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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 …

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, Computerworld, WinBeta and I4U News. See also Mediagazer

Ben Sisario / New York Times:

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

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

Mike Isaac / Re/code:

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

More: Computerworld, TUAW, AppleInsider, Macworld, Windows Phone, MacNN, Android Authority and Cult of Mac

Owen Thomas / ReadWrite:

Apple Bought Beats Because “Music Is Dying”

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Tim Cook Explains Why Apple Is Buying Beats (Q&A)

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Tweets: @tim_cook and @tim

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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

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, The Verge, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, VatorNews, BetaNews, CNET News, 9to5Google, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Mashable, Lifehacker, Gizmodo UK and Wired

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: @cynion and @tbjbuzzient

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 …

More: Guardian, New York Times, Gizmodo, Reuters, Ars Technica, Mashable, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, TIME and CNN. Tweets: @ggreenwald

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 …

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Tweets: @mccarthyryanj and @kashhill

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Microsoft, Salesforce Said to Discuss Cloud Partnership — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) are close to an agreement that will enable customers of Microsoft's cloud computing service to use Salesforce's customer management programs, said people familiar with the talks, signaling a thaw between two longtime rivals.

More: The Register, ZDNet, Neowin, bizjournals and Gigaom

Tweets: @dinabass and @theromit

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

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: Gigaom. Tweets: @krehbehn. Thanks:@apollozac

Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:

Real estate crowdfunding website Fundrise raises $31M led by Chinese social media giant Renren — Fundrise lands $31 million in financing, led by Chinese social media firm — Fundrise has gone from an ambitious Dupont Circle start-up to probably the country's leading real estate crowd-funding platform, and now it has money to grow.

More: New York Times, Crowdfund Insider, Inman News, Jewish Business News, tech.co, The Real Deal New York, bizjournals and Fortune. Tweets: @oconnellpostbiz

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

BBC:

London's transport authority believes Uber is legal, leaves final decision to London's High Court — Uber app taxi row referred to London's High Court — London's transport authority has announced it does not believe Uber's car service is breaking the law by using an app to determine charges.

More: Transport for London, Wall Street Journal, Electronista, Digital Trends, CNET News, Re/code, PandoDaily, Business Insider, Engadget, The Next Web, The Register and Gigaom. Tweets: @bbclondon949

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

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, PandoDaily, InfoWorld, The Register, PC World, Gigaom and Electronista

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, Digital Trends, PC Gamer, TechSpot, Polygon, Joystiq, Gamasutra, VG247 and Neowin

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

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, Engadget, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, New York Times, PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, ITworld.com, BBC, Wall Street Journal, SecurityWeek, Washington Post, Wired, Al Jazeera English and Bloomberg. Tweets: @carlzimmer. See also Mediagazer

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