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Live Blog: Tracking Twitter's I.P.O. — Twitter begins life as a public company on Thursday, and DealBook will be following the first day of trading as it happens. — The social media service, which began as a side project at a podcasting company in 2006, priced its shares at $26 on Wednesday night …
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In Twitter IPO, Wall Street reserved best info for top clients — Twitter's investment bankers are telling their clients one thing while Main Street hears a different story. — FORTUNE — Once again, Wall Street is telling its top paying clients one thing, and the rest of us are getting a different story.
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| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
The Architect Behind Twitter's IPO … The architect of Twitter Inc.'s initial public offering is a 42-year-old finance whiz with a knack for finding calm amid chaos. — For four months, Twitter Chief Financial Officer Mike Gupta steered the social-media company through the IPO process … | Peter Eavis / DealBook: |
Twitter's Market Valuation Suggests Wall St. Sees Huge Growth Potential — Twitter is a young company generating large losses as it competes in a highly uncertain sector of the economy. — And that is exactly why investors clamored for a piece of its initial public offering, which closed on Wednesday evening.
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Apple Stores to soon offer iPhone 5s & 5c screen replacements, other repairs — Apple is gearing up to soon begin hardware repairs for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c in its chain of retail stores, according to sources with knowledge of the upcoming initiative.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Updates Office 365, Brings Real-Time Collaboration To Free Office Web Apps, Adds Yammer To All Enterprise Versions — It's been six months since Microsoft launched Office 365, its subscription-based version of Office for businesses and consumers. Over 2 million consumers now subscribe … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
AT&T will include Lookout security software on all Android devices from now on — Security is a sensitive subject for Android users: Google has long maintained that anti-virus and malware prevention software isn't a necessity on its platform, but companies like Symantec regularly sound …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Digits: |
Square Exploring 2014 IPO With Banks — Technology entrepreneur Jack Dorsey is trying to pull off two high-profile initial public offerings in the span of one year. — Square Inc., the payments startup with a square credit-card reader that plugs into Apple and Android-based mobile devices …
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Verizon: Google, Asus Have Opted To Wait Until Nexus 7 Gets KitKat To Certify For Use On Network, “Systems Issue” With 4.3 To Blame — We've received an official statement from Verizon on the ongoing Nexus 7 LTE / Verizon saga, a story that has gone silent in the months since Verizon promised … | Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Google starts testing ART, a potential replacement for Dalvik in Android — After a 2010 spat over how Java works in Android with Oracle, Google is moving on to a new way for apps run on mobile devices. Dubbed ART, the new runtime environment is available as a preview option in Android 4.4.| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Autodesk invests $10 million in Deviantart — Autodesk has invested $10 million in the Los Angeles-based digital art community Deviantart. Word about the investment first got out in September, but an SEC filing now adds further details, showing that Autodesk invested a total of $10.04 million in the company.
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Microsoft Is Making An Astonishing $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties — Microsoft is generating $2 billion per year in revenue from Android patent royalties, says Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund in a new note on the company. — He estimates that the Android revenue has a 95% margin, so it's pretty much all profit.
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
C.I.A. Is Said to Pay AT&T for Call Data — WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. is paying AT&T more than $10 million a year to assist with overseas counterterrorism investigations by exploiting the company's vast database of phone records, which includes Americans' international calls, according to government officials.
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| Brian Heater / Engadget: |
Amazon Kindle HDX 8.9 review: a high-end tablet at a mid-range price — It's worth noting just how far Amazon has come since the early days of the Fire line. With the first generation, it was tough to see the tablet as anything more than a content-delivery device designed to keep users locked into the Kindle ecosystem.| Justin Bachman / Businessweek: |
Blockbuster's Death Scene Won't End the Video Rental Store — The long-foretold death of the video rental shop—all but sealed Wednesday with news that Blockbuster will shut its last 300 stores in the U.S.—can be read as a wistful moment for retail nostalgics or a proud triumph of digital simplicity.| Ryan Huang / ZDNet: |
Lenovo Q2 boosted by market share gains in PCs, smartphones — Summary: The Chinese PC maker saw a 36 percent rise in its net profit to US$219.7 million, as it powers ahead despite an industry slump by expanding in mobile devices and better cost controls. — Despite a slump in the PC industry …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
U.S. weighs proposal to end dual leadership role at NSA, Cyber Command — The Obama administration is considering ending a controversial policy that since 2010 has placed one military official at the head of both the nation's largest spy agency and its cyber-operations command, U.S. officials said.
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Google Says Its Mystery Barges May Be Used As Interactive Space Where People Can Learn About Its Technology — Google has issued a statement (finally?) about its months-long mystery barge project. The barges, which are anchored in both Portland, Maine and San Francisco …
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| Aaron Souppouris / The Verge: |
Samsung admits its software needs improving, commits half of R&D workforce — Samsung is just like the Red Sox — Samsung today admitted it needs to work on software, an area it's “not as good” at as hardware. Samsung Vice Chairman & CEO Kwon Oh-hyun compares the company's software efforts …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
The Nexus 5 isn't pure Android, it's pure Google — In this, the fifth year of Android's existence, we also have seen the release of the fifth Nexus phone — appropriately enough called the Nexus 5. Meanwhile, it's been two years since we saw the release of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich …
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