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Spotify to transition its service from its own servers to Google Cloud Platform over the next 18 months — Spotify Moves Itself Onto Google's Cloud—Lucky for Google — Spotify is moving itself onto the Googlenet. — A decade ago, the Swedish startup built its seminal streaming music service atop …
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| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg Business: |
Source: Apple to argue that code should be protected as speech under First Amendment in FBI case — Apple-FBI Fight Asks: Is Code Protected as Free Speech? — IPhone maker is seeking to use First Amendment as a defense — Case may set precedent for considering software as expression| Eric Geller / The Daily Dot: |
Pro-encryption lawmakers Ron Wyden, Zoe Lofgren on House support for backdoor bans, McCaul-Warner commission plans, Apple vs FBI as a chance to educate Congress — Pro-encryption lawmakers see ‘Apple vs. FBI’ fight as a chance to educate Congress — Two of Congress's staunchest supporters …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
ASUS settlement with FTC over router flaws from 2014 requires 20 years of security audits — Asus lawsuit puts entire industry on notice over shoddy router security — FTC takes aim at insecurity that's rampant in the “Internet-of-things” industry. — In February 2014 …
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| Michael Zhang / PetaPixel: |
Lightroom Android 2.0 launches, becoming the first mobile app to support RAW photo capturing using DNG format on devices with the capability — Lightroom on Android 2.0 is the World's First End-to-End Mobile RAW Photo App — Adobe today launched Lightroom on Android 2.0, the world's first end-to-end RAW mobile photography solution.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Technorati, former Web 2.0 darling that raised $32M in its heyday, acquired for $3M by Buffalo advertising monetization service Synacor — Synacor Buys Technorati For Just $3M To Build Out Its Mobile And Ad Tech Business — Yet more consolidation underway in the ad tech business …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
SoundCloud Pulse, A Dedicated App For Music Creators, Arrives On iOS — SoundCloud Pulse, the music streaming service's dedicated app for artists and creators, is now available on iOS. In an odd move in a market where apps tend to release on iOS first, Pulse first debuted on Android back in November.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Zynga plans to sell and lease back its San Francisco headquarters, originally acquired for $228M — Zynga puts its San Francisco headquarters up for sale — Zynga has put its San Francisco headquarters up for sale, confirming a report today from the San Francisco blog SFist.
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| Nate Swanner / The Next Web: |
Twitter releases Fabric mobile app for iOS and Android with real-time alerts and analytics — Meet Fabric, Twitter's new mobile app built specifically for developers — Twitter Fabric is a mainstay for developers who want to build better apps, but has been limited to a Web-based interface.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
After nine years without ads, Pocket experiments with sponsored content in Recommended feed; Premium subscribers will remain ad-free — Pocket Wants You To Read Ads Later Too — People love Pocket. Its 22 million registered users have saved over 2 billion articles.
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Pocket Blog, Android Police, VentureBeat, Lifehacker, The Verge, Engadget and The Next Web. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer
| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Telegram reports that 100M people use the free encrypted messaging app every month, up from 60M people last May — Encrypted-Messaging App Telegram Now Has 100 Million Users — Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov built a messaging app predicated upon its ability to keep private things private … | Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
Eero's multi-device approach to Wi-Fi offers superior coverage and ease of use, but is very expensive with a single unit costing $199, $499 for a three-pack — Mossberg: Eero makes Wi-Fi simpler and stronger — Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge …
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