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Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:
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.
Spotify Blog:
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.
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 …
Dana Wollman / Engadget:
Microsoft's giant Surface Hub display ships in September; 4K 84-inch priced at $19K, 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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Messenger hits 1B downloads on Google Play, makes Facebook the second company after Google to reach that milestone  —  Facebook Messenger On Android Hits 1...Billion...Downloads  —  Only two companies have apps with over 1 billion Google Play downloads, and the other is Google.
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:
Stripe Now Has An iPhone App For Monitoring Payment Activity  —  Stripe, a service that companies can use to accept payments, has a new way for businesses to track purchases and user activity — an iPhone app.  —  The new iPhone app does basically everything its existing online dashboard does …
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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Exclusive: Facebook earns 51 percent of ad revenue overseas - executives  —  Overseas markets bring in more advertising revenue than the United States for Facebook Inc, amounting to 51 percent of global ad sales in the first quarter, with growth in Asia the fastest in the world at 57 percent, company executives told Reuters.
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Interview with Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine on Apple Music, Connect, and the importance of a “human touch” in curating playlists  —  Apple Music interview: 'Algorithms can't do it alone - you need a human touch'  —  Jimmy Iovine and Eddy Cue train their sights on Spotify …
Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:
Changes at VentureBeat: Dylan Tweney from editor-in-chief to editor-at-large, Harrison Weber to executive editor, Jennifer Tsao to managing editor  —  It's time for new adventures  —  Four years ago, Matt Marshall and Alicia Saribalis hired me to lead VentureBeat's news team, which at that time comprised about five people.

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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: Bari Weiss is planning to create a masthead for CBS News as part of a broader overhaul of standards and procedures

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast extends Mike Cavanagh's contract through January 1, 2029, and grants a ~$35M performance-based stock package; he's set to become co-CEO in January 2026

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