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Google Inc. Announces First Quarter 2013 Results — Google Inc. today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. “We had a very strong start to 2013, with $14.0 billion in revenue, up 31% year-on-year,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google.
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Microsoft profits increase to over $6 billion in Q3 2013 despite flat Windows revenue — Microsoft just released its fiscal Q3 2013 statement, with overall revenue of $20.49 billion up 18 percent year-over-year. However, when you take into account recognition of revenue related …
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The Microsoft number we all want to know: Windows 8 sales to date — Summary: Microsoft didn't release an updated count of Windows 8 licenses sold as part of its third quarter earnings. But here's what the company did say about Windows. — On April 18, Microsoft didn't share the one number …
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| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Here are Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Peter Klein's internal memos regarding the CFO's exit — TNW has obtained copies of the internal memos sent by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and departing CFO Peter Klein concerning the latter's departure. That exit was announced as part of Microsoft's quarterly earnings.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Now playing: Twitter #music — Today, we're releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter. It uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists.
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| Jessica E. Lessin / Digits: |
Amazon's Goodreads Purchase Scuttled Apple Partnership — Amazon.com's announcement last month that it was purchasing book-recommendation site Goodreads did more than land the e-commerce giant a social-networking service. It also thwarted a possible partnership between the reading social network and Apple.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Lower-Cost iPhone's Plastic Rear Shell Reportedly Surfaces — Earlier this week, case manufacturer Tactus was one of several sources to share photos of cases reportedly designed for the fifth-generation iPad, once again showing that the device is expected to be smaller than the existing iPad and take design cues from the iPad mini.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
iPad 5 Estimated to Be 15% Thinner, 25% Lighter Than Current iPad — KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has on a number of occasions offered accurate information on Apple's product plans, recently published a new research note outlining his expectations for Apple's fifth-generation iPad.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
House passes revamped CISPA cybersecurity bill amidst warnings of ‘digital bombs’ — Fear of cyber attacks trumps privacy concerns — The US House of Representatives has once again passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which died in the Senate last year, by a margin of 288 to 127 after two days of debate.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google leak hints at an Android game center with multiplayer, chat, lobbies, leaderboards, and achievements — Google appears to be preparing the launch of a game center for Android with an unknown name. It looks like the new hub will sport a slew of features, including multiplayer support …
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First images of Nokia's aluminum Lumia, codenamed ‘Catwalk’, have surfaced [Updated] — We have no way of verifying the authenticity of these two images, but it appears to be of the upcoming Nokia Lumia ‘Catwalk’, a follow up to the Lumia 920 that reportedly sports a new aluminum chassis to help reduce the size and weight.
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Google Buying $39M Fiber Service In Utah For $1 — SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Google Inc. will pay $1 for a municipal fiber-optic system that cost $39 million to build, according to terms of the Internet company's agreement with Provo. — The deal is widely expected to be approved Tuesday by the City Council …
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Chat Heads, set free: jailbreak tweak puts Facebook Messenger all over your iPhone — A 21-year-old hacker brings one of Android's finer features to iOS — When Facebook launched Chat Heads for iOS yesterday, the feature's functionality was limited. On Android, Chat Heads cling to the side … | Alex Howard / Strata: |
Finding and telling data-driven stories in billions of tweets — Twitter has hired its first data editor. Simon Rogers, one of the leading practitioners of data journalism in the world, will join Twitter in May. He will be moving his family from London to San Francisco and applying …
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Blackstone Ends Pursuit of Dell — Blackstone Group LP has ended its pursuit of Dell Inc., less than a month after the private-equity firm said it would try to top a leveraged buyout by the computer maker's founder and a rival private-equity firm. — Blackstone had been putting together …
| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
YouTube Again Beats Viacom's Massive Copyright Infringement Lawsuit — After an appellate court revived Viacom's claims that YouTube hosted copyright infringing work, U.S. District judge Louis Stanton has again given the defendant a victory. — Viacom has been hit with a devastating legal loss.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Yahoo releases new weather and mail apps in second phase of rebuilding effort — A foot in the door or too little too late? — Rebuilding Yahoo will require “a series of sprints,” CEO Marissa Mayer told investors this week during an earnings call. The first sprint “was all about getting people to believe in Yahoo,” she said.
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