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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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| 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.| 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.
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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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| 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.
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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.| 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!
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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 …
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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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.
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New York Times, Crowdfund Insider, Inman News, Jewish Business News, tech.co, The Real Deal New York, bizjournals and Fortune. Tweets: @oconnellpostbiz
| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
HTC One's plastic cousin officially shown off with M7 design, M8 guts — It's no secret that HTC's prepping a plastic variant of its flagship One (M8) phone, but we've never taken a proper look at it until now, courtesy of the company's China website. And no, this isn't a leak.Sponsor Posts
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