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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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| 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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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon shares fall 10% after big holiday earnings miss — Amazon this afternoon posted lighter sales and profits for the critical holiday shopping season than Wall Street was expecting, sending the company's shares tumbling in after-hours trading. — The company posted net sales … | 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.| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Revenue and Profit Rise at Google, but Mobile Struggles Continue — SAN FRANCISCO — There is no denying that Google has become a mobile company. Now, Google — along with shareholders, industry partners and advertisers — is trying to figure out what that means.| Google: |
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| CBC News: |
Snowden documents reveal Canadian spy agency used airport Wi-Fi to track passengers “for days after they left the terminal” — Canadian spy agency used airport Wi-Fi to track passengers for days after they left the terminal — Electronic snooping was part of a trial run for U.S. NSA and other foreign services
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| 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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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Nest Team Will Become Google's Core Hardware Group — Google today sold Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. While many speculated that Google would release phones after it bought Motorola in 2011, it didn't happen — Motorola remained a partner like other Android OEMs.| 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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft backpedals: Windows 8.1 update hides tile interface by default — Microsoft is once again planning to alter the way its Start Screen works in Windows 8.1 Update 1. While the software giant originally released Windows 8.1 last year with an option to bypass the “Metro” interface at boot …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Nintendo offers a vague, confusing, unfocused vision for its future — The briefings Nintendo gives following its quarterly earnings results are usually relatively dry affairs, filled with charts of worldwide gaming hardware breakdowns and canned enthusiasm about upcoming game releases.
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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Digits: |
Salesforce CEO Benioff on How to Fix San Francisco — These days, you could call Marc Benioff a kind of anti-Tom Perkins. — The billionaire head of Salesforce.com doesn't have anything personal against the co-founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. But he adamantly disagrees with Perkins' recent defense of the tech elite.
Tweets: @pmarca, @georgia_wells, @evelynrusli, @benioff, @bxchen, @wsjd and @jameshiga
| Associated Press: |
Google's first-ever stock split scheduled for April 2 — Google poised to execute long-delayed stock split — SAN FRANCISCO—Google is finally ready to split its stock for the first time, more than three years after co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin began discussing a move engineered …
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| 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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TechCrunch, Engadget, Slate, TUAW, NYT Bits, Co.Design, ZDNet and Marketing Land. Tweets: @rsarver. See also Mediagazer
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| Brian Fung / The Switch: |
The FCC is ‘beta testing’ a next-gen telephone network — Federal regulators have taken their first major step in accelerating the country's move toward high-capacity, fiber optic phone networks. In a unanimous vote Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission approved a program … | 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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| 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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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.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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