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July 29, 2014, 7:20 PM

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Twitter Reports Second Quarter 2014 Results — SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - July 29, 2014 - Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014. Q2 revenue of $312 million, up 124% year-over-year Q2 net loss of $145 million and non-GAAP net income …

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Twitter Skyrockets After Reporting Big Q2 Revenue Of $312M, Profit Of $0.02 Per Share — Update: In after-hours trading, Twitter is now up more than 20 percent following its massive beat. — Update II: Twitter is now up just under 30%. Pretty sure Twitter HQ is where the party will be at tonight.

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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Twitter soars 30% after hours as monthly active users grow 24% year-over-year to 271M, timeline views grow 15% to 173B — Twitter Picked Up 16M Active Users In Q2 — In its most recent quarter, Twitter didn't just report stronger-than-expected financials.

More: Wall Street Journal, Forbes and PandoDaily. See also Mediagazer

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Instagram launches Bolt, its one-touch photo and video messaging app, in Singapore, South Africa, and New Zealand — Instagram Launches One-Touch Photo And Video Messaging App Bolt Outside The US — Instagram is taking on Snapchat by turning your best friends' faces into the shutter button …

More: The Verge, TechHive, The Next Web, MacRumors, iMore, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Engadget, TIME, Pocketnow, Yahoo Tech, Business Insider, SlashGear, App Advice, Lifehacker, Phandroid, Electronista, Cult of Mac and WebProNews

Tweets: @joshconstine, @hamburger, @mg, @markgurman, @caseynewton, @joshconstine, @mattlynley and @joshelman

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft is about to launch a selfie phone and a new ‘high-end’ Windows Phone — Microsoft is planning to launch two new Windows Phone 8.1 devices shortly. Sources familiar with the company's plans tell The Verge that Microsoft devices chief Stephen Elop revealed both handsets during an internal company meeting this week.

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

Ubiquitous competition in the app market is hurting the quality and sustainability of iOS apps — App Rot — Look around your iPad for a minute. How are its third-party apps doing? — Are they all being actively updated? Are they all built for iOS 7 yet?

More: Benjamin Mayo, DIGITS to DOLLARS, Jared Sinclair and ReadWrite

Tweets: @chrispirillo, @chrismessina and @markgurman

Jared Sinclair:

“Unread” app sales show how hard it is for indie developers to earn a living from paid-up-front apps — A Candid Look at Unread's First Year — To my knowledge, indie developers don't publish the kind of numbers that you'll find in this post.

More: txt.jazzychad.net, SmoothSpan Blog, inessential.com, PadGadget, dailywireless.org and iMore

Tweets: @cdixon, @sachagreif and @cdixon

Doina Chiacu / Reuters:

U.S. Senate bill proposes sweeping curbs on NSA surveillance — (Reuters) - Senator Patrick Leahy will introduce legislation on Tuesday to ban the U.S. government's bulk collection of Americans' telephone records and Internet data and narrow how much information it can seek in any particular search.

More: Wired, Bloomberg, Patrick Leahy, VentureBeat, Computerworld, US News, NationalJournal.com, The Hill and SiliconBeat

Tweets: @rj_gallagher, @normative, @binarybits and @binarybits

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Former Diapers.com CEO Marc Lore gets $55 million investment for e-commerce startup Jet — CEO Who Sold Diapers.com to Amazon Raises $55 Million to Challenge Amazon Again — If you can't beat 'em, try, try again. — That's the playbook being followed by Marc Lore …

More: Marc Lore, VentureBeat, GeekWire and Business Insider. Tweets: @delrey. Thanks:@delrey

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Certificate verification flaw in Android since 2.1 granted malicious apps special access to resources, potentially exposing sensitive user data — Android crypto blunder exposes users to highly privileged malware — A slide from next week's Black Hat talk titled Android Fake ID vulnerability.

