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Twitter and Google partner to bring more tweets into Google search results, rolling out on mobile in the US today and desktop soon — A new way to discover Tweets — We're excited to team up with Google to bring Twitter's unique, real-time content to Google's search results.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
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Marketing Land, Fortune, Digital Trends, Android Police, International Business Times, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, SlashGear and Android and Me. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@martinbeck
| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Contract between Sony Music and Spotify shows how streaming rates are calculated and details yearly advances and most-favored-nation clause for Sony Music — This was Sony Music's contract with Spotify — Over the last year the music industry has been in flux as artists, labels …
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Agence France-Presse, Engadget, UPROXX, TIME, Digital Music News, hypebot and The FADER
Tweets: @eriqgardner, @musicbizworld, @tvoti, @poptastic and @jimcarrollotr
See also Mediagazer| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
WordPress parent Automattic acquires WooCommerce, maker of a popular e-commerce WordPress plugin, sources say for more than $30M — WordPress Parent Automattic Buys WooCommerce, a Shopping Tool for Web Publishers — Last year Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, raised $160 million.
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WooThemes, Matt Mullenweg, internetretailer.com, VentureBeat, Mark Forrester, TechCrunch, WordPress Tavern, Mashable and theWHIR.com. Tweets: @fredericl. See also Mediagazer
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook: Apple Watch in stores ‘by June’, in talks for Apple Pay in China — During his trip last week across China, Apple CEO Tim Cook held a meeting at Apple's China headquarters with several employees in attendance, according to sources with knowledge of the briefing.
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MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, InvestorPlace, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo and TodaysiPhone.com. Thanks:@apollozac
| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Apple releases new $1,999 27-inch Retina iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch trackpad — Apple releases cheaper Retina iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch — Apple is starting to bring the price down on its 5K Retina iMac, releasing a new version today that sells …
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Apple, Computerworld, CNET, Engadget, eWeek, Macworld, TechCrunch, Wired, MacRumors, The Register, The Next Web, AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, ZDNet, Neowin, VentureBeat, O'Grady's PowerPage, BetaNews, Ars Technica, Laptop Mag, iDownloadBlog.com, Ars Technica UK, TIME, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow and BuzzFeed
| Brian Womack / Bloomberg Business: |
Yahoo shares drop 7.62% on potential changes to IRS's spinoff rules, possibly complicating efforts to exit a stake in Alibaba — Yahoo Shares Drop on Potential Changes to IRS's Spinoff Rules — Yahoo! Inc. shares declined 7.5 percent on reports that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service …
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TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider and Bloomberg View
| AccessNow: |
Advocacy organizations from 31 countries say Facebook's Internet.org violates net neutrality, security, privacy, and threatens freedom of expression — Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg Regarding Internet.org, Net Neutrality, Privacy, and Security — We, the undersigned …
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PandoDaily, BBC, BetaNews, Telegraph, Gizmodo, Mashable, USA Today, Naked Security and Guardian. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Steven Norton / Wall Street Journal: |
Mike Kail, hired by Yahoo last summer as CIO, has left the company in the wake of a suit filed by Netflix; Laurie Mann, SVP of search products, named new CIO — Yahoo CIO Mike Kail No Longer With Company — Mike Kail, chief information officer and senior vice president of infrastructure at Yahoo Inc., has left the company.
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bizjournals and Variety
| Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune: |
Meraki founders raise $25M led by Andreessen Horowitz for IoT sensor startup Samsara — Meraki founders score $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz for sensor startup — Two founders who helped big companies get a handle on their Wi-Fi networks and later sold their startup to Cisco for $1.2 billion …
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Medium, Forbes and Wall Street Journal
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest unveils new ad pricing models and first video ad unit, a Promoted Pin called Cinematic Pin, which animates as the user scrolls down or taps on it — Pinterest Unveils Its First Video-Like Ad And New Ad Pricing Models — Advertisers are going to have a lot more to work with on Pinterest starting today.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolls out touch-first test versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint for Android phones; devices must run KitKat 4.4.x or higher, have at least 1GB RAM — Microsoft rolls out touch-first Office apps preview for Android phones — Summary:Microsoft is rolling out test versions of its standalone … | Antuan Goodwin / CNET: |
Automatic smart driving monitor now connects your car to over 20 apps — Today, Automatic launches its new App Gallery of third-party apps and rolls out the second-generation of its OBD-II adapter.
