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June 12, 2014, 9:15 AM

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Amazon's Prime Music service debuts: Ad-free streaming, 90K albums, 1M songs, but few hits — Amazon Turns On Prime Music Streaming, Sans Current Hits — There have been a lot of murmurs that Amazon would turn on a new music streaming service this week, and it looks like that's just what it quietly did a little while ago.

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Amazon Launches Prime Music Service without Universal Music Group — The Amazon music service you've been hearing about for many months is live. If you're in a rush, here's what you need to know: — *It's free for Amazon Prime members. — *It's just like Spotify and other subscription services, but with much less music.

More: GeekWire, The Register, Inquirer, PC World, Business Insider, The Digital Reader, Gigaom, Forbes, New York Post, Fortune, Guardian, Zatz Not Funny!, Softpedia News and TechnoBuffalo

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Here's the iPad split-screen app mode Apple is working on in iOS 8 (video) — As we reported in May, Apple is working on a split-screen multitasking feature for iPad apps for a version of iOS 8. The feature, akin to the key productivity function on the Microsoft Surface …

More: CNET News, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Engadget, Pocketnow, 3g.co.uk, App Advice, MacRumors, Haverzine, iClarified, Mashable and The Next Web. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith. Thanks:@llsethj

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Twitter Mulling Shake Up of Top Execs — Including COO Ali Rowghani Shift — Twitter is undergoing a major reevaluation of its top management, including a possible shift in the duties of its COO Ali Rowghani. — Sources familiar with the company say it has already made some moves …

More: Business Insider, TheStreet.com and Reuters

Tweets: @dickc, @rowghani, @monkbent, @uniquevisitor, @peterlauria3 and @pkedrosky

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:

Intel loses court challenge against $1.44 billion EU fine — (Reuters) - U.S. chipmaker Intel (INTC.O) lost on Thursday its challenge against a record 1.06-billion-euro ($1.44 billion) fine handed down by European Union antitrust regulators five years ago for blocking rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.N).

More: Gigaom, New York Times, Fortune, Engadget, Inquirer, CNET News, The Register, PC World, EE Times, Tech.eu and Computerworld

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Facebook to Use Web Browsing History For Ad Targeting — Company Also Rolls Out Beefed-up Privacy Controls, but Won't Honor Do-Not-Track Browser Setting — New privacy controls, telling users why each Facebook ad is targeted to them — FX — Through its ubiquitous “like” …

More: Facebook Newsroom, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Re/code, Marketing Land, Gizmodo, CNET News, PC World, The Next Web, New York Times, Softpedia News and AndroidGuys. Tweets: @pkafka

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Starbucks starts rolling out wireless phone chargers nationwide — Starbucks plans to install Powermat's wireless charging stations at its coffee stores across the US. After a small pilot run with these “Powermat Spots” — small circles that are seamlessly implanted in tables and counters …

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

Oculus expects to sell “north of a million units” for first consumer Rift — Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe (left) says he's not expecting “a console-scale market” right out of the gate. — With a recent high-profile buyout to the tune of $2 billion, you might think Facebook and Oculus are expecting …

More: CNET News, Kotaku, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, WebProNews, The Verge, Blue's News and Develop Feed

Richard Lai / Engadget:

Intel's cable-free future will use WiTricity's advanced wireless charging — The wireless charging space recently expanded with the introduction of A4WP's Rezence brand, followed by the participation of PC giants, Lenovo and Dell. Now, things are about to get even more interesting as WiTricity and Intel …

More: WiTricity Corporation, Computerworld, Softpedia News, EE Times, TWICE, Gigaom, Digital Trends, TG Daily, bizjournals, Pulse 2.0, PC Magazine and CRN

Joey Cosco / Business Insider:

Path messages to become ephemeral, will be removed from the company server after 24 hours — Path Is Retroactively Making All Messages Temporary — Super secure social network Path is jumping on the temporary message trend — officially starting today. The 3-year-old San Francisco-based …

More: Mashable, Techie News, App Advice and The Next Web. Tweets: @cmenscher

Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:

HP Labs working on new computer architecture with new OS and memristor-based memory — With ‘The Machine,’ HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer — If Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break.

