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Microsoft Reports Record Third-Quarter Revenue — Strong business demand drives double-digit operating income growth. REDMOND, Wash. — Apr. 19, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. today announced quarterly revenue of $17.41 billion for the quarter ended Mar. 31, 2012, a 6% increase from the prior year period.
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Microsoft posts Q3 beat: Operating income grows to $6.37 billion on $17.41 billion in sales — Following the huge loss reported by major mobile partner Nokia, Microsoft posted its fiscal third-quarter results on Thursday following the close of the market. Wall Street was expecting …
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Enterprise carries Microsoft until Windows 8 launch; Q3 strong — Summary: SQL Server and enterprise products more than hold Microsoft over ahead of the Windows 8 launch as company delivers strong third quarter. — Microsoft delivered a strong fiscal third quarter as the software company's enterprise line … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Nokia's Elop: Lumia ‘actual sales have been mixed’ — Summary: Nokia runs into Lumia launch challenges in the U.K. and overall sales so far have been mixed. — Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said that the company's Lumia launched to “encouraging awards and popular acclaim,” but “actual sales results have been mixed.”| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
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Evernote Has Completed A $100 Million Round At A $1 Billion Valuation Led By Meritech — Evernote, an application that helps you remember everything via its smart phone and desktop applications, has completed a new $100 million round of financing, according to a source familiar with the deal.| Quentin Hardy / Bits: |
Cisco Announces Its $850 Million Spin-In — Cisco has notified its employees that it has funded an advanced networking startup, called Insieme, with $100 million, with the right to eventually buy the company for as much as $750 million more. — As reported in Bits last month Insieme …
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Apple, Google, Intel fail to dismiss staff-poaching lawsuit — (Reuters) - Apple Inc, Google Inc, Intel Corp and four other technology companies were ordered by a judge to face an antitrust lawsuit claiming they illegally agreed not to poach each other's employees.
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iPhone Again Represents Over Half of Verizon's Smartphone Sales in 1Q 2012 — Marking the first significant piece of data to help build a picture of Apple's quarterly iPhone sales numbers ahead of next week's earnings release, Verizon today announced its own earnings results for the first quarter of 2012 … | Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Samsung asserts eight more patents against Apple in California, including two FRAND patents — There's further escalation between Apple and Samsung. — In February, Apple brought a new U.S. federal lawsuit against Samsung, the second of its kind in the Northern District of California.
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| Farhad Manjoo / Fast Company: |
Google's Creative Destruction — Venture-capital firms have been the engine of the United States' innovation economy. At Google Ventures, the search giant's investing arm, Google thinks it can build a better one. — Google Ventures managing partner Bill Maris in the future home of his Startup Lab … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD beats expectations but accounting write-off leads to a huge $590M net loss — Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices reported today that its first quarter results beat expectations, but the company had a big loss of $590 million. While AMD is very competitive with its product line-up …
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Qualcomm warns of smartphone Snapdragon chip shortage — The shortage may force HTC and others to redesign some of their smartphones — The world's best-selling mobile phone chipmaker has warned that it cannot meet demand for some of its processors. — Qualcomm said that the third-party factories …
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| Laura Stampler / Business Insider: |
Coming Soon: Buying Stock On Facebook In 3 Clicks — Facebook's impending initial public offering on NASDAQ isn't the only way that people will be able to trade in stock of the social networking site. — By June of this year, public companies will be able to sell their stock to customers directly …
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Mandatory ‘Big Brother’ Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 — Provision is part of controversial MAP-21 bill expected to pass House — A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted … | Benjamin Pimentel / MarketWatch: |
Splunk soars 109% in ‘big data’ tech IPO — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Shares of Splunk Inc. more than doubled Thursday in an initial public offering that carried high expectations for the business-intelligence software company. Splunk's stock SPLK +108.71% soared 109% to close up to $35.48 in its trading debut.
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Facebook Said to Have Bid for AOL Patents Before Microsoft's Win — Facebook Inc. (FB), the biggest social- networking service, made an offer for AOL Inc. (AOL)'s patent portfolio before losing out to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s $1.06 billion bid, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
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| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
BranchOut Hits 25 Million Users, Nabs $25M In Series C Funding — BranchOut is officially going for the big time. The company, which makes a professional social network that runs on top of Facebook, is announcing today it has closed on $25 million in new funding, bringing its total venture capital investment to $49 million.
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| Jessica Roy / Betabeat: |
Inside the Super Secret Obvious Corporation HQ — Not much is known about the Obvious Corporation, the new-ish, incubator-ish company that's the brainchild of Twitter cofounders Ev Williams and Biz Stone. Their website is sparse and coy: the only companies that they are publicly known …
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| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Galaxy S II successor to have quad-core processor with ‘superlative’ benchmarks, will be shown on May 3rd — Though it's already been broadly assumed that Samsung's “Next Galaxy” event in London early next month would be for the hotly anticipated Galaxy S II successor … | Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
AT&T releasing Watson voice recognition APIs to developers in June — AT&T's research arm has spent over two decades developing its Watson speech and language engine, which translates spoken words into text. Now, AT&T is planning to release a number of Watson APIs for developers in June …
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| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Unlock interesting data from your Gmail account with Gmail Meter — I've been using Gmail for as long as I can remember, and unfortunately I have more unread emails than I care to admit. The service is my lifeblood, but one thing that's missing is the ability to gain insight into how active I am in sending and receiving email.Thanks:@kaycey55
| Joshua Schnell / Macgasm: |
Apple Now Giving Away Snow Leopard To MobileMe Customers For Free — Haven't upgraded to Lion or iCloud because you still haven't forked out money for Snow Leopard yet? No worries, Apple has your back. Apple is now giving away Snow Leopard to potential iCloud customers.| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Linus Torvalds wins the tech. equivalent of a Nobel Prize: the Millennium Technology Prize. — Linus Torvalds, Linux's creator, has won technology's highest award. — You can win Nobel prizes for physics, chemistry, and medicine, but technology? No. There is, however the Millennium Technology Prize.| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Tango video chat gets $40M from Qualcomm and Access, scores 45M users in 18 months — Forget Apple's Facetime. If there's one app that shows the potential in the mobile video chat market, it's Tango. — Almost one year since its last round of $42 million, the cross-platform video chat …
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| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
RapidShare Publishes Anti-Piracy Manifesto for Cyberlockers — In the aftermath of the Megaupload shutdown, people have been keeping a close eye on other file-hosting services, RapidShare included. — As a company, RapidShare sees itself operating in the “cloud hosting” business …
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