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Wal-Mart to take on Amazon Prime this summer with $50/year service that delivers select products in 3 days, invitation only for now — Wal-Mart challenges Amazon with unlimited shipping service for $50 per year — Wal-Mart Stores Inc is planning to test a new unlimited online shipping service …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
‘Apple Music’ Beats-based streaming service to have Ping-like social network for artists — Apple's upcoming Beats-based streaming music service will likely be named “Apple Music” and will have deep social networking integration for artists, according to industry sources briefed on the plans for the new service.
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AppleInsider, The Next Web, MacRumors, The Verge, Engadget, iMore, Phones Review, Ubergizmo and TechnoBuffalo
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Thanks:@chancehmiller| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Google's policy and communications head Rachel Whetstone takes same role at Uber; David Plouffe, who held that position at Uber, joins board in advisory role — Google Comms and Policy Head Whetstone Takes Over That Job at Uber — Rachel Whetstone, the longtime head of Google's powerful public policy …
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Forbes, Fortune, Marketing Land, The Hill, Guardian, VatorNews, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, Bloomberg Business, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Verge and WebProNews. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
The dual-display YotaPhone 2 is coming to US in July via an Indiegogo campaign, unlocked with 32GB for about $680 — The dual-display YotaPhone 2 is now cheaper, better, and available in white — The YotaPhone 2 was one of the pleasant surprises of last year, combining an OLED display … | William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Rdio to introduce Rdio Select on Thursday, a $3.99 per month tier offering access to 25 songs per day — Rdio To Launch A $3.99 Monthly Streaming Service — The new service is cheaper than the competition, but offers limited downloads from the company's library of songs.
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The Verge, Engadget and 9to5Mac
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Thanks:@williamalden| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
“Venom” vulnerability in Xen, KVM, and QEMU virtual machine platforms lets attackers break out of VM environment, affects cloud providers everywhere — Extremely serious virtual machine bug threatens cloud providers everywhere — “Venom” allows attackers to break out of guest OS, escape into host.
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| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
Verizon fixes flaw allowing a hacker forging a customer's IP addresses to obtain user info which can be used to take over the customer's account — Verizon Security Flaw Left Millions Of Home Internet Users Vulnerable To Attack — A simple browser plug-in was all you needed to gain access to the internet giant's customer accounts.| Tony Prophet / Blogging Windows: |
Microsoft introduces Windows 10 Editions: Home, Mobile, Pro, Enterprise, Education, Mobile Enterprise, and IoT Core — Introducing Windows 10 Editions — Windows 10 is coming this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. Today, we are excited to share more details on the Windows 10 Editions.
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The Verge, ZDNet, Re/code, GeekWire, BGR, The Verge, Ars Technica, Business Insider, AnandTech, PCWorld, CIO.com, PhoneNews.com, Windows Central, Geek.com, Yahoo Tech, PhoneDog.com, Mashable, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, WMPoweruser, The Next Web, Silicon Republic, TechSpot, Fone Arena, CNET, GSMArena Blog, Pocketnow, The Register, BetaNews, InfoWorld, Legit Reviews, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, Digital Trends, MobileSyrup.com, The Geek Byte, Technology Personalized, VentureBeat, SlashGear, WinBeta, MacNN, TechCrunch, Network World, The Fire Hose, TechNet Blogs, Engadget and Boing Boing. Thanks:@brandonleblanc
| Curt Woodward / BetaBoston: |
Apple, A123 settling their lawsuit over poached battery engineers — Apple and advanced battery maker A123 Systems say they have nearly settled a federal lawsuit accusing Apple of poaching A123's scientists and engineers to build a competing battery business.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Ubisoft bringing its franchises to virtual reality early next year — First major third-party publisher to publicly announce significant VR support. — So far, the nascent virtual reality space has been dominated by independent developers willing to experiment with the early, unproven hardware.
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Gamasutra, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Polygon, Paste, GameSpot, Fortune, Ubergizmo, PC Gamer, TechRadar.com, VideoGamer.com and Ars Technica UK. Tweets: @cdixon
| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Exclusive: PlanGrid raises $18 million from Sequoia to digitize construction blueprints — A few years ago, two recent college graduates noticed big inefficiencies in the use of paper blueprints in designing and planning new buildings. For one job, a bound set of paper blueprints could cost an astonishing $23,000.
Tweets: @alexisohanian and @sequoia
| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
House passes USA Freedom Act to limit NSA mass collection of Americans' phone metadata, bill now goes to Senate — In Landslide Vote, House Overwhelmingly Passes USA Freedom Act without Amendments — Is this the year Congress passes a bill to limit NSA spying? The House of Representatives certainly hopes so.
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New York Times, Guardian, The Verge, Digital Trends, US News, USA Today, The Stranger …, The Next Web and TechCrunch
| Peg Brickley / Wall Street Journal: |
Hedge fund Standard General wins auction of RadioShack brand and customer data with $26.2M bid — Standard General Wins Auction of RadioShack Brand — In addition to the trademark, the hedge fund picked up rights to RadioShack's customer data — Standard General LP … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
AT&T to offer Hulu to its customers on web and mobile apps later this year to drive Hulu subscriptions — AT&T Will Begin Offering Hulu To Its Customers Later This Year — Hulu and AT&T announced an expanded deal today designed to bring the video streaming service to AT&T's customers on both mobile devices and on the web.
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AT&T, iMore, DSLreports, PCWorld, PhoneDog.com, Reuters, WECT-TV, Multichannel News, FierceCable, SlashGear, Reuters and AndroidGuys. See also Mediagazer
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google blocks extensions not listed in the Chrome Web Store for all Windows users, will expand to Mac in July — Google today announced Chrome extensions not in the Chrome Web Store are now blocked for all Windows users. The company says it will expand this policy to Mac users in July 2015.
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Chromium Blog, PCWorld, The Register, AppleInsider, Windows Central, Lifehacker, The Next Web, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, MacRumors, SlashGear, GeekWire, 9to5Mac, Engadget and ECPM BLOG. Tweets: @fredericl
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's App Analytics feature now available to all developers, no request required — Apple's TestFlight-based App Analytics service is now available to all registered iOS developers through the iTunes Connect interface. Apple recently made App Analytics available to select developers upon request …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Cult of Mac, VentureBeat and iMore
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Instant Articles build on insights from its Paper app, load 10x faster than mobile web articles — Facebook Starts Hosting Publishers' “Instant Articles” — After months of rumors, Facebook today unveiled “Instant Articles”, a program that natively hosts publishers' content … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
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Fortune, Nieman Lab, Tech Times, Social Media Today, PandoDaily, Slate, Forbes, Tubefilter, TechSpot, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, 500ish Words, SiliconBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog and The Daily Dot
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