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The US has charged three Iranians for allegedly hacking Donald Trump's presidential campaign, revealing the increasingly advanced and aggressive tactics used by Iran in cyber warfare. The hackers, members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, engaged in a yearslong operation to compromise email accounts and gather sensitive data from US government officials. They often impersonated American government personnel in phishing emails to gain access to other accounts. The cyber activity originated from eight IP addresses in Tehran and targeted officials in the White House, Congress, intelligence agencies, and the media, among others. Iran's use of cyber tools as a geopolitical weapon has grown since the 2020 drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, and they have also targeted Israel in cyber attacks. [Extracted from the article]

In her new role, Prohovnik will oversee Spotify's efforts to court creators, including podcasters, and build features that will bring them to the platform. (Bloomberg) -- Spotify Technology SA named a new executive to oversee its creator and talk-content strategy, the latest in a series of management shuffles at the company. [Extracted from the article]

It took almost 20 years, a step-change in driving technology, a diesel emissions scandal and a geopolitical gas crisis, but the Volkswagen bus is back, baby. This van may kill the stigma of the electric vehicle as a compliance car - a cramped, eat-your-vegetables tool for a few crunchy consumers and corporations stretching to squeeze under emissions mandates. Volkswagen pulled the cover off the retro-bus Wednesday, a battery-powered van awkwardly dubbed the ID. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Dave Portnoy, founder of the pop culture site Barstool Sports, has a unique talent for shape shifting. Marylisa Carrier and her husband, Robert, were just weeks away from shuttering their Sparks, Nevada, burger joint last year when they got a call from a salesperson pitching Earl's Virtual Dining. [Extracted from the article]

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(Bloomberg) -- The coronavirus outbreak has forced billions of people around the world to answer a question they'd never contemplated: What do we do without live sports? While Twitch is best known as a site for gamers, it's also proven popular for live concerts and a feature called #JustChatting, which is a lot like YouTube's video blogging (or vlogging). [Extracted from the article]

Russian Student Gets 3-Year Suspended Sentence For YouTube Video The court also sentenced Yegor Zhukov, 21, to sharply restricted internet use for the next two years, apparently an attempt to prevent him from continuing his video blogging. "Yegor Zhukov got a suspended sentence for nothing today", activist Ilya Yashin wrote on Twitter. [Extracted from the article]

Russian Student Gets Suspended Sentence For YouTube Video The court also sentenced Yegor Zhukov, 21, to sharply restricted internet use for the next two years, apparently an attempt to prevent him from continuing his video blogging. On Friday evening, a Moscow court found Yegor Lesnykh and Maksim Martintsov guilty of assaulting national guard officers during protests in the capital on July 27, handing down jail terms of three and 2.5 years, respectively. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports that farmers are making money advocating for the industry on social media than farming and mentions that farmer Zach Johnson is known in video streaming YouTube circles as Millennial farmer. Topics discussed include Johnson who became video blogger to advocate for growers and technology used, subscribers of farmer Suzanne Cook documenting experience as first-generation farmer and several videos of Johnson.

Google video unit is said to cancel plans for high-end series The originals that will still exist on YouTube will now shift from the paid service to YouTube's free version, where they will live alongside video blogs, makeup tutorials and toy "unboxing" videos. [Extracted from the article]

The news media has no legal right to learn whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was charged in a sealed proceeding, despite an inadvertent filing in an unrelated case that said the Justice Department has accused him of wrongdoing, the U.S. said. The Assange case came to light this month after a prosecutor inadvertently filed a document in an unrelated case that said "no other procedure is likely to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged.". [Extracted from the article]

Spotify Ltd. has hired Walt Disney Co. Disney executive Courtney Holt to oversee original video and podcasting for the world's largest paid music service. Holt, who worked in the music industry earlier in his career, will try to bring order to Spotify's efforts beyond music, an ongoing struggle for the popular on-demand music streaming service. [Extracted from the article]

During his remarks, which leaked - first as tweets, then in reports, later as audio, and finally, on Uber's own website - Khosrowshahi described his conversations with various board members as part of the CEO search. Khosrowshahi gave Kalanick a hug during the meeting and playfully teased him, saying they only spoke over FaceTime audio for fear that a reporter was tapping the phone. On the other hand, if Kalanick continues to be a central figure in Uber's many legal and ethical quagmires, at what point will the sins of Khosrowshahi's predecessor become their shared burden?. [Extracted from the article]

Spotify Ltd. is parting ways with Tom Calderone, the head of original video and podcasts, after the music-streaming company's initial round of programs failed to catch on with audiences. With more than 60 million paying subscribers for the music service, Spotify has commissioned non-music content to increase the amount of time users spend with the app and keep them from leaving to watch video on YouTube or Facebook. [Extracted from the article]

Spotify aims to list late this year or early next on the New York Stock Exchange. Spotify has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and Allen & Co. to assess its options. [Extracted from the article]

Apple Inc., seeking to capitalize on the popularity of social networks, is developing a video sharing and editing application and is testing new related features for its iPhone and iPad operating systems. The video sharing app is still in the preliminary development stages within Apple, and managers are weighing the app's list of intended features. [Extracted from the article]

Samsung will keep pushing the envelope on displays (a la the curved-screen Galaxy S6 Edge). Samsung, Sony and HTC join Facebook's Oculus in the virtual reality space. From folding phones to virtual reality, 2016 awaits Attribution Tim Culpan: author Michael Tighe: editor Robert Fenner: editor Edwin Chan: editor Lulu Yilun Chen: contributor Grace Huang: contributor Pavel Alpeyev: contributor Takashi Amano: contributor Adi Narayan: contributor Jungah Lee: contributor. [Extracted from the article]

To contact the reporter on this story:Joe Brennan in Dublin at jbrennan29@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story:Simone Meier at smeier@bloomberg.netPaul Gordon, Jeff Black Attribution Paul Gordon: editor Joe Brennan: by reporter Jeff Black: editor Simone Meier: editor responsible. [Extracted from the article]

Supergravity, based in Los Angeles, has released one film since Benator and Hustvedt started the company in November, and will put out a second, the supernatural thriller "The Chosen", on Friday. Fullscreen Inc., the online video network majority owned by Otter, has also produced films, including "#O2L Forever", a documentary about the video blogging supergroup Our 2nd Life. [Extracted from the article]