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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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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google's search for sales, profit falls short — The search giant continues to pull in billions from its search and advertising business, even as the company looks for other ways to make money. — For the past few quarters, Google's finances have been the story of same-old, same-old …
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Google's Q4 falls short of expectations with $14.5B revenue, on real estate purchases and slowing ad revenue growth — Google's fourth quarter misses mark — Summary:In what was supposed to be a strong quarter, Google's fourth quarter results missed the mark.
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Cyanogen's $70M+ round to include Microsoft as a minority investor — 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. — People familiar with the matter say Microsoft is putting money into Cyanogen …
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OnePlus Will Reveal Details Of Its ‘Oxygen’ Android ROM On February 12 — OnePlus introduced its own version of Android for its One smartphone earlier this month in response to its standoff with Cyanogen, and now the company has revealed that it will unveil its own ROM which can be installed … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Jay-Z takes on Beats and Spotify with acquisition of music-streaming services Tidal and WiMP for $56M — Here's an interesting piece of acquisition news for a Friday morning: International rapping superstar Jay-Z is on the verge of buying Swedish company Aspiro AB — the firm that owns …
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The best Gmail app for the iPhone is now made by Microsoft — Outlook. Yes, Outlook. — Gmail is the world's most popular email service, and the iPhone, as if this week didn't make it abundantly clear, is the world's most popular smartphone. The two have been around for years and years … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Prosecutors Trace $13.4M in Bitcoins From the Silk Road to Ulbricht's Laptop — If anyone still believes that bitcoin is magically anonymous internet money, the US government just offered what may be the clearest demonstration yet that it's not. A courtroom PowerPoint presentation traced hundreds … | Andrew Jacobs / New York Times: |
China acknowledges targeting VPN services to foster the “healthy development” of the nation's internet, says VPNs are illegal — China Clamps Down Still Harder on Internet Access — BEIJING — Jing Yuechen, the founder of an Internet start-up here in the Chinese capital …
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Secret co-founder Chrys Bader steps down — New beginnings — Chrys Bader and I launched Secret exactly one year ago tomorrow. In that short time, we've grown our team to 25 incredible people and signed up over 15 million people around the world. — It's been an amazing journey.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon posts $214M profit, $0.45 EPS in Q4 2014 on $29.33B revenue; Prime membership grows 53% year over year — Amazon Prime memberships grow 53% in 2014, despite $20 price hike … Amazon's decision to increase the price of its Prime membership doesn't seem to be hurting the company.
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FCC considers formal complaint process for reviewing paid peering deals — Netflix Deals With Broadband Providers Said to Get Oversight — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — U.S. regulators plan to issue rules next month allowing them to review the terms Internet service providers demand … | Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
FTC shuts down “revenge porn” operation, but imposes no fine — In one of the most despicable scams on the internet, Colorado resident Craig Brittain ran a website that posted nude photographs of hundreds of women alongside their Facebook profiles and other personal information … | 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 …
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Twitch hit 100M unique viewers in December 2014, more than double the 45M from a year ago — Twitch's Monthly Viewers More Than Doubled (Again) in 2014 — Video game streaming site Twitch, now owned by Amazon, said today that it has crossed 100 million monthly unique viewers … | Maya Kosoff / Business Insider: |
Spotify working with Goldman Sachs to raise $500M at possible $6B+ valuation; could delay IPO for another year — Spotify Is Looking To Raise $500 Million In New Funding — Spotify is looking to raise $500 million with help from Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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Samsung may remove default add-ons from TouchWiz on Galaxy S6, make them downloadable instead — Exclusive: Samsung removing bloat from TouchWiz, making most of it downloadable — The fact that Samsung's phones and tablets come with a lot of software features is both an advantage and a curse.| 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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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.| 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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Imgur introduces new tool to make high-quality GIFs from streaming video like YouTube — Imgur's new tool makes the most beautiful GIFs on the web — Imgur has been on a quest to upgrade the GIF, and part of that means making GIFs look a whole lot nicer.
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