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June 21, 2016, 2:55 AM

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Tony Romm / Politico:
Apple CEO Tim Cook will host a fundraiser for House Speaker Paul Ryan next week in the wake of Apple pulling support for the GOP convention over Trump  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook will host a fundraiser with House Speaker Paul Ryan next week as the iPhone maker tries to strengthen its relationships …
Madhumita Murgia / Telegraph:
Spotify says it has 100M+ monthly active users, adding 1.8M monthly, with 30% as paying subscribers  —  Spotify has confirmed that it has more than 100m monthly active users on its music streaming service today.  —  30pc of these users are paying subscribers, leading to an almost doubling …
Rob Levine / Billboard:
Taylor Swift among 180 artists and organizations signing petition for DMCA reform in ad spot, protesting “safe harbor”, upon which services like YouTube rely  —  For the last three months, the music industry has been fighting — or at least negotiating in public — with YouTube.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Twitter acquires Magic Pony Technology, a London-based company that uses machine learning to identify features in and enhance imagery; sources: deal worth $150M  —  Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Tumblr to launch live video on Tuesday with an expanded strategy for real-time content  —  Twitter has Periscope.  Amazon has Twitch.  Google has YouTube's live streaming.  And Facebook has Facebook Live.  Now, Tumblr is getting into live video, too.  The company is preparing to launch …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft kicks off campaign touting battery savings of Windows 10's Edge browser  —  Microsoft is going on the browser offensive with new test results showing Windows 10 Edge bests Google, Opera and Firefox on battery life.  —  Microsoft is kicking off a campaign touting the power-saving capabilities …
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:
All of Facebook's board of directors, including Peter Thiel, are re-elected, and shareholders vote to issue non-voting Class C shares  —  Facebook today held its annual shareholder meeting, and the group approved the formation of a new class of voting shares that will keep CEO Mark Zuckerberg …
Ron Miller / TechCrunch:
Dell sells software unit to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management for undisclosed sum  —  TechCrunch has confirmed that Francisco Partners and Elliott Management have agreed to acquire Dell's software division.  —  Elliott Management, Francisco Partners and Dell issued …
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Bank of America offering cardless withdrawals using Apple Pay at over 3K ATMs equipped with NFC in US  —  Bank of America has begun rolling out support for withdrawing cash from its ATMs using Apple Pay.  —  Approximately 650 card-less ATMs were deployed in the San Francisco area in May …
Wall Street Journal:
China has 167 machines in Top500 list of fastest supercomputers, edging out 165 for US, and China's new Sunway TaihuLight computer is 2x as fast as any machine  —  For first time, China places more machines than the U.S. on Top500 list  —  China has bolstered its claim to leadership …
Tim Peterson / Marketing Land:
Facebook will let Page owners use the interactive Canvas ad format for Page posts  —  Facebook will let Page owners use the interactive Canvas ad format for organic Page posts in a bid to get people to spend more time in the social network.  —  Facebook has a new weapon in its arsenal in the war for people's digital attentions.

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