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Facebook Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. — “In 2012, we connected over a billion people and became a mobile company,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.
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| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
Facebook's $1.6 billion quarter in charts: how and where it makes money — Facebook made $64 million (corrected; an earlier version of this story cited the operating profit, $523 million) on $1.585 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2012, a result investors found somewhat disappointing.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Q4 Revenue Rises 40% To $1.59B, Shares Down Slightly In After-Hours — Facebook said its fourth quarter revenue rose 40 percent year-over-year to $1.59 billion. Mobile revenues grew to make up 23 percent of the company's total and mobile monthly active users rose to 680 million, or up 57 percent year-over-year.| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 Months — SAN FRANCISCO — For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees.
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| Joshua Topolsky / The Verge: |
BlackBerry Z10 review: a new life, or life support? — A new flagship phone and a new OS, but is it too little, too late? — Research In Motion is about to enter the battle of its life, and as you'll see in my review of its new flagship, the BlackBerry Z10, it's using everything in its arsenal to win.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
BlackBerry 10 against the competition: how the Z10 fares against iPhone, Samsung, and others — The BlackBerry Z10 isn't just “a new BlackBerry,” It's quite possibly the most important device the company has ever released, representing BlackBerry's comeback effort in a crowded smartphone market now dominated by Apple and Samsung.
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| Lauren Goode / AllThingsD: |
BlackBerry 10 Boasts Some Key Apps, but Many Big Names Missing — The big day for BlackBerry has finally arrived. The world now knows what the company's newest entrant in the smartphone race looks like. — But what about apps? — For starters, a few key apps were already known, like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Foursquare.
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| David Chen / Twitter Blog: |
Updates for viewing photos and videos — Today, we're rolling out several enhancements that make it easier to view photos and videos on Twitter — in particular, on profiles and in search results. — Large photos, right on the page. Click a photo from a profile page or in search results …
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
After nearly 3 billion check-ins, Foursquare reveals its top places across the US for 2012 — Location-based social network Foursquare has launched a new part of its website, called ‘The Best of Foursquare 2012’, which ranks places and businesses across the US based on the billions of check-ins and review data uploaded by its users.
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| Griffin McElroy / Polygon: |
Gabe Newell: Steam Box's biggest threat isn't consoles, it's Apple — The biggest danger facing the success of Steam Box or any other PC ecosystem hoping to find space in the living room is Apple, according to a lecture given by Valve co-founder Gabe Newell to a class at the University of Texas' LBJ School of Public Affairs.
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| Om Malik / GigaOM: |
Max Levchin talks about data, sensors and the plan for his new startup(s) — After selling his second company, Slide, to Google for hundreds of millions of dollars, Max Levchin slipped into a state of blissful anonymity, focusing his energies on his kids and cycling.
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| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
iPhone Users Rack Up the Highest Carrier Bills — The iPhone may command a higher carrier subsidy than its typical Android rival. It may eat into operators' profit margins when sales volumes spike after the debut of a new model. But it also generates more in carrier fees than any other smartphone.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Dropbox unveils social photo sharing, easier photo management, and document quick-preview — Dropbox has today unveiled two new products that work with the cloud storage service. The first relates to working with documents. Instead of simply being able to download files, it's offering a quick preview function on the webiste.
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Ticketmaster dumps ‘hated’ Captcha verification system — Users have been frustrated by having to figure out barely decipherable words — The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.
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IBM gives small university a Watson all its own — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a private research university located in Troy, N.Y., now has a Watson system all its own thanks to a grant from IBM. Watson, if you'll recall, is the system that defeated two Jeopardy! champions (and our own Stacey Higginbotham) in 2011.
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