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Google Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2014 Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2014. — “Google's full year revenue for 2014 was $66 billion, up 19% year on year,” said Patrick Pichette …
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Google misses in Q4 2014 with $14.48B revenue, $6.88 EPS on slowing ad revenue growth — Updated 1:45 p.m. PT with new details from Google's earnings call. — Today Google reported its fourth-quarter earnings, with GAAP EPS of $6.88 on revenue of $14.48 billion (minus traffic acquisition costs).
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft to be a minority investor in $70M+ round being raised by Cyanogen, makers of the popular modified Android OS CyanogenMod — Microsoft to Invest in Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen — Microsoft is investing in a hot startup that's trying to weaken Google 's hold over Android.
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| 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 …
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New Accompli-based Outlook for iOS and Android integrates email, calendar, contacts, and files, supports Office 365, Exchange, iCloud, Gmail, and Yahoo accounts — 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.
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| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
FCC redefines broadband: minimum download speed raised from 4 to 25 Mbps, minimum upload from 1 to 3 Mbps — The FCC has changed the definition of broadband — The Federal Communications Commission has voted to change the definition of broadband by raising the minimum download speeds needed … | Donna Tam / CNET: |
Amazon surprises investors with a gift of profit — The e-commerce company posts a $214 million profit for the holiday season. CEO Jeff Bezos says Prime membership got a boost of more than 50 percent in the quarter.
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| Daniel Terdiman / VentureBeat: |
Facebook launches location tips on iPhone, tests Bluetooth beacons to increase geolocation accuracy in NYC — Facebook invades Yelp, Foursquare territory with geo-specific Place Tips for iPhone — Facebook knows that being able to target users with information about exactly where they are can be extremely lucrative.
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| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
It's over: FCC's AWS-3 spectrum auction ends at record $44.9B in bids — The FCC said bidding in the AWS-3 spectrum auction, known as auction 97, is now closed after 341 rounds of bidding. Total provisional winning bids came in at a record $44.899 billion.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba invests $10M in Ouya, plans to incorporate Ouya's game library into set-top boxes — Alibaba Breathes New Life Into Game-Console Maker Ouya — Ouya, the game-console maker that has struggled to gain traction since its record-breaking Kickstarter campaign, has received a new injection …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
The App Install Ad Boom Helps Tune Raise $27 Million — A few years ago, the app install ad business — fueled by developers who want to distribute their stuff across a universe of smartphones — didn't really exist. — Now it's one of the big reasons Facebook has a giant mobile ad business.
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| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
Nickelodeon to unveil stand-alone streaming video subscription service in February — Nickelodeon to Unveil Stand-Alone Subscription Video Service in February — Kid-entertainment giant Nickelodeon intends to follow the example of HBO and unveil a direct-to-consumer subscription service in February … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple resolves iTunes Connect issue presenting wrong user name and apps for developers — Widespread iTunes Connect issue presenting wrong user name and apps for developers (Update: Resolved) — iTunes Connect, Apple's portal where developers manage software published on the App Store …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
‘Fitbit For Dogs’ Maker Whistle Acquires Tagg Pet Tracker And Raises $15M — Wearables for pets used to be a punchline, but now it's a legitimate business with multiple players active in the space. Said space did just get a bit smaller today, as Whistle, the startup which launched its Fitbit for dogs back in 2013.| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Samsung's Gear VR will provide in-flight entertainment for first-class Qantas passengers — A new partnership between Samsung and Australian airline Qantas means passengers flying on the airline will be able to use a Gear VR on long-haul flights. — A limited number of Gear VR devices …
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| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
VMware's vCloud Air to integrate Google's BigQuery analytics, Cloud Datastore, Cloud DNS, and Cloud Storage services — VMware is bringing key Google services to its cloud — Here's a deal that has “corporate synergies” written all over it. VMware and Google are working together … | Alden Kroll / Steam Community: |
Valve has paid out $57M+ to 1.5K creators across 75 countries through Steam Workshop since 2011; announces curated workshops for non-Valve games — Content Creators Earn Over $50M Through Steam Workshop, Can Now Earn Money in More Games — When we launched the Workshop late in 2011 … | Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
FAA imposes 30-mile radius ban on drones around stadium hosting Super Bowl XLIX — Super Bowl will have 30-mile “no drone zone” — Buzzing quarterback Tom Brady with an unmanned aircraft might sound like fun, but anyone who flies a drone remotely near the University of Phoenix stadium …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
GIF search engine Giphy raises $17M Series B led by Lightspeed Ventures at $80M valuation — After An Approach From Facebook, Giphy Raises $17M At An $80M Valuation — Giphy — the betaworks-backed platform for searching and sharing gifs — has just raised $17 million in Series B funding led …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Nintendo to share up to 70 percent of ad revenue with game YouTubers — Video partnership program comes with some important restrictions, though. — Nintendo's somewhat indecisive stance on letting streamers and producers use video of its games online seems to be crystallizing … | Matti Huuhtanen / Associated Press: |
Nokia reports net profit of $502M in Q4 2014, up nearly 10% year over year, higher operating expenses in technologies and mapping services — Nokia turns to fourth quarter profit buoyed by strong growth — HELSINKI (AP) — Nokia made a net profit of 443 million euros ($502 million) …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Quantum computing company D-Wave raises an additional $23.1M, bringing total to $138.7M — D-Wave keeps dreaming of quantum computers everywhere, takes $23.1M more — D-Wave Systems, a company building what it calls quantum computers, is announcing today that it has taken on around $23.1 million …
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| Tony Romm / Politico: |
White House privacy bill empowers FTC to levy steep fines on privacy violators, strengthen oversight of data brokers — White House preps expansive online privacy bill — The White House is preparing to send a sweeping online privacy proposal to Congress that would restrict how companies … Sponsor Posts
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