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    • Warner Music's lawsuit against Spotify in India underscores music labels' worry over music streaming services doing more direct deals with artists in the future (Peter Kafka/Recode)

    Peter Kafka / Recode: Warner Music’s lawsuit against Spotify in India underscores music labels’ worry over music streaming services doing more direct deals with artists in the future  —  Big Tech and Big Music are used to being frenemies.  Now things are getting feistier.  —  The music business is booming, for real. Warner Music's lawsuit

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    • Light, which has been known for its 16-lens DSLR rival, unveiled partnerships with Nokia, Sony, and Xiaomi at MWC, with the 5-camera Nokia 9 featuring its tech (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

    Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Light, which has been known for its 16-lens DSLR rival, unveiled partnerships with Nokia, Sony, and Xiaomi at MWC, with the 5-camera Nokia 9 featuring its tech  —  This year’s MWC has been very much the beginning of a new phase for Light .  Until now, the Palo Alto startup has

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    Hackaday Links: March 3, 2019

    In this week’s edition of, ‘why you should care that Behringer is cloning a bunch of vintage synths’, I present to you this amazing monstrosity. Yes, it’s a vertical video of a synthesizer without any sound. Never change, Reddit. A bit of explanation: this is four Behringer Model Ds (effectively clones of the Moog Minimoog,

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    • Coinbase exec says they felt compelled to buy Neutrino quickly to bring blockchain analytics in-house, because Coinbase's vendors were selling its clients' data (Messari)

    Messari: Coinbase exec says they felt compelled to buy Neutrino quickly to bring blockchain analytics in-house, because Coinbase’s vendors were selling its clients’ data  —  In an alarming interview on Cheddar, Coinbase Director of Institutional Sales, Christine Sandler, suggested … Coinbase exec says they felt compelled to buy Neutrino quickly to bring blockchain analytics in-house,

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    • Sources: Rakuten, which owns a 13% stake in Lyft, made the investment in 2015 after data from it's consumer purchase tracker Slice showed Lyft was undervalued (Ari Levy/CNBC)

    Ari Levy / CNBC: Sources: Rakuten, which owns a 13% stake in Lyft, made the investment in 2015 after data from it’s consumer purchase tracker Slice showed Lyft was undervalued  —  – Rakuten invested $300 million in Lyft in 2015, when the ride-hailing company was trying to avoid being crushed by Uber. Sources: Rakuten, which

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    • Intel CEO Bob Swan and executives Sandra Rivera and Dan McNamara discuss Intel's strategy around 5G, its investments in modems, memory chips, GPUs, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

    Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Intel CEO Bob Swan and executives Sandra Rivera and Dan McNamara discuss Intel’s strategy around 5G, its investments in modems, memory chips, GPUs, and more  —  Only the strong assets survive.  That’s what I said after Bob Swan, the newly appointed CEO of Intel, talked about his view … Intel CEO

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    • Tristan O'Tierney, a Square co-founder who created the company's first mobile app, dies at age 35 from causes likely related to addiction (Shwanika Narayan/San Francisco Chronicle)

    Shwanika Narayan / San Francisco Chronicle: Tristan O’Tierney, a Square co-founder who created the company’s first mobile app, dies at age 35 from causes likely related to addiction  —  Tristan O’Tierney, a co-founder of San Francisco payments company Square, died Feb. 23 in Ocala, Fla., of causes related to addiction, his family said. Tristan O'Tierney,

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