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January 30, 2013, 10:20 PM

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Facebook Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. — “In 2012, we connected over a billion people and became a mobile company,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.

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Tweets: @pkafka and @emilychangtv

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Facebook's Q4 Revenue Rises 40% To $1.59B, Shares Down Slightly In After-Hours — Facebook said its fourth quarter revenue rose 40 percent year-over-year to $1.59 billion. Mobile revenues grew to make up 23 percent of the company's total and mobile monthly active users rose to 680 million, or up 57 percent year-over-year.

More: ReadWrite, PandoDaily, CNET, The Verge, Guardian, Computerworld, Business Week, Inside Facebook, Forbes, DailyFinance.com, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, internetretailer.com and MarketBeat

Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:

Facebook's $1.6 billion quarter in charts: how and where it makes money

More: Forbes, VatorNews and Business Insider

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

For The First Time, Facebook's 680M Mobile DAUs Surpassed Desktop DAUs — Zuck Says It's Now A “Mobile Company”

More: The Next Web, Business Insider and Inside Facebook. Thanks:@leenarao

Brian Womack / Bloomberg:

Facebook Profit Drops Amid Higher Spending on Features, Ad Tools

More: PC Magazine

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Facebook's mobile ad revenue made up 23% of its total ad revenue in Q4, worth $305 million

More: ReadWrite, Forbes, TechCrunch and Mashable!

Donna Tam / CNET:

New Year's Day was the biggest ever for Instagram

Joshua Topolsky / The Verge:

BlackBerry Z10 review: a new life, or life support? — A new flagship phone and a new OS, but is it too little, too late? — Research In Motion is about to enter the battle of its life, and as you'll see in my review of its new flagship, the BlackBerry Z10, it's using everything in its arsenal to win.

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

Research In Motion rebrands itself as BlackBerry — At today's BlackBerry 10 event, CEO Thorsten Heins announced that his company will no longer be known as Research In Motion. As of today, RIM is being rebranded as BlackBerry. “We have reinvented the company, and we want to represent this in our brand,” Heins said.

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Tweets: @ohnorosco, @davidjmackay and @vladsavov

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

BlackBerry announces Alicia Keys as ‘Global Creative Director’ — BlackBerry has announced a new position, Global Creative Director, and hired its own in-house celebrity to fill the role: Alicia Keys. Keys was apparently chosen for renewing her “long-term relationship” …

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Tweets: @aliciakeys and @peterlauria3

Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:

BlackBerry 10 Boasts Some Key Apps, but Many Big Names Missing — The big day for BlackBerry has finally arrived. The world now knows what the company's newest entrant in the smartphone race looks like. — But what about apps? — For starters, a few key apps were already known, like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare.

More: The Wirecutter, Examiner, Inside BlackBerry, The Verge, BGR and Pocket-lint

Joseph Volpe / Engadget:

BlackBerry Z10 official: 4.2-inch 1,280 x 768 display, 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 Plus, LTE, BB 10 for $200 — After months of rumors, speculation and official teases, [RIM's] BlackBerry's first full-touch BlackBerry 10 device — the Z10 — is finally official. Look familiar? It should.

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Walt Mossberg / AllThingsD:

BlackBerry Reinvents Itself to Compete with All-Touch Smartphones

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John Herrman / BuzzFeed:

BlackBerry Announces The End Of BlackBerry

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Jon Russell / The Next Web:

BlackBerry Z10 on sale in UK Jan 31, Middle East & Canada Feb 15; US has mid-March wait

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Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo:

Blackberry Q10: The Next Generation Physical QWERTY Beast Has a Touchscreen Too

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David Chen / Twitter Blog:

Updates for viewing photos and videos — Today, we're rolling out several enhancements that make it easier to view photos and videos on Twitter — in particular, on profiles and in search results. — Large photos, right on the page. Click a photo from a profile page or in search results …

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Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Dropbox unveils social photo sharing, easier photo management, and document quick-preview — Dropbox has today unveiled two new products that work with the cloud storage service. The first relates to working with documents. Instead of simply being able to download files, it's offering a quick preview function on the webiste.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, digitaltrends.com, Softpedia News, The Next Web and SlashGear

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

What's Next for Dropbox This Year: Content Instead of Files

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Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 Months — SAN FRANCISCO — For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @jswatz

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

iPhone Users Rack Up the Highest Carrier Bills — The iPhone may command a higher carrier subsidy than its typical Android rival. It may eat into operators' profit margins when sales volumes spike after the debut of a new model. But it also generates more in carrier fees than any other smartphone.

More: CNET, Examiner, Ars Technica, TUAW, Mobile Marketing Watch, HotHardware.com News and Forbes

Erica Ogg / GigaOM:

Apple's Siri coming to 2013 Honda Accord & 2 Acura models — Chevy is no longer the only car brand with announced plans to bring Apple's Siri voice assistant to new car models. On Wednesday, Honda announced that its 2013 edition of the Accord will be enabled with Siri Eyes Free mode, along with the Acura RDX and Acura ILX.

More: Honda.com, Engadget, The Verge, MacRumors, TUAW, CNET, Techi.com, The Next Web, Fox News, The Loop, Electronista, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, App Advice and iLounge

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

After nearly 3 billion check-ins, Foursquare reveals its top places across the US for 2012 — Location-based social network Foursquare has launched a new part of its website, called ‘The Best of Foursquare 2012’, which ranks places and businesses across the US based on the billions of check-ins and review data uploaded by its users.

More: Foursquare Blog, CNET, WebProNews, SlashGear, About Foursquare and VentureBeat

BBC:

Ticketmaster dumps ‘hated’ Captcha verification system — Users have been frustrated by having to figure out barely decipherable words — The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.

More: TechHive, Gizmodo, digitaltrends.com, The Verge, Inquirer, HotHardware.com News and Telegraph

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

New Apple TV 3,2 is just a mid-season internal upgrade, with no external difference in size — Yesterday we brought you the news that there would be a new Apple TV model coming, but that's only partially true. There will be some changes made to the Apple TV internally …

More: Computerworld and iPhone Hacks

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

IBM gives small university a Watson all its own — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a private research university located in Troy, N.Y., now has a Watson system all its own thanks to a grant from IBM. Watson, if you'll recall, is the system that defeated two Jeopardy! champions (and our own Stacey Higginbotham) in 2011.

More: Engadget, Betabeat, Associated Press, PC Magazine, Forbes, SlashGear, Fast Company, InformationWeek and The Verge

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

CBS and CNET Protest Looming BitTorrent Client Ban — Last year, Alki David and a coalition of artists sued CBS and CNET for their role in distributing uTorrent, LimeWire and other P2P software. — The artists claimed that CNET profits heavily from distributing file-sharing software via Download.com …

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Matt Buchanan Leaving BuzzFeed For The New Yorker — In a move that is a reverse of the hordes of journalists leaving old school jobs for BuzzFeed, Matt Buchanan, the editor of FWD, the site's tech vertical, is leaving for the more august shores of The New Yorker.

Tweets: @blam, @lheron and @mattbuchanan. See also Mediagazer

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