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Spotify arrives in the Philippines, where you’ll pay just $3 a month for a Premium subscription

Apr08
by on April 8, 2014 at 8:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, music streaming, Philippines

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Music streaming service Spotify is taking another step forward in Asia after it officially launched in the Philippines today on mobile devices, the desktop and the Web. The service first entered Asia in April last year when it arrived in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. Spotify’s latest market launch comes after it started offering a free, shuffle-based version of its music streaming service on iOS and Android. We previously noted that the stronger push towards mobile is something that will benefit the company particularly in Asia, and it is taking aggressive moves to make sure that it appeals to users in the region —…

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Spotify arrives in the Philippines, where you’ll pay just $3 a month for a Premium subscription

Apr08
by on April 8, 2014 at 8:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, music streaming, Philippines

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Music streaming service Spotify is taking another step forward in Asia after it officially launched in the Philippines today on mobile devices, the desktop and the Web. The service first entered Asia in April last year when it arrived in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. Spotify’s latest market launch comes after it started offering a free, shuffle-based version of its music streaming service on iOS and Android. We previously noted that the stronger push towards mobile is something that will benefit the company particularly in Asia, and it is taking aggressive moves to make sure that it appeals to users in the region —…

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Microsoft is one step closer to completing its $7.2B Nokia deal after gaining China’s approval

Apr08
by on April 8, 2014 at 7:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia

Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia devices and services business took a big step towards completion after the Ministry of Commerce in China formally approved the $7.2 billion deal. The two companies have been waiting on approval from various governments in Asia, and recently announced that deal is expected to close this month, having missed the initial deadline of Q1 2014. “Nokia and Microsoft have now received regulatory approvals from the People’s Republic of China, the European Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice and numerous other jurisdictions,” the companies explained in a statement, which suggests that they are now only waiting on final…

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Yahoo’s latest redesign messes up Flickr’s Creative Commons metadata, but Boing Boing has a fix

Apr08
by on April 8, 2014 at 7:19 am
Posted In: Around the Web, creative commons, Insider

Yahoo-owned photo site Flickr hosts a wide collection of photos under Creative Commons terms, but a redesign late last month has seen it become very difficult to copy images and attribute them accurately according to their licenses, BoingBoing reports. Structured Creative Commons license data have been removed from the new Flickr pages (and trying to copy the attribution by hand is almost impossible), while they also don’t feature the standard CC license logos. Now Boing Boing is taking a small step to try to fix that. Regular reader Cory Dodt has replicated his Flickr script called “attributr” which takes the structured licensed data in…

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