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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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Docker, CoreOS unite with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, VMware, others to define container standards under new Open Container Project, backed by Linux Foundation — Docker Rivals Join Together in Open Container Effort — The open-source container community is uniting today … | Steve Grove / The Official Google Blog: |
Google launches News Lab to help journalists use its tools and data sets “to help build the future of media”, partners with several media organzations — Introducing the News Lab — It's hard to think of a more important source of information in the world than quality journalism.
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft stealthily backs away from free Windows 10 promise — We thought this would happen. — On Friday, Microsoft described a way for anyone to get Windows 10 for free: activated, genuine, and updated forever. We wrote at the time that we expected the company to do a volte-face and back away from this promise.
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NSA and GCHQ have tried since at least 2008 to reverse-engineer antivirus software like Kaspersky, monitored company emails for new malware they could use — Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks — The National Security Agency and its British counterpart … | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Dollar Shave Club raises $75M at a $615M valuation led by Technology Crossover Ventures — Dollar Shave Club Is Valued at $615 Million — Lots of videos go viral. Few prove as lucrative as Michael Dubin's. — Three years ago the Dollar Shave Club founder launched his company …
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Facebook to open entire suite of its ad targeting tools to Instagram in the next few months — Facebook Pushes Advertisers to Employ User Data More Effectively — Facebook Inc. is pushing advertisers to be more strategic with the vast data the social website has on its 1.4 billion users.
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Instacart converting large part of its contractor workforce into part-time employees, starting in Boston and Chicago — Instacart Reclassifies Part of Its Workforce Amid Regulatory Pressure on Uber — The grocery delivery startup makes a big change that regulators have been pressuring Uber and other companies to make
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Next generation Moto G details leak, will have Snapdragon 410 CPU, 5" display, 13mpx back and 5 mpx front cameras, 1GB RAM, expandable 8GB storage, LTE — Moto G (2015) seemingly leaks from multiple sources, isn't very exciting — @stephenhall_ June 21, 20156 minutes ago| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
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 … | 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.
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Twitter's board of directors says CEO role is a “full-time commitment” in message to investors resolving one question about Jack Dorsey — Twitter's CEO Search Rules Out Dorsey If He Stays at Square — Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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| Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat: |
Study: Facebook on track to deliver two-thirds as many video views as YouTube does in 2015 — Facebook is nipping at YouTube's heels in the race for video viewers and advertisers — YouTube is the clear leader in video sharing and viewing, but Facebook is creeping up on the Google-owned giant.
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