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Sources: Comcast to drop proposed Time Warner Cable takeover deal after FCC staff recommends hearing; announcement as soon as Friday — Comcast Plans to Drop Time Warner Cable Deal — Comcast Corp. is planning to walk away from its proposed $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc. …
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Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Sales up 15% to $22.72 Billion — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2015. — Operating cash flow increased 47% to $7.84 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $5.35 billion …
| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Amazon Web Services generated $5.16B in revenue last year, $1.57B in revenue last quarter, up from $1.1B in the same quarter last year — Amazon breaks out cloud results for first time on Q1 earnings report — Summary:Analysts and shareholders have been waiting many moons for Amazon … | Microsoft: |
Microsoft FY15 Q3: Increasing usage of Azure, Office 365, Bing, and Xbox Live contributes to growth — Earnings Release FY15 Q3 — Strength in Microsoft Cloud Highlights Q3 Results Increasing usage of Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Bing and Xbox Live contributes to Q3 growth REDMOND …
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| Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed: |
Apple shares list of must-have apps for Watch, including Twitter, Instagram, New York Times, Mint, Citymapper, Strava, and more, as Watch App Store goes live — Apple Thinks You Should Use These Apps On The Apple Watch — As the App Store for the Apple Watch goes live today, Apple reveals which apps it thinks are must-haves.
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Thanks:@stephaniemlee| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple opens up the Apple Watch App Store with “more than 3,000 apps” — Day one developer support is an encouraging sign for early adopters. — The App Store tab in the Apple Watch app offers a list of prominent apps but no other sorting or search options.| Google: |
Google Inc. Announces First Quarter 2015 Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2015. — “Google's first quarter revenue was $17.3 billion, up 12% year on year. Excluding the net impact of foreign currency headwinds …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox's Collaborative Note-Taking Service, Dropbox Notes, Heads Into Beta Testing — Earlier this month, Dropbox was spotted testing an early version of an online note-taking service dubbed “Project Composer,” which appeared to have roots in the company's 2014 acquisition of collaborative docs startup HackPad.
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| Tom Fairless / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal policy document reveals EU is considering creating a powerful new regulator to oversee Internet platforms, many of which are US-based — EU Considers Creating Powerful Regulator to Oversee Web Platforms — New body would oversee a swath of mainly U.S.-based Internet companies
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Instacart Finally Tells You When It's Charging You More Than Stores — As Instacart, the grocery delivery service, has grown in popularity, one unanswered question has followed: Am I paying more on Instacart than I would if I bought the same food in a store? — Now Instacart says it's ready to be transparent about that answer.
Tweets: @delrey, @delrey, @mikeisaac and @caseynewton
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi unveils Mi 4i for around $205 in India, with 5-inch Full HD display, 13MP camera, Snapdragon 615, and LTE — Xiaomi's New Mi4i Packs A Gamut Of High-End Features Into A $200 Smartphone — Xiaomi today took the wraps of off its newest smartphone, the Mi4i, at an event in New Delhi, India.| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
Google launches free tool to help AdSense publishers recommend more articles to their readers — Google Edges Further Into Hot Content Recommendation Sector — Google has rolled out a new free product designed to make it easier for Web publishers to get people to stick around on their sites longer.
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Previously Bootstrapped, GoFundMe Is Raising At A Valuation Of Around $500M — TechCrunch is hearing from a few sources that GoFundMe, a crowdfunding and fundraising startup, is seeking venture financing after bootstrapping the company since 2008. — According to those sources … Thanks:@mattlynley
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