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October 24, 2013, 7:35 PM

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Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire:

Amazon reports quarterly net loss of $41M, sales above $17B, exceeding expectations — Amazon just posted another unprofitable quarter. But the company did manage to beat Wall Street's expectations. — The company reported a quarterly net loss of $41 million, or 9 cents per share.

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, BGR, The Register, Gigaom, ZDNet, AllThingsD, WebProNews, internetretailer.com, Electronista, Ubergizmo, PE Hub Blog, CNET and AndroidGuys. See also Mediagazer

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Same Old Amazon: All Sales, No Profit

More: VentureBeat and New York Times

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Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Sales up 24% to $17.09 Billion

More: Gigaom, Quartz, ZDNet, GeekWire and Tech Trader Daily

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Amazon hits 109,800 employees, passing Microsoft's headcount for the first time

Tweets: @zseward

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Crushes FQ1 Expectations With Revenue of $18.5B, EPS Of $0.62, $400M In Surface Top Line — Microsoft reported its fiscal first quarter results today, with revenue of $18.53 billion and earnings per share of $0.62. Analysts had expected the first quarter of Microsoft's fiscal 2014 …

More: Marketing Land, Forbes, Ars Technica, ReadWrite, The Verge, GeekWire, ZDNet, BGR, Business Insider, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, TechnoBuffalo and WebProNews. Tweets: @carnage4life. Thanks:@pickavet

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Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 billion

More: Electronista. Tweets: @anxboxdude

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft erects a giant Surface tablet in the center of London

More: The Next Web, eWeek, Tech Trader Daily, PC World, Digital Trends, PhoneArena, The Escapist, TechHive and Gotta Be Mobile

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Office 365 Home Premium subscribers double to two million in less than six months

More: ZDNet

Jeffrey Grubb / VentureBeat:

Microsoft sells another 1.2M Xbox 360s in Q1; console approaching 80M in lifetime sales

Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch:

Twitter To Offer 70M Shares Priced At $17-$20 Per Share To Raise Up To $1.4B In IPO — Twitter will offer 70 million shares in its initial public offering, and will price them at $17-$20 per share, according to an amended S-1 filing. Twitter's IPO pricing range was rumored to drop today …

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Prices Its IPO at a Conservative $11 Billion

Tweets: @joshconstine

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Twitter said to price IPO on November 6

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James Ball / Guardian:

NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders — • Agency given more than 200 numbers by government official — • NSA encourages departments to share their ‘Rolodexes’ — • Surveillance produced ‘little intelligence’, memo acknowledges — The National Security Agency monitored …

More: Examiner, Techdirt, ZDNet, Ars Technica and CNET

Tweets: @tconnellyrte, @jamesrbuk, @jamesrbuk and @jamesrbuk

Min-Jeong Lee / Digits:

Patent Filing Shows Samsung Preps Electronic Eyewear — Samsung Electronics Co. appears to be creating a Google Glass of its own. — A design patent registered with Korean authorities in October shows an electronic device in the form of spectacles. It has been categorized as a type of “sports glasses.”

More: Ars Technica, Engadget, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, Geeky Gadgets, TechnoBuffalo, BGR, PC Magazine, I4U News, Phandroid, ValueWalk, SlashGear, 9to5Google, IntoMobile, AndroidGuys, The Next Web and Gigaom

Chitika Online Advertising Network:

OS X Mavericks Adoption Reaches 5.5% 24 Hours Following Public Release — As part of its event on October 22, 2013, Apple announced the public release of OS X Mavericks - the latest edition of Apple's desktop operating system. While this announcement was largely expected by the tech press at large …

More: TechCrunch, AppleInsider, TUAW, Macworld, MacNN, CNET, ScreenwerkScreenwerk, TechnoBuffalo, ValueWalk, Cult of Mac, SlashGear and The Next Web

Marco Arment / Marco.org:

No surprises, unnatural presentations and dated product messaging made Apple's event feel off — Off — Something felt a bit off about this week's Apple event. — Part of it was the lack of surprises, which isn't Apple's fault. All of the product upgrades, while nice, were incremental and predictable.

