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Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:

Sony Music CEO confirms launch of Apple's music streaming service tomorrow — Sony Music CEO Doug Morris said in an interview on stage today that Apple will announce its new music streaming service tomorrow at its World Wide Developers Conference. — While observers have long-expected …

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Tweets: @jyarow and @seth

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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

What to expect at WWDC 2015: native Apple Watch SDK, iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 focusing on core user experience, and Apple Music — Coming at WWDC 2015: New Apple Watch SDK, Quality-focused/refreshed iOS 9 & OS X 10.11, Apple Music — Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference is about to kick off.

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

Advanced mobile infrastructure, population density and consumer habits give Seoul some advantages over Silicon Valley as an environment for mobile innovation — What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Seoul — South Korean companies are building software for smartphones that's chaotic …

More: Forbes and Wall Street Journal

Adrian Chen / New York Times:

Inside Internet Research Agency, an army of pro-Kremlin trolls wreaking havoc on the Internet — The Agency … Around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 11 last year, Duval Arthur, director of the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for St. Mary Parish, Louisiana …

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Tom Maxwell / 9to5Google:

Slack for Android updated with much faster navigation, emoji support, more — Slack, the workplace communication service that has taken the corporate communications space by storm, has released what is says is a “better, faster, and all around Android-ier” Slack app for Android, rewritten from the ground up.

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Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Amazon Echo updated to read audiobooks purchased through Audible — Amazon Echo now reads your Audible audiobooks — Amazon has added audiobook reading to its Echo personal assistant, allowing the pillar-like speaker to regale owners with Audible ebooks.

More: ZDNet, Engadget and TechnoBuffalo

Ryan Gantz / The Verge:

Google Photos' Assistant feature creates collages and movies that can be surprising, lovely, and bizarre — Laughing and crying my way through the new Google Photos — I started using Google Photos after it first launched last week. I was immediately impressed for all the reasons …

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Android TV now has more than 600 apps available, gets updated store to ease app discovery — Android TV Gets Updated App Store With More Than 600 Apps — There are now more than 600 apps available on Android TV, and Google just took some steps to help users with app discovery on its TV platform.

Steven Levy / Backchannel:

With App Indexing and Google Now On Tap, Google is trying to make your whole phone an interface for search — How Google Is Taking Search Outside the Box — The I/O conference had virtual reality, photos and electronic clothes. But as always, there was search.

More: Beyond Search. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Eli Wald / Inside Search:

Google now surfacing content from apps in search results in Chrome and Google app on iOS

More: Engadget, Ubergizmo, Search Engine Roundtable, eWeek, Search Engine Land and WebProNews

Glyn Moody / Ars Technica UK:

Microsoft opens “Transparency Center” in Brussels, allowing EU governments to inspect the company's software for backdoors — Microsoft opens EU “Transparency Centre” to allay fears over NSA backdoors — Microsoft has opened what it calls a “Transparency Centre” in Brussels …

More: ITworld.com and Business Insider

Liz Alderman / New York Times:

Inside Uber's battle with regulators in Paris, where its UberPOP services operates in the face of an effective ban — Uber's French Resistance — In cities from New York to New Delhi, the car service Uber has faced threats and bans from regulators but usually comes out on top.

Tweets: @sub8u

Dan Seifert / The Verge:

Huawei's $179 TalkBand B2 is the first third party fitness tracker to integrate with the Jawbone UP platform — Jawbone's lifeline is coming in the form of a Huawei fitness tracker — Jawbone is opening its Up fitness tracking platform to third-party devices, and the Huawei Talkband B2 …

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