"Jimmy Iovine is the driving force behind Apple's music streaming service" Business Insider 8:20 AM
"Podcasts Surge, but Producers Fear Apple Isn't Listening" ["Late last month, Apple brought seven leading podcast professionals to the company's campus in Cupertino, Calif., to air their case to a room full of employees, according to two people who were there. The people would speak only on the condition of anonymity because they had signed nondisclosure agreements. The company made no promises, the people said, but several pressing issues for podcasters were discussed in frank terms."] New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required] 10:50 AM
"Apple Meets with Podcasters to Hear Wide-Ranging Community Grievances" MacRumors 1:36 PM
"Apple holds talks on the future of podcasts" Engadget 5:03 PM
"Report: Podcasters Meet With Apple, Discuss Concerns/Apple's iTunes helped make podcasts popular, but some podcasters feel as if the company isn't doing enough to help them succeed." PC Magazine 7:48 PM
"Top producers complain that Apple no longer cares about podcasting" iDownload Blog 2:53 PM
"Apple met with podcasters to discuss future of medium" AppleInsider 7:39 PM
"Report: Podcasters Meet With Apple, Discuss Concerns" PC Magazine 9:26 PM
"Apple Struggles in the Age of Amazon.com: Developers of personal technology are unable to reprise past triumphs. Today, consumers get lots of choice; investors, modest growth." Barron's 8:17 AM
"Apple Deprivileged As India Bows To Washington Consensus On Mobile Phone Import Tariffs" Forbes 8:26 AM
"Petition Which Claims Apple Knows About 'Planned Obsolescence' Crosses 20K Signatures" RazorianFly 8:25 AM
"iPhone 7 Rumors: Apple Device Will Not Include Smart Connector" Latin Times 5:09 PM
"Exclusive: Apple's Tim Cook to visit China for government meetings - source" Reuters 5/6
"Tim Cook reportedly traveling to China following closure of Apple's online stores" The Verge 5/6
"Tim Cook is heading to China as pressure on Apple increases" The Next Web 5/6
"Tim Cook heading to Beijing to tackle Apple's China woes" Examiner 5/6
"Apple and SAP join forces to develop business apps for iPhones and iPads" V3 5/6
"Tim Cook signs SAP for iOS – SANA app pact: Apple adds software giant to the IBM collection" The Register 5/6
"IBM's iPhone app will help 20 million Americans keep their sight" Computerworld 5/6
"Apple VP of Online Retail Bob Kupbens leaves company" 9to5Mac 5/6
"Apple VP of Online Retail Bob Kupbens Resigns From Company" MacRumors 5/6
"Apple links up with Facebook to help you honor mom on Mother's Day" Mashable 7:41 PM
"App Store Search Malfunctions, Apple Quickly Fixes It: What Happened?" Tech Times 10:29 AM
"Apple Creates Website To Let You Make Your Own 'Shot On iPhone' Mother's Day Videos" Tech Times 10:29 AM
"Apple's new site lets you create a custom 'Shot on iPhone' ad for Mother's Day" TechCrunch 3:22 PM
"How one teen amassed an 'orchard' of historic Apple products" Mashable 8:26 AM
"Real Estate for Autonomous Car Facilities Gains Movement in Silicon Valley: Apple, Google parent Alphabet and several car makers seeking large expanses of property" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5/6
"Apple and Google reportedly buying land for autonomous car facilities" CNET 5/6
"Apple seeking 800,000-sq feet of space for car project as team reaches around 600 people – WSJ" Electrek 5/6
"Apple reportedly mulling expansion of Project Titan 'autonomous car' plans" The Next Web 5/6
"Apple is reportedly looking for a monster 800,000-square-foot warehouse for its secret car project" Business Insider 5/6
"iPhone sales surge 56% in India as Apple eats into Samsung's high-end share" AppleInsider 5/6
