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| Jana Messerschmidt / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter and Google partner to bring more tweets into Google search results, rolling out on mobile in the US today and desktop soon — A new way to discover Tweets — We're excited to team up with Google to bring Twitter's unique, real-time content to Google's search results.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
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Marketing Land, Fortune, Digital Trends, Android Police, International Business Times, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, SlashGear and Android and Me. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@martinbeck
| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Contract between Sony Music and Spotify shows how streaming rates are calculated and details yearly advances and most-favored-nation clause for Sony Music — This was Sony Music's contract with Spotify — Over the last year the music industry has been in flux as artists, labels …
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Agence France-Presse, Engadget, UPROXX, Digital Music News, The FADER, TIME and hypebot
Tweets: @eriqgardner, @musicbizworld, @tvoti, @poptastic and @jimcarrollotr
See also Mediagazer| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook: Apple Watch in stores ‘by June’, in talks for Apple Pay in China — During his trip last week across China, Apple CEO Tim Cook held a meeting at Apple's China headquarters with several employees in attendance, according to sources with knowledge of the briefing.
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MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, InvestorPlace, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo and TodaysiPhone.com. Thanks:@apollozac
| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Apple releases new $1,999 27-inch Retina iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch trackpad — Apple releases cheaper Retina iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch — Apple is starting to bring the price down on its 5K Retina iMac, releasing a new version today that sells …
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Apple, Computerworld, eWeek, The Register, CNET, Engadget, TechCrunch, Macworld, MacRumors, The Next Web, Wired, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, BuzzFeed, BGR, ZDNet, Neowin, VentureBeat, O'Grady's PowerPage, BetaNews, Ars Technica, Laptop Mag, Re/code, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Ars Technica UK, TIME, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow and iMore
| Brian Womack / Bloomberg Business: |
Yahoo shares drop 7.62% on potential changes to IRS's spinoff rules, possibly complicating efforts to exit a stake in Alibaba — Yahoo Shares Drop on Potential Changes to IRS's Spinoff Rules — Yahoo! Inc. shares declined 7.5 percent on reports that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service …
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TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider and Bloomberg View
| AccessNow: |
Advocacy organizations from 31 countries say Facebook's Internet.org violates net neutrality, security, privacy, and threatens freedom of expression — Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg Regarding Internet.org, Net Neutrality, Privacy, and Security — We, the undersigned …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, PandoDaily, BetaNews, BBC, Gizmodo, Mashable, Telegraph, Daily Mail, USA Today, Naked Security, Guardian, Business Insider and Forbes. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Apple, Google, and leading cryptologists urge President Obama in letter to reject backdoors in smartphones and other devices — Tech giants urge Obama to resist ‘backdoors’ into encrypted communications — Tech behemoths including Apple and Google and leading cryptologists … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
WordPress parent Automattic acquires WooCommerce, maker of a popular e-commerce WordPress plugin, sources say for more than $30M — WordPress Parent Automattic Buys WooCommerce, a Shopping Tool for Web Publishers — Last year Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, raised $160 million.
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WooThemes, Matt Mullenweg, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, internetretailer.com, WordPress Tavern, theWHIR.com, Mark Forrester and Mashable. Tweets: @fredericl. See also Mediagazer
| Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune: |
Meraki founders raise $25M led by Andreessen Horowitz for IoT sensor startup Samsara — Meraki founders score $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz for sensor startup — Two founders who helped big companies get a handle on their Wi-Fi networks and later sold their startup to Cisco for $1.2 billion …
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Medium, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post
| Steven Norton / Wall Street Journal: |
Mike Kail, hired by Yahoo last summer as CIO, has left the company in the wake of a suit filed by Netflix; Laurie Mann, SVP of search products, named new CIO — Yahoo CIO Mike Kail No Longer With Company — Mike Kail, chief information officer and senior vice president of infrastructure at Yahoo Inc., has left the company.
