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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 8.4 beta with revamped Music app ahead of new service at WWDC — Apple has just released the first iOS 8.4 beta, which includes Apple's upcoming revamped music app. The seed for developers is available via the Apple Developer Center website.
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See also Mediagazer| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Hands-on with Apple's all-new Music app in iOS 8.4 beta — Hands-on: Apple's all-new Music app in iOS 8.4 — With the release of the first developer beta of iOS 8.4 this evening, Apple gave us the first look at the oft-rumored redesign of the Music app.| Apple: |
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 8 at San Francisco's Moscone West — Developers Can Apply for Tickets Now & Millions Worldwide Can Watch Sessions Streamed Live — Apple® today announced that it will hold its 26th annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Pocket raises $7 million and launches a new responsive web app to help you read things later — Pocket, the service that lets you save content from across the web to read or watch later, has raised a further $7 million to grow its team and launch new products.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Twilio Brings WebRTC-Based Video Chat To Its Cloud Communications Platform — Twilio has long made it easy for developers to integrate voice calling and text messaging into their applications, but starting today, the service will also offer a video chat. The new Twilio Video service uses …
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| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Docker raises $95M round led by Insight Venture Partners, bringing total funding to about $160M; company likely valued more than $1B — Docker Raises Another $95 Million in Funding — Another day in tech, another company tops $100 million in money raised.
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
A closer look at the rather rough and not yet ready Windows 10 for phones — The new build has a ton of apps and a ton of promise, but feels a long way from done. — Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones took a big step forward today with the public release of build 10051.| Heather Clancy / Fortune: |
Cyber security startup Illumio raises $100M, adding BlackRock and Accel to existing investors in Series C round — Illumio, a cyber security startup, raises $100 million — Most companies use firewalls, intrusion detection systems and other so-called ‘perimeter’ security defenses.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
India's Restaurant Search App Zomato Raises $50M At $1B+ Valuation, Buys MaplePOS — Time to loosen the belt of Zomato: the Indian startup whose restaurant search app is now used in 22 countries is growing some more. The company has raised $50 million more in funding …
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Rakuten Is Looking To Acquire PopSugar For $580 Million — We've heard PopSugar is the latest online content company that Japanese conglomerate Rakuten is about to snap up. These things could always fall apart, but should the deal go through, we're told it will happen in the next couple … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Movidius Raises $40M To Bring Computer VisionTo Mobile Devices — Movidius, the company that makes the vision processor that powers Google's Tango tablet, today announced that it has raised a $40 million funding round led by Summit Bridge Capital — a collaboration between Atlantic Bridge Capital and WestSummit Capital.| Carmel DeAmicis / Re/code: |
Eight VC firms, including Google Ventures, KPCB, Accel, Shasta, and Redpoint have opened or are opening offices in SF's South Park — Has South Park Finally Become the New Sand Hill Road? — Come June, Redpoint Ventures will be opening a new office in the quiet little enclave of South Park in San Francisco.| Tyler Loechner / MediaPost: |
AOL Launches Cross-Screen Programmatic Ad Platform ‘One’ — Just over one year after announcing plans to roll all of its ad tech properties into a single platform, AOL on Tuesday officially announced the launch of “One by AOL,” a one-stop-shop programmatic ad platform.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Zenefits Allowed Back Into Utah After Insurance Brokers Tried To Kill The Innovative Startup — Late last year, we wrote about the ridiculous situation in which the state of Utah effectively banned Zenefits, the innovative HR software service provider that tons of companies now use.
| Keza MacDonald / Kotaku: |
Activision's new Guitar Hero comes with redesigned controller, playable streaming videos, more — Guitar Hero is Back And I Really Like What I've Seen — Confession: if I had spent anything like as much time playing actual guitar as I did playing pretend guitar as a teenager, I might have had a very different career path.
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| Rexly Peñaflorida / Tom's Hardware Guide: |
Opera launches redesigned Mini browser for Android, hopes to grow user base to 275M by 2017 — Opera Mini Update Sports New Look And Features — The Opera Mini browser is one of Opera's three browsers for mobile devices. Compared to the regular Opera mobile browser and Opera Coast for iOS … | Manish Singh / BetaNews: |
OnePlus One gets Cyanogen 12 software update, Yu Yureka to receive it soon — The OnePlus One smartphone has finally started to receive the Cyanogen software update. On a blogpost, the software maker announces that the OnePlus One handset is the first smartphone to snag the Cyanogen update.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Updates Azure Media Services With Live Encoding, New Media Player And More — Microsoft is launching a number of new features for its Azure Media Services audio and video streaming platform today. — The highlight of this update is support for live encoding, which is now in preview.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Interpol-organized group takes down Simda, a botnet that controlled over 770K PCs worldwide — Botnet that enslaved 770,000 PCs worldwide comes crashing down — The Simda botnet that menaced 190 countries is no more. — Law enforcement groups and private security companies around …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Apple takes only 15% of new-subscriber revenue from some Apple TV partners, including Neflix, Hulu Plus, and MLB.TV, in contrast to its 30% iOS standard — How to Beat Apple's 30 Percent Subscription Fee: Sell Your Stuff on Apple TV — Did you sign up for HBO Now so you could watch “Game of Thrones” last night?
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Duo Security Raises $30 Million Led By Redpoint To Protect Enterprises Against Data Breaches — Duo Security, the two-factor authentication startup backed by Benchmark and Google Ventures, wants to do more to help protect companies from hackers trying to gain access to their networks.| Pranav Dixit / Hindustan Times: |
Flipkart pulls out of Airtel Zero after social media backlash, says strongly believes in net neutrality — The battle for net neutrality got a boost on Tuesday with e-commerce giant Flipkart pulling out of the Airtel Zero platform, with which it had recently partnered.
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NextBigWhat, TechCrunch, indiatoday.intoday.in, The Hindu, The Economic Times, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Business Today, Tech2, dna, India - The Huffington Post, The Economic Times and NDTV News. Tweets: @pranavdixit. Thanks:@pranavdixit
| Eric Walsh / Reuters: |
Applications for US H1-B tech visas totaled a record 233K for fiscal 2016 for 85k open slots — U.S. has record number of applications for H-1B tech visas — (Reuters) - Applications for H-1B visas allowing U.S. businesses to hire foreign workers in science, engineering …
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
GoButler, a Magic clone founded by ex-Rocket Internet executives, launches SMS-based ‘virtual assistant’ service in New York City — GoButler, The Magic Clone Founded By Ex-Rocket Internet Execs, Launches Virtual Assistant In NYC — GoButler, the Berlin-headquartered 'virtual … Thanks:@ingridlunden
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