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| Peter Burrows / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Apple is building its own content delivery network, considers designing own servers and networking equipment for its data centers — Apple Said to Build High-Speed Network for Fast Content Delivery — Apple Inc. is assembling a high-speed network and upgrading how it builds data centers …
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Tech Trader Daily, Inquirer, SiliconBeat, Business Insider, BGR, MacRumors, iMore, Reuters, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Patently Apple and iLounge
| Christina Warren / Mashable: |
In a discussion about lack of diversity in technology, Tim Cook hints at female presenters at WWDC — Exclusive: Tim Cook says lack of diversity in tech is ‘our fault’ — SAN FRANCISCO — The day before Apple kicks off its annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) …
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Quartz, MacRumors, BetaNews, Computerworld, abc7news.com, Washington Post, ABC News, AppleInsider, Telegraph, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web, Engadget, Business Insider, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, Tech Times, iPhone Hacks and Silicon Republic
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| Associated Press: |
Source: Apple hopes to sign up 100M subscribers for new music streaming service — APPLE WANTS A LEAD ROLE IN STREAMING MUSIC — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple's iTunes helped change the way music-lovers bought their favorite songs, replacing plastic discs with digital downloads.
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BGR, MacRumors, Fox News, ABC News, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iMore, bizjournals, BetaBoston, Digital Music News, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, TechnoBuffalo, hypebot, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, blog.chron.com, TechCrunch, iLounge, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, MobileSyrup.com and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Apple to launch Flipboard-like app, publishers will host content on it, and keep 100% of advertising they sell; Newsstand is going away — Apple To Launch New Flipboard-Like App, While Newsstand Goes Away — Apple plans to announce a free, Flipboard-like product that will show consumers samplings … | Yasmin Khan / Skype Blogs: |
Skype Translator Preview coming to Skype for Windows desktop app by end of summer — Skype Translator Preview Is Coming to the Skype for Windows Desktop App — To bring Skype Translator into more people's lives, today we are happy to announce that the Skype Translator preview technology … | Tom Maxwell / 9to5Google: |
AT&T announces ruggedized Samsung Galaxy S6 Active with 3,500mAh battery, 5.1" QHD display, 16MP rear, 5MP front cameras, Exynos 7420; available from June 12 — Samsung Galaxy S6 Active officially announced by AT&T, sports massive 3,500mAh battery (Update: available June 12)
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PR Newswire, ZDNet, Inquirer, Gizmodo, The Verge, Droid Life and PhoneRadar. Tweets: @davezatz
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Showtime's Standalone Streaming Service Coming To Roku, PlayStation Vue — When Showtime debuted its standalone streaming service aimed at cord cutters last week, there was some speculation that Apple had scored another exclusive for its platform, similar to its deal with HBO NOW … | Clive Thompson / New York Times: |
Swiss watchmakers Montblanc, Ateliers deMonaco, and H. Moser adopt very different strategies to compete with the Apple Watch — Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age? — Masters of one of the world's most revered forms of analog craftsmanship take on the smartwatch.
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| Wired: |
Inside story of the final days of Mojang: feelings of betrayal, plummeting employee morale, an absent Notch, and money as salve — The Unlikely Story of Microsoft's Surprise Minecraft Buyout — Microsoft's $2.5 billion purchase of Mojang and Minecraft last September …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Takeout Giant Delivery Hero Raises Another $110M At Over $3.1B Valuation Ahead Of IPO — Delivery Hero, the takeout food ordering service based out of Berlin, has raised yet more money — possibly some of its last before an IPO sometime after 2015. It's picked up another $110 million from two unnamed … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg Business: |
India's booming tech sector fuelled by easier access to capital prompts more Indian engineers to return home to work in startups after graduating in US — America's Unwanted Ivy Leaguers Are Flocking to India — Tech boom lures Indian engineers back home — Kunal Bahl's American dream was coming together in late 2007.| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
HackerOne lets white hat hackers report security flaws to companies, gets 20% bounty commission — HackerOne Connects Hackers With Companies, and Hopes for a Win-Win — SAN FRANCISCO — In 2011, two Dutch hackers in their early 20s made a target list of 100 high-tech companies they would try to hack.Thanks:@peter_farago
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