Apple Music first look: rich in features, smooth iTunes integration with good curated suggestions, but has no lyrics and is complicated
Apple Music First Look: Rich, Robust — But Confusing — Paid streaming music has arrived on Planet Apple, where it was regarded as unworthy for years.
Apple Releases iOS 8.4 With Apple Music, Beats 1, and Revamped Music App
Apple today released iOS 8.4, the fourth major update to iOS 8. First seeded to developers in April, iOS 8.4 includes a newly revamped Music app and Apple's long-awaited on-demand streaming music ser...
Term sheet for Uber's convertible bond sale reveals the company saw 300% YoY growth and generated $470M in operating losses on $415M in revenue
Uber Bonds Term Sheet Reveals $470 Million in Operating Losses — Uber Technologies Inc. is telling prospective investors that it generates $470 million …
AOL to take over Microsoft ad sales for display, mobile, and video in US and 8 other markets; Bing to replace Google on AOL for search and search advertising
AOL Takes Over Majority of Microsoft's Ad Business, Swaps Google Search For Bing — Microsoft Corp. is stepping back from the advertising business in a big way.
EU plans to destroy net neutrality by allowing Internet fast lanes
Potentially a big defeat for EU internet users, online startups and future innovation. — A two-tier Internet will be created in Europe as the result of a late-night “compromise” between the European...
Cisco to buy cybersecurity firm OpenDNS in $635m deal
The deal will give Cisco better visibility into the security and threat landscape. — Cisco has announced its intention to purchase threat protection security firm OpenDNS in a deal worth $635 millio...
Amazon Takes Prime Now Outside U.S., Opens One-Hour Delivery In London
Amazon has expanded its one-hour delivery service for Prime members to parts of central London. An update to the Prime Now app notes the services is now “available in selected London postcodes”.
Microsoft exec says Bing is a multibillion dollar business that pays for itself
Search Beats Display: Microsoft Says Bing Is Sustainable & Standalone Multibillion Dollar Business — A rare reveal as Microsoft exit the display ads business highlights what a powerhouse Bing search...
EU to eliminate roaming charges for calls, SMS, and data from June 2017
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Apple loses federal appeal in e-books case and is expected to pay $450M, mostly to e-book buyers
Apple Loses Federal Appeal in E-Books Case — iPhone maker is expected to pay $450 million, most of it to e-book buyers — A federal appeals court upheld a 2013 decision finding Apple Inc. liable …
Shazam Takes On Apple Music Connect With New Social Features Aimed At Musicians And Their Fans
Music discovery platform Shazam is today rolling out a new feature in partnership with over two dozen artists that will allow Shazam users to see which songs their favorite musicians are listening to ...
In the wake of hack, OPM shuts down the system for federal background checks for 4 to 6 weeks to fix security vulnerability
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GitHub has become the go-to centralized repository for software, but its freemium model, like SourceForge's, is bound to come under pressure
The Problem With Putting All the World's Code in GitHub — The ancient Library of Alexandria may have been the largest collection of human knowledge in its time …
UK's Barclaycard launches new wristband, key fob, and sticker for its bPay contactless payment service, confirms it won't support Apple Pay at launch
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Microsoft's latest Windows 10 preview for PCs gets Edge browser branding
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Profile of Amazon SVP Andy Jassy, who helped AWS dominate cloud-computing services
How Andy Jassy helped Amazon own the cloud — Major League baseball uses Amazon's cloud to send real-time updates of player statistics to fans in all 30 of its stadiums.
Samsung says it sold 1M Z1 Tizen phones, will launch several more in 2015 according to source
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Medium adds sign-in option that emails users a one-time login link, no password required
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Cloud Finance Intelligence Startup Adaptive Insights Gets $75M, Reportedly At A Unicorn Valuation
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Microsoft will release Visual Studio 2015, Team Foundation Server 2015 and .NET 4.6 on July 20
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Uber Acquires Part Of Bing's Mapping Assets, Will Absorb Around 100 Microsoft Employees
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Facebook adds signals to News Feed video rankings, will now take into account actions like activating audio and watching videos full screen
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Amazon Web Services expands in India, plans to open new infrastructure hub in 2016
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Google Expands Its Educational Platform “Classroom” With A New API, Share Button For Websites
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Amazon's Twitch had 21M unique viewers during E3, up from 12M in 2014
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Inside China's thriving iPhone jailbreaking market
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Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte in private beta for iPhone, allowing users to make and share collages of text, sound, photos, memes, emojis, and more
Casey Newton / The Verge : Tweets: @joshelman , @mgsiegler , @pomeranian99 , @bpapa and @harrymccracken Tweets: Josh Elman / @joshelman : Byte looks very cool. We are all getting too boxed in to the ...
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