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Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2012 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the second quarter, which ended June 30, 2012. — “Our goal is to help every person stay connected and every product they use be a great social experience,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.
| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Zuckerberg: It Wouldn't Make Sense For Us To Make A Phone — Mark Zuckerberg said on Facebook's earnings call today that it wouldn't make sense for the company to make a phone. — The statement came after analysts asked about Facebook's mobile strategy. — Zuckerberg said Facebook …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Facebook barely hits revenue mark with $1.18 billion in Q2, stock hits all time low — Facebook is reporting its first quarterly earnings as a public company today. After a disappointing IPO, the company needs a strong showing to regain investor confidence.
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| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
Amazon misses in Q2: $12.83 billion in revenue, up 29%, income down 96% — Online retailer Amazon has today released its Q2 2012 earnings. Revenue is at $12.83 billion with EPS of $0.01. Analysts had expected a mere $0.01 gain per share, down $0.41 from the year prior.
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iPad with kickstand and other ‘highly confidential’ prototypes revealed in court documents — We already got a look at some early iPhone designs inspired by Sony and the iPod, but court documents have revealed an assortment of different looks that were considered for Apple's various iOS products … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Fiber launches in Kansas City, promises 1000 Mbps up and down — Google Fiber has finally arrived in Kansas City, offering crazy-fast broadband speeds and a new television service on both sides of the Kansas / Missouri state line. After hinting that it would be unveiled today, the company has made it official.
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| Jeffrey Spehar / Facebook Developer Blog: |
Introducing the Recommendations Bar — Today we're launching the Recommendations Bar, a new social plug-in that helps people find articles based on what their friends like and share from your site. — As a person reads an article, a small pop-up surfaces at the bottom …
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PC World, PC Magazine, Neowin, Tecca, The Next Web, Fast Company, AllThingsD, Ubergizmo, Techie Buzz, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Verge, Inside Facebook, memeburn and Mashable!
| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
No API For You: Twitter Shuts Off “Find Friends” Feature For Instagram — Instagram has just announced 80 million users and a new app update; Noticeably missing in the update? The “Find Your Friends” on Twitter feature, which allowed users to follow the same people they follow on Twitter on Instagram.
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GigaOM, Instagram Blog, PC Magazine, parislemon, ReadWriteWeb, Betabeat, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Marketing Land, Daily Dot, Know Your Cell, MobileSyrup.com and AllThingsD. Tweets: @alexia
| Peter Birch / Google LatLong: |
3D imagery now available on iPad and iPhone — Today, we're happy to announce the availability of 3D imagery for Google Earth on the new iPad, iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. — A map must be comprehensive and accurate no matter where you are or what device you use. We also believe maps can be useful in ways you might not have imagined.| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
The Mac App Store's future of irrelevance — Postbox's exit from the Mac App Store should sound very familiar to anyone who buys Mac software. If you read between the lines a bit, I think the real story there is one we've seen a lot since June 1: they tolerated the App Store's lack …
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| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Consumer Reports Joins the Netflix Pile-On — Yesterday, Reed Hastings saw a quarter of his company's stock value disappear. Today's insult to injury: A dis from Consumer Reports. — A new survey from the magazine places the Netflix streaming service sixth in user satisfaction, behind … | Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Judge sanctions Samsung for destroying evidence in infringement case against Apple — A federal judge in California has sanctioned Samsung for destroying e-mail evidence in its ongoing patent infringement case with Apple. In an order issued Wednesday, Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal wrote that Samsung …
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| Henry Blodget / Business Insider: |
Here Are The Zynga Insiders Who Cashed Out Just Before The Stock Crashed... In April, Zynga conducted a “secondary stock offering” in which insiders dumped 43 million shares of stock at $12 a share, raking in about $516 million. — Yesterday, four months later, Zynga reported a horrible quarter, and the stock plunged to $3.
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Samsung posts record $5.9 billion profit on smartphones — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co, the world's top technology firm by revenue, reported a record quarterly profit of $5.9 billion on Friday, as rampant sales of its smartphones more than offset a tumble in memory chip prices.
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UK court: Apple not required to publicly admit Samsung didn't copy iPad, for now — According to Bloomberg, Apple has been granted a stay on an embarassing ruling that called for the company to issue a statement on its UK website admitting that Samsung did not copy the iPad's design.
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Examiner, CNET, AllThingsD, Engadget, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com and Redmond Pie
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
WriteThat.name creator Kwaga acquires real-time push notifications startup Boxcar — For once, a French company is buying a relatively well-known US tech startup instead of the other way around: Kwaga has acquired struggling iOS and Mac push notification service provider Boxcar.
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parislemon, Macworld, TechCrunch and Macgasm
| Graham Cluley / Naked Security: |
Mac malware spies on infected users through video and audio capture — After further analysis, more information has emerged about the Morcut Mac OS X malware (also known as “Crisis” by some anti-virus products) which was discovered this week. — Clearly OSX/Morcut-A was created with spying in mind …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google Handwrite lets us scribble our way through mobile searches (video) — Not eager to hunt and peck on a keyboard? Google Handwrite is here: the search engine's mobile pages will now let you draw letters on the page to conduct searches with the writing method you learned before this whole computer fad took hold.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mark Cuban Leads Mobile App Marketplace Apptopia's $1 Million Seed Round — Apptopia, the marketplace where developers can sell their mobile apps, is days out from closing a $1 million seed round of financing, with Mark Cuban leading the investment. Cuban went in for $500,000 himself …
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Open English raises $43 million to teach English online across Latin America — Open English has secured a $43 million round led by Insight Venture Partners, the Miami-based startup revealed today. Redpoint Ventures also participated in the round, as well as existing investors including Flybridge Capital Partners and Kaszek Ventures.
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| Paul Paliath / Techie Buzz: |
No, Microsoft's Entry-Level Surface Will Not Cost $1000 — Microsoft's announcement last month that they're making their own tablet hardware — and directly competing with the very OEMs and partners that they license their software to — was huge in revealing a radical step forward for the company.
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The Next Web, ITProPortal, Gotta Be Mobile, TechPinions, Good E-Reader, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, Pocketables and ZDNet. Thanks:@manan
| Gareth Beavis / TechRadar.com: |
Samsung: universal search removal was ‘inadvertent’ on UK Galaxy S3 — Exclusive Will be restoring soon — We didn't mean it, honest guv. — Samsung has confirmed to TechRadar that it accidentally removed Google's universal search function on its flagship handset.Sponsor Posts
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Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Announcing TypeScript 0.9: Generics and More — Anders Hejlsberg, Steve Lucco, and Luke Hoban join us for a conversation about TypeScript 0.9. TypeScript now has generics! (and more)
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.
Hortonworks » Blog:
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.
University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.Who's Hiring In Tech?
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