Sources: Apple's licensing deals include permission to create up to five additional radio stations like Beats 1
Apple's music deals allow for new Beats stations at any time — While Apple Music may have gotten off to a less than stellar start, Apple's 24/7 radio station Beats 1 has lived …
Epson's new EcoTank printers hold two years worth of ink, cost between $400-$500 and replacement cannisters of ink will cost $52
Review: Epson Kills the Printer Ink Cartridge — The new EcoTank printers cost more up front but can churn for years without running dry
Hackers distributed Flash-based malware via Yahoo's ad network for seven days ending Monday; number of affected people not disclosed
Hackers Exploit ‘Flash’ Vulnerability in Yahoo Ads — For seven days, hackers used Yahoo's ad network to send malicious bits of code to computers …
Intel targets gamers with sixth-gen ‘Skylake’ CPU launch
With mobile annihilating the mainstream PC industry, Intel knows gaming is buttering its bread. The chip giant launched its sixth-gneration “Skylake” desktop processors today with two enthusiast quad...
Samsung Pay on TV lets you buy apps and games with your credit card, debit card, and PayPal
Samsung has introduced a new way for people to pay for content — right through their television. Called Samsung Pay on TV, it supports major credit cards, debit cards, PayPal, and other mobile billin...
China to put security teams in major Internet firms, websites
China is planning to set up “network security offices” in major Internet companies and for websites so authorities can move more quickly against illegal online behavior, the Ministry of Public Securit...
With over 36K tweets, #ILookLikeAnEngineer is challenging stereotypes in tech
ilooklikeanengineer wants to challenge your ideas about who can be a scientist — It all started when a “self-taught engineer, extreme introvert, science-nerd, anime-lover, college dropout” wrote tha...
Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity And Paternity Leave Program
A few hours after hitting its all-time stock price high today, Netflix has announced a new program for all employees. — In a blog post, the company outlined its unlimited maternity and paternity lea...
Twitter May Be a Takeover Target, but Google Is Unlikely to Take It Over
As markets closed yesterday, Twitter's stock sank to its lowest level ever — a drop that raised speculation, yet again, that another company would take it over. At only a $19 billion market valuation...
Fastly Raises $75M For Its Real-Time CDN
Fastly, a content delivery service (CDN) service that focuses on helping companies deliver dynamic content to their users faster, today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series D round led by...
WordPress releases 4.2.4 security patch to address three cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, a potential SQL injection and side-channel attack
WordPress 4.2.4 Security and Maintenance Release — WordPress 4.2.4 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions …
Microsoft launches Sway out of preview along with new Windows 10 app, revamps Docs.com for sharing Office files
Microsoft today announced its content aggregation and presentation application Sway has hit general availability. That means the digital storytelling tool is launching …
Flying DJI's new Phantom 3 Standard—better software, better camera
Updated platform has stricter flight controls and more attention to detail. — My first experience with DJI's Phantom quadcopter drones was unboxing a Phantom 2 Vision+ and then flying it directly in...
Twitter rolling out landscape support to iPhone 6 Plus users
In yet another staggered feature rollout, Twitter has begun enabling full landscape support for its iOS app on the iPhone 6 Plus. Like with many of Apple's bundled applications, Twitter app users on ...
Google's Patent Purchase Promotion ends with company buying 28% of patents submitted, with a median price tag of $150K
How Google Renewed Its Fight Against Patent Trolls — Congress killed patent reform last year, but big tech companies are taking the matter into their own hands.
IBM, Apple's Rival-Turned-Partner, Plans to Help Other Companies Adopt Macs
Big Blue, set to be the world's largest corporate user of MacBooks, expands collaboration in rapidly shifting tech landscape — International Business Machines Corp. and Apple Inc. used to be bitter ...
Apple defeats bid for lawsuit alleging iMessage interfered with delivery of texts after switching to non-Apple devices
Apple Defeats Bid for Group Suit Over Texts Lost in Phone Swap — Apple Inc. won a ruling beating back a group lawsuit sought by a former iPhone user who claimed …
Movie studios sue MovieTube, seek SOPA-like power through broad site-blocking court order
Memo to MPAA: Congress didn't pass SOPA — Studios' suit demands “entire Internet” block, filtering infringing sites, EFF says. — Remember 2012, when there was that giant Internet backlash …
Data-analysis firm Tableau Software acquires Infoactive, a startup that turns data into infographics
Tableau makes first acquisition ever, swoops up startup that turns data into infographics … For the first time in its 13-year history, Tableau Software is acquiring another company.
Hybrid storage startup Tintri raises $125 million
Tintri specializes in VM-aware storage for cloud environments and counts AMD, F5 Networks, GE, NEC, MillerCoors and Time Warner as enterprise customers. — Hybrid storage startup Tintri has raised $1...
LinkedIn's publishing platform expands beyond English to Portuguese; German and French to follow
LinkedIn is expanding its publishing platform beyond English today, with the news that it's launching a version for Portuguese speakers. — LinkedIn's evolution as a publishing platform …
Instacart Makes Its First Acquisition With “Acqui-hire” Of App Maker Wedding Party
On-demand grocery delivery service Instacart has made its first acquisition since raising hundreds of millions in venture funding for its growing business. The company is “acqui-hiring” …
GE announces Predix Cloud for the Internet of industrial things, available to customers in 2016
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Leak shows Samsung's flagship Galaxy Note 5 has no removable battery or microSD slot
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Federal appeals court reduces judgment against chipmaker Marvell; company owes Carnegie Mellon $278.4M, not $1.54B, in patent case
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Apple Music data to be incorporated into Billboard 200 and Hot 100 charts
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Google's Project Tango dev kits now available in South Korea and Canada, coming to 10 more countries Aug. 26
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Taylor Swift claims Spotify is a “startup with no cash flow”, recounts the thinking behind her open letter to Apple
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Microsoft revamps Outlook on the web with new look and features, drops Outlook Web App name
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MLB Advanced Media to spin out streaming video unit valued at over $3B, signs deal giving NHL up to 10% equity in the new company named BAM Tech
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Etsy beats Q2 estimates with revenue of $61.4M, but falls 13% after hours on its Q3 guidance
Etsy on Tuesday evening reported … Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily : Etsy Drops 13%: Q2 Rev Beats, U.S. Dollar Crimping Demand Financial Times : COMPANIESEtsy shares sink 13% on revenue warning
Zillow beats expectations with $171M revenue in Q2 as Trulia acquisition starts to pay off
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Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein to spend $40M to aid tech firms led by women and people of color
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Instagram launches its ads API, with Hootsuite, Brand Networks, Salesforce, SocialCode, Unified, and Ampush among first partners
But There's a Catch Emily Helander / Kenshoo : Kenshoo Clients Capitalize on Instagram Opportunity Thanks: @jenholmes
ICANN reveals plan to end US control of the organization; public has until Sept. 8 to comment
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GIF keyboard maker Riffsy raises $10M series A led by Menlo Ventures; company claims it has 4B+ monthly gif views
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Genius Launches Android App, Redesigns Home Page And iOS App
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Facebook backs off its proposed, more-restrictive user data policy after game and app publishers objected
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