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Nokia Lumia to become Microsoft Lumia, Nokia branding to continue on entry-level phones — Say hello to Microsoft Lumia — When we announced that the Nokia Devices & Services business would become part of Microsoft, we also shared that Lumia, our smartphone brand, would become part of the Microsoft family.
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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 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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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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| Scott Gilbertson / Ars Technica: |
Ten years of Ubuntu: How Linux's beloved newcomer became its criticized king — It may not be Superman, but Ubuntu has done wonders for Linux. — Nicolás Demarchi — In October of 2004, a new Linux distro appeared on the scene with a curious name—Ubuntu.
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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 … | 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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Study finds VC confidence in Silicon Valley declining for first time in two years — Venture Capitalists' Confidence Is Waning — or So It Seems … A quarterly survey that gauges the confidence level in Silicon Valley shows that venture capitalists downgraded their enthusiasm in the third quarter.
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Deezer Buys Stitcher, Adds 35K Talk Radio Shows And Podcasts To Its Music Platform — Deezer, the Paris-based music streaming service that competes against the likes of Spotify and Rdio, is switching up its game in the battle for more differentiation, more users and a higher profile in the U.S …
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Microsoft discloses severe Office zero-day flaw, publishes quick fix — Microsoft has published a temporary fix for a new zero-day flaw that affects nearly all versions of Windows and is currently being exploited via PowerPoint. — The flaw affects all Windows releases except Windows Server 2003 … | 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.| 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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Yelp Buys Restaurant-Kritik To Expand Its Presence In Germany — Yelp has boosted its presence in Europe after announcing the acquisition of Restaurant-Kritik, a restaurant review service in Germany. Restaurant-Kritik claims to have over 330,000 reviews of more than 94,000 restaurants across Germany.
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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 …
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