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June 8, 2015, 9:20 AM

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Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:

Sony Music CEO Doug Morris confirms launch of Apple's music streaming service at WWDC — Sony Music CEO confirms launch of Apple's music streaming service tomorrow — Sony Music CEO Doug Morris said in an interview on stage today that Apple will announce its new music streaming service tomorrow …

Associated Press:

Source: Apple hopes to sign up 100M subscribers for new music streaming service — APPLE WANTS A LEAD ROLE IN STREAMING MUSIC — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple's iTunes helped change the way music-lovers bought their favorite songs, replacing plastic discs with digital downloads.

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Christina Warren / Mashable:

In a discussion about lack of diversity in technology, Tim Cook hints at female presenters at WWDC — Exclusive: Tim Cook says lack of diversity in tech is ‘our fault’ — SAN FRANCISCO — The day before Apple kicks off its annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) …

More: Computerworld, MacRumors, BetaNews, The Verge, Business Insider, Patently Apple, Engadget, Tech Times, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks and Silicon Republic

Tweets: @amandawills, @msquinn and @mhess4

Clive Thompson / New York Times:

Swiss watchmakers Montblanc, Ateliers deMonaco, and H. Moser adopt very different strategies to compete with the Apple Watch — Can the Swiss Watchmaker Survive the Digital Age? — Masters of one of the world's most revered forms of analog craftsmanship take on the smartwatch.

More: Wearable Tech Insider

Wired:

Inside story of the final days of Mojang: feelings of betrayal, plummeting employee morale, an absent Notch, and money as salve — The Unlikely Story of Microsoft's Surprise Minecraft Buyout — Microsoft's $2.5 billion purchase of Mojang and Minecraft last September …

Tweets: @hunterwalk

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Takeout Giant Delivery Hero Raises Another $110M At Over $3.1B Valuation Ahead Of IPO — Delivery Hero, the takeout food ordering service based out of Berlin, has raised yet more money — possibly some of its last before an IPO sometime after 2015. It's picked up another $110 million from two unnamed …

More: Financial Times, Business Insider, Delivery Hero, Street Fight, PYMNTS.com, VatorNews, ITProPortal and Silicon Republic

Micah Lee / The Intercept:

Microsoft answers some questions about BitLocker, its disk encryption technology, but declines to directly answer whether it has backdoors — Microsoft Gives Details About Its Controversial Disk Encryption — Recently, I wrote a guide explaining how to encrypt your laptop's hard drive and why you should do so.

More: Silicon Republic and Redmond. Tweets: @matthew_d_green and @csoghoian

Dina Bass / Bloomberg Business:

India's booming tech sector fuelled by easier access to capital prompts more Indian engineers to return home to work in startups after graduating in US — America's Unwanted Ivy Leaguers Are Flocking to India — Tech boom lures Indian engineers back home — Kunal Bahl's American dream was coming together in late 2007.

Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:

Why more than a dozen big banks and tech firms are investigating blockchain technology — Why financial firms are investigating bitcoin tech — The technology behind bitcoin could be even more important than the cryptocurrency itself. — The technological innovation behind bitcoin …

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Kat Hall / The Register:

HMRC, the UK's tax agency with staff of 70K, is first large UK gov't department to switch from Microsoft to Google Apps, store official data on servers offshore — HMRC ditches Microsoft for Google, sends data offshore — Tax doesn't have to be taxing for US firm with inside track

More: 9to5Google and BetaNews. Tweets: @manxvelo and @gcluley

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Inside Sketchfab, a platform for publishing and finding 3D content, which has partnered with Facebook and Microsoft — This startup is bridging the gap between today's web and tomorrow's virtual reality — Onstage at Microsoft's recent Build conference, the tech giant announced a handful …

More: BetaNews

Jenna Wortham / New York Times:

Advanced mobile infrastructure, population density and consumer habits give Seoul some advantages over Silicon Valley as an environment for mobile innovation — What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Seoul — South Korean companies are building software for smartphones that's chaotic …

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