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October 23, 2015, 2:05 PM

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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:
Pandora will pay RIAA $90 million for playing pre-1972 songs  —  The maze of state copyright laws is an expensive headache for online music.  —  Internet radio company Pandora has agreed to pay the major US record labels $90 million over streaming of pre-1972 songs, which aren't covered …
BBC:
UK ISP TalkTalk suffers massive breach, warns data of 4M customers, including credit card and bank details, could have been accessed  —  TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack  —  Police are investigating after a “significant and sustained cyber-attack” on the TalkTalk website, the UK company has confirmed.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Bing finally reaches profitability, contributing more than $1B to Microsoft's Q1 revenue  —  Microsoft's Bing search business finally is profitable  —  Microsoft's search business has turned the corner and is finally profitable, and generated $1 billion in revenues during the company's first quarter of 2016.
Barbara van Schewick / Medium:
As EU votes on net neutrality rules on Tuesday next week, activists urge MEPs to adopt key amendments  —  Europe Is About to Adopt Bad Net Neutrality Rules.  Here's How to Fix Them  —  On Tuesday, October 27, the European Parliament will vote on rules intended to protect network neutrality in the European Union (EU).
Ari Grant / Facebook:
Matt Weinberger / Business Insider:
Microsoft restructures, changes leadership of some units within its Cloud and Enterprise division amid strong growth  —  Microsoft shuffles its cloud business to keep the good times rolling  —  Microsoft's cloud infrastructure business is leading the company's ongoing growth …
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business:
CEO Jack Dorsey Gives a Third of His Twitter Stock Back to Employees  —  Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey is giving a third of his Twitter stock to the company's employees, he said in a tweet today.  —  The shares amount to 1 percent of the company, and the move is to “reinvest directly in our people,” he said.

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