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May 9, 2014, 2:50 PM

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Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Beats founder Dr. Dre seemingly confirms Apple acquisition in a now-removed Facebook video, still visible on YouTube — Did Dr. Dre just confirm that Apple is buying Beats for $3.2 billion? [Updated] … Apple is rumored to be acquiring Beats Electronics in a landmark deal worth $3.2 billion.

Wall Street Journal:

Beats' CEO Jimmy Iovine industry clout could help strengthen iTunes Radio, generate more ad revenue — Apple in Talks to Buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 Billion — Apple Inc. is preparing to bolster its streaming-music business with a proposed $3.2 billion deal to acquire Beats Electronics LLC …

More: Medium, Daily Dot, MacRumors and Gigaom Research

Tweets: @kepano, @erinade, @benbajarin, @pmarca, @ampressman, @delrey, @neiltwitz, @pkafka and @stevekovach

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Om Malik:

On Streaming: Apple, Beats & Spotify — In response to the rumors that Apple was buying Beats Audio for $3.2 billion, I sent out these three tweets. — Someone wrote that Apple will get design help from Beats Audio. LOL. Beats design is done by an outside agency, started by ex-Apple peeps.

More: TIME, TUAW, Los Angeles Times, Network World, Fast Company, SlashGear, Salon and InvestorPlace. Tweets: @ow

Jon Maples:

Apple buying Beats is an affordable bet on streaming to hedge against the decline of downloads — The Magic Numbers: How Apple Beats The Demise of Music Downloads — There are two numbers that you need to pay attention to in order to make sense of Apple's breathtaking acquisition of Beats Electronics.

More: Re/code, Daring Fireball, iPhone Hacks and AppleInsider

Tweets: @jmaples and @sdkstl

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Why Apple Is Betting Big on Beats: Hardware for Now, Streaming for Later — Apple is set to make the biggest purchase in its history: A $3 billion-plus deal for Beats, the company that sells high-end headphones and recently launched a streaming music service.

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Beats' CEO Jimmy Iovine in talks to join Apple as Tim Cook's “special adviser” on creative matters — Beats Electronics boss Jimmy Iovine is in talks to join Apple — Beats Electronics boss and veteran music industry executive Jimmy Iovine is in talks to join Apple as a …

More: BuzzFeed, Business Insider, CNET News, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Daily Dot, iPhone, TechnoBuffalo, App Advice, hypebot and Cult of Mac. See also Mediagazer

Graham Spencer / MacStories:

Mapping The International Availability of Entertainment Services

Tweets: @viticci. Thanks:@greyham

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple in final talks to acquire Beats for $3.2b, deal could be announced next week

Harry McCracken / TIME:

My First 7 Questions About This Apple-Beats Deal (Which, By the Way, I'm Not Assuming Is Happening)

More: Quartz, Fortune, The Loop, App Advice, Telegraph, Webomatica and memeburn

Steve Dent / Engadget:

Apple hires Ari Partinen, senior engineer who worked on Nokia's PureView camera technology — Apple just hired one of Nokia's PureView camera experts — Now that Nokia is out of the smartphone game, many of its key engineers are undoubtedly considering their options.

Michael Gold / Reuters:

Apple launching 4.7" iPhone 6 in August and larger model in September, claims Taiwanese report — Apple to unveil iPhone 6 in August, earlier than expected -report — Apple Inc will unveil the next incarnation of its popular iPhone series in August, one month earlier than industry watchers …

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Oracle wins Android-Java copyright appeal: API code copyrightable, new trial on fair use — The most spectacular decision in the ongoing smartphone IP disputes has been handed down today by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: District Judge William Alsup has been overruled …

More: Re/code, Guardian, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Reuters, ReadWrite, PC World, CNET, madisonian.net, Ars Technica, Business Insider, xda-developers and Electronista

Tweets: @grimmelm, @codinghorror, @fosspatents, @grimmelm, @drnic, @mmasnick, @dalmaer, @binarybits, @binarybits and @sarahjeong

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Luke Westaway / CNET News:

