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Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2015 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2015. — “This was another strong quarter for our community,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “Engagement across our family …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Beats In Q2 With $4.04B Revenue, User Growth Slows To 3.47% QOQ To Hit 1.49B — People aren't using Facebook less, according to its new earnings report. Facebook recovered from last quarter's miss, beating the street's estimates in Q2 2015 with $4.04 billion in revenue and $0.50 earnings per share.
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Microsoft is working on streaming PC games to Xbox One — Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system debuts today, enabling Xbox One game streaming to PCs. While that's a neat feature for Xbox One owners, Microsoft is working on streaming PC games to Xbox One consoles too.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft execs speak about how they dealt with feedback for Windows 10, unifying platforms — The story of Windows 10 from inside Microsoft — Windows 10 has a lot to live up to. Microsoft has made a lot of promises about it. And oddly enough, we've heard most of them before, with Windows 8.
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| Terry Myerson / Windows Blog: |
Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today — When we first unveiled Windows 10 in September, we outlined our plans for a new era of Windows. We wanted to create a Windows that empowered people and organizations to do great things. Our vision was one platform, one store …
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Yahoo unveils an audioless video messaging app called Livetext, launching in US, UK, Canada, Germany, and France tomorrow — Yahoo Livetext - A New Way to Connect — We're all walking around with a device in our pockets, primarily to communicate with others.
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| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
GitHub raises $250M Series B at a $2B valuation, led by Sequoia Capital — GitHub Raises $250 Million at $2 Billion Valuation — Capital raise puts company's total funding at $350 million — Software is transforming industries from agriculture to automobiles.
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Translate's App Now Instantly Translates Printed Text In 27 Languages — One of the most intense experiences you'll ever have is visiting a country that speaks a language different than yours. There's a host of tools you can use, but Google's Translate product has leapfrogged just about everything out there over the years.
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| Ariha Setalvad / The Verge: |
Facebook is testing out LinkedIn-style profile tags — Facebook seems to be taking a cue from LinkedIn and is early in the process of testing a new feature — profile tags. — Verge reader Luke M. alerted us to Facebook's new profile tags feature, and the company confirmed it was testing …
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| Wish Wu / TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog: |
Android vulnerability silences phone and kills screen, affects Android 4.3 and above, and can be exploited by a malicious website or app — Trend Micro Discovers Vulnerability That Renders Android Devices Silent — We have discovered a vulnerability in Android that can render a phone apparently dead …
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| Jared Newman / TechHive: |
Amazon starts selling its Dash Buttons to all Prime members for $4.99 each — Amazon's crazy Dash Buttons on sale for all Prime members — Now, Prime members can press a physical button to get diapers, razor blades, and bottled water on demand. — Amazon is opening up Dash Button sales …
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| Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Twilio raises $130M Series E led by Fidelity and T. Rowe Price, valuing it at over $1B — Twilio lands $130 million to make it easier to communicate via software — There's money to be had in the online communications marketplace. — San Francisco-based Twilio, a cloud-based communication …
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| Katrina Brooker / Bloomberg Business: |
How Goldman Sachs Became a Tech-Investing Powerhouse — “They weren't coming just to get wasted,” says Mel Cavaricci—aka DJ Mel—recalling the crowd milling in front of his sound table at a party in March. It was at the height of the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) conference, held in Austin, Texas.
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| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
CBS Will Live-Stream Super Bowl Ads In Big Move For Media Industry — TV's most memorable and most-watched commercials will no longer be relegated to the TV set. — For nearly half a century, the only way for the average consumer to see all the glitzy commercials that accompanied … | David Gasca / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter launches native Windows 10 app that showcases tweets in live tiles from the Start menu — A whole new Twitter for Windows — Starting today, Windows users will have a new Twitter experience optimized especially for Windows 10. Announced last night, this Twitter app …
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Sources: Chinese hackers behind OPM and Anthem breaches have also hacked United Airlines, stole flight manifest data — China-Tied Hackers That Hit U.S. Said to Breach United Airlines … The hackers who stole data on tens of millions of U.S. insurance holders and government employees …
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Google signs deal with Sri Lanka to bring internet to the entire country via Project Loon — Sri Lanka ties with Google for Internet beamed from balloons — Sri Lanka teamed up on Tuesday with Google to bring high-speed Internet access to the island using balloons, aiming to become …
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