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July 23, 2014, 8:40 AM

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Brad Molen / Engadget:

Amazon Fire phone review: a unique device, but you're better off waiting for the sequel — After producing a long line of e-book readers and tablets (not to mention a set-top box), Amazon has its sights set on the smartphone market. But finding success here won't be easy, even for an established tech giant like Amazon.

More: New York Times, Guardian, The Verge, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, Yahoo!, Ars Technica, SlashGear, 9to5Mac, Mashable, ZDNet, GeekWire, TechCrunch, LAPTOP Magazine, Gizmodo and App Advice

Walt Mossberg / Re/code:

Amazon Fire phone: Dynamic Perspective disappointing, Firefly inconsistent, one carrier a drawback, and new features often frustrating

More: Ars Technica and CNET

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft's enterprise offerings continue to carry the day — Summary: Microsoft still is an enterprise-driven company, even if management wants to do its best to deny that fact. Just look at its fourth quarter fiscal 2014 earnings for proof. — Microsoft execs continue to talk …

More: BetaNews, Inquirer and Brier Dudley's blog

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Microsoft mum on Xbox One sales; notes 1.1M ‘Xbox consoles’ shipped in past 3 months — Microsoft hasn't reported Xbox One sales statistics for quite some time, and that didn't change with today's quarterly earnings report. The company noted that it sold 1.1 million Xbox consoles …

More: VentureBeat and Softpedia News

Julie Bort / Business Insider:

Microsoft to merge three versions of Windows into one converged OS for all screen sizes

More: The Economic Times, ZDNet, BBC, Digital Trends, Reuters, The Verge, Ubergizmo and Patently Apple. Tweets: @dannysullivan

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Reports $23.38B FQ4 Revenue Including $2B In Phone Top Line, Misses With EPS Of $0.55

More: BetaNews, Windows Phone Central, New York Times, PC World and TechnoBuffalo

Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft's profit declines 7.1% as it absorbs Nokia's money-losing cellphone business

More: Re/code, Wall Street Journal and TWICE

Gideon Lewis-Kraus / Wired:

The history of autocorrect, as explained by its creator Dean Hachamovitch, and its evolution — The Fasinatng ... Frustrating ... Fascinating History of Autocorrect — Invoke the word — autocorrect and most people will think immediately of its hiccups—the sort of hysterical …

More: Daring Fireball

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Tim Cook Says Businesses Could Revive Slowing iPad Sales — Although iPad sales were below analyst projections for a second straight quarter, Apple CEO Tim Cook says that the tablet can continue to grow, particularly if Apple can increase sales to businesses.

More: Quartz, The Network Garden and Wall Street Journal

Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:

iPhone sales up 12.7% from a year ago driven by demand from Brazil, Russia, India, and China; iPad sales down 9.2%

Juli Clover / MacRumors:

iTunes by the Numbers: $4.5B Revenue, Billings up 25% Year-Over-Year, $20B Paid to Devs, 75B App Downloads

More: TechCrunch and Fortune

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple announces Q3 2014 revenue of $37.4b: 35.2m iPhones, 13.2m iPads, 4.4m Macs

More: MacRumors, Re/code, Computerworld, TechCrunch, BGR, Business Insider, TUAW, eWeek, Tech Trader Daily and Apple

Noelle Chun / The Official Motorola Blog:

Now You Can Unlock Your Moto X with a Digital Tattoo — A phone should be as unique as you are—not only in the design of your device, but how you use it. Last year at the All Things D “D11” conference, Regina Dugan talked about new digital tattoo technology that would make it easier to unlock your phone.

More: Gizmodo, Gigaom, BGR, Engadget, Pocketnow, Connectedly, CNET, IntoMobile, BetaNews, TechCrunch and Droid Life

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Apple Faces Class-Action Lawsuit In California Over Alleged Labor Violations Affecting 20K Employees — While Apple today reported its quarterly earnings, another group seized the moment to push out another bit of Apple-related news. The company is being sued in a class-action suit …

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Will Acquire Business Marketing Company Bizo For $175M — LinkedIn just announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Bizo, a company that helps advertisers reach businesses and professionals. — LinkedIn says the deal is worth around $175 million — 90 percent cash and 10 percent stock.

