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Sony and Panasonic Developing 300GB Successor to Blu-Ray

Right now, a dual layer Blu-ray disc is capable of holding about 50GB of data. And while the next generation of video game consoles will both feature Blu-ray compatibility, it seems Sony isn’t satisfied with the current technology’s limitations. As mentioned by CNET, Sony has teamed up with Panasonic to create a new optical disc capable of storing up to 300GB of information.

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Report: Goodyear replacing fleet of blimps with zeppelins

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Say goodbye to the old fleet of Goodyear blimps and hello to the new fleet, which has started construction – only this time the “blimps” are actually zeppelins, or semi-rigid airships with framework (aluminum and carbon fiber in this case) to support their structure, engines and gas-filled envelop that generates lift. Goodyear, however, will still call them blimps.

Perhaps the allure of better technology has finally overcome the negative connotations associated with zeppelin airships since the fiery crash of the Hindenburg in 1937. In fact, the company behind the development of Goodyear’s new airships is ZLT Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik, the same company that built the Hindenburg. A key difference between then and now is that zeppelins no longer use hydrogen for lift but non-flammable helium instead – the same gas used in Goodyear’s current fleet of non-rigid airships.

Why the change from blimp to zeppelin? Well, for a variety of reasons, including golf. (Stay with me here!) Zeppelins are quieter, faster and have better maneuverability than blimps, and ZLT’s design uses three engines, which can be vectored to make the airships hover, a valuable technique that the current two-engine blimps can’t perform. Film crews at sporting events can appreciate this to help them set up the perfect aerial shot, but so can a professional golfer, who can’t have a blimp flying around and casting distracting shadows during play. Because of this, expect to see the new Goodyear “blimps” in more places than the old ones.

Goodyear’s fleet of three blimps is based out of Akron, Ohio; Carson, Calif.; and Pompano Beach, Fla.; and the company will gradually update it with the new airships. The first zeppelin is being built in Akron now, and Florida will probably get it later this year, CNET reports, followed by California in 2016 and Ohio in 2018, at which point all three blimps will be grounded. Scroll down below for a press release from Goodyear.

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For Acer, USB 3.0 steals Intel's Thunder(bolt)

Intel’s super-duper high speed Thunderbolt interface hasn’t exactly taken the PC world by storm, and Monday, Acer stole some of the scant thunder Intel’s baby had managed to generate.

“We’re really focusing on USB 3.0—it’s an excellent alternative to Thunderbolt,” Acer spokesperson Ruth Rosene told CNET. “It’s less expensive, offers comparable bandwidth, charging for devices such as mobile phones, and has a large installed base of accessories and peripherals.”

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On paper, Thunderbolt clearly outclasses USB 3.0: Thunderbolt’s 10Gbps per-channel transfer speeds are superior to USB 3.0’s bi-directional 5Gbps, and 20Gbps bi-directional Thunderbolt 2 technology is slated to land later this year, complete with the ability to simultaneously stream and transfer 4K video signals.

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Streaming 4K video signals, transferring 4K video files, and daisy-chaining devices: You can do it all at once with the upcoming Thunderbolt 2 technology.

Beyond mere speeds, Thunderbolt also offers the ability to daisy-chain several devices together. You’ll need a hub to hook up multiple USB 3.0 devices.

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Video: House Dismantles Fourth Amendment While America Distracted

By Daniel Noe

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While Americans were focusing on the Boston Marathon bombings and defending the Second Amendment to the Constitution from the Senate’s efforts to eliminate guns, the House was busy about the business of destroying the Fourth Amendment.

After two days of debate this week, the House passed CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, by a vote of 288-127, with 18 abstaining. The legislation would allow the federal government to engage private sector firms — think Google — in the business of monitoring your emails, postings and user data for nebulous “threat information” which would then be shared “voluntarily” without need for any sort of warrant.

The IRS and other federal agencies already have policies in place stating their belief that they are allowed to waltz through your data anytime they please, so CISPA seems primarily crafted to protect the Facebooks, Twitters, Yahoos, Sprints and other electronic communications businesses from legal reprisals.

Amendments that would have required data to be made anonymous before being handed over were defeated. Among the defeated amendments was a proposal to allow companies to keep their privacy policies intact and legally enforceable.

Democrat Rep. Jared Polis told CNET that CISPA would ensure that firms that hand over private user data would be “completely exonerated from any risk of liability.”

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From: http://www.westernjournalism.com/house-dismantles-fourth-amendment-while-america-distracted/

Google To World: Our Future Lies in Hardware Too

By Haydn Shaughnessy, Contributor

Google’s earnings have provoked mixed reactions in the major news media –  Google’s core search business is under threat, said the New York Times, blow-out sales increase CNET told its readers – but one inescapable conclusion is that times are tougher when users switch from desktop to mobile.

