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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 flee...
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.
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 …
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 …
Facebook's Messenger Platform Gets Its First Game
Facebook Messenger's quest to own all the ways you connect with friends is now expanding to games. Today I spotted “Doodle Draw Game” in the Messenger platform app list, and Facebook says this is the...
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 …
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.
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 ...
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 …
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.
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.”
Interview with Eddy Cue and Jimmy Iovine on Apple Music, Connect, and the importance of a “human touch” in curating playlists
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Leaked Oculus mockups of consumer Rift on its event countdown page dismissed as “ancient” by co-founder Palmer Luckey
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Snapchat makes logging in more secure with two-factor authentication
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DoJ issued a grand jury subpoena to identify commenters on a Silk Road post at Reason.com, alleging threats were made against federal judge
At Popehat, Ken White reveals that my second … Colin Lecher / The Verge : Feds want to unmask internet commenters writing about the Silk Road trial judge Mike Masnick / Techdirt : Justice Department I...
Baidu to launch driverless car later this year
Sony's PlayStation Now game streaming service launches on select Samsung smart TVs in US and Canada
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Duolingo Raises $45 Million Series D Round Led By Google Capital, Now Valued At $470M
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Unity 5.1 update brings VR-specific features including native Oculus Rift support
Drumroll please! Unity 5.1 is ready … Jon Jordan / Pocket Gamer.biz : Unity optimises its VR and AR optimisations in Unity 5.1 Jamie Feltham / VRFocus : Unity 5.1 Now Available, Adds Native Oculus Su...
Cloud-based call-center tech provider Talkdesk raises $15M Series A
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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 worl...
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 exi...
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.
Payroll Giant ADP Cuts Off Small Business Clients' Access To Zenefits
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Google Maps now lets you send places from desktop to your iPhone
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Vine Updates Search Results To Include Actual Vines, Not Just Hashtags And People
We're updating search to help you discover the best of Vine. Natt Garun / The Next Web : Vine's Explore tab now lets you search through recent and popular videos Sneha Bokil / Fone Arena : Vine for iO...
Netflix shareholders OK share increase, company to pursue split
Instagram is launching a redesigned website with bigger photos
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Safari for OS X 10.11 supports custom Force Touch interactions for the web
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AOL acquires and shuts down predictive-analytics startup Velos
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