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| Daniel Ek / Spotify Blog: |
Spotify has paid music industry $2B to date, $1B since last year; has 12.5M paying subscribers; top artists to exceed $6M/year in payments — $2 Billion and Counting — A blog post written by CEO Daniel Ek (@eldsjal) — Taylor Swift is absolutely right: music is art, art has real value, and artists deserve to be paid for it.
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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Apple to face lawsuit claiming it failed to disclose that iMessage would obstruct texts after customers switched to non-Apple devices — Apple must face U.S. lawsuit over vanishing iPhone text messages — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) was ordered to face a U.S. federal lawsuit claiming …
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| Robert Cookson / Financial Times: |
YouTube signs with indie labels through rights agency Merlin, setting the stage for a subscription streaming service — YouTube signs with indie labels for music streaming service — YouTube has struck a deal to license music from the thousands of independent record labels represented … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Social video startup Ocho raises $1.65M, launches iOS app for recording and sharing eight-second videos — Mark Cuban-Backed Ocho Launches Its Social Network For Eight-Second Videos — According to Jourdan Urbach, co-founder of social video startup Ocho, “There really isn't anything … | Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba, Apple Talks on Payments Tie-Up Focused on China — Alibaba's Joseph Tsai Says Both Companies Are Working Out Details on Potential Partnership — A senior Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. executive said Tuesday that a payment alliance between Apple Inc. and the Chinese e-commerce giant's … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Yahoo to Acquire Video Ad-Tech Firm BrightRoll for $640 Million — Yahoo announced a deal to acquire BrightRoll, a programmatic video-advertising platform, for $640 million in cash. The deal will combine Yahoo's desktop and mobile video advertising inventory with BrightRoll's platform and publisher relationships.
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See also Mediagazer| David L. Cohen / Comcast Voices: |
Comcast: Being for net neutrality and against Title II is completely consistent — Surprise! We Agree with the President's Principles on Net Neutrality: Reiterating Our Strong Support for the Open Internet — Yesterday, the President outlined his plan for a free and open Internet.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Cloud Drive Gets Its Own API — Amazon is working to make its Cloud Drive service more competitive in the crowded online storage market. After recently bundling free, unlimited photo storage on Cloud Drive for Amazon Prime customers, today the company is going after developers with a new Cloud Drive API.| Geoffrey Smith / Fortune: |
U.S., China reach deal to expand free trade in tech products — It's time to look forward to cheaper video game consoles, GPS devices, wireless headsets and a whole load of other high-tech goods-although not in time for this holiday season. — The U.S. and China reached … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Quirky and GE announce Norm $80 smart thermostat, Outlink smart power outlet, Tripper door and window sensor, custom sensor kit micro-factory in SF, more — Quirky just announced seven new products, a micro-factory, custom sensor kits, and the death of the thermostat
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| Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC: |
Alibaba Singles' Day sales hit $9.34B — Alibaba's Jack Ma: I don't watch our stock price — Alibaba executive chairman Jack Ma discusses the company's valuation and expectations now that they are bigger than Wal-Mart in market value. — Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman …
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| Aaron Souppouris / Engadget: |
Groupon says it will change the name of its point-of-sale OS to avoid trademark dispute with GNOME foundation — Groupon says it's ended its trademark spat with open-source community (update) — Well, this could get messy. The GNOME project is a well-known free and open-source desktop environment for Linux distros.
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