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April 16, 2014, 9:05 PM

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Google:

Google Inc. Announces First Quarter 2014 Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2014. — “We completed another great quarter. Google's revenue was $15.4 billion, up 19% year on year”, said Larry Page, CEO of Google.

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Google Misses in Q1 With Revenue Of $15.42B, EPS Of $6.27 As Its Cost-Per-Click Fell 9% — Following the bell, Google reported its first quarter financial performance, including revenue of $12.20 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs (ex-TAC), $15.42 billion including those costs, and earnings per share of $6.27.

More: The Register, Mercury News, Reuters, AdExchanger, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, internetretailer.com and Electronista

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Google Says Buying Nest Bogged Down First-Quarter Earnings — It turns out buying a company for $3.2 billion can suck the wind out of even a $15.4-billion-in-revenue quarter. The Nest acquisition took a toll on Google expenses, explained Google CFO Patrick Pichette on the company's first-quarter earnings call today.

More: New York Times, CNNMoney.com, BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal and CNET

Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Marissa Mayer's Secret Plan to Get Apple to Dump Google and Default to Yahoo Mobile Search — Wall Street gave Yahoo stock a big boost today — largely due to the stellar quarterly performance of China's Alibaba, in which the Silicon Valley Internet giant has a big stake.

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Why Yahoo's Not Going To Steal The Search Default For iPhone Away From Google

Tweets: @jyarow

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Q&A with Zuckerberg about Facebook unbundling, anonymity, acquisitions, and innovation — Can Facebook Innovate? A Conversation With Mark Zuckerberg — For my column this week about Facebook's new approach to creating social apps, I spent some time talking to Mark E. Zuckerberg, the company's co-founder and chief executive.

More: Om Malik, Valleywag, Gigaom, TechCrunch, AllFacebook, Quartz, Mashable, DailyTech, Search Engine Land, Dice News and The Verge

Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine and @mathewi

Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:

Facebook's future: more single-purpose apps that may not bear the Facebook brand

More: Business Insider and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @martinsfp, @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

LG G3 launching this summer with 2560 x 1440 screen resolution, golden hue — LG will launch golden G3 with crazy resolution this summer — 2560 x 1440 pixels in your front pocket — A third of the way into 2014, we already have new flagship phones from almost all the big Android handset makers …

More: LAPTOP Magazine, DailyTech, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, Gizchina.com, The Droid Guy, Pocketnow, SlashGear, Phandroid, Ubergizmo, Gotta Be Mobile and Digital Trends

The Korea Heald:

LG to design mobile processors manufactured by TSMC, may use own chip in upcoming G3 phone

More: PhoneArena, TechSpot, BGR, Pocketnow, Liliputing, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, The Droid Guy and 9to5Google

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Apple is planning to integrate song-identification into iOS 8, in partnership with Shazam — Apple Said to Prepare Song-ID Feature for IPhone Software — Apple Inc. (AAPL) wants to help you name that tune. — The company is planning to unveil a song-discovery feature in an update …

More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @sarahfrier

Reuters:

Samsung plans to launch Tizen smartphones in Q2 and an Android Wear smartwatch later this year — Samsung executive says Galaxy S5 to outsell S4, sees second quarter rollout for Tizen phone — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's new Galaxy S5 smartphone should outsell its predecessor …

Vinay Shet / Google Online Security Blog:

Google's latest street number recognition algorithm can solve 99% of its own reCAPTCHA puzzles — Street View and reCAPTCHA technology just got smarter — Have you ever wondered how Google Maps knows the exact location of your neighborhood coffee shop? Or of the hotel you're staying at next month?

More: The Atlantic Online, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Gigaom, BetaNews and SlashGear

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Spotify Starts Shutting Down Its Massive P2P Network — When Spotify launched its first beta in the fall of 2008, we branded it “an alternative to music piracy.” — With the option to stream millions of tracks supported by an occasional ad, or free of ads for a small subscription fee …

More: Gigaom

iFixit:

Google Project Tango smartphone prototype teardown — Project Tango Teardown — It's 2014 and the future is now. Google's engineers have been hard at work bringing the virtual to reality with projects like Google Glass, and their newest 3D mapping tech, Project Tango.

