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Spotify raises $526M from wide range of global investors, source says at a $8.53B valuation — Spotify Raises $526 Million Amid Battle With Apple — Spotify has closed a massive new round of funding from a wide range of global investors who are betting it can fend off a new threat from Apple.
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Spotify hits 20M paid subscribers, 75M total active users, has paid $3B in artist royalties — 20 Million Reasons to Say Thanks — What a difference a year makes! At the end of May 2014, we reached 10 million paying subscribers and 40 million active users.
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Twitter simplifies blocking multiple accounts by letting users share and import block lists — Sharing block lists to help make Twitter safer — Today we're making it possible to share block lists on twitter.com. This new, advanced feature makes blocking multiple accounts easy, fast and community driven.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Messenger Platform Gets Its First Game — Facebook Messenger's quest to own all the ways you connect with friends is now expanding to games. Today I spotted “Doodle Draw Game” in the Messenger platform app list, and Facebook says this is the first true game available since the platform launched in April.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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SpaceX files with FCC to provide Internet service from space, plans to launch 4,000 satellites — SpaceX founder files with government to provide Internet service from space — Elon Musk's space company has asked the federal government for permission to begin testing on an ambitious project … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
State sponsored sophisticated attack Duqu 2.0 penetrated Kaspersky network, tapped Iran nuke talks — Stepson of Stuxnet stalked Kaspersky for months, tapped Iran nuke talks — Hacker group used a “zero-day trampoline” to scale Kaspersky defenses. — Not long after blowing the lid off …
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Apple's failure to develop exciting apps and services that users prefer over third party efforts may threaten its ecosystem — Apple's Junk Drawer Problem — A sampling of BuzzFeed Tech's Apple junk drawers. — Michelle Rial/BuzzFeed — There's a folder on the homescreen of my iPhone affectionately labeled “Apple Crap.”| New York Times: |
Attorneys general in NY and Conn. investigating whether Apple, music labels violated antitrust laws in talking about competing freemium services like Spotify — 2 States Look for Collusion Between Apple Music and Major Labels — While Apple was preparing a splashy introduction for a new service …
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| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Microsoft's giant Surface Hub display ships in September; 4K 84-inch priced at $20K, 1080p 55-inch at $7K — Microsoft's Surface Hub pen display costs from $6,999 to $19,999 — You'd be forgiven if you forgot what the Surface Hub is. After all, Microsoft announced it the same …
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| Sam Biddle / Gawker: |
FBI: Almost 600 iCloud accounts were breached by Celebgate hackers last year; agency raided two addresses in Chicago in connection to the hack — Feds Seized Chicago Man's Computers in Celeb Nude Leak Investigation — Last summer, stolen photos of dozens of famous women flooded the internet …
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| Rob Gillies / Associated Press: |
iPhone launch, failed Storm, and loss of Verizon contract were devastating for BlackBerry says former co-CEO Jim Balsillie — Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO talks publicly for the first time — TORONTO (AP) — Former BlackBerry co-chief executive Jim Balsillie said Tuesday that Apple's introduction …
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| Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Payroll giant ADP sues Zenefits for defamation after it cut off clients' access to the startup's service over security concerns — ADP Sues Zenefits for Defamation — A conflict between one of the biggest providers of corporate payroll services and one of the world's most highly valued startups spilled into court on Tuesday.| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
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| Darren Pauli / The Register: |
iOS Mail app bug reported in January lets hackers send phishing emails to steal your iCloud password, no fix yet — Password-flogging phishing tool pwns EVERY iOS Mail app — Cupertino quiet on pop-up of doom — Ernst and Young forensic bod Jan Soucek has created a tool capable … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter Advertisers Can Now Target You Based on the Other Apps on Your Phone — For the past six months, Twitter has been collecting data on which smartphone apps its users download. Now, the company is using that data to make some money. — Twitter announced on Wednesday that its advertisers …
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Google Now On Tap Finds In-App Answers, Navigates Between Apps Seamlessly — Like a monkey swinging from tree to tree, Google Now on Tap is able to navigate between apps and generate more information about the content in apps without ever conducting a formal search.
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Video game console maker Ouya in talks to be acquired by Razer — Video game console maker Ouya is in negotiations to sell itself, possibly to Razer — The company, whose app store was pitched as the go-to place for small and independent developers, is negotiating for all employees to remain with the company after the sale.| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Apple vehicles on UK and Irish streets to ‘improve Apple Maps’ service — Technology giant promises to blur faces and car licence plates if they are captured, as it continues work on Street View-style service — Apple is taking a leaf out of Google's book by putting a fleet of vehicles …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 9 lets app developers make ad blockers for Safari — Ad blocking extensions have been possible on Safari for Mac for a long time, but plugin architecture for Safari on iOS is much more limited. With iOS 9, Apple has added a special case of extension for ad blockers.
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Eric Schmidt says Europe must have a single digital market or fall behind in global competitiveness — Google Is Ready to Support European Digital Innovation, Says Eric Schmidt — Continent must have a single digital market or fall behind, says tech-giant chairman
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Jack Ma says Alibaba's US strategy is to help US small businesses sell goods in China — America's Online Sales Opportunity in China — The Middle Kingdom's middle class is as large as the entire U.S. population and may double in seven years. — As people learn more about Alibaba Group …
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