From: http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2013/04/19/google-to-world-our-future-lies-in-hardware/

Report: Self-driving cars face host of legal hurdles

By Michael Harley

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One group of people eagerly awaiting the arrival of autonomous (self-driving) vehicles are lawyers, according to a recent report on CNET. While the soon-to-arrive vehicles are sure to save countless lives (after cigarettes, motorized vehicles are the second most dangerous consumer product on the market – thanks to human operators), a host of legal opportunities will emerge with regards to product liability, tort law, negligence, foreseeable harm, patent encumbrance, and design defects.

To limit the liability of companies that will supply autonomous technology, laws will need to be enacted to curb their legal exposure. Plus, the systems will need to be locked down so their software cannot be modified or altered by the user – even if that type of action hinders technology advancements and innovation.

Yet there are even more lawsuits threatening self-driving technology. Thinking beyond modified software or errors in coding that causes mishaps are the actions, and legal implications, of humans sharing the roads with self-driving vehicles. What happens when a driver deliberately, and aggressively, interacts with an autonomous car (e.g., attempts to run it off the road or jams on the brakes in an attempt to cause a collision) and human injury is the result? Even more frightening is this question: Who goes on trial when a motorist is killed by a vehicle driven by a robot?

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Will This (Finally!) Jump-Start Intel?

By Tim Brugger, The Motley Fool

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After an anonymous source recently told CNET that Intel has started shipping early versions of its new Haswell chip to customers in preparation for a June 2013 release, no one would blame you for being skeptical. But the CNET rumor coincides with earlier reports of Intel’s next-great-thing hitting the streets in June, and Intel’s Developer Forum kicks off April10, which would be an ideal setting for a big announcement, wouldn’t it? For shareholders nervously awaiting its April 16 earnings release, positive Haswell news would be welcome indeed.

What’s the big deal?
Even as the S&P 500 flirts with new highs and boasts a nearly 9% return year to date and 11% in the past year, Intel shareholders are stuck lamenting its poor performance. Compared to the S&P, its stock is downright pitiful: up just 1.25% for 2013 and down more than 25% for the past year. Ouch.

Outgoing Intel CEO Paul Otellini shoulders much of the blame. Intel was late to the cloud and mobile computing parties, and the ever-declining PC market has investors spooked. But the company’s data center revenues continue to grow and are key to its cloud computing growth. Its foray into the smartphone market is under way with its made-for-mobile Atom processor, a solid foundation to build on (hopefully!). And now, news that Haswell will hit the shelves in June should be music to the ears of investors.

Haswell
In addition to speed, the new Haswell chip is said to be an improvement in several key aspects of mobile computing. According to Intel, it will give users a richer graphical experience without sacrificing performance. Mobile devices’ abilities to stream videos, play 3-D games, and share pictures are limited by today’s processors. Haswell aims to change all that.

Another key advantage: It’s powerful enough to give tablets the abilities of full-fledged PCs. Mobile computing’s well and good, but not everyone can, or wants to, work from the local coffee shop. Perhaps its most impressive feature is that, according to Intel and various rumors, it accomplishes all of the above and still provides improved energy efficiency over existing alternatives. Short battery life is the bane of mobile users, not just gamers and streaming-movie buffs.

Going forward
Intel’s hardly alone in mobile processing. Based on market cap, rival chip designer and developer of intellectual property and related software ARM Holdings is small compared to Intel — about $19 billion vs. Intel’s $103 billion — but has a strong mobile presence, particularly in the smartphone market. With 90% of the smartphone market running an ARM licensed processor, ARM holds an enviable 31% share of the mobile computing world. But even with a jump-start, ARM doesn’t provide the same stock appreciation potential as Intel. It’s trading at sky-high multiples, with a trailing P/E of 76 and forward P/E of 35. Intel, by comparison, has a forward P/E of 10 and pays a 4.3% dividend yield compared to ARM‘s paltry 0.53%.

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Smartphone Maps While Driving Banned In California (VIDEO)

By The Huffington Post News Editors

There’s a rumor that the best way to get out of a texting-while-driving ticket is to tell the police officer you were using your phone to get directions.

But now using smartphone maps while driving is also illegal in California. Or, rather, a judge has determined that it was already illegal according to California’s “hands-free” distracted driving law.

The case was brought to California’s appellate court by defendant Steven Spriggs, who argued he should not have received a ticket for using his phone while driving because he was only using GPS, CNET reports.

