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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 … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Apple didn't want Beats, it needed Beats — As music downloads dwindle, streaming is the new king — Onstage at the Code Conference last night, Apple's Eddy Cue and Beats' Jimmy Iovine answered some questions about the marriage of their two companies. Beats is best known for its headphones …
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Beats Breakdown: Apple Paying $2.5B for Beats Electronics, $500M for Beats Music — Apple yesterday announced plans to acquire both Beats Electronics and Beats Music for a combined total of $3 billion, but a new report from The Wall Street Journal breaks those numbers down further.
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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.
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iMore, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Verge, GSMArena Blog, MacRumors, Engadget, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac and SlashGear. Tweets: @gigaom. Thanks:@jank0
| 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.
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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 … | 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.| 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 … | James Rainey / Los Angeles Times: |
Steve Ballmer appears to win Clippers bidding war for $2 billion — Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer appears to have won a frenetic bidding war for ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, with a $2-billion offer that would set a record price for an NBA team.
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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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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 Windows, Windows Phone, and Office 365.
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| 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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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal: |
Beats unveils newly designed Solo2 headphones; pre-order for $199.95, will arrive June 1 — Beats Reboots Its Best-Selling Solo Line—and They Sound Better Than Ever — Not one day after Apple made its $3 billion purchase of Beats official, the music technology company led by Dr. Dre … | 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.
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Re/code's Mike Isaac joins NYT as a tech reporter — Re/code editor Mike Isaac is moving to New York to report on tech for The New York Times, Business Editor Dean Murphy and Technology Editor Suzanne Spector tell staff. — Jenna Wortham is joining Sunday Business full time. — Here's the note:
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Rumored Split-Screen Multitasking Feature for iOS 8 Not Ready for WWDC Preview — The rumored split-screen multitasking feature said to be coming with iOS 8 is still a work in progress and won't be previewed at Apple's upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference, according to Brian Chen of the New York Times.| Harish Jonnalagadda / Android Central: |
Google demoes Android Wear notifications — In a Google+ post, Senior Developer Advocate at Google Timothy Jordan highlighted how notifications will be handled on Google's upcoming Android Wear platform. — Basically, any app that serves notifications on your Android smartphone or tablet … | 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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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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