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Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales up 20% to $23.18 Billion — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2015. — Operating cash flow increased 69% to $8.98 billion for the trailing twelve months …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg Business: |
Amazon beats estimates with Q2 revenue of $23.2B, up 20% YoY, and net income of $92M; shares surge as much as 16% after hours — Amazon Posts Surprise Profit; Shares Soar … Amazon.com Inc. reported a surprise second-quarter profit on top of sales that beat analysts' estimates …
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| Jim Dalrymple / The Loop: |
Apple Music nightmare: adding music doesn't work as expected, lost access to 4,700 songs after turning off the service — Apple Music is a nightmare and I'm done with it — I love Apple. I love them because they take difficult problems and come up with innovative, simple solutions.
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Business Insider, SiliconBeat, Mashable, Patently Apple, Newsome.Org, MacNN, Washington Post, DISPLAYBLOG, iMore, The Blerg, MacDailyNews, Sanspoint, Fortune, Six Colors, App Advice, BGR, Trust Me, I'm Faith, Daring Fireball and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @lexnfx, @johnpaczkowski, @dangillmor, @cap, @jcenters, @toddmundt, @peterwells, @romaindillet, @laurengoode, @caseynewton and @anildash
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Apple yanks Google's Nest smart thermostat from website and retail stores — You can no longer purchase Google's popular smart thermostat on Apple's online store or at its retail locations. — Apple confirmed to Mashable it has pulled the web-connected product — considered …
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| Julia Boorstin / CNBC: |
Meerkat to launch feature on iOS that lets GoPro3 and, soon, GoPro4 owners stream from camera — Meerkat launches GoPro integration — Streaming video app Meerkat will now allow some GoPro owners to stream directly from their cameras—the first time Meerkat has extended the ability to broadcast beyond a mobile device.
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The Next Web, Variety, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, App Advice, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileSyrup.com, InvestorPlace, iPhone in Canada Blog, TIME and Mashable
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Offers To Give Away Patents To Startups In Its Push Against Patent Trolls — Back in April, Google launched a pop-up, temporary marketplace for companies to sell patents, with Google being the sole buyer. Today, the search and mobile giant is expanding that marketplace in the other direction … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Brings Its 360-Degree Movies App, Spotlight Stories, To iOS — Google Spotlight Stories, a mobile app featuring immersive, 360 degree animated films originally developed by Motorola ahead of its 2011 Google acquisition, has now made its way to iOS devices.
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TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, Redmond Pie, The Next Web and iMore
| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Palantir's SEC filing confirms it has issued $500M worth of stock, raised $450M so far in the latest financing round — Confirmed: Palantir raised a huge $450 million investment — Palantir just disclosed in an SEC form that it has raised a huge round of investment.
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| KPMG and CB Insights: |
Global VC report says mega-rounds of $100M+ are on the rise with 61 in Q2 2015 raising $16B — Venture Pulse Q2'15 Global Analysis of Venture Funding — KPMG and CB Insights: VC-backed Companies Haul in US$32 Billion Globally in Q2 2015 Due to Mega Financing and Rise of Non-Traditional Investors.
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Re/code, Fortune, GeekWire, Business Insider, Xconomy and The Next Web
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple launches 2015 back-to-school promotion, offers free Beats Solo2 headphones with purchase of an eligible Mac — Apple Launches 2015 Back to School Promotion, Offers Free Beats Solo2 Headphones With Mac Purchase — Apple today launched its annual Back to School promotion …
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9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Mashable, AppleInsider, InvestorPlace, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, Network World, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow and BGR. Thanks:@rsgnl
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM Acquires Database-As-A-Service Startup Compose — IBM today announced that it has acquired Compose, the Y Combinator-backed database-as-a-service startup originally known as MongoHQ. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. — Compose had raised $6.4 million since …
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