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Microsoft's board preparing to make Satya Nadella CEO, may replace Gates as chairman — Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO — Microsoft Corp.'s board is preparing to make Satya Nadella, the company's enterprise and cloud chief, chief executive officer …
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Tweets: @levie, @dannysullivan, @stevekovach and @raju
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Microsoft may pick new CEO in upcoming week, VP of Cloud and Enterprise Satya Nadella most likely candidate — Now at 160 Days, Microsoft CEO Search Could Be Nearing Its End With Insiders on Inside Track — According to numerous sources close to Microsoft, the selection of a new CEO could happen within the next week.
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Google Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2013 Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2013. — “We ended 2013 with another great quarter of momentum and growth.
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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
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| Amazon.com: |
Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 20% to $25.59 Billion — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013. — Operating cash flow increased 31% to $5.47 billion for the trailing twelve months …
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Amazon considering $20 to $40 price hike for Prime service in US — Amazon today said it's “considering” raising the price of its $79 a year Prime service to customers in the US by another $20 to $40. The possible increase, which has not been finalized, was announced during the company's fourth quarter earnings call with analysts.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
| Mark DeCambre / Quartz: |
Box has secretly filed for an IPO — Box, the online storage company, has secretly filed paperwork for an initial public offering, according to a source. — That means Box could start trading as a public company before its chief rival, Dropbox. Both are among the most anticipated tech IPOs of this year.
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| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Paper, Facebook's new app for browsing and creating stories, will launch Feb. 3 for US iPhones — Meet “Paper,” Facebook's New Answer For Browsing — and Creating — Mobile Media — Facebook wants to be a newspaper. And it wants you to be writing some of its best stories.
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See also Mediagazer| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water — This morning, Facebook is announcing a new standalone iPhone app called Paper. Contrary to earlier rumors, it's much more than just a news reading app — it's a complete reimagining of Facebook itself.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M, Signaling A New Tack For The Gaming Giant — Zynga has long been famous (or infamous?) for its data-driven approach to game design. The company never focused on building strong character IP, or intellectual property, in favor of releasing games that had been thoroughly funnel-tested.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Zynga Lays Off 314 Employees, Or 15% Of Its Workforce — Paired with the news of a big half-billion-dollar acquisition, Zynga is also laying off about 15 percent of its workforce, or about 314 employees. — This is part of a cost-reduction plan that is supposed to generate $33 million …
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Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview — Mark Zuckerberg doesn't usually observe sentimental anniversaries. This year he's confronted by three of them. On Feb. 4, Facebook (FB), the company he co-founded in a Harvard University dorm, turns 10 years old. The prodigy himself turns 30 in May.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
PayPal Wants Role in Apple's Mobile Payments Dreams — Apple may finally appear serious about facilitating the purchase of physical products in retail stores through its devices — and that has gotten the attention of at least one potential major competitor.
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iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Telegraph and PhoneArena. Tweets: @chris_ciaccia. Thanks:@delrey
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Incredible Labs Acquired By Yahoo, Mobile Assistant App Donna To Be Shut Down — Incredible Labs, the startup behind mobile personal assistant app Donna, has been acqui-hired. Five of the seven members of the team will join Yahoo, and Donna will be shut down.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple aggressively pushing to take Arizona sapphire plant live in February for ‘critical’ product component — In November of last year, Apple announced that it would be opening up a new manufacturing plant in Mesa, Arizona. Since that time, little information has come out about the plant except … | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Detects Mass Hack Attempt On Yahoo Mail, Resets All Affected Passwords — The details are a bit sparse right now, but Yahoo has just disclosed by way of their Tumblr that they've detected what they're calling a “coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts”.
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
SwiftKey gets its predictive keyboard onto iOS, with a little help from Evernote — The popular Android keyboard arrives on iPhone and iPad — Three and a half years after launching on Android, SwiftKey's popular predictive-software keyboard has finally come to iOS. iPhone and iPad users …
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MacRumors, BGR, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, Engadget, pocketnow.com, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, MacStories, Mashable, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Android Central, Re/code, Gizmodo and ZDNet. Tweets: @stephenfry
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
With New Funding From Omidyar, Versa Launches Its Network For Sponsored Op-Eds — Versa is launching a new network for sponsored op-eds, which it calls Featured Perspectives. — The startup is also announcing that it has raised additional funding led by The Omidyar Network … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Canalys: Android on 79% of the 998 million smartphones shipped in 2013, Windows Phone fastest growing platform — Almost 1 billion smartphones (998 million to be exact) shipped in 2013. Compared to 2012, this represents a 44 percent year-over-year increase.
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Canalys Newsroom, Examiner, Fortune, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet and WMPoweruser
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Michael Arrington is raising another CrunchFund — CrunchFund II already has held a first close. — FORTUNE — Last spring we wondered about the future of CrunchFund, the early-stage venture capital firm led by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington: … Seems we were right.Sponsor Posts
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