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February 8, 2013, 10:45 AM

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Omar Shahine / The Windows Blog:

A billion Office documents on SkyDrive, now with easier collaboration … For those of you who have tried the new Office, you'll know we made it easy to quickly save your documents to SkyDrive and get a link to share with others—earlier today we made it even easier for people to share …

More: GigaOM, Engadget, The Verge, VentureBeat, Neowin and Softpedia News. Thanks:@chrisjoneshome

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

As SkyDrive hits 1bn documents, Microsoft now lets you share and edit files in Office Web Apps sans account

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Q4 2012 Beats The Street On Revenues Of $600M, Showing Its First Revenue Growth In 8 Years — AOL (owner of TechCrunch) has just reported earnings for Q4 2012 of $600 million on earnings of 41 cents per share. That matches analysts expectaions on EPS but beats on revenues of $573.1 million.

More: AllThingsD, Marketing Land, Reuters, VentureBeat, CNET, Business Insider, DailyFinance.com, Bloomberg, Mashable! and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @emilysteel. See also Mediagazer

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

AOL's Dial-Up Subscription Business Produces More Than All Of The Company's Profit — AOL just released quasi-profit numbers for each of its divisions for the first time. — As expected, AOL's dial-up subscription business—the business that powered AOL to astounding global success in the 1990s …

More: Forbes

Wall Street Journal:

Apple Cash Pile Sets Off a Battle — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook is facing a new reality: delivering steady results from one of the world's most valuable companies is no longer good enough. — For nearly 18 months, Mr. Cook has kept a stream of new products rolling …

More: Inquirer, SiliconANGLE, The Big Picture, Reuters, Forbes and MarketBeat

Reuters:

How Einhorn turned from Apple advocate to agitator

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Apple:

Statement by Apple — By early last year, Apple's cash balance …

Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:

LinkedIn eyes future as professional publishing hub — The company seems set on making business content, not social networking, the focus of the site. — LinkedIn spent much of 2012 transforming itself into a place where workers could stay and play awhile — a strategy that paid off handsomely.

More: SocialTimes, Beyond Search and VentureBeat. Thanks:@mariosundar. See also Mediagazer

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Shares Soar 19.2% In The Wake Of Impressive Earnings — Right after yesterday's earnings, LinkedIn shares (NYSE:LNKD) have popped 19.16 percent to 147.86. It is clearly linked to the company's earnings. Revenue is up 81 percent to $304 million and net profit is following the same trend.

More: PandoDaily

Paul Burstein / Twitter Blog:

Now showing: Older Tweets in search results — Yesterday, we updated our Android, iOS and mobile web apps to make it easier for you to find relevant content when you're on the go. We also started to roll out an additional update on our mobile apps as well as on twitter.com: you'll now be able to find older Tweets using search.

More: PandoDaily, Inquirer, Mashable!, CNET, SlashGear, memeburn, AllTwitter, digitaltrends.com, VentureBeat, The Next Web, WebProNews, Engadget, Computerworld, nbcnews.com and Business Insider

Tweets: @episod and @marshallk

Eric Savitz / Forbes:

Dell: Report 7.5% Holder Southeastern Finds Bid Too Low — Could the Dell LBO be detailed? — Too early to tell, but this morning brings word that the company's largest outside holder things the pending $13.65 a share leveraged buyout bid undervalues the company.

More: The Register, Reuters, 24/7 Wall St., Tech Trader Daily and Electronista

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Why did Dell force employees to sell shares?

Tweets: @treasuryandrisk and @fortunemagazine

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

In One Fell Swoop, Facebook Glitch Deep-Sixes the Web — Now we may know how powerful Facebook really is. — On Thursday, many major websites were taken down by an error that stemmed from Facebook, as Internet mainstays like MSNBC.com, CNN, Yelp and New York Magazine all sent users to redirect pages almost immediately upon loading.

