Eddy Cue: Apple will pay rights holders on a per-stream basis during trial period
Apple Says It Will Pay Taylor Swift for Free Streams After All — Taylor Swift isn't just the biggest pop star in the world. She's also the world's most effective Apple lobbyist.
Sony's new PlayStation 4 arrives with 1TB of storage next month
Microsoft's Xbox One isn't the only console getting a storage upgrade. Sony today announced its new PlayStation 4 1TB Ultimate Player Edition, a new version of the console that comes with twice the h...
Google launches News Lab to help journalists use its tools and data sets “to help build the future of media”, partners with several media organzations
Introducing the News Lab — It's hard to think of a more important source of information in the world than quality journalism.
Twitter's board of directors says CEO role is a “full-time commitment” in message to investors resolving one question about Jack Dorsey
Twitter's CEO Search Rules Out Dorsey If He Stays at Square — Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Microsoft stealthily backs away from free Windows 10 promise
We thought this would happen. — On Friday, Microsoft described a way for anyone to get Windows 10 for free: activated, genuine, and updated forever. We wrote at the time that we expected the compan...
Facebook to open entire suite of its ad targeting tools to Instagram in the next few months
Facebook Pushes Advertisers to Employ User Data More Effectively — Facebook Inc. is pushing advertisers to be more strategic with the vast data the social website has on its 1.4 billion users.
Pebble Time now available to pre-order from Best Buy for $200
Pebble has a long-time friendship with Best Buy, and now the smartwatch maker is launching the first widespread availability of its new Pebble Time through the retailer. Available for $200, the stand...
Instacart converting large part of its contractor workforce into part-time employees, starting in Boston and Chicago
Instacart Reclassifies Part of Its Workforce Amid Regulatory Pressure on Uber — The grocery delivery startup makes a big change that regulators have been pressuring Uber and other companies to make
NSA and GCHQ have tried since at least 2008 to reverse-engineer antivirus software like Kaspersky, monitored company emails for new malware they could use
Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks — The National Security Agency and its British counterpart …
Unsealed court docs reveal DoJ forced Google to turn over WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Applebaum's Gmail data in 2011, under a gag order
Revealed: How DOJ Gagged Google over Surveillance of WikiLeaks Volunteer — The Obama administration fought a legal battle against Google to secretly obtain …
Next generation Moto G details leak, will have Snapdragon 410 CPU, 5" display, 13mpx back and 5 mpx front cameras, 1GB RAM, expandable 8GB storage, LTE
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Sources: Dollar Shave Club raises $75M at a $615M valuation led by Technology Crossover Ventures
Dollar Shave Club Is Valued at $615 Million — Lots of videos go viral. Few prove as lucrative as Michael Dubin's. — Three years ago the Dollar Shave Club founder launched his company …
Australia passes controversial law allowing overseas ‘pirate’ sites to be blocked at ISP level
Andy / TorrentFreak :
Amazon to pay authors of self-published Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners' Lending Library e-books based on pages read, not downloads, from July 1st
pay for how much of burger I eat. http://www.theatlantic.com/... Hari Kunzru / @harikunzru : Now Amazon want to pay writers only for pages read. Feel like I'd be best off retraining now, before the ru...
Study: Facebook on track to deliver two-thirds as many video views as YouTube does in 2015
Facebook is nipping at YouTube's heels in the race for video viewers and advertisers — YouTube is the clear leader in video sharing and viewing, but Facebook is creeping up on the Google-owned giant...
Amazon Releases Fire OS 5 Developer Preview Based On Android Lollipop, Official Launch Slated For Later This Year
Bertel King, Jr / Android Police :
Subreddit moderators far removed from recent bannings say they're concerned with Reddit's leadership and strategy
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed :
As commonplace objects like toys become cloud-connected recording devices, policymakers should confront the implications
Ethan Zuckerman / The Atlantic : Tweets: @digiphile and @npralltech Tweets: Alex Howard / @digiphile : “we need more conversations that aren't about what's possible, but about what's desirable."-@eth...
Former US Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges who allegedly stole $820K in bitcoin during Silk Road investigation to plead guilty
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg Business :
Profile of Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer Alex Stamos, man in-charge of securing web properties that collectively serve over a billion users
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard : Tweets: @keitharnold and @kashhill Tweets: Keith Arnold / @keitharnold : A very proud day for my leaky @yahoomail account. It's famous. Thanks @lorenzoFB...
Alipay's US chief talks expansion, Uber China partnership and more
Leena Rao / Fortune :
Sizing Up The Suitors For Here, Nokia's Map Business
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
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