More: Marketing Solutions Blog, New York Times, Bizo, SocialTimes, VentureBeat, MarketWatch, Business Insider, ReadWrite, ZDNet, AdExchanger, bizjournals and silicontap.com

William Shatner:

William Shatner reviews Facebook Mentions, calls it “ill conceived” — Facebook Mentions Versus Facebook Pages Apps — I want to talk and compare an app that most of you don't have access to: Facebook Mentions and compare it to the Pages App that anyone who has a Facebook page can download and use.

More: Gizmodo, Engadget, Marketing Land, SlashGear, Mashable, The Technology Chronicles, The Next Web, Business Insider, The Register, Re/code and TIME

Tweets: @emjbanks, @qthrul, @ftrain, @reichenstein and @glennf

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Microsoft launches $114 Lumia 530 with 4-inch display. Hits Europe next month — Microsoft has today announced a new member of its Lumia range in the form of the low-end Lumia 530, which will arrive from the start of next month in Europe. — Priced at €85 before taxes or local subsidies …

More: Conversations, Re/code, BetaNews, BetaNews, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, The Verge, WinBeta, Electronista, Phones Review, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Wpxbox, Windows Phone Central, Pocketnow and Ubergizmo

Dmitri Sarle / ArcticStartup:

Google Acquires Helsinki Based drawElements for 8 Figures — Yet another exit for the Nordics. The normally slow summer is turning into a shopping spree by the big players as the Helsinki based drawElements is acquired by Google. The exact amount behind the transaction is not disclosed …

More: Inquirer and Tech.eu. Thanks:@dsarle

Nathan Donato-Weinstein / bizjournals:

Apple Campus 2 permits show $25M tunnel, $171M underground theater — Eight months after Apple Inc. received final approval from the city of Cupertino to build Apple Campus 2, construction on the Mac maker's new campus is generating the kind of interest usually reserved for a new iPhone launch.

Thanks:@svbiznate

Chris Morran / Consumerist:

Comcast Memo: Rep From “Painful” Retention Call Was Doing “What We Trained Him To Do” — A week after the posting of the neediest customer-retention call in Comcast history, the fallout continues, with the company's Chief Operating Officer telling Comcast employees in a memo leaked to Consumerist …

More: Ars Technica, Boing Boing, The Verge, Salon, Techdirt, DailyTech, BGR, Gawker, FierceCable, CNET, VentureBeat, DSLreports, Gizmodo and TechHive. Tweets: @pmarca

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

Sunrise Raises $6 Million From Balderton And Others To Build The Perfect Calendar — A year and a half after launching its first calendar app, Sunrise is raising a $6 million Series A round from Balderton Capital and existing investors — Bernard Liautaud is joining the board.

More: Sunrise and Venture Capital. Tweets: @ccheever

Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg:

Ex-Goldman trader raises $1.6M for bitcoin exchange bitFlyer, looking to expand beyond Japan by year end — Ex-Goldman Trader's Bitcoin Exchange to Fill Mt. Gox Void — Yuzo Kano quit Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS:US) twice: once for a rival bank, the second time to open Japan's first bitcoin exchange since the collapse of Mt. Gox.

More: NEWSBTC and CoinDesk

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

To focus on services, Microsoft should split in two and make the Windows business a separate company — It's Time to Split Up Microsoft — To understand why so many serious Microsoft observers were encouraged by Satya Nadella's week-ago memo Bold Ambition and Our Core,1 it's useful …

More: Stowe Boyd. Thanks:@pavanrajam

Chris Kanaracus / PC World:

Teradata acquires assets of Hadapt, Revelytix for big data — Teradata has bought the assets of Revelytix and Hadapt in a bid to grow out its capabilities for the Hadoop big-data processing framework. — Revelytix developed Loom, a metadata management system compatible with a number …

More: ZDNet, Xconomy, VentureBeat, PR Newswire and InformationWeek

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