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WhatsApp's First Half Of 2014 Revenue Was $15M, Net Loss Of $232.5M Was Mostly Issuing Stock — Facebook disclosed financials of its $22 billion acquisition of WhatsApp for the first time today, and it looks like the 600 million user messaging app's revenue is still small.| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Facebook warns of increased spending in 2015, expects costs to rise 55% to 75% — Facebook warns of increased spending, shares fall — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc warned on Tuesday of a dramatic increase in spending in 2015 and projected a slowdown in revenue growth this quarter, slicing a tenth off its market value.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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MCX forbids participating retailers from accepting any competing mobile payment products, will issue “steep” fine if contract broken — Apple Pay Runs Afoul of MCX, a Group With a Rival Product — One week after its debut, Apple's new mobile wallet is showing promise with consumers.| Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot: |
Verizon's tech news site SugarString won't let writers report on US spying or net neutrality — Verizon is launching a tech news site that bans stories on U.S. spying — Verizon is getting into the news business. What could go wrong? — The most-valuable, second-richest telecommunications company … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
W3C Declares HTML5 Standard Complete — More than four years ago, Steve Jobs declared war on Flash and heralded HTML5 as the way to go. You could be forgiven if you thought the HTML5 standard — the follow-up to 1997's HTML 4 — has long been set in stone, given that developers … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Stripe Hires Top Google Ops Exec Claire Johnson to Lead Business Operations — Stripe has nabbed longtime Google exec Claire Johnson as its new head of business operations, in one of the first major management hires by the online payments software startup. — Johnson, who has been at the … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft aims to release Office 16 in second half of 2015; Mac preview and Android tablet versions expected “soon” — Microsoft's latest target release date for Office 16: Second half 2015 — Summary: Microsoft is targeting the second half of calendar 2015 as its latest release target … | Mike Carter / The Seattle Times: |
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OneNote for iOS gets cloud storage attachments and Touch ID, OneNote for Mac gets SharePoint Server support — Microsoft today announced updates to OneNote for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with a slew of new features. You can download the first two directly from Apple's App Store (iPhone, iPad) and the third from the Mac App Store.| Anna Irrera / Wall Street Journal: |
U.K. Regulator to Explore Benefits of Blockchain Technology — The United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority is to explore the potential benefits of the technology underpinning bitcoin to the wider financial services industry, according to the regulator's chief executive.| Justin Diaz / AndroidHeadlines: |
Fleksy announces $2M funding round, keyboard app for iOS and Android 75% off until Friday — Fleksy Announces $2 Million In Funding For Further App Development Alongside Android Update — If you haven't tried out Fleksy Keyboard yet, there really isn't a better time to give it a shot … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
LG Shipped A Record 16.8 Million Smartphones In Q3 2014, Up 39% Year-On-Year — Samsung is under-pressure as a long-period of growth continues to flatten out, but things couldn't be going much better for fellow Korean phone-maker LG, which just announced that it shipped a best-ever 16.8 million smartphones in Q3 2014.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Taco Bell releases iOS and Android app allowing customers nationwide to order food for pickup — You can order Taco Bell from a smartphone starting today — Get ready to order FourthMeal with your smartphone. Taco Bell will today announce a new app that lets customers nationwide order food ahead … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
FTC sues AT&T over ‘deceptive’ throttling of unlimited data customers — The Federal Trade Commission is suing AT&T because the carrier throttles speeds of its unlimited data customers, a policy that the FTC describes as “deceptive” and “unfair.”| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Google launches Google Fit app for Android, capturing all your fitness data in one place — Google Fit was unveiled to the world back in June, promising a platform to help people track their fitness goals. It's essentially a set of APIs that lets developers dig in to rival apps and combine data … | Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
Twitch changes its rules of conduct to forbid topless and “sexually suggestive” streaming — You may have the body of a Greek god, all rippling muscle and taut sinew, but no matter how good you look in a Speedo (or out of one), Twitch would very much appreciate it if you'd keep yourself covered up while you're streaming on its service.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Introduces WatchMe For Android To Bring Live Broadcasting Capabilities To Apps — YouTube is bringing its live broadcasting capabilities to the world of third-party app developers starting today with the launch of the new open source project called “YouTube WatchMe for Android.”| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple expands iAd platform to 70 new countries, bringing total to 95 — Apple has announced that starting today, the iAd platform will be available in 70 new countries, bringing the total number of supported nations to 95. — Today's expansion is by far the largest the company has ever attempted … | Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Ex-eBay, Google payments exec Tilenius launches mobile health startup Vida — Stephanie Tilenius, who has spent much of her recent career in the payments and commerce business at Google, eBay and PayPal, is getting back to her roots in a way with her latest startup.| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge review: more fun and interesting to use than Note 4, curved edge screen of little benefit — Samsung Galaxy Note Edge review — A special screen on a proven phone — but is curved covetable? — I would very much like a flexible smartphone that I could scrunch up like paper and stuff into a pocket.
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