iTunes users hit stumbling blocks with arrival of Apple Music

From CNET: Apple Music offers a lot of cool features from streaming music to an online radio station. But it also seems to be creating some headaches for loyal iTunes users.

On Tuesday, Apple launched iOS 8.4, which turned on Apple Music, a new service that offers streaming music with playlists...

PayPal sends $890 million to buy money-transfer firm Xoom

From CNET: PayPal unveiled its plans to buy money-transfer company Xoom on Wednesday, keeping up PayPal's effort to touch just about every aspect of the digital payments world.

The deal, with an enterprise value of $890 million, will expand PayPal's global money-transfer services, likely giving...

Windows 8.1 seizes undisputed lead over Windows XP

From PC World: Microsoft’s end of support for Windows XP is having its desired effect, with Windows 8.1 pulling ahead in usage share.

While Windows 8.1 overtook XP last year according to StatCounter, that lead is now undisputed with Netmarketshare posting similar findings in June. Statcounter now...

Facebook Messenger's payments feature available across US

From CNET: Facebook's increasingly popular messaging platform has had a payments feature for months. But it hasn't been available to everyone in the US -- until now.

Facebook on Tuesday announced that its Messenger payments service is available to all users across the US. Facebook Messenger's...

Apple iOS 8.4 Rolls Out w/ Fix to Crash-Causing Unicode Text

From DailyTech: Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) latest update to its mobile platform -- iOS 8.4 -- landed today(build string: 12H5143). The finished iOS update comes roughly a week after the release of the GM ("Golden Master") build. The biggest feature of this update is, without a doubt, the new Apple Music...

Google, Microsoft, Oracle back new R Consortium at Linux Foundation

From InfoWorld: As foreshadowed on Twitter yesterday, a new R Consortium of major vendors launched today aimed at "strengthen[ing] both the technical and user communities," according to a Linux Foundation announcement.

Founding members include Microsoft, Google, Hewlett-Packard, and Oracle, along...

Microsoft hands some of the reins for its display ad business to AOL

From PC World: Microsoft will be handing over its display advertising business to AOL in nine markets as part of a new partnership between the two companies that was announced Monday.

Under the deal, AOL will use Bing to power search through its website, and will operate display advertising...

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