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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Hidden In Spotify's App Code Alongside Uber, Plans To Launch Podcasts And Something ‘Magic’ — Spotify's upcoming integration with Uber — getting announced formally today — is not the only development the music streaming service has planned to grow its business.
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See also Mediagazer| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
Spotify confirms Uber integration, will launch on Nov. 21st, in 10 cities around the world — Uber brings Spotify streaming to your morning commute — Reports surfaced last week that Uber riders would soon be able to blast tunes from Spotify during the commute, and now the partnership is official.| Jane L. Levere / New York Times: |
Airbnb launches Pineapple, a quarterly print magazine focused on travel; $12 at select stores — Airbnb Introducing Print Magazine, Pineapple — Following in the footsteps of other digital brands like CNET and WebMD, Airbnb is getting into the print magazine business.
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See also Mediagazer| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Apple Adds UnionPay, China's Largest Bankcard Network, To App Store Payment Options — App Store customers in China can now link their UnionPay debit or credit cards to their Apple IDs for purchases, Apple announced today. — This is significant for Apple and Chinese consumers because China UnionPay …
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| Connie Loizos / StrictlyVC: |
Nest's hierarchical, meeting-centric culture is said to clash with Dropcam's — Unrest at Nest — Sitting on stage last week at a San Francisco conference, Greg Duffy, the 28-year-old co-founder and CEO of Dropcam, which makes Internet-connected video cameras, fielded questions from an audience of startup founders.| Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo: |
NYC announces LinkNYC a free gigabit speed wi-fi network; construction will start in 2015 — The Plan to Turn NYC's Old Payphones Into Free Gigabit Wi-Fi Hot Spots — Today, the New York City mayor's office announced the winning bid to transform the city's existing payphone infrastructure.
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| Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba co-founder and vice-chairman Joe Tsai talks Apple, M&A and the company's U.S. plans — Q&A: Alibaba Senior Executive On Apple, M&A and U.S. Plans — After going public in September in a $25 billion initial public offering, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is gearing up for the next stage of its growth.| Edward Wyatt / New York Times: |
FCC will propose raising annual cap on spending for school Internet needs by $1.5B to $3.9B — F.C.C. Chief Aims to Bolster Internet for Schools — WASHINGTON — With a goal of fiber-optic lines reaching to every school and a Wi-Fi connection in every classroom, Tom Wheeler … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 8.1.1 w/ bug fixes & performance improvements for iPad 2, iPhone 4s — Apple has released iOS 8.1.1, a minor update to last month's iOS 8.1 release for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The public release for iOS 8.1.1 follows a beta release to members of Apple's developer program.
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ZDNet, iMore, The Verge, AppleInsider, BGR, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo and TUAW. Tweets: @reneritchie
| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Sources: Uber's gross revenue expected to hit a run rate of $10B by the end of 2015 — Now I Know Why Investors Are Going Hog Wild About Uber ... The digital taxi service Uber is raising money again, which means that people are once again gawping at the company's valuation.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Shark Tank-Backed GrooveBook Acquired By Shutterfly For $14.5 Million — GrooveBook, a photo-printing app and subscription service that creates personalized photo books featuring up to 100 of your photos, shipped monthly, has been acquired by photo printing giant Shutterfly for $14.5 million.
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| Michael J. Casey / Wall Street Journal: |
Khosla Ventures, Reid Hoffman, others invest $21M in Blockstream to enable new distributed applications built on bitcoin's blockchain technology — Linked-In, Sun Microsystems Founders Lead Big Bet On Bitcoin Innovation — Billionaire entrepreneurs who helped lead LinkedIn Corp. …
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| Grady Smith / Guardian: |
Forgoing streaming and iTunes sales, Garth Brooks sees meager sales for his comeback album — How Garth Brooks took on the internet - and lost — The poor sales of his comeback album Man Against Machine show that taking a stand against the modern music business only works if you're Taylor SwiftSponsor Posts
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