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Micah Singleton / The Verge:

Sources: Apple's licensing deals include permission to create up to five additional radio stations like Beats 1 — Apple's music deals allow for new Beats stations at any time — While Apple Music may have gotten off to a less than stellar start, Apple's 24/7 radio station Beats 1 has lived …

Steve Dent / Engadget:

Intel targets gamers with sixth-gen ‘Skylake’ CPU launch — With mobile annihilating the mainstream PC industry, Intel knows gaming is buttering its bread. The chip giant launched its sixth-gneration “Skylake” desktop processors today with two enthusiast quad-core models: the Core I7-6700K and i5-6600K.

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Mark Bergen / Re/code:

Twitter May Be a Takeover Target, but Google Is Unlikely to Take It Over — As markets closed yesterday, Twitter's stock sank to its lowest level ever — a drop that raised speculation, yet again, that another company would take it over. At only a $19 billion market valuation, that's not a surprise.

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Launches “Live” Streaming Video Feature, But Only For Celebrities — Before Periscope and Meerkat jumpstarted the mobile livestreaming craze, Facebook was already quietly working on its own way to let public figures broadcast live videos to their fans.

More: Facebook, The Next Web, The Verge and Re/code

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Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg Business:

Apple defeats bid for lawsuit alleging iMessage interfered with delivery of texts after switching to non-Apple devices — Apple Defeats Bid for Group Suit Over Texts Lost in Phone Swap — Apple Inc. won a ruling beating back a group lawsuit sought by a former iPhone user who claimed …

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft launches Sway out of preview along with new Windows 10 app, revamps Docs.com for sharing Office files — Microsoft today announced its content aggregation and presentation application Sway has hit general availability. That means the digital storytelling tool is launching …

More: Office Blogs, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Engadget, ZDNet and CNET

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Fastly Raises $75M For Its Real-Time CDN — Fastly, a content delivery service (CDN) service that focuses on helping companies deliver dynamic content to their users faster, today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series D round led by ICONIQ Capital.

More: Network World, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, Fortune and bizjournals

Adam Jourdan / Reuters:

China to put security teams in major Internet firms, websites — China is planning to set up “network security offices” in major Internet companies and for websites so authorities can move more quickly against illegal online behavior, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement.

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Graava is an action camera that automatically edits your video and prepares highlights, on preorder for $249, to eventually retail for $399 — Graava Is A $249 Action Camera That Edits Highlight Videos For You — Your GoPro is great until you have to edit all those hours of footage to find the cool moments.

More: VentureBeat, New York Times, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, The Verge, Re/code, The Next Web and Forbes

Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine

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Wilson Rothman / Wall Street Journal:

Epson's new EcoTank printers hold two years worth of ink, cost between $400-$500 and replacement cannisters of ink will cost $52 — Review: Epson Kills the Printer Ink Cartridge — The new EcoTank printers cost more up front but can churn for years without running dry

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Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:

Samsung Pay on TV lets you buy apps and games with your credit card, debit card, and PayPal — Samsung has introduced a new way for people to pay for content — right through their television. Called Samsung Pay on TV, it supports major credit cards, debit cards, PayPal, and other mobile billing options.

More: Samsung Tomorrow, Engadget, PC Magazine, CNET, PCWorld, Tech Times, The Next Web, eWeek, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Business Insider and Android Central

Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:

Flying DJI's new Phantom 3 Standard—better software, better camera — Updated platform has stricter flight controls and more attention to detail. — My first experience with DJI's Phantom quadcopter drones was unboxing a Phantom 2 Vision+ and then flying it directly into a tree.

More: Gizmodo, Engadget, The Verge, AppleInsider and TechCrunch

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:

IBM, Apple's Rival-Turned-Partner, Plans to Help Other Companies Adopt Macs — Big Blue, set to be the world's largest corporate user of MacBooks, expands collaboration in rapidly shifting tech landscape — International Business Machines Corp. and Apple Inc. used to be bitter rivals …

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Computerworld, ZDNet, AppleInsider, TIME, Inquirer, TechEye, iClarified and Tech Times. Tweets: @benbajarin

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity And Paternity Leave Program — A few hours after hitting its all-time stock price high today, Netflix has announced a new program for all employees. — In a blog post, the company outlined its unlimited maternity and paternity leave program.

Sarah Jeong / Motherboard:

Google's Patent Purchase Promotion ends with company buying 28% of patents submitted, with a median price tag of $150K — How Google Renewed Its Fight Against Patent Trolls — Congress killed patent reform last year, but big tech companies are taking the matter into their own hands.

More: 9to5Google, IEEE Spectrum and IEEE Spectrum

Tweets: @sarahjeong and @motherboard

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Empowers Pages To Provide Customer Support Over Private Messages — A business publicly debating customer problems on their Facebook Page's wall is a recipe for a PR disaster. So today Facebook is giving Pages more options for privately messaging people who complain.

More: BuzzFeed. Tweets: @joshconstine

Samuel Sidler / WordPress News:

WordPress releases 4.2.4 security patch to address three cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, a potential SQL injection and side-channel attack — WordPress 4.2.4 Security and Maintenance Release — WordPress 4.2.4 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions …

More: Help Net Security, ResearchBuzz and Graham Cluley

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Twitter rolling out landscape support to iPhone 6 Plus users — In yet another staggered feature rollout, Twitter has begun enabling full landscape support for its iOS app on the iPhone 6 Plus. Like with many of Apple's bundled applications, Twitter app users on the larger …

More: The Next Web, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, New York Daily News, iPhone Hacks, The Next Web and Canadianreviewer.com

David Kravets / Ars Technica:

Movie studios sue MovieTube, seek SOPA-like power through broad site-blocking court order — Memo to MPAA: Congress didn't pass SOPA — Studios' suit demands “entire Internet” block, filtering infringing sites, EFF says. — Remember 2012, when there was that giant Internet backlash …

More: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Mike Beasley / 9to5Google:

YouTube ditches “301+” video view counter, introduces new method for keeping views up-to-date — YouTube announced a new plan today to finally get rid of the well-known “301+” issue that affected popular videos on the site. — As has been explained by the company in the past …

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch and SlashGear. Tweets: @ytcreators

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Adidas acquires mobile fitness company Runtastic for $239M — Sporting giant Adidas has acquired Runtastic, a European mobile fitness startup known for its GPS fitness-tracking app of the same name, in a deal worth €220 million ($239 million). — Founded out of Austria, in 2009 …

More: Runtastic Blog, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Reuters and iPhone in Canada Blog

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Data-analysis firm Tableau Software acquires Infoactive, a startup that turns data into infographics — Tableau makes first acquisition ever, swoops up startup that turns data into infographics … For the first time in its 13-year history, Tableau Software is acquiring another company.

More: ZDNet

Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:

Samsung announces new Android security update process, will roll out patches once a month — Samsung to Deliver Monthly Over the Air Security Updates for Android — Samsung to Deliver Regular Security Updates Around Once a Month to Android-based Galaxy Devices

More: Samsung Tomorrow

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