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January 27, 2015, 3:40 AM

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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 …

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft reports $26.5B in FQ2 Revenue, $1.1B in Surface revenue, and 10.5 million Lumia units sold — Microsoft Slips 2% After Reporting $26.5B In FQ2 Revenue, $1.1B In Surface Revenue — Today after the bell, Microsoft reported the financial performance of the second quarter of its fiscal 2015 …

More: BGR, Windows Central, Ubergizmo, GeekWire and Business Insider. Tweets: @fjeronimo

Brandon Bailey / Associated Press:

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

More: PC World, Business Insider and TechCrunch

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

Tweets: @benhuh and @pkedrosky

Re/code:

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, CNET, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo and Marketing Land. Tweets: @mikeisaac

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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: Wall Street Journal, Tennessean.com, The Verge and Pocketables

Tom Krazit / Gigaom:

Facebook and Instagram go down for almost an hour during Snowmadgeddon — Silent night: Facebook, Instagram go down for Snowmadgeddon — All those carefully crafted images of snowscapes will have to stay locked up for a bit, East Coasters, because Facebook and Instagram are down.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Engadget, Associated Press, Business Insider and SiliconANGLE

Tweets: @jayparikh, @ap, @dannysullivan, @ap, @lizardmafia and @monkbent

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: Ars Technica, Slashdot, Electronista, Gizmodo and Ubergizmo

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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.

More: PandoDaily and Business Insider

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Analysts expect Apple Q1 2015 sales to surpass $68B, up 21% YoY, and higher than Apple's $63.5B to $66.5B guidance — Handicapping Apple's earnings — This is one of those “big, but how big?” quarters. — Apple told Wall Street to expect total sales somewhere in the range of $63.5 to $66.5 billion …

More: Cult of Mac and 9to5Mac

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, The Verge, Pocket-lint, The Wirecutter, MobileSyrup.com, Connectedly, Engadget, The Next Web, The Mac Observer and SlashGear

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, The Hill, CNET and The Week

Tweets: @evacide, @jilliancyork and @zeynep

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Gulsen Solaker / Reuters:

Turkish court orders Facebook to block pages insulting Mohammad: media

More: The Next Web, PandoDaily, Anadolu Ajans Güncel Haberler, SocialTimes, BetaNews, Engadget and The Verge

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

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, MacNN, Liliputing, TUAW, Macworld, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web, SlashGear, iMore and O'Grady's PowerPage

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple Maps Connect for small businesses expands to UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Singapore — Apple Maps Connect for small businesses expands beyond the U.S. — Apple has notified Apple Maps Connect for Small Businesses users that the service has expanded beyond the United States …

More: App Advice, iMore and MacNN

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 …

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, The Next Web, Computerworld, VentureBeat and Neowin

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Meg Whitman will lead HP Enterprise, Dion Weisler to head HP's PC and printer unit after split — HP Names Executive Teams for After the Big Breakup — After Hewlett-Packard splits in two later this year, Meg Whitman will be CEO of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, the forthcoming corporate computing …

More: HP Next, Associated Press, The Register, Mercury News, Seeking Alpha, Gigaom, TechSpot, ZDNet and Tech Trader Daily

Martyn Williams / Network World:

DEA's license plate reader program tracks car journeys across US, shares data with other law enforcement agencies — DEA cameras tracking hundreds of millions of car journeys across the US — A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program to keep tabs on cars close to the U.S.-Mexican border …

More: Wall Street Journal, Blog of Rights, Reuters, The Hill, The Week, Guardian, Reuters, Mediaite and Jalopnik

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, Threatpost, Gotta Be Mobile and Computerworld

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, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, Pocket-lint, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Gizmodo, GeekWire, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, Business Insider, CNET and VentureBreak

Tweets: @bcbishop and @hoomanradfar

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