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May 29, 2014, 6:25 PM

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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:

HP can develop products with Beats tech through 2014, sell devices with Beats tech and logo through 2015 — The Beats go on at HP (at least until 2015) — Consumers looking to buy an HP desktop or laptop with integrated Beats Audio have another year and a half before the companies dissolve …

More: USA Today, SlashGear, Associated Press, WinBeta, I4U News, PC World and MacRumors

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 …

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

Jimmy Iovine's four decades of experience and celebrity connections lend credibility to Apple's music plans

More: TIME, SocialTimes, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and Geek.com. Tweets: @carr2n. See also Mediagazer

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Post-Apple Buy, Beats Music Will Still Be on Android, Windows Phone

More: TUAW, Computerworld, Redmond Pie, AppleInsider, Tech Trader Daily, MacNN, Android Authority, Windows Phone, The Tell and Cult of Mac

Owen Thomas / ReadWrite:

Apple Bought Beats Because “Music Is Dying”

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Reggie Ugwu / BuzzFeed:

Amazon Prime to offer music streaming service with songs six months old or older, coming June/July; Sony, Warner on board — Exclusive: Amazon Prime To Offer Music Streaming Service — With 6-Month-Old Songs — The internet giant has reached deals with major labels for a service to launch this June or July.

More: iMore, The Verge, Gizmodo, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Los Angeles Times, The Next Web, Mashable, Business Insider, SlashGear and hypebot. Thanks:@mattlynley. See also Mediagazer

Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:

Apple's upcoming smart home program is about ‘Made for iPhone’ certification, not deep product integration — Here's how Apple's smart home program will work — Apple's move into the smart home isn't actually the grand experience I had hoped for.

More: The Verge, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, SlashGear and App Advice. Tweets: @gigaom. Thanks:@jank0

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Foursquare's COO, Biz Dev Head Are Leaving — Foursquare has undergone major changes to its entire product lineup. Now it faces an executive shuffle. — Current Chief Operating Officer Evan Cohen will leave the company in the coming weeks, after spending the past four and a half years at the company.

More: Gigaom, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Mashable and SocialTimes. Tweets: @dens. See also Mediagazer

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 …

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Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Snowden complained about mass surveillance tactics to his NSA masters — “NSA has now explained that they have found one email inquiry by Edward Snowden.” — During his recent interview with NBC's Brian Williams, whistleblower Edward Snowden said that he did go through official channels …

More: IC ON THE RECORD, PandoDaily, The Hill, The Next Web, Business Insider, Engadget and Techdirt

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Parmy Olson / Forbes:

Microsoft to offer a sensor-rich smartwatch that measures heart rate, syncs with iPhones, Android and Windows Phones — Exclusive: A Microsoft Smartwatch Is Coming — Microsoft is the latest technology giant preparing to jump into the wearables market, with plans to offer a sensor-rich smartwatch …

More: The Verge, PC World, ReadWrite, ZDNet, Engadget, iMore, Neowin, DailyTech, Business Insider, Redmond Pie, Phandroid, SlashGear, Droid Life, Cult of Mac, Mashable, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, WMPoweruser and Ubergizmo

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 Windows, Windows Phone, and Office 365.

More: Microsoft Corporation, GeekWire, Fortune, The Technology Chronicles, The Register, PC World, ZDNet, TechCrunch, CITEworld, Re/code, Neowin and WebProNews

Tweets: @levie and @emilyparkhurst

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.

More: YouTube Blog, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, VatorNews, Ars Technica, BetaNews, Boing Boing, Electronista, CNET News, 9to5Google, Mashable, Wired, Gizmodo, Engadget and The Next Web

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.

More: TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider

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 …

More: Valleywag, Business Insider, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, SiliconBeat, Telegraph, Techvibes Global News, Engadget, VatorNews, TIME and Los Angeles Times

Tweets: @mccarthyryanj and @kashhill

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

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.

More: Variety, VentureBeat, Engadget and CNET News. See also Mediagazer

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Ryse creator Crytek releases CryEngine ‘game engine as a service’ on Steam (exclusive) — Crytek, the German maker of video games such as Ryse: Son of Rome, has officially released its CryEngine game development engine as a service today on Valve's Steam digital distribution service.

More: Steam, Crytek Blog, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Digital Trends, PC Gamer, Polygon, Joystiq, Gamasutra, VG247 and Neowin

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 …

More: iSIGHT Partners, The Verge, New York Times, Engadget, Gizmodo UK, Daily Dot, VentureBeat, BBC, Wired, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, SecurityWeek, ITworld.com, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @carlzimmer. See also Mediagazer

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!

More: Engadget, Intel Newsroom, Gigaom, Wall Street Journal and TheStreet.com

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

OpenSSL to get a security audit and two full-time developers — A Linux Foundation project inspired by the Heartbleed security flaw announced that it will fund a security audit for the OpenSSL code base and the salaries of two full-time developers. — The Heartbleed flaw shone a spotlight …

More: The Linux Foundation, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, InfoWorld, Computerworld, The Register, Gigaom and Electronista

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 …

More: VentureBeat, TechCrunch and PE Hub Blog

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 …

More: Fortune, ABC News, TechHive, Bloomberg, Deadline.com, Wall Street Journal, WebProNews, CNET News and Reuters. See also Mediagazer

John Cook / GeekWire:

ExtraHop looks to build business analytics powerhouse, lands $41 million from early Splunk investor — ExtraHop CEO Jesse Rothstein doesn't think his business analytics startup is simply creating a great product. The pony-tailed entrepreneur — who prior to co-founding ExtraHop worked …

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Data Center Knowledge, Gigaom, PE Hub Blog and VatorNews

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Root backdoor found in surveillance gear used by law enforcement — Software used by law enforcement organizations to intercept the communications of suspected criminals contains a litany of critical weaknesses, including an undocumented backdoor secured with a hardcoded password, security researchers said today.

More: sec-consult.com, Krebs on Security, Techdirt, Threatpost, PC World and The Register

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