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DOJ looking at Apple as it is pushing record labels to ditch free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch — Apple pushing music labels to kill free Spotify streaming ahead of Beats relaunch — The Department of Justice is looking closely into Apple's business practices in relation …
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Facebook opens up Internet.org to developers, following backlash in India from proponents of net neutrality — Facebook opens up Internet.org to developers, hoping to pacify net neutrality critics — Chris Daniels, Facebook's VP for Internet.org, says Facebook isn't picking the web winners through the initiative.
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| Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama: |
Internet.org allows partnering telcos to track users, doesn't support secure connections — Facebook's Internet.org platform is a privacy nightmare: tracks users on partner sites, allows telcos to track — Facebook announced today that it was opening up its Internet.org service to all sites … | Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
Chuck Robbins named Cisco CEO; John Chambers to become executive chairman — John Chambers will step down from Cisco CSCO after 20 years at the helm. The company announced on Monday that Chuck Robbins, its senior vice president of worldwide field operations, will step into the company's top job effective July 26, 2015.
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest allows developers limited access to data of users who connect accounts to external apps, with a whitelisting approach — At Long Last, Pinterest Is Opening Up To Developers — Pinterest is finally opening the doors for developers to access its information — a little bit, at least.
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Thanks:@jamiefavazza| Andrew Wallenstein / Variety: |
Periscope Piracy Sets Up Grudge Match: Hollywood vs. Twitter — Dick Costolo's triumphant tweet could come back to haunt him — Forget Mayweather-Pacquiao. There's a more interesting fight brewing between Twitter and Hollywood. — The piracy of Saturday's welterweight boxing championship enabled …
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See also Mediagazer| Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal: |
DoJ to reveal more about the government's use of secret cell phone tracking devices like “stingray” fake cell towers, launches review — U.S. Will Change Stance on Secret Phone Tracking — Justice Department will review more about the use of such devices and launch a review
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How Silicon Valley became a unique, self-perpetuating culture that will continue to dominate the high-tech economy — Why Silicon Valley Will Continue to Rule — William Shockley's employees toast him for his Nobel Prize, 1956. Photo courtesy Computer History Museum.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google's Dart language on Android aims for Java-free, 120 FPS apps — Google cooks up an experimental way to write Android apps with a focus on speed. — Non-game Android apps are normally written in Java, but a group inside Google is experimenting with a whole new way of writing Android apps using Dart … | Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
How companies like BuzzFeed, Vice, and Tastemade are aggressively expanding into online video, experimenting with the format to attract viewers and advertisers — The (very) big fight for the small screen — A rising class of Internet video companies is challenging the supremacy of broadcast TV … | Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic: |
How satellite data providers, volunteers online and on the ground cooperated to deliver updated OpenStreetMap maps to rescuers in Nepal faster than ever before — The Internet Mapmakers Helping Nepal — The night after the earthquake hit Nepal, people feared to sleep in their homes …
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| Clay Dillow / Fortune: |
Profile of Matternet, whose upcoming commercial delivery drones will use proprietary cloud software to plan routes that avoid no-fly zones and obstacles — Meet Matternet, the drone delivery startup that's actually delivering — Successful Silicon Valley drone startup Matternet …
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| Erik Kirschbaum / Reuters: |
Germany is investigating BND, its foreign intelligence agency, for helping NSA spy on public officials and companies — German prosecutors launch investigation of spying charges — (Reuters) - Germany's top public prosecutor will look into accusations that the country's BND foreign …
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