Netflix price hike is $1 extra per month, £1 in UK and €1 in Europe — The new, higher price only affects new subscribers, the streaming service says, with existing Netflix customers exempt from paying extra for two years. — Netflix — Netflix has issued the first details …

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Intel Pays Up To $30M For A Personal Assistant Platform From Ginger Software — Apple has Siri, and now Intel has Ginger. The chipmaker has made one more acquisition to bolster its advanced computing and artificial intelligence holdings: it has purchased selected assets, and hired talent …

More: GeekTime, Inquirer, Electronista, SlashGear and Webrazzi

Dave Lee / BBC:

UK ISPs agree to begin sending out warnings to customers who pirate content from next year — Deal to combat piracy in UK with ‘alerts’ is imminent — Lawyer Steve Kuncewicz: “There's no punitive backstop to any of this” — After years of wrangling, a deal between entertainment industry bodies …

More: TorrentFreak, Guardian, Out-Law News, Electronista, BetaNews, The Register, Engadget and Inquirer

Tweets: @mgeist and @xor

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Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom:

Boom! Google integrates Chrome apps into the Mac OS X Finder — Google's strategy to use the Chrome browser as a desktop replacement took another step forward on Friday. Users of Chrome Canary, an experimental version of Google's browser, can now associate Mac files with supporting Chrome apps in the Finder.

More: Franç, Engadget, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBreak and Computerworld. Tweets: @bfeld

Mark Josephson / bitly blog:

Bitly accounts compromised; change API key, reset password, and reconnect social accounts — Urgent Security Update Regarding Your Bitly Account — We have reason to believe that Bitly account credentials have been compromised. We have no indication at this time that any accounts have been accessed without permission.

More: Marketing Land, eWeek, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, Computerworld, Washington Post, VatorNews, BBC, Lifehacker, SecurityWeek, SC Magazine and InfoWorld

Tweets: @luminalhq and @chimoose

Abhijeet M. / SamMobile:

EXCLUSIVE: First photos of Galaxy Tab S 10.5, Samsung's AMOLED tablet — We recently published exclusive info on Samsung's upcoming tablet with an AMOLED display, the Galaxy Tab S. The Galaxy Tab S will come in 8.4-inch and 10.5-inch variants and will be Samsung's return to OLED tablets …

More: Engadget, Sammy Hub, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, Android Beat, GadgeTell, Android and Me, Ubergizmo, Phandroid, Unwired View, SlashGear, Geeky Gadgets, Android Central and Softpedia News

Robert Graham / Errata Security:

300k servers vulnerable to Heartbleed one month later — It's been a month since the Heartbleed bug was announced, so I thought I'd rescan the Internet (port 443) to see how many systems remain vulnerable. Whereas my previous scan a month ago found 600,000 vulnerable systems …

More: Ars Technica, The Register, BGR, Inquirer, Vivaldi.net, Help Net Security, PC World and Gizmodo

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

As Square Struggles, European Payments Rival iZettle Takes Another $55.5M In Funding — As mobile payment startup Square faces down reports that it's delaying an IPO amid growth problems and other pressures, iZettle, the Swedish mobile payments company that has been referred to as the Square of Europe …

More: VentureBeat, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Mobile World Live, Telecompaper, ArcticStartup, Business news, PYMNTS.com, VCPOST and Tech.eu

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Canalys: PC shipments up 5% in Q1 2014, Apple still first as tablets account for 41% and laptops take 38% — In Q1 2014, the worldwide PC market experienced just 5 percent growth year-over-year to 123.7 million units, if you take into consideration desktops, laptops, and tablets.

More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Electronista, 9to5Mac, Inquirer and App Advice

Hugh Langley / TechRadar:

Project Morpheus was built into PS4 from the start - we just didn't know it — EXCLUSIVE It's all part of the plan … Sony caused a lot of fuss when it confirmed that there would be no way of turning off the DualShock 4's light bar (the tyranny!), but do you want to know why it was really on there?

More: Computerworld, Geeky Gadgets and Gearburn

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