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Review: Google music plan solid, serendipitous

Chris Yerga, engineering director of Android, speaks about Google Play Music at Google I/O 2013 in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

Google's new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers.

Pandora posts in-line 1Q loss, upbeat sales

Internet radio company Pandora Media Inc. reported higher-than-expected revenue in the latest quarter, with losses in line with analysts' forecasts, as the number of subscribers who pay for ad-free listening more than doubled to exceed 2.5 million. 1369345791

Lenovo says quarterly profit up 90 percent

Computer maker Lenovo Group said Thursday its latest quarterly profit rose 90 percent as sales of smartphones and mobile computing technology expanded.
- http://www.lenovo.com

Prosecutor: IPad theft defendants ambushed victim

Two men accused of killing a high school freshman who refused to let go of his iPad were like wild animals ambushing a weak victim, a prosecutor said Thursday. 1369343683

Solar plane completes 2nd leg of trip in Texas

A solar-powered plane has landed in Texas, completing the second leg of a trip across the United States.

Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View

Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. 1369330334

Troops can tweet from Guantánamo again

U.S. troops can once again tweet and post on Facebook from the coffee shop, Irish pub and library at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, a base spokeswoman said Wednesday.