Apple has asked over a dozen artists for exclusive deals to promote Beats Music, which relaunches this summer at $9.99/month with family plan for $14.99
Apple's New Beats Music Thinks Taylor Swift Will Make You Pay — Apple Inc. has asked Florence and the Machine and more than a dozen …
Nokia considers sale of HERE maps business, worth about $2.1B, to focus on networks division
Nokia Weighs Sale of Maps Business to Focus on Networks — Nokia Oyj is exploring the sale of its maps business as the Finnish equipment maker focuses on boosting growth at its wireless-network unit ...
Four-person Google X team led by ex-Apple battery expert has been developing existing lithium-ion and newer solid-state thin film battery tech since 2012
Google Gets Into Battery Arms Race — Research team working on projects to improve lithium-ion and solid-state batteries
Amazon will stream movies and TV shows in vivid HDR later this year
Already delivering 4K movies and TV shows to its customers with Prime Instant Video, Amazon is now setting its sights on what's next: HDR video playback. The company has announced that it will begin ...
Mike Kerns, senior vice president of the Yahoo homepage, has resigned
One of the first execs Marissa Mayer really trusted at Yahoo just quit the company — Mike Kerns, the Yahoo senior vice president in charge of Yahoo's homepage and other destinations, just quit the c...
USPTO ruling invalidates key claims in infamous Personal Audio patent after EFF petition, curtailing the ability of patent trolls to threaten podcasters
EFF Busts Podcasting Patent, Invalidating Key Claims at Patent Office — Ruling from USPTO Invalidates All Claims Used to Threaten Podcasters
Social intelligence service DataSift says its Twitter firehose access expires August, bemoans impact on its customers and their customers, touts Facebook access
Twitter Ends its Partnership with DataSift - Firehose Access Expires on August 13, 2015 — For several months now …
SendGrid Account Breach Was Used to Attack Coinbase, a Bitcoin Exchange
SAN FRANCISCO — Hackers targeted SendGrid, a mass email service used by 180,000 companies including Uber, Pinterest, Spotify and Foursquare, to infiltrate Coinbase, one of the most popular Bitcoin exc...
Google joins Via Licensing's LTE patent pool which also includes HP, AT&T, and other telecom companies as members
Google Joins Stable of Tech Companies Licensing Their LTE Patents as a Group — Google said Thursday that it will join a group of technology companies willing …
BQ Aquaris E4.5, First Commercially Available Ubuntu Phone, Lands In Europe For 170 Euro
The first Ubuntu phone is finally here. The Aquaris E4.5, previously only an Android 4.4 phone, now also has a “Ubuntu Edition.” The phone is available only in the European Union from BQ's website r...
Twitter cuts off firehose access for third-party data resellers DataSift and NTT Data as Twitter grows in-house big data business
Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business — In the push for more revenue growth, Twitter has been building up its business in areas …
Japanese Court Orders Google To Delete Critical Reviews From Google Maps
There's troubling news in Japan today, after Google was told to delete two critical customer reviews from its Google Maps service. — The Chiba District Court today issued a preliminary injunction fo...
Google halves price of the Project Tango developer kit to $512 for some invitees, says it plans to open up sales more broadly
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Sprint settles Department of Justice claim of $21M in wiretap overcharges for $15M
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Microsoft's new Windows 10 mobile test build now includes Spartan browser, and new Mail, Calendar, Phone, and Messaging apps
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Amnesty International takes UK government to European Court of Human Rights over mass surveillance
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Symantec exploring a sale of its Veritas data-storage and recovery business, could fetch more than $8B
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Spotify nearing deal to raise $400M in round valuing the music-streaming service at $8.4B
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IBM creates 100-person research group to work on Numenta, brain-inspired AI software from Palm Founder Jeff Hawkins
SD Times news digest: April 9, 2015 Mariella Moon / Engadget : IBM starts testing AI software that mimics the human brain Nancy Owano / Phys.org : IBM peers into Numenta machine intelligence approach ...
Microsoft Office Remote Android app lets you navigate through Powerpoint presentations, Word and Excel docs on your PC over Bluetooth
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Intel, Cray land $200M US Department of Energy contract for building two supercomputers based on Xeon Phi chips
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Instacart Is Quietly Working With Third Parties To Outsource (Some Of) Its Deliveries
@instacart reportedly outsourcing some deliveries. More value in other parts of the on-demand stack? http://techcrunch.com/...
Facebook is testing a new Trending section with five news categories
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