhone and iPad — With some major acquisitions and multiple big games in the works, Amazon clearly has some big ambitions for its in-house gaming division.
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GeekWire, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Ink, Bits, & Pixels and The Next Web
| Matt Haughey / MetaFilter: |
MetaFilter founder Matt Haughey steps away from his pioneering online community after 16 years, later adds he's joining Slack in a content role — Sixteen Years — After 16 years of doing a bit of everything under the sun here, I'm stepping away from the day to day of running MetaFilter and moving into the background.
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Boing Boing. Tweets: @mathowie, @marshallk, @joshmillard, @busblog, @mat, @danielpunkass, @jkottke, @anildash, @waxpancake, @craigmod, @mathowie and @waxpancake
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mobile app search service Quixey raises $60M in Series C funding from Alibaba, Softbank, GGV, and Goldman Sachs — Mobile App Search Service Quixey Confirms $60 Million In New Funding — Mobile app search company Quixey, which has been focused on solving the challenges with app discovery …
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| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Nike+ app gets four new device partners in Garmin, Tom Tom, Wahoo Fitness, and Netpulse — Nike+ moves from app to platform with four new device partners — After going it alone with health tracking hardware, Nike is expanding relationships to use its Nike+ app with non-Nike devices.
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news.nike.com and SlashGear
| Don Reisinger / CNET: |
Sony has sold 20.2M PlayStation 4 units since November 2013 launch, keeping grip of market — Sony's PlayStation 4 continues to soar with 20M sold — By contrast, Microsoft's most recent public count in November noted Xbox One sales at around 10 million, though that figure is likely … | BBC: |
UK's National Crime Agency arrests 57 suspected hackers for various cybercrimes — Dozens arrested in cybercrime ‘strike week’ — The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has mounted a “strike week” against suspected hackers resulting in 56 arrests. — In total, 25 separate operations were carried out across the UK.
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National Crime Agency, Business Insider, Forbes, Gizmodo UK and Engadget
| Yash G. / SamMobile: |
Verizon will open pre-order for the Galaxy S6, S6 edge April 1st — You might well be wanting to spend the 1st of April scheming and executing your carefully curated pranks, but that's not exactly how Verizon wants you to spend the day. The US carrier has announced that it will be accepting pre-orders … Sponsor Posts
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