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June 15, 2015, 11:05 AM

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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.”
John Ruwitch / Reuters:
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 …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
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.
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.
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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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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
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.
Bloomberg Business:
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
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.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Startups look to compete with incumbents like Uber by focusing on niches like car-pooling and mass transit  —  New Ride Services Forge Own Specialized Paths  —  When Trae Vassallo's children hop in the car to head to their after-school sports practice in the San Francisco Bay Area several times a week …

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