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January 27, 2016, 3:25 PM
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business:
Profile of Facebook's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and how the social network is building Reactions, rolling out in “next few weeks”, to go beyond the Like  —  Inside Facebook's Decision to Blow Up the Like Button … Photographs by Adam Amengual
Clay Bavor / Official Google Blog:
Google says 5M+ Cardboard viewers have shipped, 25M+ Cardboard apps installed from Play store, and 350K+ hours of YouTube videos watched in VR  —  (Un)folding a virtual journey with Google Cardboard  —  A year and a half ago we introduced Google Cardboard, a simple cardboard viewer …
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
FCC to propose new rules giving cable and satellite customers more choice over set top boxes, 40 telco and media groups are expected to oppose the plan  —  FCC to Propose Overhauling Rules on Set-Top Boxes  —  Measure, aimed at cutting cable bills, likely would let consumers choose among competing devices
Google Research Blog:
Google's AlphaGo program beats Go professional, uses both deep neural networks and tree search algorithms; match against top player scheduled for March in Seoul  —  AlphaGo: Mastering the ancient game of Go with Machine Learning  —  Games are a great testing ground for developing smarter …
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Apple says it's fixed an issue that caused its Safari browser on iOS and Mac OS X to crash when users typed into address bar  —  Apple Says It Has Fixed The Bug That Was Crashing Safari  —  Apple has fixed the bug that caused the Safari browser to crash on iPhones, iPads, and Macs around the world, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Sources: Twitter's former VP of product Kevin Weil joins Instagram as product head  —  Former Twitter Product Head Kevin Weil Is Joining Instagram  —  Kevin Weil, Twitter's former VP of product who was among the group of executives who left the company over the weekend, has a new job: Head of Product at Facebook-owned Instagram.
Kirk Koenigsbauer / Office Blogs:
Microsoft Office Online now allows real-time co-authoring on documents stored on cloud services like Dropbox, Box, and Citrix ShareFile  —  New cloud storage options for Office mobile and Office Online  —  Today's post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team.
Shira Ovide / Bloomberg Business:
Twitter's revenue growth rate better than almost every company that had $2B in sales over the past year  —  Changing the Twitter Conversation  —  Shira Ovide is a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist covering technology.  She previously was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
Starry aims to deliver gigabit wireless internet service using millimeter waves, beta tests this summer around Boston, $350 Wi-Fi router ships in March  —  Aereo dared to take on the broadcast industry by streaming over-the-air TV channels on the internet — that is, until the Supreme Court ruled that its technology was illegal.
Apple:
Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results  —  CUPERTINO, California — January 26, 2016 — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 first quarter ended December 26, 2015.  The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $75.9 billion and record quarterly net income of $18.4 billion, or $3.28 per diluted share.
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple says it now has over 1B active devices worldwide, up 25% year-over-year
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:
Apple says it sold 74.8M iPhones, up less than 1% year-over-year, the slowest growth pace ever
Adam Satariano / Bloomberg Business:
Apple reports quarterly record net income of $18.4B on revenue of $75.9B, forecasts $50B-53B in revenue next quarter, below estimates of $55.5B

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