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Amazon reports quarterly net loss of $41M, sales above $17B, exceeding expectations — Amazon just posted another unprofitable quarter. But the company did manage to beat Wall Street's expectations. — The company reported a quarterly net loss of $41 million, or 9 cents per share.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Crushes FQ1 Expectations With Revenue of $18.5B, EPS Of $0.62, $400M In Surface Top Line — Microsoft reported its fiscal first quarter results today, with revenue of $18.53 billion and earnings per share of $0.62. Analysts had expected the first quarter of Microsoft's fiscal 2014 …
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Twitter To Offer 70M Shares Priced At $17-$20 Per Share To Raise Up To $1.4B In IPO — Twitter will offer 70 million shares in its initial public offering, and will price them at $17-$20 per share, according to an amended S-1 filing. Twitter's IPO pricing range was rumored to drop today … | James Ball / Guardian: |
NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders — • Agency given more than 200 numbers by government official — • NSA encourages departments to share their ‘Rolodexes’ — • Surveillance produced ‘little intelligence’, memo acknowledges — The National Security Agency monitored …
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Apple.com Now Selling $20 OS X Mountain Lion And Lion Redemption Codes For Older Macs — Apple has begun selling OS X Mountain Lion redemption codes alongside OS X Lion for $20 each. Lion was previously available for purchase directly from Apple over the phone, but the company has decided …
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Tweetbot 3 for iPhone arrives as $2.99 paid upgrade with complete redesign for iOS 7 — Tapbots has released version 3 of its Tweetbot for iPhone Twitter client with a complete overhaul of the app for iOS. Upgrading to the new app costs $2.99 for a limited time, but it will eventually jump up to $4.99.
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OS X Mavericks Adoption Reaches 5.5% 24 Hours Following Public Release — As part of its event on October 22, 2013, Apple announced the public release of OS X Mavericks - the latest edition of Apple's desktop operating system. While this announcement was largely expected by the tech press at large …
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| Min-Jeong Lee / Digits: |
Patent Filing Shows Samsung Preps Electronic Eyewear — Samsung Electronics Co. appears to be creating a Google Glass of its own. — A design patent registered with Korean authorities in October shows an electronic device in the form of spectacles. It has been categorized as a type of “sports glasses.”| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
New banner ads push actual Google results to bottom 12% of the screen — Actual search results are in the un-grayed area. — Google has started adding banner ads to its search result pages, SearchEngineLand reported Wednesday. And they're not just skinny banner ads abutting the top edge of a page … | Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
Samsung announces $9.56 billion in profit in latest record-breaking quarter — Samsung was predicting record revenue for the third fiscal quarter of 2013, and as usual it didn't disappoint. The company has announced 59.08 trillion won (approximately $55.59 billion) in revenue … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
No surprises, unnatural presentations and dated product messaging made Apple's event feel off — Off — Something felt a bit off about this week's Apple event. — Part of it was the lack of surprises, which isn't Apple's fault. All of the product upgrades, while nice, were incremental and predictable.
| Nick Statt / CNET: |
Zynga beats Wall Street estimates, hires Clive Downie as COO, user base continues to crumble — Zynga beats Wall Street estimates, but user base continues to crumble — The Farmville creator's rough ride isn't over. — Social gaming company Zynga just released third quarter earnings … | Andy / TorrentFreak: |
File-Sharing Site Was A Year-Long Pirate Honeypot — Paranoia can be high in the file-sharing world so it will come as no surprise that there are regular rumors that site X or user Y cannot be trusted. While it's almost certain that on some sites there are staff members … | Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine: |
MacBook Pro 15" Retina: blazing performance (benchmarks), long battery life, fan can get noisy — Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch Retina (2013) Review — With its crazy-sharp 2880 x 1800-pixel resolution, the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display set a new standard for laptop screens when it debuted last year.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Cover Is An Android-Only Lockscreen That Shows Apps When You Need Them — You have more apps than you know what to do with, but Cover could fix that. It's an Android lockscreen replacement launching (invite-only) today that adapts to show your top productivity apps at work …
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Instagram previews how ads will look in its apps, will push a one-time sample ad to US users in the next week — Instagram today revealed how ads will look like on the social network when they finally come to the photo-sharing app. The Facebook-owned company is treading carefully …
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