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Japanese sportswear company ASICS acquires Runkeeper — Runkeeper and ASICS are Joining Forces — I have some big news today! I am proud and excited to announce that Runkeeper has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by ASICS Corporation.
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UK police arrest teen hacker thought to be Cracka, who is allegedly behind CIA and FBI breaches — Teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches: 'They're Trying to Ruin My Life.' — The months-long series of hacks and pranks by a group of alleged teenage hackers on the US government …
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Study: criminals would be able to easily avoid any mandatory backdoors by switching to one of many encryption methods developed outside US — Encryption Is Worldwide: Yet Another Reason Why a US Ban Makes No Sense — If a handful of lawmakers in the US and abroad have their way …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Vevo's New, More Personalized Music App Comes To Android & Apple TV — In recent months, Vevo has been working to extend its brand from being best-known as the provider of original music videos on YouTube to being a service for music discovery in its own right.
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| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
Netflix shuttered its last data center in January after a seven-year migration to the cloud, now everything runs on AWS — Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastructure — It's done and dusted. Since someday last month, everything Netflix does runs on Amazon Web Services … | Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
SoundCloud files financial results showing $44.27M loss in 2014 with revenue of $19.7M; board forecasts it will need more capital investment in 2016 — SoundCloud financial results show €39.1m loss in 2014 — SoundCloud's revenues rose 54% to €17.4m in 2014 … | Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
UK's Streetmap loses ‘anticompetitive’ search abuse case against Google — UK internet mapping company to appeal after High Court rejects lawsuit claiming Google's conduct led to ‘dramatic loss of traffic’ — UK-based digital map provider Streetmap has lost its High Court action accusing Google … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Uber Picks Up Another $200M From LetterOne To Push Into Emerging Markets — Along with its new branding, it looks like Uber has picked up some new funding, too. LetterOne (L1), a fund based out of Luxembourg and headed by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman, is putting $200 million … | William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Zenefits created software tool to let sales reps fake completion of legally required course — Zenefits Program Let Insurance Brokers Fake A Mandatory Training Course — A secret software program inside Zenefits made it seem that brokers were completing a legally required 52-hour online training course …
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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X16 LTE modem supporting 1 Gbps downloads and 150 Mbps uploads — Qualcomm promises gigabit LTE speeds with its new Snapdragon X16 modem — And there are new low-end phone and wearable Snapdragon chips for later in 2016. — Qualcomm's lead in the mobile SoC … | Agam Shah / PCWorld: |
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Facebook is testing SMS integration in Messenger on Android, launches multiple account support — Facebook has confirmed that it is looking to bring back SMS support in Messenger and has also launched multiple account support. At least for now, both features are only for Android users.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber agrees to pay $28.5M to 25M riders in US and rename its “safe ride fee” to settle class-action lawsuit over safety claims — Uber Settles Class-Action Suit Over Safety Background Checks — Uber has agreed to pay $28.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that took issue …
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Sources: Pandora has held preliminary discussions about selling itself — Pandora Is Said to Have Held Talks About Selling Itself — Pandora Media, the largest Internet radio service, has held discussions about selling the company, according to people briefed on the talks.
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Business Insider, USA Today, Fortune, Variety, Wall Street Journal, VatorNews, Mashable, SiliconANGLE, Music Industry Blog, The Hill, musictechpolicy.wordpress.com, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, CNET, TechSpot, Investor's Business Daily, ZDNet, GeekWire, MacDailyNews, SiliconBeat, Daring Fireball, Forbes, ValueWalk, Reuters, Deadline, Variety and Business Insider
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