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| Jana Messerschmidt / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter and Google partner to bring more tweets into Google search results, rolling out on mobile in the US today and desktop soon — A new way to discover Tweets — We're excited to team up with Google to bring Twitter's unique, real-time content to Google's search results.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
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Marketing Land, Fortune, Fox News, Android Police, SlashGear, TechSpot, Android and Me, PhoneDog.com, Ubergizmo and International Business Times. Tweets: @dannysullivan. Thanks:@martinbeck
| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Contract between Sony Music and Spotify shows how streaming rates are calculated and details yearly advances and most-favored-nation clause for Sony Music — This was Sony Music's contract with Spotify — Over the last year the music industry has been in flux as artists, labels …
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Agence France-Presse, The Stranger …, Engadget, TIME, UPROXX, Digital Music News, hypebot and The FADER
Tweets: @tvoti, @jimcarrollotr, @musicbizworld, @poptastic and @eriqgardner
See also Mediagazer| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook: Apple Watch in stores ‘by June’, in talks for Apple Pay in China — During his trip last week across China, Apple CEO Tim Cook held a meeting at Apple's China headquarters with several employees in attendance, according to sources with knowledge of the briefing.
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MacRumors, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, Redmond Pie, iPhone in Canada Blog, InvestorPlace, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo and TodaysiPhone.com. Thanks:@apollozac
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
WordPress parent Automattic acquires WooCommerce, maker of a popular e-commerce WordPress plugin, sources say for more than $30M — WordPress Parent Automattic Buys WooCommerce, a Shopping Tool for Web Publishers — Last year Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, raised $160 million.
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WooThemes, Matt Mullenweg, Mark Forrester, internetretailer.com, WordPress Tavern, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Mashable and theWHIR.com. Tweets: @fredericl. See also Mediagazer
| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Google to unveil new photo service, independent of Google+, at I/O later this month — Google Is Close to Unveiling New Web Photo Service — Google Inc. is set to reveal an online picture sharing and storage service that will no longer be part of the Google+ social network, people familiar with the plans said.
| Brian Womack / Bloomberg Business: |
Yahoo shares drop 7.62% on potential changes to IRS's spinoff rules, possibly complicating efforts to exit a stake in Alibaba — Yahoo Shares Drop on Potential Changes to IRS's Spinoff Rules — Yahoo! Inc. shares declined 7.5 percent on reports that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service …
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TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider and Bloomberg View
| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Apple releases new $1,999 27-inch Retina iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch trackpad — Apple releases cheaper Retina iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch — Apple is starting to bring the price down on its 5K Retina iMac, releasing a new version today that sells …
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Apple, Computerworld, The Wirecutter, CNET, Engadget, Macworld, Wired, TechCrunch, MacRumors, The Next Web, Ars Technica, eWeek, Neowin, O'Grady's PowerPage, Laptop Mag, Ars Technica UK, TIME, The Register, Pocketnow, TechSpot, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Business Insider, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, ZDNet and BuzzFeed
| Steven Norton / Wall Street Journal: |
Mike Kail, hired by Yahoo last summer as CIO, has left the company in the wake of a suit filed by Netflix; Laurie Mann, SVP of search products, named new CIO — Yahoo CIO Mike Kail No Longer With Company — Mike Kail, chief information officer and senior vice president of infrastructure at Yahoo Inc., has left the company.
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bizjournals and Variety
| Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune: |
Meraki founders raise $25M led by Andreessen Horowitz for IoT sensor startup Samsara — Meraki founders score $25 million from Andreessen Horowitz for sensor startup — Two founders who helped big companies get a handle on their Wi-Fi networks and later sold their startup to Cisco for $1.2 billion …
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Medium, Forbes and Wall Street Journal
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest unveils new ad pricing models and first video ad unit, a Promoted Pin called Cinematic Pin, which animates as the user scrolls down or taps on it — Pinterest Unveils Its First Video-Like Ad And New Ad Pricing Models — Advertisers are going to have a lot more to work with on Pinterest starting today.
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Wall Street Journal, Adweek, Marketing Land, Re/code, Marketing Land, Fortune, AdAge, Business Insider and AdExchanger
| AccessNow: |
Advocacy organizations from 31 countries say Facebook's Internet.org violates net neutrality, security, privacy, and threatens freedom of expression — Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg Regarding Internet.org, Net Neutrality, Privacy, and Security — We, the undersigned … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon names Maria Renz as shadow to Jeff Bezos, or more formally, technical adviser to CEO, the first woman to hold the role — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Names First Woman Executive to Coveted Top Role — For more than 15 years, one role at Amazon has stood out as perhaps the most coveted … | Antuan Goodwin / CNET: |
Automatic smart driving monitor now connects your car to over 20 apps — Today, Automatic launches its new App Gallery of third-party apps and rolls out the second-generation of its OBD-II adapter.