"Apple chief Tim Cook to speak at Startup Fest Europe on May 24" AppleInsider 5/6
"Apple CEO Tim Cook opening Startup Fest in Amsterdam as keynote speaker on May 24th" 9to5Mac 5/6
"Cupertino's mayor is trying to take back his rant against Apple" Business Insider 5/6
"Apple Music helps tip Warner from a music sales label to a music streaming one" 9to5Mac 5/6
"Apple Music & others help streaming become Warner Music's biggest revenue source" AppleInsider 5/6
"Warner Music Group Rakes in That Streaming Cash" PC Magazine 5/6
"True Religion deploys Apple Watch to salespeople in NY & LA, plans up to 30 more stores" AppleInsider 5/6
"Huawei Just Copied the iPhone—Down to the Last Screw" Wired 5/6
"Court Rules Leather 'iPhone' Goods in China are Legal" Law Street 5/6
"Apple Music streaming subscription chopped in half for students" CNET 5/6
"Apple Music gets $5 student plan to boost subscriber numbers" Cult of Mac 5/6
"Police issue warning about counterfeit iPhone sales" Fox 5 Atlanta 5/6
"Apple Support Now Lets You Opt Out of Listening to Their Staticky Hold Music" Kirkville 5/6
"Retailer 'True Religion' Uses Apple Watch To Help Customer Engagement" UberGizmo 5/6
Non-Apple News
"Google is quietly making progress on one of its most jaw-dropping tech projects" Business Insider 4:33 PM
"Amazon promises to eliminate racial gaps in delivery areas" Engadget 5/6
"Microsoft begins warning users it will cut free OneDrive storage to 5GB, matching Apple's iCloud" AppleInsider 5/6
"Google, Honeywell put away Nest patent knives" The Register 5/6
"Meet HoloFlex, a Holographic, Flexible Smartphone" PC Magazine 5/6
"This flexible, holographic phone is the wildest thing you'll see all week" BGR 5/6
"A 29-Year Study Has Found No Link Between Brain Cancer and Cellphones" Gizmodo 5/6
"Digitimes Research: China vendors ship 128.6 million smartphones globally in 1Q16" DigiTimes 5/6
Publications/Podcasts
"Coming May 7: Gene Steinberg meets Kirk McElhearn, Macworld's 'iTunes Guy,' and The Mac Observer's Bryan Chaffin, this week on The Tech Night Owl LIVE!" The Tech Night Owl LIVE 5/6
"Rebound 84: You're Sitting In It Wrong" Six Colors 5/6
"TMO Daily Observations 2016-05-06: Apple's Online Retail Experience, Listener Comments" The Mac Observer 5/6
"Smile Upgrades and Adds Features to PDFpen 8" MacVoices 5/6
"iPhone 7 Generating More Excitement Than iPhone 6s: A new study indicates US consumers are anticipating the upcoming iPhone 7 more than they did its predecessor, the iPhone 6s." InformationWeek 12:19 PM
"Apple Granted 8 Design Patents Covering Next-Gen Apple Stores" Patently Apple 10:51 AM
"New Rumor Suggests iPhone 7 Won't Include Smart Connector After All" MacRumors 5/6
"Rumor: 'iPhone 7' may not ship with Apple's Smart Connector after all" AppleInsider 5/6
"Report: iPhone 7 'Pro' may not feature iPad Pro's Smart Connector as rumored" 9to5Mac 5/6
"iPhone 7 Might Not Feature A Smart Connector After All" UberGizmo 5/6
"TSMC begins tape-out of 10nm A11 chips for Apple" DigiTimes 5/6
"Work on next year's iPhone chips is already underway" Cult of Mac 5/6
"Apple needs silver bullet to slay App Store's escaped undead – study" The Register 5/6
"Is Apple Music nixing its Connect tab? The feature that lets musicians chat and share exclusive content directly with fans is reportedly getting downgraded in Apple's next iOS upgrade." CNET 5/6
"I'm looking forward to my 10TB flash drive-equipped MacBook Pro in 2018" Apple World Today 5/6
"Was Apple Music's Initial Goal Of 100 Million Subscribers Too Ambitious?" Forbes 5/6
"Confessions of a digital packrat: It's easy to hold onto each and every piece of digital information that passes through your life. But should you?" Macworld 5/6
