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Twitter Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2014 Results — SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - February 5, 2015 - Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2014. Q4 revenue of $479 million, up 97% year-over-year Q4 net loss …
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Twitter shares jumped as much as 10.6% in after-hours trading despite slowing user growth — Twitter shares soar as revenue jumps despite slowing user growth — Twitter shares flew in after-hours trading as the company blew past fourth-quarter revenue expectations but reported slowing user growth.| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Twitter beats Q4 revenue expectations with $479M, nets just 4M new monthly users — Twitter's users are still growing at a slow rate, but its revenue is booming. — Today, Twitter reported fourth quarter earnings for 2014, with revenue of $479 million on non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of $0.12.
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See also Mediagazer| Nick Bilton / New York Times: |
How Google Glass went from coveted gadget to punchline; device to be redesigned from scratch under Tony Fadell's leadership — Why Google Glass Broke — This is a story that involves lots of public intrigue, a futuristic wearable technology, a secret laboratory, fashion models …
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| Corinne Gretler / Bloomberg Business: |
Swatch to sell smartwatch within 3 months that will allow mobile payments, work with Windows and Android, use the internet “without having to be charged” — Swatch Plans Smartwatch to Compete With Apple Watch's Debut — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Swatch Group AG plans …
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| Christopher Breen / Macworld: |
A first look at Photos for OS X, Apple's iPhoto replacement, now available as a developer seed — First look: Photos for OS X brings easier navigation and more powerful editing — Last June, Apple announced that it would stop development of its Aperture and iPhoto apps and offer …
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| Julia Angwin / ProPublica: |
Gnu Privacy Guard encryption software used by Snowden is maintained by one man, Werner Koch, in need of donations — The World's Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke — The man who built the free email encryption software used by whistleblower Edward Snowden …
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| Whitney Blair Wyckoff / FedScoop: |
Obama to tap VMware's Tony Scott as federal CIO — President Barack Obama announced plans to appoint VMware's Tony Scott as the federal chief information officer. — If the appointment goes through, Scott would be the third CIO and would take the place of Steven VanRoekel …
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
GrubHub moves into delivery, acquires DiningIn and agrees to buy Restaurants on the Run, for a total of $80M — GrubHub makes major move in restaurant delivery wars — GrubHub GRUB is a $3 billion company known for helping to connect hungry users with restaurants that will deliver them food.
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Mattel and Google send out invites to 'view what's possible' at event on February 13 — Mattel and Google have sent out press invites for an event they're holding together on February 13th in New York City. The invitation, sporting the tagline “view what's possible,” includes what looks …
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Signs of China-Sponsored Hackers Seen in Anthem Attack — (Bloomberg) — Investigators of Anthem Inc.'s data breach are pursuing evidence that points to Chinese state-sponsored hackers who are stealing personal information from health-care companies for purposes other than pure profit, according to three people familiar with the probe.
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter restricts employee access to MAU metrics, making them only available on a need-to-know basis — Twitter Cuts Off Employee Access to Its Metrics — At Twitter, size matters. — There's no metric more important to the social network than the number of people that use the service … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
13M downloads later, FiftyThree bets on stylus sales as its ‘Paper’ drawing app goes completely free — This exclusive gathering brings together the top 180 executives at the scenic Cavallo Point Resort in Sausalito, CA to discuss the latest mobile strategies. See if you qualify here.
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| Christina Farr / Reuters: |
Fourteen of 23 top US hospitals have rolled out a pilot program of Apple's HealthKit service — Exclusive: Apple's health tech takes early lead among top hospitals — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) healthcare technology is spreading quickly among major U.S. hospitals …
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| JeeYeon Park / CNBC: |
Pandora plunges more than 20% after missing estimates with $268M in revenue — Pandora plunges nearly 20% on revenue miss — Pandora plunged sharply after the music streaming company on Thursday reported quarterly revenue that missed Wall Street expectations and weaker-than-expected sales outlook.| Steven Tweedie / Business Insider: |
You can now send ‘screenshot-proof’ documents and photos with Confide, the ‘Snapchat for business’ — Confide wants to be the off-the-record messaging app for the business world. On Wednesday it added two key features to its arsenal: screenshot-proof documents and photos.
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| Sam Altman / Y Combinator Posthaven: |
VC firm Bolt to advise Y Combinator's hardware startups; YC to build small prototyping shop in Mountain View — YC for Hardware — As YC has grown, we've funded more and more hardware companies. Hardware companies have very different needs from pure software companies …
| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
Oracle paid north of $1.2B for Datalogix, says WSJ — Credit: Flickr / Peter Kaminski — Credit: Flickr / Peter Kaminski — Right before Christmas, when Oracle announced plans to buy Datalogix it didn't detail price. Now, TheWall Street Journal, (paywall) is filling in the blanks …
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Madonna premieres first music video from her new album Rebel Heart on Snapchat Discover, the first established artist to do so — Madonna just premiered a new music video on Snapchat — Snapchat's new Discover feature is barely a week old, but it just got the platform's first big exclusive …
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| Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter: |
In wake of hack, Sony Pictures Co-Chairman Amy Pascal to step down — Amy Pascal to Step Down From Top Sony Post — Amid the fallout of the ever-widening Sony hacking crisis, Amy Pascal will step down from her post as co-chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
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See also Mediagazer| Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: |
Yelp Achieves Profitability For First Time, Announces 72 Million Mobile Users — Year-over-year revenue and mobile growth was strong but desktop flat. — Yelp just announced Q4 2014 and full year results. Revenue came in at just under $110 million for the quarter, which represented 56 percent growth over 2013.
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| Mike Murphy / Quartz: |
GoPro gets closer to becoming a media company with its new Roku channel — GoPro continued its march toward its goal of becoming a media company on Feb. 5, with the announcement of its new channel on the streaming media player Roku, which will launch in the spring.Sponsor Posts
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