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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.| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
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| 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 …
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Marketing Land, Forbes, Ars Technica, InfoWorld, The Verge, ReadWrite, GeekWire, ZDNet, AllThingsD, BGR, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Tim Anderson's ITWriting and WebProNews. Tweets: @carnage4life. Thanks:@pickavet
| 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 …
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See also Mediagazer| 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 …
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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 …
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| 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.”| 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.
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| 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.
| 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 … | 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 — With its crazy-sharp 2880 x 1800-pixel resolution, the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display set a new standard for laptop screens when it debuted last year.
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| 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 …
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Cover, The Verge, Examiner, PhoneArena, Yahoo! News, BGR, SlashGear, Droid Life, CNET, AllThingsD and Gizmodo. Thanks:@anthonyha
| 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.
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PC World, ABC News, focustaiwan.tw, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com, VatorNews, Associated Press, NYT Bits, The Mac Observer, Business Insider, Examiner, The Technology Chronicles, Gigaom, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, Guardian, ValueWalk, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBeat, InvestorPlace, Quartz, AndroidOS.in, SlashGear, Inquirer, Ubergizmo, CNET, Marketing Land and Betabeat. Tweets: @applespotlight
| 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 …
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MacTrast, The Verge, iMore, MacRumors, TUAW, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, Geek.com, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo UK, Softpedia News and The Switch
| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
File-Sharing Site Was A Year-Long Pirate Honeypot — Paranoia can be high in the file-sharing world so it will come as no surprise that there are regular rumors that site X or user Y cannot be trusted. While it's almost certain that on some sites there are staff members …
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| 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 …
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Wired, Gizmodo, ABC News, Digital Trends, Inside Facebook, AllFacebook, Gigaom, Betabeat, Quartz, CNET, VentureBeat, The Verge, WebProNews and TechHive. Tweets: @nytimesbits. See also Mediagazer
| 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 …
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Terence Eden's Blog, The Verge, CITEworld, Examiner, ValueWalk, Gizmodo UK, TechnoBuffalo, Gizmodo and Electronista. Tweets: @mbrit
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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