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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 …

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 …

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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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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 …

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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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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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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 …

More: 9to5Mac, Forbes, GeekWire, MacDailyNews and Daily Dot

James Temple / Re/code:

Mary Meeker Tamps Down All That Bubble Talk

More: Fortune. Tweets: @ethank

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 …

More: The Next Web, Wearable World News, Connectedly, Engadget 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.

More: eWeek, Business Insider, Gizmodo and Geekosystem. Tweets: @darth

Chris Duckett / ZDNet:

iCloud not compromised in Apple ID attack: Apple — Summary: Apple has produced a minuscule response to the Apple ID attack that began affecting Australian and New Zealand iCloud users yesterday. — Chris Duckett — Almost a half and a day after a number of Australian users reported finding …

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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

More: Computerworld

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.

More: Xamarin Blog, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, GeekWire, Business Wire and CITEworld

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft partner Xamarin buys Clarius Consulting's Visual Studio division

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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.

More: Uber Blog, PandoDaily, Engadget, Re/code, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Next Web and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @markmilian

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 …

More: Azure, eWeek, AdExchanger, ZDNet, Softpedia News, GeekWire and VentureBeat

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.

More: CNET News, SiliconBeat, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, PC World, ZDNet, CITEworld, Business Wire, AppleInsider, The Technology Chronicles, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Re/code, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Gigaom, BGR, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Engadget, GSMArena Blog and MobileSyrup.com

Tweets: @tcarmody, @jank0, @harrymccracken and @stevekovach

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?

More: Amazon.com, The Verge and VentureBeat. Tweets: @dannysullivan. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: Square, Wired, Gigaom, VentureBeat, TIME, The Technology Chronicles, NYConvergence.com, CNET and Engadget

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Google unveils a self-driving car prototype without a steering wheel or pedals, speed limited to 25mph — Google's New Self-Driving Car Ditches the Steering Wheel — Google has finally built its own car from scratch. And it looks like a gondola with wheels.

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).

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, The Next Web, Gigaom, iPhone in Canada Blog and Gotta Be Mobile

Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:

Google Using Machine Learning to Boost Data Center Efficiency — Google is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to wring even more efficiency out of its mighty data centers. — In a presentation today at Data Centers Europe 2014, Google's Joe Kava said the company has begun using …

More: The Official Google Blog, GeekWire, The Register, ZDNet, Google Cloud Platform Blog, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Ars Technica and 9to5Google

Gurdeep Pall / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Skype Translator, a real-time language translation tool, will begin rolling out later this year — Microsoft demos breakthrough in real-time translated conversations — The following post is from Gurdeep Pall, Corporate Vice President of Skype and Lync at Microsoft.

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