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Twitter Will Now Put Recommended (Not Newest) Tweets At the Top Of Your Timeline — If Twitter is going to fix its growth problem, it's going to have to make some drastic moves — and, with an update today, that means even changing the timeline. — Twitter today is unveiling a new Twitter timeline …
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See also Mediagazer| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Marc Andreessen assails “anti-colonialism” in tweet defending Facebook's Free Basics, roiling Indian tech world, and later apologizes — Marc Andreessen Offends India Defending Facebook's Free Basics. (Yes, the Country.) — Venture capitalist and well-known Twitter philosopher …
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Marc Andreessen's comments are “deeply upsetting” and do not represent thinking of Facebook or himself — I want to respond to Marc Andreessen's comments about India yesterday. I found the comments deeply upsetting, and they do not represent the way Facebook or I think at all.
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Sources: Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund sold $148M in Lyft shares to Saudi Arabia's Prince al-Waleed bin Talal and his Kingdom Holding Co. last December — Andreessen Horowitz Sells Some Lyft Shares to Prince Al-Waleed — Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund sold $148 million … | Twitter: |
Twitter Q4 revenue up 48% YoY to $710M, company lowers revenue guidance for Q1 to somewhere between $595M and $610M — Twitter Q4 and Fiscal Year 2015 Shareholder Letter — SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA February 10, 2016 Dear Shareholders, As we announced last week, we're taking a new approach to our earnings announcements.
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Twitter reports 320M total MAUs, no change from previous quarter, but MAUs excluding SMS fast followers declined to 305M in Q4 from 307M in Q3 — Twitter's User Growth Goes Nowhere As It Meets Revenue Expectations Of $710M — Twitter today reported its fourth-quarter earnings …
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See also Mediagazer| Wayne Cunningham / CNET News: |
US government agency will consider Google's autonomous car system as the driver of the car for the purposes of federal safety standards — Feds declare that Google's self-driving car is its own driver — In a letter to Google, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration determined …
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| Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Identity thieves obtain 100,000 electronic filing PINs from IRS system — The automated attack attempted to obtain E-file PINS for over 460,000 people using previously stolen personal data — The Internal Revenue Service was the target of an attack that used stolen social security numbers … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
HBO Now has 800K paying subscribers 10 months after launch, short of predicted 1-2M subs — HBO NOW, The Network's Streaming Service For Cord Cutters, Has Just 800,000 Subscribers — HBO NOW may have scored as one of last year's top streaming apps in terms of revenue … | Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Facebook debuts auto-captioning for video ads, says having captions can increase video view time by 12% — Facebook wants advertisers to get a lot better at silent video — People are now watching 100 million hours of video on Facebook every day — but many of those users … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
SEC filing shows Amazon board approves new $5B stock buyback program — Amazon board approves $5 billion stock buyback program … Amazon today announced that it plans to repurchase up to $5 billion in common stock. — The authorization on Wednesday replaces a $2 billion buyback program that Amazon's board approved in 2010.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Cisco beats Q2 estimates with $11.8B in quarterly revenue, up 2% YoY, announces $15B share buyback plan, stock up over 6% after hours — Cisco tops Q2 targets with $11.8 billion in revenue — The networking giant managed to beat analyst estimates after offering a mild outlook last quarter.
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Google Forms gets templates, support for Google's Apps Scripts and add-ons like in Docs, Sheets — Google Forms Gets Templates, Add-On Support And More — Google Forms, the company's tool for creating and analyzing surveys, is getting a major update today.
| Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
Opera gets $1.2B buyout offer from Chinese consortium, a 53% premium on prior stock close; Opera's board unanimously recommends deal — Opera gets $1.2 billion buyout offer from mix of Chinese firms, board recommends deal — There is “strong strategic and industrial logic to the acquisition,” according to the software maker's CEO.
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