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

Presentation suggests Apple lacks vision for the iPad sans Jobs, Forstall

More: Benedict Evans, the rajam report, Gotta Be Mobile and Guardian

Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:

MacBook Pro 15" Retina: blazing performance (benchmarks), long battery life, fan can get noisy — Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch Retina (2013) Review — $2,599.00 — REVIEW — SPECIFICATIONS — With its crazy-sharp 2880 x 1800-pixel resolution, the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display set …

More: AppleInsider

Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:

New banner ads push actual Google results to bottom 12% of the screen — Actual search results are in the un-grayed area. — Google has started adding banner ads to its search result pages, SearchEngineLand reported Wednesday. And they're not just skinny banner ads abutting the top edge of a page …

More: ScreenwerkScreenwerk, Network World, Computerworld, TorrentFreak, The Register, the Econsultancy blog and Search Engine Land

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Mac App Store bug allows iWork trial users to update the entire suite for free (Update: Aperture, too) — Users who have previously downloaded the free 30-day iWork trial and kept it on their systems found themselves able to update to the latest version of Apple's productivity suite …

More: MacTrast, The Verge, iMore, MacRumors, TUAW, iPhone Hacks, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, Geek.com and Gizmodo UK

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Samsung fined $340,000 for faking online comments — After being caught paying for false praise and negative comments about competitors, Samsung has been fined just over $340,000. The issue first arose internationally in April, when Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) announced it was opening an investigation into the allegations.

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Cover Is An Android-Only Lockscreen That Shows Apps When You Need Them — You have more apps than you know what to do with, but Cover could fix that. It's an Android lockscreen replacement launching (invite-only) today that adapts to show your top productivity apps at work …

More: Cover, The Verge, Examiner, Yahoo! News, BGR, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Droid Life, CNET, AllThingsD and Gizmodo. Thanks:@anthonyha

Nick Statt / CNET:

Zynga beats Wall Street estimates, hires Clive Downie as COO, user base continues to crumble — Zynga beats Wall Street estimates, but user base continues to crumble — The Farmville creator's rough ride isn't over. — Social gaming company Zynga just released third quarter earnings …

More: Business Insider, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Inside Mobile Apps, VatorNews, AllThingsD and Bloomberg

Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:

Blackberry's Android BBM app drawing lots of suspicious 5-star ratings — Blackberry's standalone BBM messaging app debuted on Android yesterday, and it has already received more than 150,000 reviews on the Google Play Store. However, as first pointed out on Twitter by Matt Baxter-Reynolds …

More: Terence Eden's Blog, CITEworld, The Verge, Examiner, ValueWalk, Gizmodo UK, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo and Electronista. Tweets: @mbrit

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Instagram previews how ads will look in its apps, will push a one-time sample ad to US users in the next week — Instagram today revealed how ads will look like on the social network when they finally come to the photo-sharing app. The Facebook-owned company is treading carefully …

More: TechCrunch, Wired, ABC News, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook, Gigaom, Business Insider, Betabeat, CNET, VentureBeat, The Verge, WebProNews and TechHive. Tweets: @nytimesbits. See also Mediagazer

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

iPhone 5s & 5c begin rolling out in 25 additional countries, Apple Online stores go down — Apple previously announced that its second wave of iPhone 5s and 5c launch countries would include more than 25 locations on Friday, October 25. For South Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand …

More: AppleInsider and MacRumors. Thanks:@justinkahnmusic

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Tweetbot 3 for iPhone arrives as $2.99 paid upgrade with complete redesign for iOS 7 — Tapbots has released version 3 of its Tweetbot for iPhone Twitter client with a complete overhaul of the app for iOS. Upgrading to the new app costs $2.99 for a limited time, but it will eventually jump up to $4.99.

More: TechCrunch, The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, iPhone Hacks and Cult of Mac

Tweets: @marcoarment, @markgurman, @reneritchie and @reneritchie

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