More: BuzzFeed, ReadWrite, InfoWorld, WebProNews, Quartz, Business Insider, The Next Web, nbcnews.com, TechCrunch, CloudFlare blog, Inside Facebook, GigaOM, The Register, CNET, Wired, Gizmodo, Yahoo! News, Mashable!, The Verge, Gawker and Softpedia News

Tweets: @rembert, @strngwys, @buzzfeedandrew, @davewiner, @atrios, @parislemon, @7im, @lock, @stevekovach and @mikeisaac

Daniel P / PhoneArena:

5.5" LG Optimus G Pro picture and specs sheet are in: Full HD screen, 3140 mAh battery and microSD — While LG's current flagship, the Optimus G, has been selling in the US for a while, and hitting Europe and China, we've been hearing about an upcoming upgrade, the Optimus G Pro, for a while now …

More: Engadget, Mobile Magazine, 9to5Google, Tech Shout!, Pocketnow, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile, Pocket-lint, GSMArena.com, MobileSyrup.com, TechRadar.com, Ubergizmo, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo and SlashGear

Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who's being dishonest with storage space? — Summary: Microsoft has been pummeled by critics this week over supposedly inadequate storage space in its new Surface Pro. But those criticisms are horribly flawed. Big surprise: when you do the disk space math …

More: BGR, The Tech Report, Daring Fireball, PhoneArena, ITProPortal, WinBeta, Neowin, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, The Register, Techie Buzz and PC World. Thanks:@edbott

New York Times:

Hewlett-Packard Joins Push to Limit Use of Student Labor in China — HONG KONG — Hewlett-Packard, one of the world's largest makers of computers and other electronics, is imposing new limits on the employment of students and temporary agency workers at factories across China.

More: AllThingsD, CNET, Engadget, Computerworld, Silicon Valley Watcher, Tech in Asia, The Next Web, The Verge and memeburn

Filipe Alves / Reuters:

Google must extend payments across Europe for use of content — (Reuters) - Google Inc must extend its offer made last week to pay French publishers for use of their content to all media companies across Europe, the head of the European Publishers Council said on Thursday.

More: TechCrunch, bizjournals and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Liam Boogar / Rude Baguette:

Orange & Alcatel Lucent lay down the fastest internet connection (400G/sec) from Paris to Lyon — This past week, a joint effort between French telecom company Orange and Alcatel Lucent has led to the fastest internet connection in the world, a 400 gigabyte/second connection, being set up between Paris and Lyon (450km or 275 miles).

More: GigaOM

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Adobe issues emergency Flash update for attacks on Windows, Mac users — Adobe Systems has released a patch for two Flash player vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited online to surreptitiously install malware, one in attacks that target users of Apple's Macintosh platform.

Canalys Newsroom:

Android powered a third of all mobile phones shipped in Q4 2012 — Shanghai, Palo Alto, Singapore and Reading - Thursday, 7 February 2013 — Canalys has published its final mobile phone shipment estimates across the 50+ countries that it tracks. The total mobile phone market …

More: Inquirer, AppleInsider, App Advice, TechCrunch, Engadget, Tech in Asia, Electronista, WMPoweruser, PhoneArena, BetaNews, Seattle Times, SiliconBeat and BGR

Jamie Rigg / Engadget:

Google to crowdsource Indian mapping data, offers swag to top contributors — What's the best method of finding your way in a foreign land? Just ask the locals, and that's exactly what El Goog is doing in India with its Mapathon 2013 competition. The contest is running …

More: Google India Blog, NDTV Gadgets, Business Line, Firstpost, Times of India, TechTree.com, memeburn, Digit - Tech News, SlashGear, Business Standard and Electronista

Ashby Jones / Wall Street Journal:

Court to Consider When Software Can Be Patented — A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., will hear arguments Friday over a fundamental question that has vexed the technology industry for nearly two decades: When is a piece of software patentable? — The issue has created a curious split in the technology sector.

More: TechCrunch

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