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Sources: Spotify is in advanced talks to acquire SoundCloud after its two earlier attempts proved unsuccessful — Spotify, the music streaming service, is in advanced talks to acquire SoundCloud, as competition heats up with Apple for the future of digital music, said people briefed on the discussions.| Roger Parloff / Fortune: |
Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft launch Partnership on AI, a nonprofit to advance best practices in AI; the group isn't intended to lobby government — Five tech giants announced on Wednesday that they are launching a nonprofit to “advance public understanding” … | Michael Kan / PCWorld: |
Security firm InfoArmor says hackers-for-hire, not state-sponsored actors, breached Yahoo, and have sold the entire database three times, once for $300K+ — Elite hackers-for-hire were actually behind the breach, according to InfoArmor — Common criminals, not state-sponsored hackers … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple may release new MacBook Pros in the second half of October; source says Apple is working on optimizing macOS for the new hardware — With the iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2 launches having dominated the Apple news cycle in recent weeks, attention is now turning back to the Mac lineup … | Marius Nestor / Softpedia News: |
Raspberry Pi Foundation unveils PIXEL, a new LXDE-based desktop for Raspbian that is designed to be more appealing with new theme, application icons, more — The new desktop environment can be installed right now — Raspberry Pi Foundation's Simon Long proudly unveiled a new desktop environment … | Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Spotify launches in Japan with free ad-supported tier and an ad-free version at $9.70/month — Company will offer free service supported by advertising — Spotify has more than 40 million paying customers globally — Spotify Ltd. is bringing its popular online music service to Japan … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook at Work will launch on October 10 in London — Some more details are coming through on Facebook at Work, the social network's big effort to move into enterprise communication services with a business version of its popular platform. Facebook has now sent out invites for a Facebook … | Recode: |
Sources: Qi Lu, Microsoft's EVP of applications and services, is leaving the company due to health issues; Corporate VP Rajesh Jha to assume many of Lu's duties — Rajesh Jha will assume many of Lu's responsibilities — Longtime Microsoft executive Qi Lu is leaving the company following medical issues … | Wall Street Journal: |
Apple to open $45M R&D center in Beijing, China to focus on developing hardware, will have 500 employees — New center will employ 500 workers, Zhongguancun Science Park Administrative Committee says — BEIJING— Apple Inc. 's first research center in China will be a $45 million facility located … | John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple says Search Ads will go live in the App Store on October 5, offers developers $100 credit towards first campaign — First announced at WWDC in June and beta-tested over the Summer, Apple launched Search Ads for iOS apps today. The ads will appear at the top of App Store customers … | James Rufus Koren / Los Angeles Times: |
Online payday lender LendUp ordered to pay $6.3M in refunds and penalties for deceptive practices — Richard Cordray is director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has fined San Francisco online lender LendUp. Online lending start-up LendUp, which has billed itself as a better … | Google Research Blog: |
Google releases YouTube-8M, a dataset of 8M video URLs representing over 500K hours of video, along with 4800 distinct labels, for machine learning — Posted by Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan and Paul Natsev, Software Engineers — Many recent breakthroughs in machine learning and machine perception …
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