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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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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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| 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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| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Only employees, not Wall Street, can pressure Bezos to slow spending on new Amazon initiatives — Amazon Employees, Not Investors, Will Have to Pressure Jeff Bezos to Slow Down — Thursday's quarterly earnings report from Amazon spooked Wall Street. The 95 cents per share loss … | Amazon.com: |
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Google adds information about video games to Knowledge Graph in search results — Google search finally adds information about video games — Google has expanded its search engine with the ability to recognize video games. If your query references a game, a new Knowledge Graph panel … | 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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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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| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
Bitcasa drops unlimited storage, upgrades infrastructure, users must migrate data by Nov. 15 — Bitcasa nixes unlimited storage plan as it upgrades its infrastructure — As part of the change, users will need to download new Bitcasa apps and then migrate their old data to the new platform …
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| Tatiana Schlossberg / New York Times: |
New York City Police to Be Equipped With Smartphones and Tablets — The New York Police Department will begin equipping all of its officers with smartphones and outfitting many police cars with tablet computers in an effort to modernize the nation's largest police force, the Manhattan district attorney's office announced on Thursday.| 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 … | Scott Austin / Wall Street Journal: |
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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| Jeremy Kirk / PC World: |
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 … | Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter: |
Tumblr Updates Video Player With Auto Play, Vine-Like Loops, And More — Recently, rumors have circulated about Yahoo's plan to turn Tumblr into a potential YouTube competitor. For that to happen, Tumblr's in-house video player need to be on par with its rivals, and the blogging site seems to understand that.
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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.| 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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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
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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