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Alibaba revenue $2.74B vs $2.61B estimate — Alibaba Group reported quarterly earnings that were in line with analysts' expectations on Tuesday, but revenue came in stronger than expected. — Following the report, Alibaba's shares rose in premarket trade. (Get the latest quote here.)
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba Posts 54% Revenue Increase, But Net Profit Falls Below Expectations — Alibaba beat already high expectations for revenue growth in its first quarterly earnings report since its record-setting $25 billion initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in September, but missed its profit forecast.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Dropbox and Microsoft form surprise partnership for Office integration — Office mobile apps will soon seamlessly sync to Dropbox — Microsoft and Dropbox are teaming up today to more closely integrate Dropbox into Office. The surprise partnership will benefit Dropbox users …
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| Steven Bertoni / Forbes: |
Sean Rad to step down as Tinder CEO, will become president and remain on board — Exclusive: Sean Rad Out As Tinder CEO. Inside The Crazy Saga — Sean Rad, the cofounder and CEO of Tinder, an app that over the past two years has completely reinvented how young people date and mate, has been generating news regularly.
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| Robert Hannigan / Financial Times: |
UK's GCHQ chief says tech companies enable terrorism and child exploitation, wants them to better facilitate “lawful investigation” — The web is a terrorist's command-and-control network of choice — People do not want social media platforms to facilitate murder, writes Robert Hannigan
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon Prime customers now get unlimited cloud storage for photos — With so many backup options, losing your photos should be impossible — When it comes to backing up your photo library and life's most precious memories, it's good to have multiple options.| Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times: |
Confirmed: Apple opening Seattle software office — Apple is moving into enemy territory and has started an engineering office in Seattle, its first in the Northwest. — Like other California companies setting up shop in the shadow of Microsoft, Apple is attracted by the area's software talent …
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GeekWire, iMore, The Register, MacRumors, VentureBeat, iPhone, Gizmodo, stratechery, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, App Advice, bizjournals, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, TUAW and Gizmodo UK. Tweets: @brentsimmons
| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Pirate Bay founder Fredrik Neij arrested in Asia, all three founders now behind bars — Pirate Bay Founder Fredrik Neij Arrested in Asia — Following the criminal convictions of Pirate Bay founders Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij, each went their separate ways.
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| Jessica E. Lessin / The Information: |
Jawbone to launch more fitness wearables: UP3 with new sensors for $180, clip-on MOVE for $50 — Exclusive: Jawbone To Broaden Wearables Lineup — Jawbone is the latest wearable company to try to go where Apple is not going, with plans for two new activity trackers aimed at the low and mid-tiers.
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Flaw in New ‘Secure’ Credit Cards Would Let Hackers Steal $1M Per Card — Chip-n-PIN cards like the one shown here are going to be widely in use in America by 2015. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images — As U.S. banks and retailers are barreling toward a 2015 deadline to replace magnetic-stripe credit … | Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung looking for up to 1M sq. ft. of office space in New York City for US expansion — Samsung Eyes Large New York City Expansion — Electronics Giant Seeks Up to 1 Million Square Feet of Office Space — Technology giant Samsung Electronics Co. is eyeing the creation …
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Disney partners with Google to bring its cloud movie locker to Android and Google Play Movies — Disney would like consumers to continue to buy its movies. That's why the company now struck an alliance with Google to add its cloud locker to Android. — Disney took the next step …
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Wall Street Journal, Re/code, TechCrunch, The Verge, TechSpot, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, Reuters, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Android Central, Electronista, Seeking Alpha, iMore, AppleInsider, SlashGear and 9to5Google. Tweets: @mat. See also Mediagazer
| Matthew Izatt / Gmail Blog: |
Updated Gmail app with multiple e-mail provider support and Material Design available on Google Play for Android 4.0+ devices soon — A more modern Gmail app for Android — Today, the Gmail app for Android is getting updated with a more modern style, sleeker transitions, and a few other handy improvements.
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Phandroid, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Mashable, Android Police, Droid Life and Lifehacker
| Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: |
Butterfly Networks raises $100M to create handheld 3D medical imaging device using ultrasound — Jonathan Rothberg's New Startup Raises $100 Million for Chip-based Ultrasound — A scanner the size of an iPhone that you could hold up to a person's chest and see a vivid, moving … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Acer's 12-inch Switch tablet is five devices in one — Thought Acer's Aspire Switch 10 tablet was a true jack-of-all-trades? It's already outclassed. The PC maker has officially revealed the Aspire Switch 12, a 12.5-inch sibling that's a little more flexible.
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Laptop Mag, Gizmodo, BetaNews, ZDNet, Computerworld, ITProPortal, SlashGear, Electronista, Digital Trends, Geeky Gadgets and Liliputing
| Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Disqus takes its programmatic ‘Sponsored Comment’ ad platform global — Disqus has announced that it is making its programmatic ‘Sponsored Comment’ ad platform available globally from today, following the introduction of the new product back in April. — In a nutshell, the platform allows brands …
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Adweek, Disqus for Business, Business Insider, MediaPost, SocialTimes and Matt Mullenweg. Tweets: @seangriffey. See also Mediagazer
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Nexus Player review: video playback not smooth, slow, buggy, only 70 games and apps in store, great gamepad — Google's Nexus Player: More prototype than finished product — The Nexus Player remote, box, and controller. — Just about every major tech company offers some device …
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