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Apple to acquire Beats Music and Beats Electronics for $2.6B in cash and $400M in stock to vest over time — Apple to Acquire Beats Music & Beats Electronics — Apple® today announced it has agreed to acquire the critically acclaimed subscription streaming music service Beats Music …
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See also Mediagazer| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Beats brand will remain separate from Apple; Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre to work under Eddy Cue — Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics — CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple, the company that turned digital music into a mainstream phenomenon, said on Wednesday … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook's memo to employees: Beats Music team will report to Eddy Cue, Beats Electronics team to Phil Schiller — Cook to employees on Beats buy: ‘I hope you are as excited as I am about this new chapter in our history’ — Following the official announcement regarding Apple's $3 billion acquisition …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Tim Cook Explains Why Apple Is Buying Beats (Q&A) — The Apple Beats deal has already generated lots of debate, and now that it's official, we will see even more. Here's Apple CEO Tim Cook's extended explanation, via an interview he conducted with Re/code this afternoon.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
At Apple, Iovine will go full time, Dre will still produce music but do “as much as it takes” — Apple Agrees to Buy Beats for $3 Billion — Beats Co-Founders Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre to Join Apple — Apple Inc. said Wednesday that it is buying Beats Electronics LLC for $3 billion … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Apple Will Operate Beats Music's Streaming Service Separately From The iTunes Download Store — Apple just bought Beats, but rather than risk cratering iTunes download sales by evolving it into a streaming service, it will operate Beats Music's streaming service in parallel to give listeners an all-they-can-hear subscription option.
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| Mary Meeker / KPCB: |
Slides: Mary Meeker's Internet Trends Report for 2014 — Internet Trends 2014 — Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) partners with the brightest entrepreneurs to turn disruptive ideas into world-changing businesses. The firm has helped build pioneering companies like Amazon …
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See also Mediagazer| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Meeker: As Internet User Growth Slows, the Real Driver Is Mobile Usage — Mary Meeker, the late-stage investor at Kleiner Perkins and longtime Internet analyst, presented the 2014 edition of her annual trends report at the Code Conference today. — She observed that while huge growth spurts …
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| Laszlo Bock / The Official Google Blog: |
Diversity at Google: 70% men; 61% white, 30% Asian, 3% Hispanic, 2% black — Getting to work on diversity at Google — We've always been reluctant to publish numbers about the diversity of our workforce at Google. We now realize we were wrong, and that it's time to be candid about the issues.
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Tweets: @dannysullivan, @cynion, @rotron and @tbjbuzzient
| Lauren Goode / Re/code: |
Intel Bets Its “Smart” Shirt on the Future of Wearables (Video) — Many millions of wearable computing devices are expected to ship this year (depending on which forecast you read), and a healthy debate is emerging over whether wearables are best applied to the wrist, to the face or in some other form …
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New York Times, The Next Web, TechSpot, Engadget, Connectedly, Wearable World News and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @reckless
| James Temple / Re/code: |
Intel plans to launch a 3D printable robot kit by the end of the year, starting around $1,600 — Heeeeeere's Jimmy: Intel's 3-D Printed Robot Will Hit the Market Later This Year — Intel plans to bring its fully customizable, 3-D printable robot kit to market by the end of the year, with a consumer version starting around $1,600.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Xamarin 3 Launches With UI Design Tool For iOS Apps, Cross-Platform Interface API And More — Xamarin has long been one of the most popular tools for building cross-platform mobile applications and today, the company is taking a major step forward by launching version 3.0 of its service.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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| Troy Hunt / Troy Hunt's Blog: |
The mechanics of the iCloud “hack” and how iOS devices are being held to ransom — If you're an Aussie with an iPhone, there's a chance you've been woken up in the middle of the night by this: — Oh boy. What we're looking at is an iPhone that has been remotely locked by “Oleg Pliss”.
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Samsung's Simband hardware and healthcare platform aim to track your every move — Samsung plans to expand its focus on health tracking technologies, the company said today. At an event in San Francisco, the company said there needs to be better technology for keeping tabs on the body at all times.
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Tweets: @harrymccracken, @stevekovach, @tcarmody, @inafried and @jank0
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft announces next IE version will feature Web Audio, Media Capture, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2 — Microsoft today announced it is developing at least four new features for the next release of Internet Explorer: Web Audio API, Media Capture and Streams, ES6 Promises, and HTTP/2.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Uber Ties Up With AT&T For Driver Service And To Pre-Load Its App On New Android Phones — Uber wants to be the app that consumers use to get around town, and it's looking to gain a lot more distribution, thanks to a new deal that the company is announcing today.
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Uber Blog, PandoDaily, Re/code, Business Insider, VatorNews, Gigaom, 9to5Google and VentureBeat. Tweets: @markmilian
| Brian Barrett / Gizmodo: |
Amazon's Hit List: Which Books Are Screwed, and By How Much — As of today, Amazon's crusade against book publisher Hachette is no longer an open secret, it's outright confirmed. Shipments are being delayed, prices are elevated, and some listings are unavailable altogether. But how extensive is the fallout?| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Buys Mobile App Management Platform Cappitan, Will Integrate It Into Azure — Yesterday, Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella noted that Azure, the company's cloud platform, had more work to do have better traction with startups and developers. Today, the company is taking a step to improve that …
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Azure, eWeek, ZDNet, GeekWire, VentureBeat and The Next Web
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
“TrueCrypt is not secure,” official SourceForge page abruptly warns — One of the official webpages for the widely used TrueCrypt encryption program says that development has abruptly ended and warns users of the decade-old tool that it isn't safe to use. — “WARNING: Using TrueCrypt …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Square Begins Offering Data Driven Cash Advances To Small Businesses — Today, payment processing company Square is announcing its first big additional vertical based on its enormous amount of business data. That offering is called Square Capital, and it enables the company to offer cash advances to businesses in its network.
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| Richard Padilla / MacRumors: |
Apple Introduces Education Pricing for iPad Air and Retina iPad Mini, Now Starting at $469 and $379 — Apple has introduced reduced education pricing for the iPad Air and Retina iPad Mini, offering both tablets at starting prices of $469 and $379, reports iGeneration (Google Translate).
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| Miguel Helft / Fortune: |
Egyptian democracy activist Wael Ghonim joins Google Ventures — Few in Silicon Valley can say that they have actually led revolutions. Wael Ghonim is one of them. — FORTUNE — Wael Ghonim, the Google (GOOG) executive and Internet activist who became a leader of the Egyptian revolution in 2010 …
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