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Spotify hits 20M paid subscribers, 75M total active users, has paid $3B in artist royalties — 20 Million Reasons to Say Thanks — What a difference a year makes! At the end of May 2014, we reached 10 million paying subscribers and 40 million active users.
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Spotify raises $526M from wide range of global investors, source says at a $8.53B valuation — Spotify Raises $526 Million Amid Battle With Apple — Spotify has closed a massive new round of funding from a wide range of global investors who are betting it can fend off a new threat from Apple.
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| Xiaoyun Zhang / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter simplifies blocking multiple accounts by letting users share and import block lists — Sharing block lists to help make Twitter safer — Today we're making it possible to share block lists on twitter.com. This new, advanced feature makes blocking multiple accounts easy, fast and community driven.
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Macworld, PC Magazine, International Business Times, Engadget, PCWorld, Gizmodo, Fortune, TechCrunch, The Daily Dot, ClickZ, The Next Web, Lifehacker, iMore, The Verge, SlashGear, Mashable and WebProNews
Tweets: @hunterwalk and @alexjamesfitz
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Messenger platform gets its first game with Doodle Draw, a Draw Something clone — Facebook's Messenger Platform Gets Its First Game — Facebook Messenger's quest to own all the ways you connect with friends is now expanding to games. Today I spotted “Doodle Draw Game” … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Apple's failure to develop exciting apps and services that users prefer over third party efforts may threaten its ecosystem — Apple's Junk Drawer Problem — A sampling of BuzzFeed Tech's Apple junk drawers. — Michelle Rial/BuzzFeed — There's a folder on the homescreen of my iPhone affectionately labeled “Apple Crap.”| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
State sponsored sophisticated attack Duqu 2.0 penetrated Kaspersky network, tapped Iran nuke talks — Stepson of Stuxnet stalked Kaspersky for months, tapped Iran nuke talks — Hacker group used a “zero-day trampoline” to scale Kaspersky defenses. — Not long after blowing the lid off …
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Video game console maker Ouya in talks to be acquired by Razer — Video game console maker Ouya is in negotiations to sell itself, possibly to Razer — The company, whose app store was pitched as the go-to place for small and independent developers, is negotiating for all employees to remain with the company after the sale.
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Android Police, Engadget, MacNN, Pocket-lint, Ubergizmo, Ausdroid, KitGuru and Android Central. Thanks:@nickstatt
| Rob Gillies / Associated Press: |
iPhone launch, failed Storm, and loss of Verizon contract were devastating for BlackBerry says former co-CEO Jim Balsillie — Ex-BlackBerry Co-CEO talks publicly for the first time — TORONTO (AP) — Former BlackBerry co-chief executive Jim Balsillie said Tuesday that Apple's introduction …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 9 code hints 1080p, 240fps, flash coming to iPhone FaceTime cameras — Code found in the first iOS 9 developer betas reveals that Apple is planning to support some significant camera features and upgrades with the new software version. Presumably planned for the next iPhone hardware version …
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MacRumors, The Verge, Forbes, AppleInsider, BGR, Business Insider, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo and Neowin. Thanks:@chancehmiller
| Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal: |
Payroll giant ADP sues Zenefits for defamation after it cut off clients' access to the startup's service over security concerns — ADP Sues Zenefits for Defamation — A conflict between one of the biggest providers of corporate payroll services and one of the world's most highly valued startups spilled into court on Tuesday.
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ZENEFITS, Ars Technica, SiliconBeat, TechCrunch, ZDNet and bizjournals
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| Sam Biddle / Gawker: |
FBI: Almost 600 iCloud accounts were breached by Celebgate hackers last year; agency raided two addresses in Chicago in connection to the hack — Feds Seized Chicago Man's Computers in Celeb Nude Leak Investigation — Last summer, stolen photos of dozens of famous women flooded the internet …
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| Darren Pauli / The Register: |
iOS Mail app bug reported in January lets hackers send phishing emails to steal your iCloud password, no fix yet — Password-flogging phishing tool pwns EVERY iOS Mail app — Cupertino quiet on pop-up of doom — Ernst and Young forensic bod Jan Soucek has created a tool capable …
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9to5Mac, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, International Business Times, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, Inquirer and Business Insider. Tweets: @chrismlacy
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Challenges Pinterest With News Feed Buy Button For Shopify Merchants — Facebook wants its ads to sell you stuff directly so you never have to click away to another app or site. Until now, Facebook was testing a Buy Button that does that with just a few selected test merchants …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Acquires Application Management Service BlueStripe — Microsoft today announced that it has acquired BlueStripe, an application management service that helps enterprises monitor and troubleshoot applications that have been deployed across different operating systems, data centers and cloud environments.
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The Official Microsoft Blog, GeekWire and Computerworld
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 9 lets app developers make ad blockers for Safari — Ad blocking extensions have been possible on Safari for Mac for a long time, but plugin architecture for Safari on iOS is much more limited. With iOS 9, Apple has added a special case of extension for ad blockers.| Wall Street Journal: |
Eric Schmidt says Europe must have a single digital market or fall behind in global competitiveness — Google Is Ready to Support European Digital Innovation, Says Eric Schmidt — Continent must have a single digital market or fall behind, says tech-giant chairman
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| Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal: |
Jawbone sues Fitbit over patent infringement, its second suit against Fitbit in two weeks — Jawbone Hits Fitbit With Second Lawsuit in Two Weeks — Fitness trackers from Jawbone and Fitbit are made to count heartbeats. They may soon be put to use counting lawsuits between the two rivals.| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
Microsoft's giant Surface Hub display ships in September; 4K 84-inch priced at $20K, 1080p 55-inch at $7K — Microsoft's Surface Hub pen display costs from $6,999 to $19,999 — You'd be forgiven if you forgot what the Surface Hub is. After all, Microsoft announced it the same …
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Surface Blog, Fast Company, Microsoft, New York Times, eWeek, The Verge, Ars Technica, CNET, TechCrunch, CIO.com, Conversations, Wall Street Journal, Windows Central, Business Insider, WinBeta, KitGuru, Inquirer, The Next Web, PC Magazine, SlashGear, Laptop Mag, Blogging Windows, TechSpot, Liliputing, Office Blogs, ZDNet, BetaNews and GeekWire. Tweets: @drpizza
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter Advertisers Can Now Target You Based on the Other Apps on Your Phone — For the past six months, Twitter has been collecting data on which smartphone apps its users download. Now, the company is using that data to make some money. — Twitter announced on Wednesday that its advertisers …
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