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Music streaming service Rdio is breaking up with The Echo Nest after Spotify acquired it

Mar12
by on March 12, 2014 at 8:23 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, music streaming

Music streaming service Spotify announced last week that it had acquired music data platform The Echo Nest, and now competitor Rdio wants to end its partnership with the platform because it doesn’t want to share its data with rivals, CNBC reports. In an interview with CNBC, Rdio CEO Anthony Bay says: “As far as we are concerned, they were a good partner, but we have other good partners and we’ll move on… We, probably like most people, have multiple sources of data that we use. So we will stop using that source of data and use other sources.” Spotify has said it…

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Opera Mini 8 sports a new look for basic phone users, tacks on private and night modes

Mar12
by on March 12, 2014 at 7:03 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, mobile browser, Product Updates

Opera Software has released a new version of its Opera Mini browser custom-made for the Java platform on basic phones, as well as BlackBerry devices, which comes with a new look and several other features.  The new look of Opera Mini 8 is meant to align it closer to Opera’s other mobile browsers. It features a flat, minimalistic design, as well as an improved Speed Dial start page, which helps users to navigate faster to their favorite sites from hybrid mobile phones. Other nifty features include a private mode, which supports private tabs that don’t save information once the open tab is closed, as…

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