More: MacRumors, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, PhoneArena, Patently Apple, The Droid Guy, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, Inquirer, BGR, Gizmodo, TechCrunch and SlashGear. Tweets: @ifixit

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

Study: 37% of the roughly 781M games bought on Steam have not been played once — Introducing Steam Gauge: Ars reveals Steam's most popular games — Right now, I can tell you that about 37 percent of the roughly 781 million games registered to various Steam accounts haven't even been loaded a single time.

More: Engadget, destructoid, Computerworld, The Tech Report, Washington Post, GeekWire, TechSpot, Ubergizmo and Softpedia News

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

IBM's Q1 revenue disappoints, hardware whacked again — Summary: IBM is a work in progress for sure as only the software division delivered any growth. Hardware remains a problem for Big Blue. — IBM's first quarter results highlighted how the company is still at the beginning point …

More: IBM, PC World, The Register, Re/code, TechCrunch, Reuters, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider and Bloomberg

Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal:

Jasper Raises $50M at $1 Billion-Plus Valuation For Internet Of Things — Jasper has raised $50 million in funding at a valuation of more than $1 billion for software that enables objects of all types—autos, baby pajamas, airplane engines and so on—to communicate in what has lately become known as the Internet of Things.

More: VentureBeat, Gigaom, VatorNews, StrictlyVC, PE Hub Blog and Marketwired

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google+ Pages with 1,000+ followers can now create +Post ads, promote Hangouts on Air and automatic posts — Google today expanded its test of +Post ads, a new type of monetization for its social network that lets brands turn Google+ content into display ads.

More: Inside AdWords, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, Marketing Pilgrim, Android Community and WebProNews

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google:

Google's new Android Camera app arrives on Google Play Store — Following a report at the beginning of this month that Google was about to release a new, standalone Android camera app, today the app has officially made an appearance on the Google Play Store.

More: Google Research Blog, Android Police, Android Police, Research at Google, The Verge, Gotta Be Mobile, Engadget, Android - Google+, Droid Life, Gigaom, TechCrunch and Ars Technica

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google Launches Chrome Remote Desktop On Android, Allowing Mobile Access To Your PC — Google this morning launched a mobile client application called “Chrome Remote Desktop app for Android” (whew!) which allows for remote access to your Mac or PC from your Android device, whether smartphone or tablet.

More: The Next Web, Google Chrome Blog, Gigaom, Computerworld, Droid Life, Ubergizmo, 9to5Google and IntoMobile

Liam Tung / ZDNet:

Google says ‘all Glass spots claimed’ after one day sale, as KitKat rolls out — Summary: Google reckons its Glass Explorer club has reached capacity after the company opened it up to the public for one day only, but it's staying mum on numbers. — Liam Tung

More: Google Glass, PC World, Computerworld, CNN, Marketing Land, Glass Almanac, Google Glass, ABC News, The Register, PandoDaily, Marketing Pilgrim, Tnooz, GeekWire, Associated Press, Inquirer and Wired

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Microsoft slashes Windows XP custom support prices just days before axing public patches — Reduces after-retirement support costs for large enterprises as much as 95% — Just days before Microsoft retired Windows XP from public support, the company drastically reduced the price …

More: ZDNet, Neowin, Ubergizmo, WinBeta and Softpedia News

Jared Newman / PC World:

Buy once, play anywhere: First universal Windows apps hit Microsoft app stores — Microsoft has rolled out the first universal apps for Windows and Windows Phone, allowing users to buy an app once and play it on phones, tablets and PCs. — The first two paid apps to take advantage …

More: Windows Phone Central, Gotta Be Mobile and Softpedia News

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Online Dating Site Zoosk Files For $100M IPO, With $178M In Revenues And A $2.6M Net Loss In 2013 — Online dating site Zoosk just filed its S-1 registration statement with the SEC, announcing its plans to raise $100 million in an initial public offering. The company, which has offers …

More: U.S. Securities …, PandoDaily, Forbes, Re/code, The Technology Chronicles, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal and Reuters. Tweets: @amir

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Microsoft Bing rolls out personalized cards, integrated with Cortana, competing with Google Now and Siri — They're not calling it “Bing Now,” but a new service just announced by Microsoft will feel very familiar to some Google users. “Starting today, we are unveiling a set of personalized cards …

More: Search Blog, The Next Web and Engadget. Thanks:@belril

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