More: AppleInsider, Bluebox Security, Guardian, BBC, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, PadGadget, Phandroid, Financial Times, InfoWorld, Gigaom, eWeek, 9to5Google, Electronista and BGR. Tweets: @edbott. Thanks:@accretivegrowth

Andy Fixmer / Mashable:

Netflix Signs Peering Deal With AT&T to Reduce Buffering — This story has been updated to include a statement from AT&T confirming the peering deal. — Netflix has reached an agreement with AT&T to give its streaming service direct access to AT&T's network, with the goal of reducing buffering …

More: Washington Post, CNET, Gizmodo, Gigaom, Engadget, The Verge, DSLreports and Re/code. Thanks:@toddwasserman

Richard Padilla / MacRumors:

Apple Launches Retina MacBook Pros with Faster Haswell Processors, More RAM Standard — As indicated over the weekend and yesterday, Apple today launched refreshed 13-inch and 15-inch Retina MacBook Pros.The new notebooks feature faster versions of Intel's Haswell processors …

More: Apple, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, ZDNet, BGR, The Register, Wired, AnandTech, Apple Bitch, Geek Beat, Electronista, Gigaom, InvestorPlace, iMore, Forbes, TIME, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Computerworld, TechnoBuffalo, MacStories and Macworld. Tweets: @joannastern

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Open Whisper Systems releases Signal iOS app for free encrypted voice calls; encrypted texts coming soon — Free, Encrypted Calling Finally Comes To The iPhone — The encrypted calling app Signal. The two seemingly random words beneath the contact's name are meant to be read …

More: Open Whisper Systems Blog, Forbes, MacRumors, TechCrunch and The Verge. Tweets: @lorenzofb

Bloomberg:

Ford switching 3,300 workers from BlackBerry to iPhone this year — Ford Switching Employees to IPhones From BlackBerries — Ford Motor Co. (F) is deploying iPhones for corporate use to employees worldwide, scoring a win for Apple Inc. (AAPL) as it seeks to lure more corporate customers.

More: ZDNet, AppleInsider, Electronista, MacRumors, iMore, DailyTech, Tech Trader Daily, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac and Financial Post

Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech:

Nvidia quadruples display resolution by stacking two cheap LCD panels on top of each other — Nvidia researchers have used a fantastically straightforward approach to quadruple the effective resolution and double the refresh rate of cheap, off-the-shelf LCD panels: Stacking them on top of each other.

More: Engadget, Electronista, SlashGear, High-Def Digest, The Tech Report and TechSpot

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Flipkart raises $1 billion to strengthen its bid to own India's e-commerce space — It's turning into quite a year for Flipkart. Today the e-commerce company from India has confirmed the much-reported rumor that it has raised $1 billion in fresh investment, as it eyes new verticals …

More: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, VentureBeat, DNA India, GadgeTell, NDTV Profit, StrictlyVC, Business Insider, Re/code, VatorNews, The Hindu Business Line, BGR India, Bloomberg, Reuters, PE Hub Blog and Quartz. Tweets: @flipkart

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple TV updated with FOX NOW, CNBC channels — Apple has rolled out some new channel additions to the Apple TV set-top box this morning. Both FOX NOW and CNBC have joined the Apple TV lineup. Both channels appear to require a cable subscription to unlock the content within.

More: The Loop, TechCrunch, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Engadget, Macworld, CNET, MacDailyNews, iPhone Hacks and VentureBeat. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Flickr Rolls Out A New Commercial Licensing Program To Compete With 500px And Others — Yahoo-owned photo-sharing and storage site Flickr announced this morning the rollout of a new licensing program aimed at the service's members who are looking to have their work discovered …

More: Flickr Blog, Gigaom, VentureBeat, Digital Photography Review and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Yannick LeJacq / Kotaku:

EA announces subscription service for Xbox One: $5/month or $30/year for access to Fifa 14, Peggle 2, Madden NFL 25, and Battlefield 4 to start — EA Announces Netflix-Like Subscription Plan On Xbox One — Today EA announced a new subscription service for the Xbox One that will give …

Karissa Bell / Mashable:

LinkedIn Redesigns Mobile Profiles to Put Relationships Into Context — LinkedIn's flagship app has gotten a major overhaul. — The company rolled out an update to its app Tuesday morning, unveiling completely redesigned user profiles that focus on adding contextual information.

More: Official LinkedIn Blog, PC Magazine, The Technology Chronicles, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechHive, ReadWrite, Business Insider and SocialTimes. Tweets: @dbreger

Alex Hern / Guardian:

US government increases funding for Tor, giving $1.8m in 2013 — Despite attempts by the National Security Agency to crack the anonymous browser, the US increased state funding through third parties — Tor, the internet anonymiser, received more than $1.8m in funding from the US government in 2013 …

More: The Verge. Tweets: @anonyops

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