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Apple Music FAQ: features included with paid subscription, what happens to iTunes Match and Radio, migrating from Beats Music, and more — Apple Music FAQ: Everything you need to know — Apple Music is coming June 30. We've got the beats and the deets.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Music will be available on Sonos speakers by end of the year — Update: Apple has confirmed in a statement to Buzzfeed that Apple is working with Sonos to get Apple Music available on the connected speaker system by the end of the year. Original story below.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is testing a new Snapchat-style photo uploader for iOS with text overlays and swipeable filters — Facebook's Snapchatty New Photo Uploader Lets You Overlay Text And More — Face it. Your photos aren't all that interesting. But Facebook's going to help you jazz them up with its shiny …
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| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Apple has started early production of new iPhone models with Force Touch, volume manufacturing scheduled to ramp up as soon as next month — Apple Suppliers Start Making iPhones With Force Touch — Apple Inc. has started early production of new iPhone models with a feature called Force Touch …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Google skews search results in anticompetitive behavior says new study by Yelp and leading academic Tim Wu — Google's search practices come under scrutiny from leading academic Wu — Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, argues in a paper that Google …
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| Rick Carew / Wall Street Journal: |
Didi Kuaidi's $1.5B round already oversubscribed; in addition to 3M daily taxi rides, now has 3M daily private car requests compared to 1M UberChina rides/day — Chinese Ride-Hailing App Didi Kuaidi May Raise Fundraising Target — With offering oversubscribed, CEO says in letter to investors …
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| Bloomberg Business: |
Some Uber drivers in China place fake bookings to cash in on free rides intended to build brand awareness — One Driver Explains How He Is Helping to Rip Off Uber in China — The Uber app in Beijing. Source: Imaginechina — James Li was unhappy with his pay as a security guard in Shanghai …
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| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Supreme Court Denies Google Appeal on Oracle Suit — Oracle had alleged Google's Android OS infringed copyrights on its Java platform — WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Monday denied a Google Inc. appeal that sought to stop a billion-dollar Oracle Corp. lawsuit by seeking limits on software copyright protections.
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| The Local: |
Two Uber bosses ‘held by police’ in France — Two of the bosses of Uber France have been arrested by police and taken into questioning, reports claim on Monday. READ — People cool off in the water of the Trocadero fountain in Paris. Photo: AFP
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Facebook's “add a link” feature is available now on iOS, lets users view and share articles without leaving the app — Facebook Makes It Easier to Share Links Without Ever Leaving Facebook — Facebook added an app update on Thursday that allows people to post and share links …
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Facebook Code, Engadget, The Next Web, Mashable, ITworld.com, Fone Arena, SocialTimes, MobileSyrup.com and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Rachael King / Wall Street Journal: |
Automakers tackle the huge security challenges of vehicle-to-vehicle communication — Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehicles — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is accelerating its efforts to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle communications …
Tweets: @mckeay
| James Surowiecki / MIT Technology Review: |
Google Fiber has pushed ISPs to improve broadband speeds in many markets, a result the FCC's National Broadband Plan failed to achieve — Broadband Speeds Are Improving in Many Places. Too Bad It Took Google to Make It Happen. — It's too often said that some event “changed everything” in technology.
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