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June 24, 2015, 9:00 PM

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Billboard:

Apple Music signs thousands of independent labels after changing royalty structure during trial period — Apple Music Signs Beggars Group, Merlin: Sources — Beggars comprises the imprints 4AD, XL, Matador and Rough Trade and has had a hand in the careers of Adele, Radiohead and Arcade Fire …

Matt Galligan / Medium:

Circa is shutting down indefinitely after failure to monetize and close funding deals; CEO Matt Galligan says firm is working on deal involving underlying tech — Farewell to Circa News — It's with great disappointment that we let you know that Circa News has been put on indefinite hiatus.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Messenger no longer requires a Facebook account to sign up, just a first name, last name, and phone number in the US, Canada, Peru, Venezuela — Messenger No Longer Requires A Facebook Account — Facebook wants even the people who hate Facebook to use Messenger …

Vidya Nagarajan / Official Google for Work Blog:

Google releases new $1,999 Chromebox for meetings bundle targeted at larger conference rooms with support for up to 20 people — Chromebox, now bringing face-to-face meetings to bigger spaces — When we launched Chromebox for meetings last year, we wanted to help teams meet face to face …

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Bloomberg Business:

Dropbox hits 400M registered users, but company still struggles with sales strategy and lacks stability within executive ranks as rivals catch up — Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up — Dropbox CEO: We Have 400 Million Users and Growing — Dropbox made itself a household name by giving away cloud storage.

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider and VentureBeat. Tweets: @caseynewton

Amir Efrati / The Information:

Apple to block apps like Twitter from scanning users' iPhones and iPads to see which other apps are installed — Apple Moves to Block iPhone App-Scanning — In order to decide what ad to show to a person, Facebook and Twitter have sometimes drawn on data about other apps that are already installed on that person's phone.

More: MacRumors, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, MacNN, iDownloadBlog.com, InvestorPlace, iPhone Hacks and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @amir

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Slack hits 1.1M daily users, 900K third-party integration installs, and 300K paying customers as Twitter's April Underwood joins as head of platform — As Slack Hits 1M Daily Users And 900K Integration Installs, It Hires April Underwood As Head Of Platform

More: VatorNews, The Verge, The Next Web, Forbes, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Quartz, BuzzFeed, Fast Company, Fortune and BetaKit

Tweets: @ow, @vindugoel, @aunder, @mattnavarra and @tomwarren

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Spotify acquires analytics firm Seed Scientific that included Beats Music as a client, will exclusively get access to services — Spotify Buys Beats' Analytics Provider Seed Scientific — Spotify wants to own big data about bands. Today it acquired analytics firm Seed Scientific to forge …

More: Seed, Scientific, Fortune, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Digital Media Wire. Tweets: @pkafka

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

iOS 9's Safari View Controller lets developers replace custom in-app web views with a Safari-based browser that can access Safari's cookies and autofill — iOS 9 and Safari View Controller: The Future of Web Views — For a long time, iOS apps have been able to open links as web views.

Tweets: @davidkaneda, @rsarver, @pierrevalade, @mgsiegler and @joshelman

Wall Street Journal:

GoFundMe to be acquired by investor group led by Accel and Technology Crossover, at a valuation source says is around $600M — GoFundMe Founders to Reap a Fortune in Buyout — The two founders of crowdfunding site GoFundMe are relinquishing control and reaping a fortune by selling …

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider and Xconomy

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

VenueNext, which creates apps for stadiums, raises $9M from investors including Twitter Ventures — Twitter Invests in VenueNext, Which Builds Apps for Arenas and Stadiums — Hey, can you tweet me some nachos? — This may someday be a legitimate request for stadium-goers given Twitter's latest investment, VenueNext.

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