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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 …
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Tweets: @alex, @dannysullivan, @hunterwalk, @pkafka, @monkbent, @mattlynley and @cnbcsocial
| 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.| 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?
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Tweets: @chrispirillo, @markgurman and @chrismessina
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“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.
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txt.jazzychad.net, iMore, inessential.com, PadGadget, dailywireless.org and tyler.io
Tweets: @cdixon, @cdixon and @sachagreif
| 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.
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AppleInsider, Guardian, BBC, Gizmodo, PadGadget, Phandroid, 9to5Google, BGR, eWeek, InfoWorld, Financial Times, Gigaom and Electronista. Tweets: @edbott. Thanks:@accretivegrowth
| 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.
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Wired, Computerworld, SiliconBeat, US News, TechCrunch, Patrick Leahy, VentureBeat, Re/code, The Hill, NationalJournal.com and The Verge
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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 with today's official release of its first standalone app Bolt, but only Singapore, South Africa …
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The Verge, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac and GadgeTell
Tweets: @markgurman, @caseynewton, @joshconstine and @mattlynley
| 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 …
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Apple, The Register, ZDNet, BGR, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, iMore, Apple Bitch, InvestorPlace, AnandTech, Geek Beat, The Next Web, The Verge, Re/code, Gearburn, SlashGear, Electronista, Gigaom, Forbes, BetaNews, TIME, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Computerworld, LAPTOP Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, Macworld, MacStories, Engadget and TUAW. Tweets: @joannastern
| 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 … | 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 … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Forces Users Worldwide To Download Messenger For Mobile Chat — Over the next few days, Facebook will stop allowing messaging in its main iPhone and Android apps, and force all their users around the world to download its standalone Messenger app. Facebook first started forcing users … | 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 … | 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.
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The Loop, TechCrunch, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Engadget, CNET, VentureBeat, Gigaom, Macworld, MacDailyNews and iPhone Hacks. See also Mediagazer
| 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.
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Engadget, Electronista, SlashGear, High-Def Digest, The Tech Report and TechSpot
| Julian Chokkattu / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb Partners With San Francisco And Portland For Emergency Preparedness — Airbnb has announced a partnership with the cities of San Francisco and Portland as part of an initiative to help communities prepare and respond to emergencies. — The initiative is part of the White House Innovation … | 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.
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Official LinkedIn Blog, The Technology Chronicles, TechHive, USA Today, SocialTimes, ReadWrite, Business Insider, CNET, memeburn and App Advice. Tweets: @dbreger
| 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 …
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Flickr Blog, VentureBeat, The Next Web and Softpedia News
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Asana's productivity platform gets a native mobile app, redesigned and optimized for iPhone and iPad — Productivity platform Asana is unveiling a brand new native iOS app today, rebuilt and redesigned from the ground up. And yes, it's optimized for iPads too.
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TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Macworld, CITEworld and Lifehacker
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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.
| Joshua Ho / AnandTech: |
Nvidia Shield tablet review: strong gaming features; few native multiplayer games at launch — The NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Review — While I talked about this in the launch article, the Shield Tablet is very much the culmination of lessons learned from 2013.
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Gizmodo, LAPTOP Mag, GameSpot, 9to5Google, Droid Life, SlashGear and SlashGear
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