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January 26, 2015, 6:00 PM

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Microsoft:

Microsoft Cloud and Devices Momentum Highlights Second Quarter Results — Commercial cloud revenue grows triple-digits for the sixth consecutive quarter, reaching an annualized revenue run rate of $5.5 billion REDMOND, Wash. — January 26, 2015 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue …

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Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft sees Surface revenue jump to $1.1B in Q2 2015, sells record 10.5M Lumia smartphones — As part of the company's latest quarterly earnings announcement, Microsoft today revealed Surface revenue increased to $1.1 billion in Q2 2015, driven mainly by Surface Pro 3 and its accessories.

More: BGR and Windows Central. Tweets: @fjeronimo and @teroterotero

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Slips 2% After Reporting $26.5B In FQ2 Revenue, $1.1B In Surface Revenue

More: GeekWire

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Microsoft sold 6.6M Xbox consoles during the holiday quarter, down 11% from a year ago

Eileen Sullivan / Associated Press:

Sheriffs pressure Google to disable Waze feature that warns when police are near, saying it endangers officers — Sheriffs want popular police-tracking app disabled — WASHINGTON (AP) — Sheriffs are campaigning to pressure Google Inc. to turn off a feature on its Waze traffic software that warns drivers when police are nearby.

More: Android Authority, Engadget, The Verge, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, SiliconBeat, PandoDaily, Fusion, The Next Web, SlashGear, WebProNews and MacDailyNews

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Spencer Woodman / The Verge:

Exclusive: politicians are supporting Comcast's TWC merger with letters ghostwritten by Comcast — On August 21st, 2014, Mayor Jere Wood of Roswell, Georgia, sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission expressing emphatic support for Comcast's controversial effort to merge with Time Warner Cable.

More: Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo and The Next Web

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Facebook Is Testing A Simple App For Low-End Android Phones — Not content with spinning out apps for stickers inside Messenger, Groups and new addition Rooms, Facebook has launched another standalone app. Facebook Lite, which some may recall as a simplified version of its mobile website from 2009-2010 …

New York Times:

Facebook Said to Block Pages on Muhammad to Avoid Ban in Turkey — ISTANBUL — To avoid being banned throughout Turkey, Facebook has blocked a number of pages containing content that the Turkish authorities had deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad, according to a company employee with direct knowledge of the matter.

More: TechCrunch, Mashable, CNET and The Week

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Gulsen Solaker / Reuters:

Turkish court orders Facebook to block pages insulting Mohammad: media

More: The Next Web, The Verge, BetaNews, VentureBeat and Anadolu Ajans Güncel Haberler. Tweets: @glcarlstrom

Bryan Bishop / The Verge:

Oculus announces Story Studio to make its own VR movies, first film “Lost” debuts this week — Oculus is now making its own virtual reality movies — Story Studio is the company's internal team exploring what it calls ‘VR cinema’ — The prominence of virtual reality …

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Online Learning Service Pluralsight Acquires Code School For $36 Million — Online technology training service Pluralsight has acquired the Orlando, Fla.-based Code School, which offers dozens of instructional courses and videos for developers both online and via mobile apps.

More: PE Hub Blog, New York Times, tech.co and Wired

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Google signs deal with NFL to show highlight clips in YouTube and Search, will share ad revenues — NFL Video Highlights — And More — Come to YouTube and Google — It took a long time but it's finally done, just in time for the Super Bowl: Pro football finally has a deal with Google to distribute some of its video.

More: Wall Street Journal, Marketing Land, PC World, 9to5Google, YouTube Blog, Digital Trends, Forbes, The Verge, Droid Life, Android Authority, SlashGear and Android Police

Tweets: @noahchestnut and @karaswisher

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Matt Warman / Telegraph:

Former Motorola CEO: Nexus 6 doesn't have fingerprint reader because Apple bought AuthenTec, the best supplier — Dennis Woodside on Motorola, Google and the future of Dropbox — Silicon Valley veteran Dennis Woodside reveals a Motorola Nexus 6 secret, and tells Matt Warman …

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Exclusive: Kleiner Perkins tried to ‘acquire’ Social+Capital Partnership — Venture capital stalwart Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers recently tried to “acquire” Social+Capital Partnership, a Palo Alto-based VC firm formed in 2011 by former Facebook FB executive Chamath Palihapitiya, Fortune has learned.

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Kif Leswing / Gigaom:

Nest to replace old Dropcams for free before they go dark April 15 — One downside of having products that require cloud services in order to work is that the physical objects can suddenly become obsolete. — Over the weekend, Dropcam announced a “legacy camera replacement program,” …

More: TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, The Next Web, Droid Life, The Wirecutter, Android Central and SlashGear

Natt Garun / The Next Web:

Sling TV review: Not quite the cord cutter's dream, but a bargain for millennial families — The unbundling trend is trickling down from apps to television with the launch of Sling TV, Dish Network's US-only, live TV subscription service at just $20 a month - no contract required.

More: Engadget, Re/code, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, SlashGear, International Business Times, Vox, USA Today, App Advice, Quartz, DSLreports, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Forbes, Yahoo Tech, The Verge and GeekWire. Tweets: @thenextweb

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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Cablevision to launch Wi-Fi-only mobile phone service Freewheel; $9.95/month if bundled with home internet, $29.95 for other customers — This is big: Cablevision launches Wi-Fi-only mobile phone service — Janko Roettgers — Cablevision is getting ready to pick a fight with your mobile phone company.

New York Times:

Verizon's Mobile ‘Supercookies’ Seen as Threat to Privacy — For the last several months, cybersecurity experts have been warning Verizon Wireless that it was putting the privacy of its customers at risk. The computer codes the company uses to tag and follow its mobile subscribers around the web …

More: Marketing Land. Tweets: @privacytoday, @bxchen, @robpegoraro and @juliaangwin

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Stripe Partners With Intuit To Help On-Demand Workers Keep Track Of Their Finances — Startup Stripe helps to power payments for a large number of new services offering up ways to make cash as part of the growing “on-demand economy.” Meanwhile Intuit, which makes accounting and tax software …

More: ZDNet, Gigaom, Business Wire and VentureBeat. Tweets: @mdudas

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