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bizjournals and Variety
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolls out touch-first test versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint for Android phones; devices must run KitKat 4.4.x or higher, have at least 1GB RAM — Microsoft rolls out touch-first Office apps preview for Android phones — Summary:Microsoft is rolling out test versions of its standalone … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases first official Lightning Dock for $39; compatible with iPhone 5, 5c, 5s, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and 5th-generation iPod touch — Apple Now Sells A Lightning Dock For Your iPhone — Apple has finally done what many had long hoped it would - released an official dock …
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The Next Web, BGR, AppleInsider, BetaNews, Macworld, SlashGear, 9to5Mac and MacRumors
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
After nearly a decade of research, Apple shelved plans over a year ago for the TV set that Carl Icahn expects it to release in 2016 — Behind Apple's Move to Shelve TV Plans — Apple had dropped its TV plans, but investor Carl Icahn sees the firm entering the market next year
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Business Insider, Fox News, Tech Trader Daily, Mashable, AppleInsider, MacRumors, ReadWrite, Yahoo! Finance, Wired, Quartz, BGR, International Business Times, ZDNet, FierceOnlineVideo News, The Verge, Ars Technica, MacNN, TodaysiPhone.com, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, PandoDaily, The VAR Guy, Gotta Be Mobile, SiliconBeat and App Advice. See also Mediagazer
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest unveils new ad pricing models and first video ad unit, a Promoted Pin called Cinematic Pin, which animates as the user scrolls down or taps on it — Pinterest Unveils Its First Video-Like Ad And New Ad Pricing Models — Advertisers are going to have a lot more to work with on Pinterest starting today.
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Wall Street Journal, Adweek, Marketing Land, AdAge, Business Insider, Re/code, Marketing Land, Fortune and AdExchanger
| Tess Stynes / Wall Street Journal: |
Etsy reports total operating expenses up 73% year-over-year, revenue of $58.5M, missing estimates of $59M for Q1; shares down 17% in after-hours trading — Etsy Reports Wider Loss on Higher Costs — Shares of crafts retailer continue to slide from April IPO as revenue disappoints
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Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Associated Press, CNBC, Forbes and Mashable
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
CSC to split into two publicly-traded companies, one to serve commercial and government clients globally and one to serve public sector clients in US — CSC splits into two companies — Summary:Now that CSC is done restructuring it will split into two companies focused on the commercial and public sector markets.| Reuters: |
Apple renews contract with TomTom for digital maps, TomTom's shares rise — TomTom shares jump after Apple renews digital maps contract — Dutch navigation systems company TomTom NV said Apple Inc would continue to buy its digital maps, giving a vote confidence that sent the Dutch company's shares … | Antuan Goodwin / CNET: |
Automatic smart driving monitor now connects your car to over 20 apps — Today, Automatic launches its new App Gallery of third-party apps and rolls out the second-generation of its OBD-II adapter.
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Automatic Blog, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, The Next Web, Android Police, PandoDaily, Co.Design, Engadget and Wired
| Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge: |
Inside Google's secret anti-fraud team battling the bots that siphon billions of digital ad dollars — Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud — Cable News Wars Rage as New Players Join the Battle — In a conference room nine floors above London's St. Giles High Street …
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Marketing Land, Tech News Today, Business Insider and Business Finance News. Thanks:@kantrowitz. See also Mediagazer
| Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat: |
Consumer groups update FTC complaint against Google to include allegations of adult content on YouTube Kids — Google's ‘kid-friendly’ app YouTube Kids shows some very grown-up videos — Two consumer groups have found some pretty appallingly adult content in Google's ostensibly child-friendly video app, YouTube Kids.| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Eric Schmidt, iHeart Media chairman Bob Pittman, Discover Communications CEO David Zaslav, and other execs back a $25M Uber-for-helicopters startup, Blade — Eric Schmidt and other execs back a $25 million Uber-for-helicopters startup Blade to fly wealthy people extremely short distances
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Business Insider Australia and New York Post
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
LG Reveals Phablet And Budget Versions Of Its Flagship G4 Smartphone — LG's G4, the company newest flagship smartphone, went on sales across the first parts of the world yesterday, and today the Korean company added two variants of the device to the mix. — The G4 Stylus is a 5.7-inch version …
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LG Newsroom, The Verge, PCWorld, DailyTech, Tech Times, Engadget, AndroidGuys, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo and Electronista
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Twilio Launches IP Messaging, New Conference Call Services And High-Volume SMS Tools — Twilio is kicking off its Signal conference today and — unsurprisingly — the company is announcing a slew of new services for developers that use its voice, video and messaging platform.
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VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, PE Hub Blog, ZDNet and The Next Web
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Oculus announces Rift event for June 11; invite image teases new hardware design — Oculus Sends Out Invites For Special Rift Event June 11 — Oculus is inviting press to a special event on June 11 in San Francisco. The company provided the image above along with the invite …
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SlashGear and Wired.co.uk
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
MixRadio, the streaming music service sold by Microsoft to Line last year, launches iOS and Android apps — MixRadio Finally Brings Its Music Service To iOS And Android — MixRadio, the radio music service that was transferred from Nokia to Microsoft and then bought by messaging app company Line …
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Engadget, Digital Trends, BetaNews, Music Ally, The Verge, Ubergizmo and SlashGear
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