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Twitter Beats In Q1 With $250M In Revenue And Picks Up 14M New Monthly Active Users — Twitter released its first quarter financial performance this afternoon, reporting revenue of $250 million in the period, and earnings per share of $0.00 on a non-GAAP basis.
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See also Mediagazer| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Twitter faces decelerating growth in active users and timeline views — Twitter Adds More Users, but Wall Street Wants More — Twitter is still growing — but hardly fast enough for Wall Street. — Twitter reported 255 million monthly active users as of the end of March … | Sam Ro / Business Insider: |
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| Yusuf Mehdi / Xbox Wire: |
BesTV and Microsoft to bring Xbox One to China in September — By Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President of Marketing, Strategy and Business, Xbox — Today marks a monumental day for Xbox, as together with our partner BesTV New Media Co., we announced we will bring Xbox One to China in September of this year.| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
EBay to take $3B tax charge to bring $9B overseas cash back to US — EBay to Take $3 Billion Tax Charge — Shares Fall as Retailer Takes Hefty Tax Charge, Issues Disappointing Outlook — After successfully fending off investor Carl Icahn, eBay Inc. saw continued growth in its PayPal payments unit …
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| Tom Wheeler / Official FCC Blog: |
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler defends net neutrality approach, seeks path to avoid years in court — Finding the Best Path Forward to Protect the Open Internet — I am a strong believer in the importance of an Open Internet. As President Obama has explained, “Preserving an Open Internet …
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See also Mediagazer| CNBC: |
Steve Jobs tops CNBC list of leaders with greatest impact on business and finance since 1989, ahead of Gates, Brin, Page, Schmidt, Bezos, and more — 1. Steve Jobs — Apple's iVisionary “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
‘Sign in with Google’ button could send Google+ to oblivion — The abrupt departure of Google+ creator Vic Gundotra from the beleaguered social network led to immediate speculation that its days as a competitor to Facebook and Twitter are numbered. Indeed, media reports have asserted … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Study: Google Chrome blocks less than 3% of Heartbleed-compromised sites by default — Google Chrome protection for Heartbleed-hacked sites called “completely broken” — Update: A few hours after this article went live, Google engineer Adam Langley published a blog post taking issue … | Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Cloudera and MongoDB enter into a deep product partnership — There are a lot of Hadoop deployments out there. A lot of MongoDB ones, too. And on Tuesday, Hadoop specialist Cloudera and the eponymous MongoDB announced a multi-faceted partnership they claim will significantly improve …
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| Derek Khanna / InsideSources: |
Outbox vs. USPS: How the Post Office Killed Digital Mail — Evan Baehr and Will Davis, were summoned to Washington for a meeting with the Postmaster General. Evan and Will wondered what it could be, “They must have seen the recent coverage in CNBC, maybe they'll help our company expand?”
Tweets: @hunterwalk and @balajis
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Looks Like Facebook Will Make Ecommerce And User Testing Announcements At f8 — What exactly is Facebook launching tomorrow? It's hard to say. But we know it's planning coordinated announcements with at least one ecommerce platform and one product testing service, as these companies reached … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Inside Motorola's new office, where Moto 360 is being designed to save a company in transition — The future of Motorola is on this man's wrist … A few months ago, this meeting would've taken place at a sprawling campus of anonymous office buildings in Libertyville, Illinois, about an hour's drive north of Chicago.| Klint Finley / Wired: |
OK Cupid founders launch Keybase, an online directory that aims to make PGP easier to use — OkCupid's Founders Want to Bring Encrypted Email to the Masses — Email is a bad place to keep secrets. — Edward Snowden's revealations that the National Security Agency has many means …
Tweets: @wired and @joehardly
| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
San Francisco group pushing ballot initiative that would severely limit Airbnb's operations — S.F. ballot measure would severely limit short-term rentals — A trio of well-connected San Franciscans is backing a ballot initiative this fall that would severely curb Airbnb's operations in the city, The Chronicle has learned.| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Apple blasts Samsung over originality, bravery in closing trial arguments — Apple wrapped up its side of a wide-ranging case against Samsung in court today, accusing it one last time of copying five features that it says ended up in millions of phones sold to US consumers. — “Let's remember how we got here.”
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
RadiumOne's New CEO's Memo on Chahal Firing: “We Cannot Know for Certain What Gurbaksh Will Do” — Here's a memo that new RadiumOne CEO Bill Lonergan sent out late last night to the employees of the advertising tech company in the wake of the firing of Gurbaksh Chahal, its founder and CEO.
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Stung by data breach, Target speeds switch to chip-and-PIN card readers — New Mastercard-provided chip-and-PIN cards will debut at all Target stores by early 2015. That must be cold comfort for First M. Lastname, whose account has already been compromised in this image here.| Brad Chacos / PC World: |
Canonical's audacious Ubuntu for Android project isn't quite dead, but it is in limbo — The idea was audacious: Combine Android, the most popular mobile version of Linux, with Ubuntu, the leading Linux desktop operating system, on a single smartphone that swapped between the two depending on whether the device was docked.| Adam Liptak / New York Times: |
Justices Appear Divided on Cellphone Warrants — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed torn as it considered a pair of cases about whether the police need warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest. — Some justices seemed inclined to apply precedents strictly limiting …
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