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Google Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2013 Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2013. — “We ended 2013 with another great quarter of momentum and growth.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Q4 '13 Beats With $16.86B Revenue, Misses With EPS Of $12.01 Because Of Motorola Weakness — Google just published its Q4 earnings report and the results are mostly in line with Wall Street expectations, though it missed on earnings per share. Over the last three months …
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft's board preparing to make Satya Nadella CEO, may replace Gates as chairman — Microsoft Said to Be Preparing to Make Satya Nadella CEO — Microsoft Corp.'s board is preparing to make Satya Nadella, the company's enterprise and cloud chief, chief executive officer …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Microsoft may pick new CEO in upcoming week, VP of Cloud and Enterprise Satya Nadella most likely candidate — Now at 160 Days, Microsoft CEO Search Could Be Nearing Its End With Insiders on Inside Track — According to numerous sources close to Microsoft, the selection of a new CEO could happen within the next week.
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| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Paper, Facebook's new app for browsing and creating stories, will launch Feb. 3 for US iPhones — Meet “Paper,” Facebook's New Answer For Browsing — and Creating — Mobile Media — Facebook wants to be a newspaper. And it wants you to be writing some of its best stories.
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With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water — This morning, Facebook is announcing a new standalone iPhone app called Paper. Contrary to earlier rumors, it's much more than just a news reading app — it's a complete reimagining of Facebook itself.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Zynga Buys NaturalMotion For $527M, Signaling A New Tack For The Gaming Giant — Zynga has long been famous (or infamous?) for its data-driven approach to game design. The company never focused on building strong character IP, or intellectual property, in favor of releasing games that had been thoroughly funnel-tested.
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Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview — Mark Zuckerberg doesn't usually observe sentimental anniversaries. This year he's confronted by three of them. On Feb. 4, Facebook (FB), the company he co-founded in a Harvard University dorm, turns 10 years old. The prodigy himself turns 30 in May.
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Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 20% to $25.59 Billion — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013. — Operating cash flow increased 31% to $5.47 billion for the trailing twelve months …
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TechCrunch, Quartz, The Verge, Reuters, TechCrunch, New York Times, ABC News, CNET, The Verge, ZDNet, Barron's Online, Engadget, BBC, Bloomberg, WebProNews and SlashGear. Tweets: @fmanjoo. See also Mediagazer
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple aggressively pushing to take Arizona sapphire plant live in February for ‘critical’ product component — In November of last year, Apple announced that it would be opening up a new manufacturing plant in Mesa, Arizona. Since that time, little information has come out about the plant except … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
PayPal Wants Role in Apple's Mobile Payments Dreams — Apple may finally appear serious about facilitating the purchase of physical products in retail stores through its devices — and that has gotten the attention of at least one potential major competitor.
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Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Telegraph, PhoneArena and App Advice. Tweets: @chris_ciaccia. Thanks:@delrey
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
SwiftKey gets its predictive keyboard onto iOS, with a little help from Evernote — The popular Android keyboard arrives on iPhone and iPad — Three and a half years after launching on Android, SwiftKey's popular predictive-software keyboard has finally come to iOS. iPhone and iPad users …
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MacRumors, BGR, MacStories, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, Engadget, pocketnow.com, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Android Central, Re/code, Gizmodo and ZDNet. Tweets: @stephenfry
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Incredible Labs Acquired By Yahoo, Mobile Assistant App Donna To Be Shut Down — Incredible Labs, the startup behind mobile personal assistant app Donna, has been acqui-hired. Five of the seven members of the team will join Yahoo, and Donna will be shut down.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel Will Shut Down AppUp PC App Store On March 11, Apps Will Stop Working By May 15 — So much for Intel's bid to get hip with our app-filled times: the company is shutting down its consumer-facing AppUp, its app store for Windows-based PC apps. “The world's largest app store that nobody's ever heard of …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Nintendo plans non-wearable health products, still has no interest in smartphone gaming — Nintendo has again confirmed today that it won't introduce its games to smartphones and tablets, however, company President Satoru Iwata did reveal plans to introduce non-wearable technology that monitors users' health.| David Kravets / Wired: |
Obama Stays Silent on Reform of NSA's Crypto Subversion — President Barack Obama in his State of the Union on Tuesday failed to address an issue that affects everyone on the internet — the NSA's subversion of cryptographic standards and technologies. — Privacy advocates and business interests … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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