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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Posts $492M Q4 2012 Loss Because Of $6.19B aQuantive Writedown, $18.06B Revenue  —  Microsoft just released its Q4 2012 earnings report, posting just $192M in operating income before taxes and its first ever loss ($492M) due to the writedown the company took because of its failed aQuantive acquisition.
Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo:
Microsoft Just Lost Money For the First Time Ever  —  Microsoft just posted its fourth quarter results, and for the first time since the tech giant was founded, it lost money.  But this isn't necessarly all doom and gloom the beginning of the end—not yet anyway.
More: GigaOM and GeekWire.  Tweets: @davidgoldmancnn
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Nokia's Bad News Not Completely Horrible — Shares Soar  —  Posting second-quarter earnings this morning, Nokia reported a loss of $1.74 billion and smartphone sales that fell 39 percent to 10.2 million.  Gruesome financials, to be sure.  But, remarkably, Nokia's stock has rallied on them.
Wall Street Journal:
Nokia's Bad Call on Smartphones  —  Frank Nuovo, the former chief designer at Nokia Corp., gave presentations more than a decade ago to wireless carriers and investors that divined the future of the mobile Internet.  —  More than seven years before Apple Inc. rolled out the iPhone …
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
Nokia's Q2 2012: $1 billion operating loss, $9.21 billion in net sales, 4 million Lumia phones sold
Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
Google nabs $12B for Q2, including a tidy billion from new subsidiary Motorola  —  Google has just released the details of its second-quarter earnings: $12.21 billion in total consolidated revenue, around $1.25 billion of which came from Motorola Mobility, now officially owned by Google.
Kevin Weil / Twitter Advertising:
New targeting adds greater relevance to your Promoted Tweets  —  It's a fact — brands have been on Twitter since our earliest days.  They use the platform to connect with consumers in meaningful ways, offering everything from special discounts and exclusive content to new product information.
Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:
Facebook testing new Pinterest-inspired design for app stories in News Feed  —  Facebook appears to be testing a layout for Open Graph app stories that is similar in design to Pinterest, with boxes for individual items that allow Likes, comments and other app-specific actions.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Expands iTunes Movies in the Cloud to Over 35 New Countries [Updated]  —  In addition to today's iTunes Match expansion to Hungary and Poland, Apple has also undertaken a significant expansion of its iTunes in the Cloud feature, adding movies to the list of eligible items in the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Reuters:
Facebook, Wal-Mart chiefs meet to “deepen” relationship  —  (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is about to add the biggest retail players to his list of friends.  —  Zuckerberg and his senior management team will spend two days at Wal-Mart Stores Inc's Bentonville …
More: Engadget
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
AMD reports weak second quarter earnings on PC market softness  —  Advanced Micro Devices reported relatively weak second-quarter earnings as it suffered more than its share of headaches from a softening personal computer market.  —  The chip maker, which is a perennial No. 2 to Intel …
Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Verizon Q2 2012 financial results: 888K new wireless subscribers, half of customers using smartphones
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Made in America: Apple's supply chain increasing US production  —  Over the last year, some of Apple's key component suppliers have begun increasing their U.S.-based production, which could be a sign that more of the iPhone is already made in America than one might think.
More: App Advice, Macgasm and PadGadget.  Tweets: @ldignan
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:
Ubuntu adds WebApps to its Linux desktop  —  Summary: After adding its own cloud service to its Linux desktop, Ubuntu is now integrating Web applications into its currently shipping desktop Linux.  —  Follow @sjvn  —  Portland, OR: At OSCon, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical …
Greg Finn / Search Engine Land:
Official: Google “Share” Experiment Sends Pages From Search To Google+  —  A Tweet this morning from @BerianReed, head of search marketing of AutoTrader UK, uncovered some potentially deeper integration between Google Search and Google+.  Reed spotted a new option in the results that showed up next to the URL, a “Share” link.
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Twitter Continues Legal Fight in Occupy Wall Street Protester Trial  —  Twitter announced on Thursday that it will appeal a recent ruling in an ongoing legal battle between the state of New York and a Twitter user, in which a judge ordered Twitter to hand over information on one of its users.
Ben Jones / TorrentFreak:
Bat-Signal Heralds Launch of Internet Defense League  —  The Internet Defense League (IDL) launches today, looking to formalise the action that made such a statement 6 months ago.  Until recently, protests tended to be single-site activities, but opposition to SOPA and PIPA was so widespread …
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Oracle's Fifth Deal of 2012 Is for Skire  —  Enterprise software giant Oracle made its fifth acquisition of the year.  It announced that it will acquire the assets of Skire, a maker of cloud-based software used to manage capital projects, facilities and real estate.
BuzzFeed:
The Original iPad Was Gigantic  —  Revealed in court filings (which were first noticed by NetworkWorld) is a prototype/mock up ("035") for an Apple tablet created between 2002 and 2004 — years before the iPad came out.  It still looks like an iPad, but crossed with an old iBook.  And man oh man it is FAT.

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