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May 29, 2014, 5:10 PM
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Cue and Iovine talk about Beats acquisition, competing streaming services, Apple TV, more  —  Apple Shows Off its Newest Product, and Promises Much More to Come  —  Apple just agreed to pay $3 billion for Beats Music and Beats Electronics.  Tim Cook says one of the primary reasons …
Owen Thomas / ReadWrite:
Apple Bought Beats Because “Music Is Dying”
NBC News:
Snowden on lax NSA security, the “dirty” business of spying, wanting to go home, his training as a spy, and more  —  Edward Snowden's Motive Revealed: He Can ‘Sleep at Night’  —  In the wide-ranging and provocative interview, Snowden:  — Suggested that a deal could be reached …
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
YouTube starts rating U.S. ISPs, puts its weight behind settlement-free peering  —  Google released an U.S.-focused version of its video quality report Tuesday, which offers users a way to check which of their local ISPs deliver the best-looking YouTube streams.
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Microsoft and Salesforce.com partner to bring Salesforce platform to Windows, Windows Phone, and Office 365  —  Microsoft and Salesforce.com today announced a strategic partnership that will bring the latter's Customer Relationship Management (CRM) apps to the former's Windows, Windows Phone, and Office 365 platforms.
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Snapchat CEO ‘Mortified’ by Leaked Stanford Frat E-Mails  —  Snapchat Inc. Chief Executive Officer Evan Spiegel apologized for e-mails he sent during his fraternity days that celebrated getting drunk and convincing sorority women to perform sexual acts.  —  The profanity-laced e-mails …
Mike Isaac / Re/code:
Twitter Engineering SVP Chris Fry to Depart the Company  —  Chris Fry, Twitter's senior vice president of engineering, plans to step down from his executive role at the company, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday afternoon.
Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:
GE integrates iBeacons in new LED lighting fixtures rolling out in Walmart & other retailers  —  Up until now most retailers have been deploying Apple's iBeacon technology by purchasing small standalone Bluetooth beacons or using iPad terminals that act as beacons.
More: VentureBeat and Gigaom.  Tweets: @krehbehn.  Thanks:@apollozac
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel Inside your car?  Chip giant unveils its technology for autonomous cars  —  How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company?  Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco.  Register now and save $400!
Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Iranian hackers use fake Facebook accounts to spy on U.S., others  —  (Reuters) - In an unprecedented, three-year cyber espionage campaign, Iranian hackers created false social networking accounts and a fake news website to spy on military and political leaders in the United States …
Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom:
Data cleaner Trifacta raises a $25M series C round  —  Trifacta, a startup focused on getting raw data into shape so data scientists, analysts or whomever can get started analyzing it, has raised $25 million in series C financing.  Ignition Partners is a new investor in the latest round round …
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Vimeo gets into original content with short comedy series ‘High Maintenance’  —  Vimeo is the latest video streaming service to get into original content, today announcing that it's ordered six episodes of the short comedy High Maintenance to debut later this year.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Dish Network to Accept BitCoin Payments for Pay-TV Service  —  Charlie Ergen has always been a gambler.  Now the Dish Network CEO is taking a flier on accepting the Internet currency bitcoin as payment for pay-TV bills.  —  Dish trumpeted its decision in a news release on Thursday …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
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