More: Business Insider, InfoWorld, The Tech Report, Softpedia News, Inquirer, The Register, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, CIO.com, bit-tech.net and ExtremeTech

Tweets: @valleyhack and @ftrain

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Comcast to test its YouTube competitor by the end of the year — Comcast is looking to test a new platform for the distribution of online videos through its new X1 cable set-top boxes by the end of the year, the company's SVP of Video Matt Strauss confirmed during an interview at the sidelines of the TV of Tomorrow Show this week.

More: VentureBeat. Tweets: @brianward and @amir. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Microsoft launches Outlook Web App pre-release for Android, requires KitKat and Office 365 business — Microsoft today launched a pre-release of its Outlook Web App (OWA) for Google's Android operating system. You can download the beta now from Google Play, if you meet the requirements.

More: Office Blogs, 9to5Google, InfoWorld, BetaNews, AndroidOS.in, Techie News, WebProNews, Android Police, Engadget, Gigaom and Softpedia News

Adam Withnall / The Independent:

Uber sign-ups ‘increase 850%’ as black cab drivers stage London taxi protest — The taxi-booking mobile app company Uber said it experienced an 850 per cent increase new users today as London's black cabs staged a protest that brought gridlock to the city centre.

More: Telegraph, Forbes, ITProPortal, TND - The Next Digit, CNNMoney.com and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @monkbent

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

As London cabbies protest, Uber launches UberTaxi platform for London cabbies

More: Uber Blog, ec.europa.eu, TechEye, memeburn, CNET News, San Francisco Chronicle, Mashable, Businessweek, Guardian, The Mac Observer, Sky News, TechCrunch and PC Magazine

Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter partners with The Weather Co. to offer targeted ads based on local weather conditions — Weather-Informed Ads are Coming to Twitter — The Weather Company has partnered with Twitter to bring weather-informed advertising to the social network. — The relationship will allow marketers …

More: Mashable

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Wallet's 2-Click Instant Buy Checkout Comes To iOS — About a year ago, Google Wallet launched its Instant Buy API for Android apps, and today it is bringing it to iOS apps. With Instant Buy, developers can integrate Google Wallet's checkout into their apps and have users check out with as few as two clicks.

More: Google Commerce, MacNN, Pocketnow, Pulse 2.0, AppleInsider, App Advice, The Next Web, iMore, 9to5Google and VentureBeat

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

Feedly suffers DDoS attack as perpetrator tries to extort money [Update: The attack has been neutralized] — Update from Feedly: “We're making some changes to our infrastructure that will allow us to bring Feedly back online. However, these things take some time to put into place …

More: Building Feedly, Graham Cluley, Gigaom, ZDNet, TechCrunch, TechEye, SiliconBeat, Ars Technica, Computerworld, The Verge, Slate, PandoDaily, PadGadget and Pocketables. Tweets: @feedly

Tricia Duryee / GeekWire:

Watch out, Yelp: Amazon has been quietly collecting local reviews for a month — Amazon has quietly launched the ability for customers to write reviews for local restaurants, spas and activities, putting it squarely in competition with other online services, like Yelp, Angie's List or Google's Zagat.

More: ScreenwerkScreenwerk

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Lytro Partners With 500px, Opens File Format Letting its Pictures Live More Places — One of the big challenges for light-field photography startup Lytro has been dealing with the fact that it has to fit into a world that understands photos and video, but isn't well suited or even interested …

More: Softpedia News, Mashable and VentureBeat

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Powerful worm on Twitter unleashes torrent of out-of-control tweets — Twitter on Wednesday was briefly overrun by a powerful computer worm that caused tens of thousands of users to tweet a message that contained self-propagating code exploiting a bug in the TweetDeck app.

More: The Register

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

Twitter restores TweetDeck service after fixing XSS vulnerability that allowed tweets to execute code

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