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Sources: Apple Music now has more than 10M subscribers — Apple's music streaming subscribers top 10m — Apple has passed 10m subscribers for its music streaming service, taking six months to hit a milestone which took its arch-rival Spotify six years to hit, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Nielsen: Music Streams Doubled In 2015, Digital Sales Continue To Fall — 2015 was a good year for streaming services, according to Nielsen's year-end Music report out now. In 2015, on-demand streaming services grew to 317 billion streams - that's a doubling from 2014, which saw 164.5 billion songs streamed, Nielsen report states.
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Eddy Cue: due to a glitch, Apple has been underestimating the number of News app users since launch and passing that inaccurate information to publishers — Apple News App Is Off to a Rocky Start — There's one glitch: Neither publishers nor the company know how many people are reading
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AT&T brings back unlimited data plans for its DirecTV and U-verse subscribers — AT&T is bringing back unlimited data. The number-two wireless carrier discontinued its original unlimited plans years ago, but it's resuscitating the all-you-can-eat option as a cross-promotion with its DirecTV and U-verse television services.
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Pre-orders for HTC's VR headset Vive start February 29, ships in April — HTC Vive pre-orders to start on February 29 — Pre-orders for HTC's virtual reality headset Vive will open on February 29, boss Cher Wang confirms — HTC will start taking pre-orders for Vive, its virtual reality headset … | Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Sources: more than 30% of Yahoo's workforce has left in the last year, but company says it is still hiring, and application numbers are strong — Yahoo's Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company — SAN FRANCISCO — Marissa Mayer, the glamorous, geeky Google executive hired …
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Xiaomi's Redmi 3 offers a massive 4,100mAh battery and all-metal body for just $107 — Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi announced its latest budget handset today, the Redmi 3. The device features all-metal construction and a large 4,100mAh battery, which are both unusual in phones below $250.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
2016 Google Tracker: Everything Google is working on for the new year — Android N, a big VR program, Google Glass, and lots more are in store for Alphabet. — It's that time of the year again—welcome to the Google Tracker! This is a bi-annual series where we recap every ongoing project … | Tracey Lien / Los Angeles Times: |
Lyft defies predictions by continuing to grow as a rival to Uber — From January 2014 to January 2015, Lyft grew fivefold in rides and revenue. Above, a driver for Lyft and Uber at Los Angeles International Airport last month. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) — It's Saturday night in San Francisco's Mission District.| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
SoundCloud raises €32 million in debt funding with an option for additional loans — According to Swedish technology news site DiGITAL, Berlin-based SoundCloud has raised 300 million Swedish krona (a little more than €32 million, or about $35 million) in debt funding.| Bruce Schneier / CNN: |
How algorithmic systems to score humans like FICO and China's Sesame Credit can lead to social control, and some possible remedies to this problem — The risks — and benefits — of letting algorithms judge us — Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and chief technology officer … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
General Motors partners with HackerOne, opens Detroit's first public security vulnerability disclosure program — GM embraces white-hat hackers with public vulnerability disclosure program — First major automaker (aside from Tesla) to issue guidelines promising not to sue researchers.
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