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Sony Music CEO Doug Morris confirms launch of Apple's music streaming service at WWDC — Sony Music CEO confirms launch of Apple's music streaming service tomorrow — Sony Music CEO Doug Morris said in an interview on stage today that Apple will announce its new music streaming service tomorrow …
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Source: Apple hopes to sign up 100M subscribers for new music streaming service — APPLE WANTS A LEAD ROLE IN STREAMING MUSIC — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple's iTunes helped change the way music-lovers bought their favorite songs, replacing plastic discs with digital downloads.
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In a discussion about lack of diversity in technology, Tim Cook hints at female presenters at WWDC — Exclusive: Tim Cook says lack of diversity in tech is ‘our fault’ — SAN FRANCISCO — The day before Apple kicks off its annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) …
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| Clive Thompson / New York Times: |
Swiss watchmakers Montblanc, Ateliers deMonaco, and H. Moser adopt very different strategies to compete with the Apple Watch — Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age? — Masters of one of the world's most revered forms of analog craftsmanship take on the smartwatch.
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Inside story of the final days of Mojang: feelings of betrayal, plummeting employee morale, an absent Notch, and money as salve — The Unlikely Story of Microsoft's Surprise Minecraft Buyout — Microsoft's $2.5 billion purchase of Mojang and Minecraft last September …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Takeout Giant Delivery Hero Raises Another $110M At Over $3.1B Valuation Ahead Of IPO — Delivery Hero, the takeout food ordering service based out of Berlin, has raised yet more money — possibly some of its last before an IPO sometime after 2015. It's picked up another $110 million from two unnamed … | Micah Lee / The Intercept: |
Microsoft answers some questions about BitLocker, its disk encryption technology, but declines to directly answer whether it has backdoors — Microsoft Gives Details About Its Controversial Disk Encryption — Recently, I wrote a guide explaining how to encrypt your laptop's hard drive and why you should do so.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg Business: |
India's booming tech sector fuelled by easier access to capital prompts more Indian engineers to return home to work in startups after graduating in US — America's Unwanted Ivy Leaguers Are Flocking to India — Tech boom lures Indian engineers back home — Kunal Bahl's American dream was coming together in late 2007.| Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC: |
Why more than a dozen big banks and tech firms are investigating blockchain technology — Why financial firms are investigating bitcoin tech — The technology behind bitcoin could be even more important than the cryptocurrency itself. — The technological innovation behind bitcoin …
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HMRC, the UK's tax agency with staff of 70K, is first large UK gov't department to switch from Microsoft to Google Apps, store official data on servers offshore — HMRC ditches Microsoft for Google, sends data offshore — Tax doesn't have to be taxing for US firm with inside track| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Inside Sketchfab, a platform for publishing and finding 3D content, which has partnered with Facebook and Microsoft — This startup is bridging the gap between today's web and tomorrow's virtual reality — Onstage at Microsoft's recent Build conference, the tech giant announced a handful …
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