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Taylor Swift will withhold her latest album “1989” from Apple Music, says lack of royalties during three month free trial hurts smaller artists — To Apple, Love Taylor — I write this to explain why I'll be holding back my album, 1989, from the new streaming service, Apple Music.
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Eddy Cue: Apple will pay rights holders on a per-stream basis during trial period — Apple Says It Will Pay Taylor Swift For Free Streams After All — Taylor Swift isn't just the biggest pop star in the world. She's also the world's most effective Apple lobbyist.
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Amazon to pay authors of self-published Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners' Lending Library e-books based on pages read, not downloads, from July 1st — What If Authors Were Paid Every Time Someone Turned a Page? — When I recently learned of Amazon's new plan to pay some authors …
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Unsealed court docs reveal DoJ forced Google to turn over WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Applebaum's Gmail data in 2011, under a gag order — Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google over Surveillance of WikiLeaks Volunteer — The Obama administration fought a legal battle against Google to secretly obtain … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sizing Up The Suitors For Here, Nokia's Map Business — As the number of connected mobile gadgets — from smartphones and watches to cars — continues to grow, the market is heating up for accurate location data to serve those of us who use these devices. — That fact is being played … | Ethan Zuckerman / The Atlantic: |
As commonplace objects like toys become cloud-connected recording devices, policymakers should confront the implications — Beware the Listening Machines — One of my great pleasures in life is attending conferences on fields I'm intrigued by, but know nothing about.| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Subreddit moderators far removed from recent bannings say they're concerned with Reddit's leadership and strategy — Reddit Is A Shrine To The Internet We Wanted And That's A Problem — Reddit has a problem. It's a well-documented problem, which, oddly, is a big part of the problem.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Profile of Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos, man in-charge of securing web properties that collectively serve over a billion users — Paranoid-in-Chief: Yahoo's Alex Stamos Wants to Secure the Entire Internet — It's an early and sunny Saturday after the week-long RSA …
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| Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech: |
AMD denies rumor that it's mulling breakup or spinoff — Rumors about AMD's breakup or acquisition by various companies are common, but they don't often come from the likes of Reuters. According to the news agency, AMD is once-again mulling a breakup or spinoff.
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Sony's new PlayStation 4 arrives with 1TB of storage next month — Microsoft's Xbox One isn't the only console getting a storage upgrade. Sony today announced its new PlayStation 4 1TB Ultimate Player Edition, a new version of the console that comes with twice the hard drive space of the previous model.| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Amazon Releases Fire OS 5 Developer Preview Based On Android Lollipop, Official Launch Slated For Later This Year — Born and raised in the rural South, Bertel knows what it's like to live without 4G LTE - or 3G, for that matter. The only things he likes sweeter than his tea are his gadgets …
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg Business: |
Former US Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges who allegedly stole $820K in bitcoin during Silk Road investigation to plead guilty — Ex-U.S. Agent Charged With Bitcoin Theft to Plead Guilty — One of two former U.S. agents charged with pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars …
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