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May 30, 2014, 5:50 AM

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

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.

More: Re/code, Wall Street Journal, Neowin, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, iMore and iPhone in Canada Blog

Michael Vakulenko / Medium:

Beats is a platform, connecting artists with fans; Apple's users will enable network effects on it — To understand Beats you need to understand Lady Gaga — Look beyond headphones, play lists, music streaming, wearables and label deals — The news are finally out—Apple is buying Beats for 3 Billion Dollars.

More: Digital Media Wire. Tweets: @tomgara, @richoakley, @mryall, @borthwick, @mvakulenko and @cdixon. See also Mediagazer

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

The Apple-Beats deal: What the analysts are saying now

More: TechCrunch and TIME. See also Mediagazer

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Apple didn't want Beats, it needed Beats

More: Variety, I4U News and Associated Press. Tweets: @joshconstine. 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: TechnoBuffalo, Connectedly, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, The Verge, MacRumors, SlashGear, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog and App Advice. Tweets: @gigaom. Thanks:@jank0

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 …

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: VentureBeat, Mashable, 9to5Google, Digital Music News, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, iMore, Business Insider, Gizmodo, MacRumors, The Verge, Gigaom and TechCrunch. Thanks:@mattlynley. See also Mediagazer

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Google has established a “right to be forgotten” form following EU ruling — Begrudgingly, Google Offers a Form for People Who Want to Be Forgotten — Europe's highest court on May 13 decided that its citizens could ask search engines to delete search results about themselves.

More: TechEye, TechCrunch, The Verge, Gigaom, ZDNet, Inquirer, Engadget, BBC, 9to5Google and Reuters

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

How Google's New “Right To Be Forgotten” Form Works: An Explainer

More: Financial Times and The Next Web. Tweets: @privacymatters. Thanks:@dannysullivan

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Salesforce CRM apps coming to Windows and Windows Phone — Summary: Salesforce and Microsoft have agreed to tighten ties between Salesforce's CRM apps and platform and Microsoft's Windows and Office. — Salesforce.com is building new Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.1 CRM apps …

ESPN:

Steve Ballmer to buy LA Clippers for $2B; agreement signed by Sterling, pending NBA approval — Former Microsoft CEO bids $2B — Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has submitted a bid of $2 billion to buy the Los Angeles Clippers, sources have confirmed to ESPN.

Mercury News:

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to donate $120 million to needy Bay Area schools — The world's most innovative community shouldn't also be a home for struggling public schools. Today Priscilla and I are announcing a $120 million commitment to support efforts to improve education for underserved communities in the Bay Area.

More: Mark Zuckerberg, Re/code, Associated Press, ABC News and TODAY

Tweets: @audreywatters, @mikeisaac and @levie

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: ReadWrite, Gigaom, Business Insider, Mashable and TechCrunch

Tweets: @dens and @sarahfrier

Grant Gross / PC World:

Bill would prohibit FCC from reclassifying broadband as utility — A U.S. lawmaker has introduced legislation that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from reclassifying broadband as a common-carrier utility, a move many net neutrality advocates have called for.

More: TechCrunch, Electronista, Congressman Bob Latta …, The Hill, Channel Partners News …, CED, MediaPost and Broadcasting & Cable

Tweets: @kevinbrueck, @bfeld and @nacin

Joseph Menn / Reuters:

Security experts to complete audit of TrueCrypt, may revive it after mysterious shutdown — Exclusive: Security enthusiasts may revive encryption tool after mystery shutdown — (Reuters) - A team of security experts may seek to restore and improve a popular computer encryption system …

More: Krebs on Security, Steve (GRC) Gibson's Blog, Ars Technica, Boing Boing, Schneier on Security, Lifehacker, Steve (GRC) Gibson's Blog, Gigaom, ZDNet, Network World, Inquirer, SecurityWeek and SiliconANGLE

Tweets: @matthew_d_green, @sggrc, @opencryptoaudit, @opencryptoaudit and @dakami

Sam Byford / The Verge:

Shock resistant Galaxy S5 Active available from AT&T for $199.99 on two year contract — AT&T releases shock-resistant Samsung Galaxy S5 Active — The Samsung Galaxy S5's waterproofing was one of its headline features, but if you need a little more resilience AT&T may have you covered.

More: AT&T Inc., CNET News, 9to5Google, SamMobile, Android Authority, 9to5Google, Sammy Hub, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Phones Review, Android Community, Engadget, Droid Life and Android Central

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: New York Times, Business Insider and Wall Street Journal

Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Talks Net Neutrality — Liveblog Highlights: — Hastings continues to call out Comcast for “taxing” the Internet. “They want the whole Internet to pay them for when their subscribers use the Internet.” — Hastings wants to avoid government intervention …

More: PandoDaily, Gigaom, bizjournals, Consumerist, Deadline.com, Home Media Magazine, The Tell and USA Today. Tweets: @antderosa. See also Mediagazer

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.

More: Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, BGR and App Advice. Tweets: @bxchen

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, Press Association, The Hill, PandoDaily, The Next Web and Business Insider

Tweets: @alex and @muckrock

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

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:

More: BuzzFeed. Tweets: @jennydeluxe, @nickbilton, @darth, @ryanchris, @cpen, @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac. See also Mediagazer

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 …

More: Android Developers, The Guardian, Gotta Be Mobile, Ausdroid, xda-developers, Electronista and GadgeTell

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter's Crashlytics Launches Cross-Platform App Beta Testing Service — Back in February, Crashlytics announced its first product since being acquired by Twitter. That product was an app beta testing platform that would allow developers to distribute test apps to users to get feedback and suss out bugs.

More: Crashlytics Blog, The Next Web and App Advice

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