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Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Sony hopes its ‘Album of the Day’ app for iOS will make you buy digital records again — Digital music sales are beginning to slow, but Sony is hoping to reverse that trend with its new ‘Album of the Day’ app for the iPhone and iPod touch. — As the name implies, Sony will promote …

More: TechCrunch, iMore, 9to5Mac and Cult of Mac

Elise Hu / NPR:

Comments sent to FCC were overwhelmingly pro net neutrality, most opposing came from templates — A Fascinating Look Inside Those 1.1 Million Open-Internet Comments — When the Federal Communications Commission asked for public comments about the issue of keeping the Internet free and open, the response was huge.

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Jessica Guynn / USA Today:

Girls Who Code has grown from 20 students at Facebook in 2012 to 380 at 16 companies in 2014 — No boys allowed: Girls Who Code takes on gender gap — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Each morning this summer, Jazmine Fernandez hopped the subway to downtown Oakland and boarded a shuttle bus bound for Silicon Valley.

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Beats Music “Listen Now” feature starts rolling out to Shazam iOS app — Users of the Shazam iOS application have begun noticing that Shazam is testing a new “Listen Now” feature with the Apple-owned Beats Music streaming service. Like it does with both iTunes Radio, Spotify, and Rdio …

More: iMore, Engadget, SlashGear, iPhone, MacNN and MacStories

BBC:

Berlin bans Uber app citing passenger safety — The mobile taxi app Uber has been banned in Berlin by the city's State Department of Civil and Regulatory Affairs. — In a statement, the authority said it had banned the app on passenger safety grounds and threatened the firm with a 25,000 euro …

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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:

Apple bans use of benzene and n-hexane during the final assembly of iPhones, iPads, iPods, Macs, and various accessories — Apple bans use of 2 chemicals in iPhone assembly — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is banning the use of two potentially hazardous chemicals during the final assembly …

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Cam Bunton / TmoNews:

T-Mobile to throttle customers who use unlimited LTE data for torrents/p2p — In an internal memo to staff, it's been revealed that T-Mobile is going to clamp down on users taking advantage of their unlimited 4G/LTE plans for peer-to-peer file sharing and other misuse of their data allowance.

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Mike Isaac / New York Times:

Ask.com Buys Ask.fm, an Anonymous Q.&A. Start-Up — Ask, and ye shall receive. — Ask.com, the Oakland, Calif.-based company owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp, announced on Thursday it had acquired Ask.fm, a highly popular question-and-answer website. — The move signals Ask.com's first significant push into social networking.

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Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:

Twitter vows to “improve our policies” after Robin Williams' daughter is bullied off the network — Twitter has promised to improve and expand its policies after Robin Williams' daughter is bullied off of the social network. Internet trolls bullied Robin Williams' daughter off of Twitter …

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Reuters:

Canada's Desire2Learn raises $85 mln for global e-learning push — Canada's D2L Inc said on Thursday it raised $85 million in venture capital funds, the country's biggest such deal this year, as the fast-growing owner of educational software maker Desire2Learn looks to ramp up its overseas expansion.

More: Re/code, Bloomberg, EdSurge, VatorNews and Communitech

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Dash's “smart driving” app, which analyzes data from your car's On Board Diagnostic port, arrives on iPhone — Dash's Smart Driving App Arrives On iPhone — The Dash smart driving assistant that made its debut earlier this year on Android has launched on iPhone answering …

More: 9to5Mac and SlashGear

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Spring, David Tisch's Latest Venture, Is Instagram For Shopping — For the past year, investor and serial entrepreneur David Tisch has been working with his brother Alan to build an enjoyable way to shop on mobile. Today, that fruits of that labor springs onto the scene.

More: The Verge, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Luminal Closes $10M Series B Round For Its Cloud Management Service — Luminal, a Maryland-based service that helps businesses manage their cloud deployments, today announced that is has secured a $10 million Series B round led by New Enterprise Associates. This brings the company's total funding to $13.8 million.

More: Gigaom and PE Hub Blog

Gerry Shih / Reuters:

After China smartphone success, Lenovo plans leap forward overseas — (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group said first-quarter profit jumped 23 percent, beating estimates, as a surge in smartphone sales showed how quickly the world's biggest personal computer maker is transforming itself into a major player in mobile technology.

More: Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, SlashGear, The Next Web, ZDNet, BBC, CNET, Engadget, RTTNews, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal

Dara Kerr / CNET:

Facial recognition tech leads feds to fugitive after 14 years — A cold case comes back to life after facial recognition software recognizes an alleged US outlaw who'd been hiding out in Nepal. — Facial recognition technology used on the photo in the Neil Stammer wanted poster led to his arrest.

More: FBI, The Register, Ars Technica, Naked Security, BBC, TheBlaze.com, Sky News, Tech Times, Gizmodo, Fox News, The Verge and Guardian

Steven Millward / Tech in Asia:

UberTaxi hits the streets of Hong Kong — Two months after Uber rolled its app-connected limo service into Hong Kong, the US-based startup is today launching UberTaxi in the city. This allows people to grab a conventional, licensed Hong Kong cab - and pay for it via a cash-less transaction - within the Uber app.

More: Uber Blog, Campaign Asia, The Next Web and CNBC

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