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Twitter Q4 revenue up 48% YoY to $710M, company lowers revenue guidance for Q1 to 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's problem isn't that it stopped growing; it's that people expect it to keep growing — Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions — Twitter is the world's most important social network. — That might sound like the ravings of an addict …
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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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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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Alcatel OneTouch Idol 4S packaging will double as VR goggles — EXCLUSIVE: — For the fifth largest cellphone brand in North America — up from 13th as recently as 2014 — Alcatel OneTouch isn't nearly the household name that competitors Huawei and ZTE have become.| 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 … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Chrome 49 for Android will notify users of nearby smart beacons, Google announces IoT research pilot — A part of Google's Internet of Things approach involves placing low-energy Bluetooth beacons in the world that can communicate with smartphones. Starting with version 49, currently in beta … | Eric Zeman / ProgrammableWeb: |
Google announces People API to streamline how apps gather contact data, will eventually replace existing Google+ API and Google Contacts API — Google People API Lets Devs Poke Through Users' Contacts — Google today announced the People API, a single API it hopes will eventually be able …
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ViaSat announces Boeing partnership and ViaSat-3 satellites, capable of 1 Tbps, equal to the combined network capacity of all existing commercial satellites — New 1-Terabit internet satellites will deliver high-speed internet to remote areas — US-based satellite company ViaSat is teaming …
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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 …
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App Annie report: cheap smartphones to propel app spending to $101B in 5 years, as userbase of smartphones and tablets slated to hit 6.2B by 2020, up from 2.6B — Cheap Smartphones to Propel App Spending Past $100 Billion — Mobile app store spending set to more than double by 2020
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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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