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Here Comes Apple's iRadio

By Evan Niu, CFA, The Motley Fool

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Talk of an Apple online music streaming service has persisted for the past year or so, in what most are now casually referring to as “iRadio.” That’s despite the fact that iRadio is already a registered trademark, which is the same challenge Apple faces with the “iTV” everyone’s been talking about. Regardless of what Apple ends up calling its new streaming service, it’s about to be unveiled to the world, according to a pair of recent reports.

CNET says that the Mac maker is about to ink a licensing deal with two out of four of the major record labels. Warner Music and Universal Music Group may be preparing to sign on the dotted line within the next week. CNET‘s tipsters say the service resembles Pandora , and doesn’t offer on-demand listening like Spotify. Apple could appeal to labels by offering audio ad revenue sharing agreements, and the labels would also benefit if Apple can cross-sell songs in iTunes.

As one of the predominant music streamers with a first-mover advantage, Pandora has the most to lose from an Apple entry. This comes just as the company just reported total listener hours soaring to 14 billion last fiscal year, nearly four times the 3.8 billion listener hours served up two years ago. Active users more than doubled to 65.6 million over the same time.

The Verge believes Apple will launch during the summer, quoting one of its own music industry sources as saying, “iRadio is coming. There’s no doubt about it anymore.” The industry is recognizing that access models are the future, with Pandora contributing roughly 25% of all access model revenue.

That may be a tough pill for Apple to swallow, as Steve Jobs famously bashed subscription access models as bad for the user. Jobs insisted that consumers like to own their music, since inevitable price hikes in subscription services force consumers to pay increasing fees or face losing all the content they’ve grown accustomed to.

While some don’t believe Apple should jump into music streaming because it’s generally not a profitable business, black ink has never been the motive for iTunes. Apple has historically operated iTunes slightly above break-even. The real goal for iTunes has always been to offer complementary content to boost device sales.

Breaking break-even
Asymco’s Horace Dediu estimates that Apple has recently departed from the break-even model and that iTunes and software (which were recently bundled together in Apple’s segment reporting restructuring) now generate $2 billion in operating income annually. Most of that positive operating income is generated from Apple’s first-party software offerings and not from music and apps (which are the bulk of iTunes sales).

The point of an iRadio service would not be to pad the bottom line; it would be an additional complementary service offering that could be integrated into devices to boost sales. Investors may only be a few months away from finding out for sure.

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Apple Streaming Music Service May Launch Soon

Rumors of Apple’s streaming music service to compete with services like Pandora have grabbed the spotlight again, and Ars Technica reports that the Cupertino company is closer than ever to reaching deals with major record labels.

Sources told CNET that the radio option is a gambit to boost download sales through iTunes, and will be designed with “quick-buy” features. The Cupertino company is also in the midst of making headway in negotiations with the so-called “Big Four” record labels, inching closer to deals with Warner Music and Universal Music Group but still working with EMI and Sony Music. There’s plenty of steps ahead before a radio station system is ready — namely agreements with music publishers — but sources say Apple is on the move.

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Verizon CEO Says He Will Consider Dropping Traditional Cell Phone Contracts, Like T-Mobile

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Verizon may follow in T-Mobile’s footsteps and end cell phone contracts… someday. At an event on Thursday, Verizon’s CEO Lowell McAdam said that he would consider killing cell phone contracts if consumers demanded it, CNET reports. “We can react quickly to consumers’ shifting needs,” McAdam said.

In March, Verizon competitor T-Mobile announced that it would end traditional contracts and cell phone plans. The New York Times’ David Pogue argued that T-Mobile’s contract free system will be a huge improvement for customers. Pogue calls the way cell phone contracts currently work a “conspiracy” and a “rip-off.” He writes that T-Mobile’s new plan will save customers a whole lot of money and allows users to bow out without penalty. Pogue did the math and decided that if you went with a comparable plan from Verizon instead of T-Mobile, you would pay $960 more over two years.

While Pogue has been praising T-Mobile’s new plans, Rebecca Greenfield of The Atlantic Wire did some different calculations and is not convinced that contract free cell phones are worth it. She writes that “T-Mobile isn’t saving you money, it’s just changing when you pay them. It’s an accounting change more than a value play.”

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1 Big Reason Why Icahn, Others Might Be Overpaying for Dell

By Tim Beyers, The Motley Fool

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Carl Icahn can’t seem to stay out of the headlines. The one-time Netflix agitator and mortal enemy of fund manager Bill Ackman is now knee-deep in what has become a low-grade bidding war for Dell .