"Cupertino mayor's complaints about Apple and taxes are sour grapes and ignore the real villain" VentureBeat 5/6
"Copyright battle over Java drags Oracle and Google back to court" MarketWatch 8:25 AM
"Oracle and Google Head Back to Court" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:18 AM
"Microsoft says it's going to stop prompting people to upgrade to Windows 10" Business Insider 10:28 AM
"Windows 10 Milestone, SharePoint Server 2016 Launches: Microsoft Roundup" InformationWeek 12:19 PM
"Windows 10 Now Running On 300 Million Devices" InformationWeek 5/6
"There's No Better Time to Install Windows 10 than Now" Softpedia 5/6
"Windows 10 won't be free for much longer" MCV 5/6
"Windows 10 won't be free after July 29" TechShout 5/6
"Microsoft calls time on free upgrades as Windows 10 hits 300m devices" SiliconRepublic 5/6
"Quick! Grab your free Windows 10 upgrade before it's gone" T3 5/6
"Stats Show Microsoft Finally Created an OS More Successful than Windows 7" Softpedia 5/6
"Microsoft to help UN Security Council fight 'digital terror'" Israel National News 5/6
"Windows 10: Is Microsoft still on target for one billion devices, and does it really matter?" ZDNet 5/6
"Microsoft will soon stop nagging users to upgrade to Windows 10" ZDNet 5/6
"Microsoft Opens Windows Business App Store to Bulk Sales of Third-Party Software: Bid to convince developers to create more programs for Windows 10" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5/6
"IBM Makes Quantum Computer Available for Free via Cloud" FARS News Agency 5/6
"A Close Look at IBM's Dividend Potential" The Motley Fool 5/6
"IBM's Quantum Computing Is For 'Anyone', But Is It For Everyone?" TechWeekEurope 5/6
"IBM's Quantum Computers Are Here, and you can try it" TG Daily 5/6
"IBM's POWER cloud powers up almost a year later than promised" The Register 5/6
"IBM Banking on Cloud, Cognitive Computing in Transformation Effort" eWeek 5/6
"Dell To Rebrand As Dell Technologies After EMC Merger" Forbes 5/6
"Intel Core i3 processor scales for COM embedded modules" Electronics Weekly 5/6
"HP partners with Intel to invigorate STEM (+4 photos)" PCWorld Australia 5/6
"Intel overtakes ST for third place in industrial semi market" Electronics Weekly 5/6
"'It's only just the beginning for virtual reality but it's here to stay' - AMD's Richard Huddy" PCR Online 5/6
"The Oracle-Google trial over Android starts Monday. Here's what you need to know: Oracle says Android usurped the mobile OS market from Sun. Google says Sun just never built a decent product" IDG News Service 5/6
"Google and Oracle lawyers prepare for Monday's Android, Java retrial" IT PRO 5/6
"Oracle Romania reaches 4,200 employees" Nine O'clock 5/6
"Network visibility remains the key to safe digital transformation, says Cisco" ComputerWeekly 5/6
"Sources: Cisco In Talks With IPO-Bound Nutanix About Strategic Hyper-Convergence Partnership" CRN 5/6
"Dow, S&P and Nasdaq end in the black after early slide" USA Today 5/6
"U.S. Stocks Pare Losses, Still Face Weekly Decline" Dow Jones Newswires 5/6
"U.S. Stocks Fall for Second Straight Week: Dow industrials, S&P 500 log first back-to-back declines since market low in February" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 5/6
"China stocks slide nearly 3% on worries about looming bond defaults: Shares in Asia mostly edged lower Friday amid caution before a key U.S. jobs report, but China stocks were down more sharply over rising defaults and regulatory concerns.." MarketWatch 5/6
"European stocks end lower, log worst week in about 3 months: European stock markets ended a choppy session mostly lower on Friday, with a downbeat reading on U.S. jobs growth outweighing a late-day rally in oil prices." MarketWatch 5/6
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