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Automatic Blog, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Co.Design, Android Police, The Next Web, PandoDaily, Wired and Engadget
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google releases Tone, an experimental Chrome extension for sharing links with nearby computers using only sound — Google Tone is a Chrome extension for sharing URLs with nearby computers using sound — Google has launched a new experimental Chrome extension that lets you transmit the URL …
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Google Research Blog, The Next Web, Digital Trends, Engadget, eWeek, The Verge, Mashable, TechCrunch and 9to5Google
| Chris Brook / Threatpost: |
St. Louis Federal Reserve confirms DNS hijack of affiliated sites in April, including FRED, its economic database, plus archival and geographic databases — St. Louis Federal Reserve Falls Victim To DNS Hijack — The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank confirmed this week that it fell victim to a DNS hijack last month.
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolls out touch-first test versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint for Android phones; devices must run KitKat 4.4.x or higher, have at least 1GB RAM — Microsoft rolls out touch-first Office apps preview for Android phones — Summary:Microsoft is rolling out test versions of its standalone … | Reuters: |
Apple renews contract with TomTom for digital maps, TomTom's shares rise — TomTom shares jump after Apple renews digital maps contract — Dutch navigation systems company TomTom NV said Apple Inc would continue to buy its digital maps, giving a vote confidence that sent the Dutch company's shares … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Oculus announces Rift event for June 11; invite image teases new hardware design — Oculus Sends Out Invites For Special Rift Event June 11 — Oculus is inviting press to a special event on June 11 in San Francisco. The company provided the image above along with the invite …
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ReadWrite, SlashGear and Wired.co.uk
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
CSC to split into two publicly-traded companies, one to serve commercial and government clients globally and one to serve public sector clients in US — CSC splits into two companies — Summary:Now that CSC is done restructuring it will split into two companies focused on the commercial and public sector markets.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple releases first official Lightning Dock for $39; compatible with iPhone 5, 5c, 5s, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and 5th-generation iPod touch — Apple Now Sells A Lightning Dock For Your iPhone — Apple has finally done what many had long hoped it would - released an official dock …
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The Next Web, BetaNews, Macworld, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, BGR, Engadget and AppleInsider
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
MixRadio, the streaming music service sold by Microsoft to Line last year, launches iOS and Android apps — MixRadio Finally Brings Its Music Service To iOS And Android — MixRadio, the radio music service that was transferred from Nokia to Microsoft and then bought by messaging app company Line …
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Engadget, The Next Web, Digital Trends, Music Ally, The Verge, Ubergizmo, BetaNews and SlashGear
| Tess Stynes / Wall Street Journal: |
Etsy reports total operating expenses up 73% year-over-year, revenue of $58.5M, missing estimates of $59M for Q1; shares down 17% in after-hours trading — Etsy Reports Wider Loss on Higher Costs — Shares of crafts retailer continue to slide from April IPO as revenue disappoints| Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge: |
Inside Google's secret anti-fraud team battling the bots that siphon billions of digital ad dollars — Inside Google's Secret War Against Ad Fraud — Cable News Wars Rage as New Players Join the Battle — In a conference room nine floors above London's St. Giles High Street …
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Marketing Land, Business Insider, Business Finance News and Tech News Today. Thanks:@kantrowitz. See also Mediagazer
| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Eric Schmidt, iHeart Media chairman Bob Pittman, Discover Communications CEO David Zaslav, and other execs back a $25M Uber-for-helicopters startup, Blade — Eric Schmidt and other execs back a $25 million Uber-for-helicopters startup Blade to fly wealthy people extremely short distances
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Business Insider Australia and New York Post
| Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Proper Google Maps app appears on Android Wear via latest phone app update — With the latest update to Google Maps on your phone, Android Wear gains some mapping functionality. — After updating to Google Maps version 9.9 on your phone — which brings a neat new transparent status bar …
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Android Police, The Verge, Engadget and ZDNet
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Twilio Launches IP Messaging, New Conference Call Services And High-Volume SMS Tools — Twilio is kicking off its Signal conference today and — unsurprisingly — the company is announcing a slew of new services for developers that use its voice, video and messaging platform.Sponsor Posts
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UiPath:
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
Zoho:
New in Zoho Payroll USA: Multi-state payroll and more — Running payroll shouldn't get harder as your business grows. Whether you've expanded into new states or built a team with unique needs …
New in Zoho Payroll USA: Multi-state payroll and more — Running payroll shouldn't get harder as your business grows. Whether you've expanded into new states or built a team with unique needs …
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