I’m mystified, though, as to why Icahn or anyone else would want a piece of the PC maker. Dell is missing out on the greatest growth opportunity we’ve seen in more than a decade.

Tablet troubles
Some won’t agree with that take, especially those who say that tablets are, in effect, PCs. They’re the just the new “form factor” — what the computer has morphed to be, these cheerleaders say, arguing that an uptick in tablet sales favors Microsoft and Intel at least as much as Apple and Google .

Nonsense.

If the categories really were so indistinct, then Dell would have no reason to sell itself to the highest bidder. Just sit back and roll in the giant piles of cash built from sales of the XPS 10 tablet and the relatively new XPS 12 convertible, which earns good reviews from the likes of CNET and Engadget. These are the sorts of Windows 8 devices that will  boost the whole PC sector, right?

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PC fumbles
Wrong. Manufacturers haven’t seen a boost of any kind. Intel’s first-quarter guidance came in below consensus due to weak PC demand. Microsoft reported good Q4 results in its Windows division, but on a comparative basis, Windows 8’s launch quarter brought in about $1 billion less than Windows 7 did at the time of its introduction. Taiwanese manufacturer Acer recently said Chromebook sales are on the rise while characterizing Windows 8 as “still not successful.”

Dell, too, is showing battle scars. The one-time PC king suffered an 11% decline in revenue and a 22% drop in adjusted earnings per share in Q4. Both figures nudged ahead of estimates, revealing just how pessimistic Wall Street‘s view is of this business.

Analysts have good reason to be wary. Q4’s results continue a downward pattern that’s been in place for years and that shows no signs of abating:

Source: DELL Revenue Quarterly YoY Growth data by YCharts.

Tabbed out
In its 10-K annual report, Dell cites the “mobility” business as one of its weakest. Sector revenue declined 20% on an 18% drop in units sold. Average selling prices also fell 2%.

During Fiscal 2013, we experienced a difficult pricing environment for our client products. In particular, demand for our client products in emerging countries was affected as we saw a migration to lower-value offerings, where we are less competitive. Our results were also affected as customers shifted some of their demand to alternative computing devices, particularly in our Consumer segment,” the report confesses. [Emphasis added.]

Translation: We aren’t good at selling smartphones and tablets, which is a problem when you consider how important these devices have become:

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The Google Product That's So Hot It Has to Be Banned

By Tim Beyers, The Motley Fool

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What’s that? You’ve ponied up $1,500 for a pair of Glass, Google‘s interactive spectacles? Great. Just remember to take them off before you hit the road in West Virginia.

A proposed law — House Bill 3057 of the state legislature — proposes a ban on using “a wearable computer with a head-mounted display” while driving. Apparently, an article from CNET writer Chris Matyszczyk was the catalyst and Google has since responded in a statement that says the company believes there is “tremendous potential to improve safety on our roads.”

Does Glass factor into Google’s math about improving safety? Should it? In the following video, Tim Beyers of Motley Fool Rule Breakers and Motley Fool Supernova says that while Glass has Rule-Breaking potential, Google would do well to make sure users don’t have to break rules to use it.

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Wal-Mart tests in-store lockers for online orders

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will be testing this summer an option for consumers to be able to order product on its website and then have it kept in a physical locker at the store so they can pick it up without having to wait in line or talk to a store clerk.

The test, which will be conducted in about a dozen stories in an undisclosed market, is part of the world’s largest retailer’s overall strategy to offer increasingly demanding web-savvy shoppers the ability to shop any way they want. The company is also expanding its offerings online and improving a new “scan and go” shopping app so customers can immediately download coupons personalized to them.

Officials disclosed the moves Tuesday at a media event at its company’s global e-commerce offices in San Bruno, Calif., located in Silicon Valley.

The six-story offices, which house more than 1,000 employees ranging from engineers to merchandisers, includes (at)WalmartLabs, where many of the shopping innovations are coming from. It was formerly a webs analytics company called Kosmix which the discounter purchased in 2011 and then renamed (at)WalmartLabs.

The offices are different from the staid, sprawling corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. Clearly, it looks like an Internet startup. On the floor housing employees at (at)WalmartLabs, some workers are playing ping pong and pool. On another floor, web analysts watch oversized screens of Walmart.com and Samsclub.com to track any technology problems with the site.

The company conducts so-called “hack days” twice a year where most of the staff are allowed to pursue prototypes of their own liking. At the end of the day, they must show their work.

“We are tenacious about building the best-in-class e-commerce. We’re developing a density of talent that understands competition at Internet speed,” said Neil Ashe, who joined the discounter as president and CEO of the company’s global e-commerce division in January 2012. He had been president of CBS Interactive where he oversaw such online properties as cbs.com and CNET.com.

