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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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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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SpaceX files with FCC to provide Internet service from space, plans to launch 4,000 satellites — SpaceX founder files with government to provide Internet service from space — Elon Musk's space company has asked the federal government for permission to begin testing on an ambitious project … | New York Times: |
Attorneys general in NY and Conn. investigating whether Apple, music labels violated antitrust laws in talking about competing freemium services like Spotify — 2 States Look for Collusion Between Apple Music and Major Labels — While Apple was preparing a splashy introduction for a new service …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Messenger hits 1B downloads on Google Play, makes Facebook the second company after Google to reach that milestone — Facebook Messenger On Android Hits 1...Billion...Downloads — Only two companies have apps with over 1 billion Google Play downloads, and the other is Google.
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David Marcus, PC Magazine, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, Tech Times, Fone Arena, BetaNews, Ubergizmo, SocialTimes, PandoDaily, SlashGear, 9to5Google and The Verge. Thanks:@sarahaasullivan
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| 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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| 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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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Google Now On Tap Finds In-App Answers, Navigates Between Apps Seamlessly — Like a monkey swinging from tree to tree, Google Now on Tap is able to navigate between apps and generate more information about the content in apps without ever conducting a formal search.
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| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Apple vehicles on UK and Irish streets to ‘improve Apple Maps’ service — Technology giant promises to blur faces and car licence plates if they are captured, as it continues work on Street View-style service — Apple is taking a leaf out of Google's book by putting a fleet of vehicles …
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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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| 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.”| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Glassdoor: Employees rank Google's Larry Page as CEO of the year; LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner loses top spot — Career website Glassdoor today released its latest report highlighting 2015's top 50 chief executive officers, and once again the tech world played a big role in the list.
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| 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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| Jack Ma / Wall Street Journal: |
Jack Ma says Alibaba's US strategy is to help US small businesses sell goods in China — America's Online Sales Opportunity in China — The Middle Kingdom's middle class is as large as the entire U.S. population and may double in seven years. — As people learn more about Alibaba Group …
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Stripe Now Has An iPhone App For Monitoring Payment Activity — Stripe, a service that companies can use to accept payments, has a new way for businesses to track purchases and user activity — an iPhone app. — The new iPhone app does basically everything its existing online dashboard does …
Tweets: @mattmischuk
| Jennifer Saba / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Facebook earns 51 percent of ad revenue overseas - executives — Overseas markets bring in more advertising revenue than the United States for Facebook Inc, amounting to 51 percent of global ad sales in the first quarter, with growth in Asia the fastest in the world at 57 percent, company executives told Reuters.| Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat: |
Changes at VentureBeat: Dylan Tweney from editor-in-chief to editor-at-large, Harrison Weber to executive editor, Jennifer Tsao to managing editor — It's time for new adventures — Four years ago, Matt Marshall and Alicia Saribalis hired me to lead VentureBeat's news team, which at that time comprised about five people.| 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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