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4½", 5" screen iPhones expected in second half of year, smaller one further along in development, to feature metal casing, plastic casing scrapped — Apple iPhones to Come Out With Bigger Screens — Facing competition from rivals offering smartphones with bigger screens …
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Tweets: @fmanjoo, @bryfitz, @stratechery and @javi
| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Second Quarter — Double-digit growth in Commercial and Devices and Consumer segments drives record revenue. — REDMOND, Wash. — January 23, 2014 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $24.52 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2013.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft beats earnings, ships 7.4 million Xboxes, doubles Surface revenue — Microsoft posts record revenue of $24.5B, beats earnings expectations in holiday quarter — Microsoft just announced revenue of $24.5 billion for the December quarter, up 14 percent from the same quarter a year ago … | Jason Snell / Macworld: |
Interview with Schiller, Federighi and Tribble on the future of the Mac on its 30th birthday — Apple executives on the Mac at 30: ‘The Mac keeps going forever.’ — Thirty years ago, Apple introduced the Macintosh, and we all learned why 1984 wasn't going to be like 1984.
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Thanks:@jsnell| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook interview with ABC about the Mac's 30th anniversary airing tomorrow — ABC News has announced that it has interviewed Apple CEO Tim Cook regarding the 30th anniversary of the Mac. The interview will air tomorrow night on World News with Diane Sawyer at 6:30 PM EST. A small portion …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Sources say new Apple TV box likely coming soon, App/Game Store possible — We've learned that Apple is making progress on its development of a successor to the current Apple TV and that the device is well into testing. We are led to believe that the new device, which is said to be a set-top box rather … | Phil Dzikiy / iLounge: |
Apple TV may get game support with Bluetooth controllers and direct game downloads by March — Reports: Apple TV to add games in coming update — iLounge has heard from reliable industry sources that Apple TV will soon be getting proper game support in an update, likely to come in March or earlier.
| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Misses Estimates as IPhones Win Sales, Won Gains — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) posted fourth-quarter earnings that missed analyst estimates as new Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhones won high-end smartphone customers and gains in the South Korean won curbed the value of sales.
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Revenge-Porn King Hunter Moore Indicted by U.S. Attorney — Moore and an alleged accomplice Charles “Gary” Evens are indicted on 15 counts, including conspiracy, seven counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information and seven counts of aggravated identity theft
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Pentagon says ‘absolutely no new orders have been placed’ for BlackBerry phones — Stock surges on news of a big win that never was — Last week, a press release from the Department of Defense announced the launch of a new mobile network within the agency that will utilize unclassified mobile devices … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Hilariously Debunks Princeton Study Saying It Will Lose 80% Of Users — Posted 25 seconds ago by Josh Constine (@joshconstine) — Last week Princeton researchers released a widely covered study saying Facebook would lose 80% of its users by 2015-2017.| Horace Dediu / asymco.com: |
What if it's Apple, and not Google, that's invulnerable? — Invulnerable — On a recent podcast I noted that Google was perceived as invulnerable. In contrast, Apple is seen as temporarily enjoying a stay of execution. [1] This is not necessarily a bad thing for Apple.
Tweets: @alexjamesfitz, @angeljimenez, @michelletripp, @gsiemens and @caseynewton
| Signe Brewster / Gigaom: |
Singularity University to launch $50 million venture fund to tackle the world's ‘grand challenges’ — Forward-looking startups will have a chance at $50 million later this year when Singularity University, an education center and accelerator based at Mountain View's NASA Ames Research Center, launches its first venture fund.| Mark Ames / PandoDaily: |
The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley's most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers' wages — In early 2005, as demand for Silicon Valley engineers began booming, Apple's Steve Jobs sealed a secret and illegal pact with Google's Eric Schmidt to artificially push …
Tweets: @ryanlawler, @dannysullivan, @markamesexiled, @rbranson and @zedshaw
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
iPhone 5s Owners Gobbling “Unprecedented” Levels Of Data, Study Finds — Users of flagship smartphones such as Apple's iPhone 5s and Samsung's Galaxy S4 are continuing to suck down more data than their tablet-wielding counterparts, according to a large-scale survey of mobile data consumption …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
AOL Buys Personalization Startup Gravity for $90 Million in Cash — In a bid to add another publishing and advertising tool to its offerings, AOL has acquired personalization startup Gravity for about $90 million in cash. — As part of the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter …
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Twitter Launches Card Analytics To Let Publishers Monitor Impressions, Clicks And More — In a move that could give brands and publishers more insight into what to tweet, today Twitter is rolling out Analytics For Twitter Cards. The dashboard shows impressions, URL clicks …
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| Dennis Berman / Wall Street Journal: |
Wal-Mart aims to match Amazon's service offerings in two years, continues warehouse build out — Wal-Mart Aims To Match Amazon's Service Offerings — Wal-Mart Will Continue To Build Out New Distribution Centers for Online Delivery — The head of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 's e-commerce efforts predicted …
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple Updates iWork Across Platforms, Brings Password-Protected Sharing To The Web And Mobile — Apple released a number of updates to iWork today, across all platforms, including OS X, iOS and iCloud on the web. Improvements include the addition of customizable alignment guides …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Independent review board says NSA phone data program is illegal and should end — An independent executive branch board has concluded that the National Security Agency's long-running program to collect billions of Americans' phone records is illegal and should end.
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Computerworld, Guardian, Ars Technica, The Register and The Switch
Tweets: @amadooooo and @trevortimm
| Dune Lawrence / Businessweek: |
Tor Anonymity Software vs. the National Security Agency — Last year, Edward Snowden turned over to the Guardian, a British newspaper, some 58,000 classified U.S. government documents. Just a fraction of the files have been made public, but they outline the National Security Agency's massive information-collection system.
Tweets: @matthewkeyslive, @nytimesbits, @sheelahk, @libertylynx and @jpaskin
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Watch Out Tumblr, Pinterest Now Supports GIFs — Earlier this week, some Pinterest users noticed that the company was experimenting with support for animated GIFs on its site - the popular, moving images that, until recently, defaulted to static photos when pinned.
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