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Sources: Spotify retaliates against artists who give exclusives to rivals by excluding tracks from promoted playlists and demoting their songs in search results — Service said to tell labels it may keep tracks off playlists — Apple Music emerges as largest challenge to streaming leader
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Spotify calls report that it demotes songs in search due to artists' exclusives with rivals “unequivocally false” — Spotify doesn't like exclusives. But it says it won't bury Frank Ocean and other acts in its search results. — Spotify doesn't like it when big-name acts take their music to Apple or Tidal first.
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White House proposing new federal rules letting foreign entrepreneurs with $345K+ in US funding remain in country for 5 years; no congressional approval needed — The move, which won't require congressional approval, allows people to stay up to five years, provided their startup has significant U.S. investment.
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Sources: Apple to use Sony's FeliCa chip, a mobile tap-to-pay standard, in new iPhones in Japan to let users pay for transit with their smartphones — Company planning new iPhone model with Sony's FeliCa chip — Apple in talks with financial insitution for mobile payments
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Facebook will now select stories and excerpts automatically for Trending topic pages, show topics instead of story descriptions in Trending section — Today, we're making some changes to the Trending feature on Facebook that will make the product more automated and will no longer require people …
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Recode, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Gizmodo, GeekWire, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Mashable, SocialTimes, Engadget, SlashGear, VentureBeat, POPSUGAR and New York Magazine
Tweets: @joshconstine and @anildash
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How a government targeted Ahmed Mansoor, an activist in the UAE, with three zero-day exploits meant to infect his iPhone with sophisticated commercial spyware — Ahmed Mansoor is an internationally recognized human rights defender, based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) …
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Laptop Mag, Business Insider, Digital Trends, The Intercept, USA Today, The Verge, ABC, Motherboard, CNET, Telegraph, Ubergizmo, The Daily Caller, Mashable, Forbes, Committee to Protect …, ExtremeTech, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Geek.com, Slate, SecurityWeek, Associated Press, BetaNews, BGR, Inquirer, Silicon Republic, Help Net Security, Macworld, SlashGear, Naked Security, TechSpot, Tech Times, TechCrunch, FedScoop, BBC, SiliconANGLE, Softpedia News, Technology Personalized, Errata Security, eWeek, Network World, Fortune, Techdirt, iMore, Tom's Hardware, The Mac Security Blog, BleepingComputer.com, Quartz, The Tech Report, The Atlantic, CNNMoney, Guardian and POPSUGAR. Tweets: @fbajak
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Tweets: @dguido, @nytimesbusiness, @sarahleah1, @mims, @cloeven, @snowden and @snowden
| Akin Oyedele / Business Insider: |
PE firm Apollo Global taking Rackspace private in $4.3B deal, valuing firm at 38% premium over August 3 closing price when first reports about buyout surfaced — Apollo Global, a private-equity firm, has agreed to buy Rackspace in a $4.3 billion deal that would take the cloud-computing company private.
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The Official Rackspace Blog, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, USA Today, ZDNet, The Official Rackspace Blog, Reuters, TechCrunch, theWHIR.com, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, Light Reading, PE Hub Blog, Xconomy, Datamation.com, CNBC, CIO.com, Fortune, Bloomberg, PE Hub Blog, Forbes, Mattermark, Data Center Knowledge, internetretailer.com, cloudcomputing-news.net and Tech Trader Daily
Tweets: @jaycuthrell, @alex, @mikeboard1200 and @ahess247
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter is working on an anti-harassment tool to let users filter posts using keywords — Abuse has led to depature of several high-profile users — New solution is similar to Instagram's keyword-based filter — Twitter Inc. is working on a keyword-based tool that will let people filter …
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Tweets: @digiphile, @caseynewton, @sarahfrier and @kurtwagner8
See also Mediagazer| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox prompting users to reset passwords that haven't been changed since mid-2012, calls it a preventative move, says no evidence accounts improperly accessed — Dropbox is requiring users who have not changed their passwords since mid-2012 to reset their passwords this afternoon.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook open sources three computer vision tools that can identify objects within photos: DeepMask, SharpMask, and MultiPathNet — DeepMask and SharpMask are now open source — Facebook is open sourcing a set of computer vision software tools that can identify both the variety and the shape of objects within photos.| Mark Bergen / Recode: |
Report: Google Fiber chief Craig Barratt was told by Larry Page to halve staff to 500; Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat interceded to defend business model — Another bump in the road for Alphabet. — For the past year, Ruth Porat, the CFO of Google and its parent Alphabet, has told Wall Street …
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The Information, Light Reading, Tennessean.com, Android Police, Fast Company, Digital Trends, The Verge, Multichannel News, Vanity Fair, RCR Wireless News, TalkAndroid.com, Droid Life, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Google, IT ProPortal, Tech Times, SiliconBeat, CNET, Engadget and Lauren Weinstein
Tweets: @theinformation and @amir
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
China Labor Watch accuses iPhone 7 manufacturer Pegatron of illegally forcing overtime, low wages of $2/hour, urges Apple to invest in improving conditions — Industry watchdog China Labor Watch this week published a new report detailing what it says are continued workers' rights violations … | New York Times: |
WhatsApp to share phone numbers and analytics data of users with Facebook, two years after it said it had no plans to collect data — SAN FRANCISCO — When Facebook bought the start-up WhatsApp in 2014, Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp's founders, declared that the deal would not affect …
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Motherboard, Wired, BBC, The Verge, Yahoo! Finance, Christian Science Monitor, epic.org, ValueWalk, Naked Security, the Econsultancy blog, PYMNTS.com, BetaNews, Geek News Central, DSLreports, Ars Technica UK, Forbes, Silicon Republic, International Business Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, Trak.in, Tech Times, Lifehacker, Pocket-lint, Recode, Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney, Gizmodo, TG Daily, Nextgov, NPR, Marketing Land, WhatsApp Blog, Breitbart, InvestorPlace, The Hacker News, Associated Press, SiliconBeat, SocialTimes, Digital Trends, Fortune, AppleInsider, Windows Central, Softpedia News, SlashGear, The Register, Help Net Security, Ubergizmo, 9to5Mac, Quartz, MobileSyrup.com, WebProNews, Business Insider and Phandroid. Tweets: @mdudas
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