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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: Inquirer, Inquirer, Fortune, The Verge, iMore, Bloomberg Business, Wireless Smartphone Strategies, TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Tech Trader Daily, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Network World and CNET

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 …

Julia White / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft launches Office for Android tablets, new Outlook mail apps for iOS and Android — Office everywhere: More great news for Office on iOS and Android — Last week, we saw the new experiences coming with Windows 10, including how Office universal apps for Windows 10 will deliver …

More: Ars Technica, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, iMore, Gigaom, Engadget, Office Blogs, The Verge, TechCrunch, ZDNet, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Ubergizmo and bit-tech.net. Tweets: @julwhite

Office Blogs:

A deeper look at Outlook for iOS and Android — Today, we announced the release of Outlook for iOS and a preview of Outlook for Android. If you have an iPhone, iPad, Android phone or Android tablet, chances are that you're using the built-in email and calendaring capabilities of your device.

More: TechCrunch, Android Authority, The Next Web, The Verge, VentureBeat, Re/code, Inquirer, MacRumors, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, GeekWire, Engadget, New York Times, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, Mashable and Ubergizmo

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, TechCrunch, NBC News, Guardian, CNNMoney, MobileSyrup.com, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, ZDNet, The Next Web, Variety, CNET, Deadline, VatorNews and Marketing Land

Facebook:

Facebook Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2014 Results

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, PC World, BIA/Kelsey, Seeking Alpha, GeekWire, bizjournals and Engadget

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

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

More: Bloomberg Business. Tweets: @sarahfrier

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, Bloomberg Business, AWS Official Blog, New York Times, Network World, Bloomberg Business, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, GeekWire, The Verge, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, Business Insider and Slashdot

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

Travis Green / Google Commerce:

Now available in the UK: Send and request money right from Gmail — Since we announced Send Money in Gmail, paying back your friends has never been so simple, whether you're chipping in for lunch or reimbursing your housemate for your share of the rent. Today, we're excited to make this feature available for Gmail users in the UK.

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Next Web, Business Insider and Electronista

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, Digital Trends, The Verge, Fast Company and SlashGear. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer

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, Engadget, The Next Web, SlashGear, The Fire Hose, The Verge, iMore, Ubergizmo, Neowin, Windows Central, iClarified, BetaNews and WinBeta

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

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

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: 9to5Google, Fortune and The Next Web

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

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 …

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, Mashable, Globe and Mail, Forbes, International Business Times, CNNMoney, Consumerist and Reuters

Tweets: @linuschua and @isaacstonefish

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