The Morning Lowdown: Music money, here comes Microsoft and more

Here are some of the stories people are talking about this morning:

• The future of news: Mobile, video, data — and crowdsourced (GigaOM)

• Spotify targets Pandora with its own mobile ‘radio’ service (paidContent)

• Royalties From Digital Radio Start to Add Up (NYT)

• Is it time to pull the plug on Web publishing pioneer Salon.com? (Mercury News)

• Microsoft Surface: A new tablet and a bold strategy (GigaOM)

• Microsoft Finally Has A Tablet Business Model With Surface (Splat F)

• Facebook’s $10 million privacy payout: why you get nothing (paidContent)

• Twitter slowly unfolding its search ambitions (GigaOM)