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May 30, 2014, 7:50 AM

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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.

More: TechnoBuffalo, Connectedly, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, The Verge, MacRumors, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog and Gizmodo. Tweets: @gigaom. Thanks:@jank0

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

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, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, 9to5Mac and AppleInsider

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. 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.

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

How Google's New “Right To Be Forgotten” Form Works: An Explainer — Google has taken a big step forward with complying with the European Union's new “Right To Be Forgotten” that was established after a court ruling earlier this month. The company has established a new form allowing …

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

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

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, Reuters, TODAY, Associated Press, Re/code and Business Insider

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, Mashable and Business Insider

Tweets: @dens and @sarahfrier

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 …

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: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Electronista, The Hill, Congressman Bob Latta …, Channel Partners News …, CED and MediaPost

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, Boing Boing, Steve (GRC) Gibson's Blog, Ars Technica, 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., BGR, 9to5Google, BetaNews, CNET News, Electronista, I4U News, SamMobile, Android Authority, 9to5Google, Sammy Hub, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Phones Review, Android Community, Engadget, Droid Life and Android Central

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, Marketing Land, Electronista, The Next Web and App Advice

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

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, Consumerist, bizjournals, Deadline.com and Home Media Magazine. Tweets: @antderosa. See also Mediagazer

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Sunrise is the first great calendar app for Android and web — The search results for “calendar” in the Google Play Store leave a lot to be desired. — You'll find Agenda and Cal, two decent free apps, and Business Calendar, a pricey app with lots of features but no sense of style.

More: TechCrunch, Sunrise, Lifehacker, The Next Web, Android Community, Android Authority, Android and Me and iDownloadBlog.com

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 and Electronista

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 and The Next Web

Tweets: @alex and @muckrock

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