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Spotify says it paid Taylor Swift millions. Her label disagrees. Here's the truth

Ben Popper November 13, 2014 09:36 am11.13.2014 167

The numbers getting thrown out are not apples to apples

Money won't fill that blank space Taylor

YouTube announces plans for a subscription music service

Casey Newton November 12, 2014 01:00 pm11.12.2014 162

After spending months on revisions, YouTube confirmed today that it will launch a paid subscription service that lets users stream high-quality, ad-free music and music videos. The service, which launches...

Who will pay for YouTube?

The DJI Inspire One is the coolest drone I've ever seen

Ben Popper November 12, 2014 08:00 pm11.12.2014 64

The drone game has changed. That may sound like hyperbole, but that was my first impression when experiencing the DJI Inspire One. This is a unit that anyone could pick up and learn to fly quickly, just as...

The game done changed

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Twitter says it has an extra 500 million users each month who don't log in

Ben Popper November 12, 2014 12:57 pm11.12.2014 5

At a session with financial analysts today, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo finally put a hard number on the size of Twitter's logged out audience. The company is trying to get Wall Street to reevaluate its true...

A grower, not a shower

Can a brewery be a platform for anyone to program their own beer?

Ben Popper November 11, 2014 09:00 am11.11.2014 14

Two Roads Brewing Company in Stratford, Connecticut has an interesting take on making craft beer. It built a brewery way bigger than its brand, and are opening up the facilities for other small brewers to...

"It's like a whirlpool of beer, of hot beer." Alexis Ohanian

Google signs 60-year lease on NASA airfield and hangars

Jacob Kastrenakes November 10, 2014 06:02 pm11.10.2014 27

Google has sealed a deal to lease NASA's Moffett Airfield for the next 60 years after beginning negotiations for the land back in February. Under terms of the agreement, Google will pay NASA an...

1,000 acres of land, three hangars, two runways, and a golf course

AT&T expands beyond the US with $2.5 billion purchase of Mexican carrier Iusacell

Nathan Ingraham November 7, 2014 05:02 pm11.07.2014 22

AT&T just expanded its reach in a pretty significant way today — the company has agreed to purchase Mexican wireless carrier Iusacell for $2.5 billion. According to AT&T, this will create the first-ever...

AT&T's North American footprint is getting bigger

The not-so-glamorous life of a robot operator

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CBS just launched a 24-hour streaming news channel

Jacob Kastrenakes November 6, 2014 10:14 am11.06.2014 26

CBS is today launching an online news channel that'll be broadcasting over its website and apps 24 hours a day, all week long. CBS is naming the naming the new network CBSN, and it plans to fill it with...

"There’s a tremendous opportunity on these platforms." Les Moonves, CBS CEO

Scribd expands its subscription library to include audiobooks

Jacob Kastrenakes November 6, 2014 09:30 am11.06.2014 2

Scribd is about to give Audible a serious run for its money. Today it's adding an audiobooks section to its ebooks subscription service, giving its customers access to more than 30,000 audiobooks as part...

Putting Amazon on notice

Lytro is sharing its futuristic camera technology with outsiders like NASA

Josh Lowensohn November 6, 2014 08:00 am11.06.2014 3

The grand promise of Lytro has been a camera that you can snap photos with and not worry about whether you got the focus right. In an industry defined by speed and sharpness, that's a revolutionary idea....

And it's coming to outer space

Tesla pushes Model X launch to third quarter of 2015

Chris Ziegler November 5, 2014 04:27 pm11.05.2014 37

Originally scheduled for delivery in 2013 before getting pushed into this year, Tesla just announced in its earnings statement that the Model X crossover is getting pushed once again — this time into the...

Not the first delay

Meet the man blocking Apple Pay

Ben Popper and Chaim Gartenberg November 5, 2014 02:53 pm11.05.2014 253

Until two weeks ago most people had never heard of the Merchant Consumer Exchange (MCX), a digital payments platform backed by some of the biggest retailers in the US. Then its partners blocked Apple Pay...

"I think every customer will see it a little differently." Dekkers Davidson, CEO, MCX - CurrentC
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