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April 11, 2015, 9:30 AM

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Apple has asked over a dozen artists for exclusive deals to promote Beats Music, which relaunches this summer at $9.99/month with family plan for $14.99  —  Apple's New Beats Music Thinks Taylor Swift Will Make You Pay  —  Apple Inc. has asked Florence and the Machine and more than a dozen …
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
SendGrid Account Breach Was Used to Attack Coinbase, a Bitcoin Exchange  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Hackers targeted SendGrid, a mass email service used by 180,000 companies including Uber, Pinterest, Spotify and Foursquare, to infiltrate Coinbase, one of the most popular Bitcoin exchanges.
Lucian Armasu / Tom's Hardware Guide:
BQ Aquaris E4.5, First Commercially Available Ubuntu Phone, Lands In Europe For 170 Euro  —  The first Ubuntu phone is finally here.  The Aquaris E4.5, previously only an Android 4.4 phone, now also has a “Ubuntu Edition.”  The phone is available only in the European Union from BQ's website right now for 170 euro ($180).
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Wall Street Journal:
Symantec exploring a sale of its Veritas data-storage and recovery business, could fetch more than $8B  —  Symantec Exploring a Sale of Its Veritas Business  —  The data-storage and recovery business could fetch more than $8 billion in a sale  —  Symantec Corp. is exploring a sale …
Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Japanese Court Orders Google To Delete Critical Reviews From Google Maps  —  There's troubling news in Japan today, after Google was told to delete two critical customer reviews from its Google Maps service.  —  The Chiba District Court today issued a preliminary injunction forcing …

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