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Google Inc. Announces First Quarter 2013 Results — Google Inc. today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. “We had a very strong start to 2013, with $14.0 billion in revenue, up 31% year-on-year,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google.
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Microsoft profits increase to over $6 billion in Q3 2013 despite flat Windows revenue — Microsoft just released its fiscal Q3 2013 statement, with overall revenue of $20.49 billion up 18 percent year-over-year. However, when you take into account recognition of revenue related … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
The Microsoft number we all want to know: Windows 8 sales to date — Summary: Microsoft didn't release an updated count of Windows 8 licenses sold as part of its third quarter earnings. But here's what the company did say about Windows. — On April 18, Microsoft didn't share the one number …
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Julian Assange's secret chat with Google's chairman — Eric Schmidt met with the WikiLeaks founder for five hours in 2011 for material for a book expected to be released next week. — Eric Schmidt met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in secret in 2011, according to the transcript … | Jessica E. Lessin / Digits: |
Amazon's Goodreads Purchase Scuttled Apple Partnership — Amazon.com's announcement last month that it was purchasing book-recommendation site Goodreads did more than land the e-commerce giant a social-networking service. It also thwarted a possible partnership between the reading social network and Apple.
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Google Buying $39M Fiber Service In Utah For $1 — SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Google Inc. will pay $1 for a municipal fiber-optic system that cost $39 million to build, according to terms of the Internet company's agreement with Provo. — The deal is widely expected to be approved Tuesday by the City Council …
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IBM in Talks to Sell Part of Its Server Unit to Lenovo — International Business Machines Corp. is looking to part ways with the servers that have powered much of the Internet. — The company is in advanced discussions to sell its so-called x86 server business to China's Lenovo Group Ltd., people familiar with the matter said.
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Google leak hints at an Android game center with multiplayer, chat, lobbies, leaderboards, and achievements — Google appears to be preparing the launch of a game center for Android with an unknown name. It looks like the new hub will sport a slew of features, including multiplayer support …
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iPad 5 Estimated to Be 15% Thinner, 25% Lighter Than Current iPad — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has on a number of occasions offered accurate information on Apple's product plans, recently published a new research note outlining his expectations for Apple's fifth-generation iPad.
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Twitter, BBC America announce video partnership — The pair will offer the first “in-tweet branded video synced to entertainment TV series,” according to a BBC America tweet. — It looks like Twitter is ready to make its rumored foray into the TV business.| Cord Jefferson / Gawker: |
Did Reddit's Boston Bomber Sleuthing Actually Turn Up a Decent Piece of Evidence? (UPDATE) — For the past few days, Reddit's quest to ferret out the Boston bombing culprits with the powers of the internet has come across as juvenile at best, embarrassingly paranoid at worst.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Where's Twitter Music For Android? Why Today's Tech Companies Are Still Going iOS First — Where is Twitter Music for Android? With today's launch of Twitter's new music discovery platform, the company has again made a move to sideline the install base of around half of the U.S.'s smartphone audience … Thanks:@pickavet
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| Darren Murph / Engadget: |
Broadband internet arrives in California's Gold Country through white spaces deployment — While select outfits race to make satellite broadband an acceptable solution for those who need ping times south of three digits, there's another game in town looking to quietly revolutionize rural access.| Alex Howard / Strata: |
Finding and telling data-driven stories in billions of tweets — Twitter has hired its first data editor. Simon Rogers, one of the leading practitioners of data journalism in the world, will join Twitter in May. He will be moving his family from London to San Francisco and applying …
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| Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
China's Top Apple Hackers Launch a Pirate iOS App Store — KuaiYong has just launched this web store for pirated iOS apps. — Far from being shut down by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the Chinese team behind KuaiYong seems to be thriving. Last year it made a no-jailbreak-needed alternative …
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
YouTube Again Beats Viacom's Massive Copyright Infringement Lawsuit — After an appellate court revived Viacom's claims that YouTube hosted copyright infringing work, U.S. District judge Louis Stanton has again given the defendant a victory. — Viacom has been hit with a devastating legal loss.
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| David Benoit / Wall Street Journal: |
Blackstone Ends Pursuit of Dell — Blackstone Group LP has ended its pursuit of Dell Inc., less than a month after the private-equity firm said it would try to top a leveraged buyout by the computer maker's founder and a rival investment firm. — Blackstone had been putting together a bid … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
House passes revamped CISPA cybersecurity bill amidst warnings of ‘digital bombs’ — Fear of cyber attacks trumps privacy concerns — The US House of Representatives has once again passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which died in the Senate last year, by a margin of 288 to 127 after two days of debate.
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