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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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 … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Beats' Jimmy Iovine and Apple's Eddy Cue live at Code Conference — After Apple's $3 billion acquisition of Beats — purveyor of headphones and a streaming music service — co-founder Jimmy Iovine takes the stage at Code Conference with Apple's Eddy Cue.
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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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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Beats Parts Ways With Design Firm As Apple Takes Over Hardware — Now at Apple, Beats Electronics is leaving behind the design firm that made Beats synonymous in popular culture. The news came from Ammunition's founder, Robert Brunner, in a blog post shortly after Apple finally announced the $3 billion deal.
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| Owen Thomas / ReadWrite: |
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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: @qthrul, @sarahm, @mariateresa1, @cynion, @rotron, @dannysullivan and @tbjbuzzient
| 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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| 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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Wall Street Journal, The Next Web, New York Times, Connectedly, Wearable World News, TechnoBuffalo and TechSpot. Tweets: @reckless
| 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 …
| 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, Business Insider, The Verge, Re/code, VatorNews, 9to5Google and VentureBeat. Tweets: @markmilian
| 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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| 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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Xamarin Blog, Business Wire, CITEworld and Forbes
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Q&A: Google Self-Driving Car Head Chris Urmson on Building a Car From Scratch — Google on Tuesday revealed a project to build prototype cars that drive themselves and forgo most of what makes a car a car. No steering wheel, no accelerator pedal, no brake pedal, no mirrors.
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The Official Google Blog, Wired, PandoDaily, Guardian and Forbes
| Richard Nieva / CNET News: |
Lookout launches ‘theftie’ alerts to combat smartphone theft — The mobile security firm thinks a phone's front-facing camera can help retrieve a stolen device. — Lookout's new “theftie” email alerts — Lookout — Here's a new twist on selfies — and the mobile security firm Lookout …
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Re/code, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, BGR, Times of India, Mashable and Financial Times
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
HackerOne Get $9M In Series A Funding To Build Bug Tracking Bounty Programs — HackerOne, a startup that was started by the former head of the Facebook security team, announced it was getting $9M in Series A funding and that former Microsoft lead security strategist Katie Moussouris was joining the company as Chief Policy Officer.
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| Brendan Sasso / NationalJournal.com: |
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