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January 26, 2015, 10:35 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: Ubergizmo and BGR. Tweets: @fjeronimo and @teroterotero

Brandon Bailey / Associated Press:

Microsoft shares down 4.4% after hours as investors react to “not great” results for flagship business

More: PC World and Business Insider

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

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

More: GeekWire, Windows Central and Business Insider

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

Tweets: @benhuh and @pkedrosky

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: Slashdot, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, 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 …

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Snapchat “Discover” Content Feature Launches Tuesday — Snapchat's boosters have long argued the company could be more than just a messaging service: It could also be a platform for media companies to reach the startup's youthful audience. — Now Snapchat will try to deliver on its promises.

More: New York Post, VentureBeat, Marketing Land and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @mikeisaac

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: Droid Life, Ubergizmo, Engadget, The Mac Observer, Pocket-lint, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com, Connectedly, The Next Web and SlashGear

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.

More: Business Insider and PandoDaily

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

WSJ: Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Nashville and North Carolina — Rumors broke over the weekend that Google might bring its gigabit internet Fiber connection to Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, NC next, but it's not stopping there. The Tennesseean reports Nashville has an announcement planned …

More: Tennessean.com and Wall Street Journal

Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:

Google's new wireless service can switch between T-Mobile, Sprint, and Wi-Fi hotspots to find best signal, could be available nationwide first half 2015 — Google's MVNO would reportedly look for best Sprint, T-Mobile or Wi-Fi signal — Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) rumored MVNO service with Sprint …

More: Bloomberg, Droid Life, RTTNews, Benzinga, TechnoBuffalo, HotHardware, AndroidHeadlines.com, Digital Trends and Android Authority

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Dropbox acquires design-minded collaboration software startup Pixelapse — Summary:Pixelapse will remain a standalone product as a migration plan to the core Dropbox platform is hatched out. — Dropbox has added another collaboration startup to the portfolio with the acquisition of Pixelapse.

More: The Pixelapse Blog, Computerworld, Neowin and VentureBeat

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 …

More: Wired, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Engadget, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, VentureBreak, TechCrunch and CNET

Tweets: @bcbishop, @hoomanradfar and @besvinick

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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 and The Week

Tweets: @jilliancyork, @evacide and @zeynep

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Gulsen Solaker / Reuters:

Turkish court orders Facebook to block pages insulting Mohammad: media

More: The Next Web, BetaNews, The Verge, VentureBeat, PandoDaily and SocialTimes. Tweets: @glcarlstrom

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, Wired, tech.co, New York Times and EdSurge

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

1Password for iOS adds one-time password tool for two factor auth, new login creator, more — The popular secure password management app 1Password is out with a big update today adding new features on both iOS and Mac. Arriving in version 5.2 of 1Password for iOS is a new login creator tool …

More: Agile Blog, TUAW, MacNN, Liliputing, The Next Web, iMore, O'Grady's PowerPage, App Advice, SlashGear and Macworld

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:

OS X 10.10.2 Includes Fix for ‘Thunderstrike’ Hardware Exploit Affecting Macs — Apple is readying a fix in OS X 10.10.2 for the so-called “Thunderstrike” hardware exploit targeting Macs equipped with Thunderbolt ports, iMore has learned. According to the report, Apple patched the vulnerability …

More: iMore, 9to5Mac, Macworld and Gotta Be Mobile

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 …

Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal:

Digital-Payments Company Ripple Labs Is Finalizing a $30 Million Funding Round — Ripple Labs, the developer of a bitcoin-like technology that enables institutions to transfer money internationally, is closing in on a $30 million funding round, Venture Capital Dispatch has learned.

More: Mashable and PE Hub Blog

Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk:

Coinbase's US Bitcoin Exchange Opens Doors to Traders — Bitcoin services provider Coinbase officially launched its exchange product today to consumers in 24 states. — The news follows what proved a dramatic runup to the launch, one sparked by a single teaser tweet that caused speculation to run rampant Sunday.

More: The Coinbase Blog, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, PandoDaily, PC World, Wired, Business Insider, TechSpot, bizjournals, Xconomy, Reuters, Inquirer, Gizmodo UK, Engadget and Tech Times

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