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Apple will share 71.5% of Apple Music revenue with music rights owners in US, no royalties during trial period — Here's What Happens to Your $10 After You Pay for a Month of Apple Music — You don't have to pay anything to try Apple's new streaming music service, since the company … | Fletcher Babb / VentureBeat: |
Spotify's unreleased ‘Rewind’ feature builds playlists of songs from past decades based on present-day preferences — Spotify's unreleased ‘Rewind’ feature builds playlists from the past — Spotify has soft-launched a new feature titled “Rewind.”
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IBM to invest in Apache Spark for real-time data analysis, will have more than 3,500 developers working on related projects — IBM Invests to Help Open-Source Big Data Software — and Itself — The IBM “endorsement effect” has often shaped the computer industry over the years.
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Alibaba to launch Netflix-like video streaming service called TBO or Tmall Box Office in about two months in China — Alibaba to launch Netflix-like video streaming service in two months — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) will launch an online video streaming service in China in about two months … | Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
How Facebook's Open Compute Project became a major force in data center hardware, with hundreds of companies, including HP, Foxconn, and Goldman Sachs on board — How Facebook is eating the $140 billion hardware market — It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook.| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Chinese hackers have found a way to identify Tor and VPN users in the country by exploiting a vulnerability in server software used by popular Chinese portals — Chinese Hackers Circumvent Popular Web Privacy Tools — SAN FRANCISCO — Chinese hackers have found a way around widely used privacy technology …
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Belgian privacy watchdog takes Facebook to court over “flagrant and massive” privacy law violations — After threats, Belgium's Commission for the Protection of Privacy is effectively taking Facebook to local court to argue that the American social networking giant isn't in compliance …
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Sources: China's top taxi hailing firm Didi Kuaidi raising $1.5B at a valuation of $15B — Chinese Uber Rival Will Raise Funds at $15 Billion Valuation — A taxi and other vehicles wait in traffic outside the China National Convention Center in Beijing, China. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg
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Facing legal roadblocks to public parking reservation apps like MonkeyParking, startups turn to valet parking on demand in congested cities — Parking Apps Face Obstacles at Every Turn — As soon as Uber and Lyft reinvented driving, entrepreneurs cast about for the next unloved slice of the economy to upend.| Alison Griswold / Slate: |
Spotify Running pushes you to keep pace with your music but doesn't change tempo once it's set — Spotify Running: The new music-streaming feature is nifty but stifling — It's a cool summer evening, and I'm striding along the Hudson River in New York's West Village, testing whether Spotify and I can keep pace with each other.| steve cheney: |
For predictive computing to become ubiquitous, devices need accurate indoor location info so developers can build fully contextually aware apps — First Brain Computing and the Mouse Cursor for the Physical World — We are quickly approaching an era where smartphones, watches and computers are extensions of us as human beings.
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Skype for Web is now available worldwide, adds Chromebook support — If you're not a fan of Skype's desktop app, you can now use the company's new Web app regardless of where you live. — Skype's Web app is free to use and as of today works with Chrome OS and Linux, in addition to Internet Explorer …
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