Wal-Mart used the one-day event to showcase how the discounter is meeting the challenges to fight off online rivals like eBay Inc. and amazon.com, which have been luring shoppers to the Web with their vast offerings of products and low prices. But the discounter is also following its own customers. More than half of its shoppers have smartphones and one third of its online traffic now comes from smartphones. For the holiday shopping season, that percentage figure was up to 40 …read more
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Does Apple's iWatch Signal a Cheap iPhone?

By Doug Ehrman, The Motley Fool

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While the Apple iWatch remains a rumor, albeit a very well-covered rumor, I wonder if the release of this device is a necessary condition for the ultimate release of a cheap iPhone that would allow the company to compete with Google’s Android and even Nokia’s Windows Phones at the low-cost end of the spectrum. A critical reason that Android has been able to command such a huge market share has been that in emerging markets where premium phones are unsubsidized and too expensive for most users, Android has options and Apple does not.

If you’re wondering what this could possibly have to do with a rumored but nonexistent Apple product, then I would ask you to consider the history of iDevices. Before I go any further, I’ll also say as explicitly as possible that what follows is pure speculation, a theory, an interesting alternative view to consider. Nothing more. As long as the iPod was the leading mp3 player on the market, it also remained one of the most expensive. It was not until the iPhone came along and the iPod stopped being Apple’s flagship device that iPods in the more modest price range came along.

What about the iPad?
Certainly, the iPad has had no impact on the iPhone’s price level or its premium status. There are, I think, three reasons for this. First, the devices are largely billed as working together. This is a central premise of the entire Apple ecosystem approach. With the introduction of iCloud — which replaced the MobileMe service — it became even easier to share content between the two devices. Second, the iPad was introduced long before the iPhone market was even close to mature or saturated. The iPhone had a degree of overlap with the iPod, but there are different paradigms at work.

And, third, the iPad is not a replacement for a smartphone. As long as iPads do not make calls, they are unlikely to displace your iPhone. (Let’s leave the whole phablet discussion for another day.) Apple wants to be sure that you want and need both devices.

The year of the watch wars?
The blogosphere is buzzing once again with rumors, rumors, and more rumors. A recent piece from CNET reports that Samsung is well into development of its own smartwatch to compete with the rumored product from Apple. In case you’re wondering what this market might look like, a recent estimate by Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sandford C. Bernstein, finds that if the device retails for $250 and only 5% to 8% of current iPhone users buy one, that would translate into $3.4 billion to $5.7 billion in revenues. Not the type of numbers Samsung is anxious to concede without a fight.

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Chase Bank's Online Customers Stunned to See $0 Balances

By Eamon Murphy

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Chase Bank (JPM) experienced an embarrassing glitch earlier this week, when online customers were either unable to access their accounts or, more troubling, saw their balances listed as $0. The problems presented themselves on Monday to users logging in to Chase’s online banking service via computers and mobile devices.

Chase’s social customer service team began the day sounding feisty and refreshed:

But by late afternoon, after confused or angry customers posted screenshots of zero balances and “unavailable” messages on social media and demanded answers, the Chase team had cause to sound first alarmed, then apologetic:

​The company told news outlets no hacking was involved. “We have a technology problem regarding customers’ balance information that we are working to resolve,” Chase told the computer news site CNET. “It has nothing [to do with] cyberthreats; it’s an internal issue. We are very sorry to our customers for the inconvenience.”

Three hours after the initial alert, Chase Support tweeted that the problem had been fixed, saying Chase.com and mobile were “back to business as usual“.

CBS News reports that the hacktivist collective Anonymous claimed responsibility on Twitter, but that no evidence supports the claim. Anonymous has targeted financial institutions and payment processors in the past; the group gained public notoriety after targeting Visa (V), MasterCard (MA) and PayPal (EBAY) in retaliation for those services’ refusal to process donations to WikiLeaks.

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Is a Twitter Music Service a Threat to Pandora?

By Daniel Sparks, The Motley Fool

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CNET recently reported that Twitter has acquired We Are Hunted, a music discovery service similar to Pandora . CNET asserts that Twitter plans to use the acquisition to launch its own music discovery service through an iOS app that could come as early as the end of this month.

In the video below, Fool.com’s Alison Southwick asks contributor Daniel Sparks whether Twitter’s new music service is a threat to Pandora. Furthermore, Daniel discusses why Google‘s Google Play, Sirius XM Radio , and Apple‘s iTunes can stand their own against free online radio services like Pandora.

 

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