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January 29, 2015, 3:46 AM

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Facebook:

Facebook Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2014 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2014. — “We got a lot done in 2014. Our community continues to grow and we're making progress towards connecting the world …

Garett Sloane / Adweek:

Facebook mobile ad revenue accounts for 69% of total ad revenue in Q4, up from 53% Q4 2013; 1.19B mobile MAUs — Facebook Just Shared Insane Q4 Mobile Numbers and Ad Sales — Its smartphone promos alone did $2.5 billion — Facebook's mobile sales continue to skyrocket …

More: VentureBeat, Forbes, Re/code, MobileSyrup.com, Fast Company, The Next Web, Guardian, CNNMoney, CNET, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, ZDNet, Variety, Deadline, VatorNews and Marketing Land. Tweets: @joshconstine

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Beats Estimates In Q4 With $3.85B Revenue, User Growth Up To 2.9% QOQ To Hit 1.39B

More: Wall Street Journal, Macworld, GeekWire, bizjournals, Engadget, BIA/Kelsey, Seeking Alpha and ABC News. Tweets: @joshconstine

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Facebook video views hit 3B per day, up from 1B daily views in September 2014

More: Bloomberg Business. Tweets: @sarahfrier

Youkyung Lee / Associated Press:

Samsung Electronics' Q4 earnings down 27% to $4.9B, beating estimates on strength of component business — Samsung's 4Q profit drops but beats forecast — SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday its quarterly earnings dropped smaller-than-expected 27 percent …

More: Wall Street Journal, Samsung Tomorrow, Reuters, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, SamMobile, CNNMoney, BBC, Reuters, Yahoo! Finance, TechCrunch, SlashGear, GSMArena.com, MacRumors and Bloomberg Business. Tweets: @jchengwsj

Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

Samsung sold 71-75M smartphones in the holiday quarter, on par with Apple's 74.5M iPhone sales — Apple and Samsung in Dead Heat for Smartphone Dominance — Apple, which years ago ceded the top spot in the global smartphone market to rival Samsung, appears to have pulled into a dead heat.

More: Strategy Analytics, Tech Trader Daily, Bloomberg Business, AppleInsider, CNET, PC World and MacRumors

Ben Kepes / Forbes:

Amazon to introduce WorkMail, a cloud email and calendar service aimed at Microsoft Exchange's market, in Q2 2015 — Amazon Changes The Game Again—AWS Introduces WorkMail — Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud computing business unit, continues to surprise industry commentators with both its growth and its incessant innovation.

More: Wall Street Journal, AWS Official Blog, New York Times, VentureBeat, Network World, Bloomberg Business, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, GeekWire, Ubergizmo, The Verge, The Next Web, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Seeking Alpha and Technology Personalized

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Qualcomm Cuts Outlook, Warning Its Snapdragon 810 Dropped From a Flagship Device — Wireless chipmaker Qualcomm said Wednesday that it is cutting its financial outlook for the next two quarters as its Snapdragon 810 chip was dropped by a large customer. — The company also blamed continued concerns …

More: Gigaom, CNET, Forbes, Reuters, Pocketnow, Mashable, Android Police, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, PC World, Computerworld, The Register, Android Authority and Ars Technica

Paul Mozur / New York Times:

New regulations in China require source code, audits, and backdoors from companies working with banks, alarming Western tech firms — New Rules in China Upset Western Tech Companies — HONG KONG — The Chinese government has adopted new regulations requiring companies that sell computer equipment …

More: Electronista, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica, Patently Apple and AppleInsider. Tweets: @amir

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Tumblr Takes On Medium With Upgrades To Its Writing Interface And More — Starting today, Tumblr is rolling out a series of updates to its online blogging platform designed to make the service more attractive and useful for content creators, and specifically for those writing long-form content.

More: Tumblr Staff, The Verge, Fast Company, SlashGear and The Next Web. Tweets: @joshconstine

Eric Lempel / PlayStation.Blog:

Sony announces Spotify-powered PlayStation Music streaming service for PS4, PS3, and Xperia devices; Music Unlimited shutting down March 29 — PlayStation, Meet Spotify — Hello everyone! I'm thrilled today to introduce a new music destination called PlayStation Music, with Spotify as the exclusive partner.

Mark Hachman / PC World:

Microsoft adds smart search of document text and photos with OCR in OneDrive for web and iPad — Microsoft OneDrive adds super-intelligent searching of document text, photos — Microsoft just made it easier to upload more photos and files to its OneDrive cloud service.

More: OneDrive Blog, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Verge, iClarified, BetaNews and WinBeta

Facebook:

Facebook Super Bowl hub collects posts and videos from friends, news outlets, players, and teams — Introducing a New Super Bowl Experience on Facebook — By Alex Himel, Engineering Director and Dan Reed, Head of Global Sports Partnerships — More than 50 million people joined …

More: Reuters, SocialTimes, iDownloadBlog.com, Wired, Marketing Land, Gigaom, LostRemote, Ubergizmo, The Verge and Engadget

Matthias Schaefer / The Jawbone Blog:

Jawbone launches marketplace for third-party devices and apps in the US — Experience the Internet of You: Introducing the Jawbone Marketplace — “At Jawbone, we embrace the promise of the Internet of Things. We can only put all this together if we work with others …

More: Fortune, 9to5Google and The Next Web

Ina Fried / Re/code:

FTC fines TracFone Wireless $40M for throttling customers after advertising “unlimited” data — FTC Says Unlimited Data With Throttling Doesn't Count as Unlimited — In a case that could have broad implications, the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday ordered prepaid mobile provider TracFone …

Ainsley O'Connell / Fast Company:

Rolling Stone archive comes to Google Play Newsstand on Friday; 3-4 stories per issue available free — Rolling Stone Teams Up With Google Play To Monetize Its Archives — When Robin Williams died last year, mourning fans turned to the web—and Rolling Stone was ready for them.

More: SiliconANGLE, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, Android Authority and MobileSyrup.com. Thanks:@noahr. See also Mediagazer

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg Business:

China accuses Alibaba of bribery and lax oversight of illegal operations on its platforms in report withheld until now to avoid disrupting the company's IPO — China Accuses Alibaba of Lax Oversight of Merchants — Don't Miss Out — … (Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has a …

More: Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Consumerist, Globe and Mail, CNNMoney, Mashable, International Business Times, BBC, CNBC and Associated Press

Tweets: @linuschua and @isaacstonefish

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

App Annie 2014 Index: Google Play saw 60% more downloads than iOS App Store, but App Store generated about 70% more in revenue — Google Play Downloads Are Growing Faster, but Apple Is Still Winning the Money Race — 2014 was a big year for Android apps and games; Google Play outpaced Apple's App Store …

More: App Annie Blog, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Guardian, AppleInsider, App Advice, 9to5Mac and 9to5Google

Tweets: @dujkan and @mdudas

Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:

Peeing My Way Around New York City With Airpnp, The App For Bathroom Emergencies — Airpnp is the worst-designed app I've ever used. It's also the most profound. — Justine Zwiebel/BuzzFeed News — My bladder is the Murphy's Law of organs. — It's not that it's small, exactly; rather, it's disagreeable; neurotic.

Tweets: @msamandalewis, @jaredbkeller, @jbasher, @jmbooyah and @katyawachtel

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