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Automatic Blog, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, PandoDaily, Co.Design, Android Police and The Next Web
| Reuters: |
Apple renews contract with TomTom for digital maps, TomTom's shares rise — TomTom shares jump after Apple renews digital maps contract — Dutch navigation systems company TomTom NV said Apple Inc would continue to buy its digital maps, giving a vote confidence that sent the Dutch company's shares … | Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Apple, Google, and leading cryptologists urge President Obama in letter to reject backdoors in smartphones and other devices — Tech giants urge Obama to resist ‘backdoors’ into encrypted communications — Tech behemoths including Apple and Google and leading cryptologists … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google releases Tone, an experimental Chrome extension for sharing links with nearby computers using only sound — Google Tone is a Chrome extension for sharing URLs with nearby computers using sound — Google has launched a new experimental Chrome extension that lets you transmit the URL …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases first official Lightning Dock for $39; compatible with iPhone 5, 5c, 5s, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and 5th-generation iPod touch — Apple Now Sells A Lightning Dock For Your iPhone — Apple has finally done what many had long hoped it would - released an official dock …
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The Next Web, AppleInsider, BetaNews, Macworld, SlashGear, 9to5Mac and MacRumors
| Chris Brook / Threatpost: |
St. Louis Federal Reserve confirms DNS hijack of affiliated sites in April, including FRED, its economic database, plus archival and geographic databases — St. Louis Federal Reserve Falls Victim To DNS Hijack — The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank confirmed this week that it fell victim to a DNS hijack last month.
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon names Maria Renz as shadow to Jeff Bezos, or more formally, technical adviser to CEO, the first woman to hold the role — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Names First Woman Executive to Coveted Top Role — For more than 15 years, one role at Amazon has stood out as perhaps the most coveted … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
CSC to split into two publicly-traded companies, one to serve commercial and government clients globally and one to serve public sector clients in US — CSC splits into two companies — Summary:Now that CSC is done restructuring it will split into two companies focused on the commercial and public sector markets.| Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge: |
Inside Google's secret anti-fraud team battling the bots that siphon billions of digital ad dollars — Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud — Cable News Wars Rage as New Players Join the Battle — In a conference room nine floors above London's St. Giles High Street …
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Marketing Land, Business Insider, Tech News Today and Business Finance News. Thanks:@kantrowitz. See also Mediagazer
| Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat: |
Consumer groups update FTC complaint against Google to include allegations of adult content on YouTube Kids — Google's ‘kid-friendly’ app YouTube Kids shows some very grown-up videos — Two consumer groups have found some pretty appallingly adult content in Google's ostensibly child-friendly video app, YouTube Kids.| Tess Stynes / Wall Street Journal: |
Etsy reports total operating expenses up 73% year-over-year, revenue of $58.5M, missing estimates of $59M for Q1; shares down 17% in after-hours trading — Etsy Reports Wider Loss on Higher Costs — Shares of crafts retailer continue to slide from April IPO as revenue disappoints| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Eric Schmidt, iHeart Media chairman Bob Pittman, Discover Communications CEO David Zaslav, and other execs back a $25M Uber-for-helicopters startup, Blade — Eric Schmidt and other execs back a $25 million Uber-for-helicopters startup Blade to fly wealthy people extremely short distances
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Business Insider Australia and New York Post
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Twilio Launches IP Messaging, New Conference Call Services And High-Volume SMS Tools — Twilio is kicking off its Signal conference today and — unsurprisingly — the company is announcing a slew of new services for developers that use its voice, video and messaging platform.| Glyn Moody / Ars Technica UK: |
Russia plans Linux-based mobile operating system to rival Android and iOS — In an effort to boost its independence from Western technology, Russia has announced that it will be creating its own mobile operating system, the Russian-language news site RBC reports (English language summary).
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Yahoo Tech, Engadget, The Verge, NDTV Gadgets, TechRadar.com, The Register and Softpedia News
| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Google to unveil new photo service, independent of Google+, at I/O later this month — Google Is Close to Unveiling New Web Photo Service — Google Inc. is set to reveal an online picture sharing and storage service that will no longer be part of the Google+ social network, people familiar with the plans said.
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