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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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| 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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| Amazon.com: |
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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| 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.
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| Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC: |
| 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: |
| 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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| Sam Colt / Business Insider: |
Former Apple retail chief Ron Johnson launching Enjoy in 2015, has raised $30M to help consumers find products — The Genius Behind The Apple Store Wants To Help You Choose Your Next Gadget — Former J.C. Penny CEO and Apple retail chief Ron Johnson has a new startup that hopes to help …
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| 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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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Shuddle, an Uber for kids with childcare pros as drivers, launches today, has raised $2.6M, founded by Sidecar co-founder Nick Allen — Shuddle Is an Uber for Kids Driven by Childcare Pros — Shuddle, a new service for parents to arrange paid rides for their children, launches today.
Tweets: @fmanjoo
| 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 … | 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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| 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 …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
LG Gets Into the Smartphone Chip Game With Nuclun, an Eight-Core Processor — Korea's LG confirmed on Thursday night that it is indeed getting into the business of making its own mobile processors. — While most phone makers get their processors from companies such as Qualcomm and Nvidia …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Airbnb valued at $13B ahead of staff stock sale — Airbnb's valuation is set to rise to $13 billion, up from $10 billion earlier this year, as it prepares an employee stock sale, according to people familiar with its plans. — The valuation would make the accommodation site second …
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| Jeffrey Grubb / VentureBeat: |
PS4 Masamune update coming Oct. 28 with Share Play; lets you invite friends to join your game, even when they don't own a copy — PS4's system update 2.0 goes live next week — and it includes SharePlay — Sony is preparing to slap on a new coat of digital paint to the PlayStation 4's operating system.
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Hardcore Gamer, gamrReview, Attack of the Fanboy, TechCrunch and Eurogamer.net
| Agam Shah / PC World: |
Google to build Play-like hardware store for Project Ara — Drawing inspiration from its Play Store, Google will create a hardware store in which users can buy and sell Lego-like hardware modules for the customizable Project Ara smartphone. — Project Ara is Google's upcoming build … | 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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