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Microsoft Cloud Strength and Hardware Progress Drive Record First-Quarter Revenue — Strong performance across commercial and consumer segments delivers revenue of $23.20 billion. — REDMOND, Wash. — October 23, 2014 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $23.20 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2014.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Up 3% After Reporting Better Than Expected FQ1 Revenue Of $23.20B, EPS Of $0.54 — After gaining more than 1 percent in regular trading, Microsoft reported its fiscal first quarter 2015 earnings: Revenue totaled $23.20 billion in the period, leading to profits of $0.54 per share.
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Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Sales up 20% to $20.58 Billion — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2014. — Operating cash flow increased 15% to $5.71 billion for the trailing twelve months …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Amazon Takes $170 Million Writedown on Weak Fire Phone Sales — Amazon said in a conference call following the release of a disappointing third-quarter financial report that it would take a $170 million charge “primarily related to Fire phone inventory valuation and supplier commitment costs.”
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Amazon posts $437 million loss, worse than Wall Street feared … Amazon posted a $437 million net loss for the second quarter, or a loss of 95 cents a share, significantly deeper than the net loss of 74 cents per share expected by analysts polled in advance by Thomson Reuters.| Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC: |
Amazon shares drop 13 percent on missed estimates — Amazon reported quarterly earnings and revenue that missed analysts' expectations on Thursday. — The company posted third-quarter a loss of 95 cents per share, compared to a loss of 9 cents per share in the year-earlier period.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Launches Pseudonymous App “Rooms” That Lets You Create Forums About Any Topic — It's not quite anonymous, but forums standalone app Rooms is Facebook's first product that allows you to ditch your real name. Rooms lets you set up a mobile-only in-app discussion space about any topic …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Q&A With Facebook's Josh Miller On Why His Rooms App Isn't Anonymous, It's The Early Web Reborn — Is Rooms the anonymous Facebook app people were expecting? “No. Unequivocally No...because you cannot be anonymous in our app,” Josh Miller tells me. The Branch founder turned Facebook product manager's … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Ello raises $5.5M round led by Foundry Group; investors and founders commit to ad free mission — Ello Raises $5.5 Million to Grow Its Ad-Free Social Network — Ello, the ad-free social network that promises users it will never sell their data, has raised $5.5 million in new venture funding, according to CEO Paul Budnitz.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says it is considering “other options” for GT Advanced sapphire plant, and is continuing to monitor sapphire production progress — Apple to Continue Evaluating GT's Sapphire Production Progress, Looking for New Uses for Arizona Plant — Earlier today …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo's new home page, rolling out next month, emphasizes mail, video, and big-name content — Wanna See the Latest New Yahoo Home Page, Rolling Out Next Month? Bokay! — I have been a little lax in lifting interesting tidbits out of Yahoo for some months now, mostly because it felt … | Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
Judge says Aereo must shut for good as live TV, but service may survive as a cloud DVR — Broadcasters put the final nail in the coffin of Aereo as a live-streaming TV service on Thursday, but a judge's ruling could open the door to it operating as a cloud-DVR service.
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Christian Bale to play Steve Jobs in Aaron Sorkin's film, which will begin shooting in the next couple of months — Christian Bale Didn't Have to Audition for Jobs Film Role — Actor Christian Bale didn't have to audition for the role of Steve Jobs in the coming biopic of the Apple Inc. …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / VentureBeat: |
Luxe offers parking valets on demand, launches in San Francisco, raised $5.5M in seed funding — Luxe Valet officially unleashes its blue-jacketed on-demand valets in San Francisco — San Francisco Giants fans will be assembling in the city's SoMA neighborhood to watch the World Series games … | Matthew Miller / Reuters: |
Apple CEO says to add 25 stores in China within two years: Sina — Apple CEO Tim Cook holds a new iPad after a presentation at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California October 16, 2014. — (Reuters) - Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook said the company is planning to open 25 retail stores … | Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
Gimbal's beacons installed on public property in Chicago and LA without public oversight — Hidden “Beacons” Were Also Installed In L.A. And Chicago — A BuzzFeed News investigation reveals the quiet spread of Gimbal Inc.'s phone-tracking technology in some of America's largest cities.| Sarah / Uber Blog: |
Uber launches UberHEALTH pilot delivering free flu shots for one day in NYC, Boston, and DC — Bringing House Calls Back with UberHEALTH — Flu season is just around the corner and trying to squeeze in your latest immunization this fall may not be on the top of your To Do List.
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Sprint undercuts AT&T, Verizon with $20, 1GB family data plan — At $20, Sprint is offering twice as much data as Verizon and more than three times the data as AT&T. — The wireless wars over family plans continue, with Sprint once against taking it up a notch.
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Mozilla's Webmaker app will make it easy for anyone to create Web apps on their smartphone — Mozilla is working on an app for Android, iOS and Firefox OS that gives smartphone users the ability to easily create and share Web apps. — It's called Webmaker, after the initiative that Mozilla created to promote Web literacy.
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Fountain, founded by former Mint execs including Aaron Patzer, an app where expert answers your questions, raises $4M from Shasta and First Round, now in beta — Mint's Aaron Patzer Launches Beta Version Of An On-Demand Answers App With $4 Million In Funding From Shasta And First Round
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Facebook and Yahoo develop RRVS, a new standard for securing recycled email addresses — Facebook and Yahoo Find a New Way to Save the Web's Lost Email Addresses — When Yahoo proposed a plan to reuse mothballed email addresses, a lot of people didn't like it.
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