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Square acquires a majority stake in Jay-Z's streaming service Tidal for $297M; Jay-Z will join Square's board — What did Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey talk about when they went yachting around the Hamptons together last summer? Perhaps only Beyoncé knows. — Maybe now we do, too.
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU is set to press antitrust charges against Apple over App Store rules for competing music streaming services, following a complaint by Spotify — Brussels set to formally press charges alleging tech company used its dominance to squeeze out App Store rivals
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| Bloomberg: |
UK antitrust authorities say they plan to investigate Apple's App Store to probe whether it is abusing its market power to restrict competition — - CMA taking into account Apple's ‘dominant’ position in apps — Apple probe prompted by complaints from some developers
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out new features for Edge, including vertical tabs and a feature that it says can improve startup times by 29% to 41% after a device reboots — Microsoft Edge gets some new features for March — Microsoft is rolling out some new improvements to its Edge browser this month.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Leaked images show Sonos Roam, the company's smallest portable speaker, expected to ship on April 20 for $169 — You're looking at the first images of the next speaker from Sonos. Set to be priced at $169, the new device — it's called the Sonos Roam — is much smaller than the Sonos Move …
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @dcseifert, @chriswelch, @jonporty, @backlon, and @reckless
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
In the past month, three of the longest-running Russian cybercrime forums have been hacked, leaking their users' email addresses, login metadata, and more — Over the past few weeks, three of the longest running and most venerated Russian-language online forums serving thousands of experienced cybercriminals have been hacked.
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Flashpoint, The Record, BleepingComputer, DataBreaches.net, Gizmodo, Threatpost, Graham Cluley, and ZDNet
Tweets: @briankrebs, @neuralculture, and @flashpointintel
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple clarifies that users can't actually set a default music service in iOS 14.5 but has a feature that lets Siri attempt to learn preferred listening apps — Apple has clarified that the iOS 14.5 beta is not actually allowing users to select a new default music service, as has been reported.
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @viticci, @tailosivetech, @rsgnl, @dcseifert, and @tailosivetech
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is speeding up the Chrome release cycle and will ship a new milestone every four weeks instead of the current six weeks — Google today announced that its Chrome browser is moving to a faster release cycle by shipping a new milestone every four weeks instead of the current six-week cycle …
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| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Sound, an initiative to enhance the wireless sound experience by lowering latency and improving connection issues — Just days after it unveiled its project to bring — advanced haptics to Android, Qualcomm has announced another ambitious venture aimed at bridging the gaps in device performance.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Turntable.fm has relaunched with involvement from its founder and a separate site, Turntable.org, is expected to launch in beta in April with a subscription fee — A tale of two turntables — It's rare that apps come back from the dead, but it seems like that may be what's happening with Turntable.fm …
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Input. Tweets: @mattmcgee, @notdetails, @_alastair, @hollyanderson, @hunterwalk, and @mmasnick
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds one-to-one voice and video calling to the WhatsApp desktop app, but the browser version, WhatsApp Web, is not getting this feature at the moment — WhatsApp is rolling out support for voice and video calling to its desktop app, the Facebook-owned messaging service said Thursday …
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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
Study: far-right pubs get 65% more engagement on Facebook when they publish fake news; liberal and centrist pubs get less engagement if they publish misinfo — Far-right pages that publish misinformation get the most interactions by far compared to other news sources, new research shows.
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Tweets: @muslimadvocates, @randfish, @niemanlab, and @caitlin__kelly
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Virtual events startup Hopin raises $400M at a $5.65B valuation, more than double its valuation in its November round — - Hopin says it's raised $400 million at a $5.65 billion valuation, more than double what it was worth in a November investment round. — The latest financing round …
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Tweets: @ryan_browne_, @sriramk, @andrewchen, @briannekimmel, @a16z, @davidu, @franzschrepf, and @sriramk. Thanks:@ryan_browne_
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
AdGuard publishes a list of 6K+ trackers abusing the CNAME cloaking technique, which lets trackers bypass many ad-blocking and anti-tracking protections — Assuming your content blocker can scrutinize DNS — AdGuard on Thursday published a list of more than 6,000 CNAME-based trackers …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stream, which lets developers build chat and activity streams into apps and other services with a few lines of code, raises $38M Series B — A lot of our communication these days with each other is digital, and today one of the companies enabling that — with APIs to build chat experiences into apps …
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
As Clubhouse grows in popularity, companies like the just-launched Audio Collective seek to cater to creators, offering event planning and brand consulting — A new company called Audio Collective has launched to help build businesses on Clubhouse as brands rush to leverage the platform.| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling Pokémon cards and other collectibles, raises $20M Series A led by a16z — When I first wrote about Whatnot in February of last year, they were just getting started. Aiming to be the GOAT of collectible toys …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
In a letter, a bipartisan group of senators call on FCC to change their definition of high speed broadband to above 100/100 Mbps, up from the current 25/3 Mbps — The Pai FCC decided to maintain the current standard — The federal government's definition of high-speed broadband …
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Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PCMag, United States Senate, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @senatorbennet, @karlbode, @akbkuku, @senangusking, and @tobi
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Zimperium analysis: 14% of Android and iOS apps connecting to cloud services like AWS or Azure, totaling ~19K apps, have misconfigurations that expose user data — It's the digital equivalent of leaving your windows or doors open when you leave the house—and in some cases, leaving them open all the time.
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Zimperium Mobile Security Blog, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @jessedamiani, @lilyhnewman, and @hacker0x01
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Wipro reaches an agreement to buy Capco, a 22 year old tech consultancy firm based in London, for $1.45B; Wipro expects the deal to close by the end of June — Wipro said on Thursday it has reached an agreement to buy 22-year-old British tech consultancy firm Capco for $1.45 billion …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
After two Black Salesforce staff pointed to workplace issues in resignation letters, Salesforce's LinkedIn account posted a now-deleted message supporting BLM — - A person who gained access to Salesforce's LinkedIn account published a post saying that “BLACK LIVES STILL F— G MATTER.
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