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Facebook Reports Second Quarter 2014 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2014. — “We had a good second quarter,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “Our community has continued to grow …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Beats In Q2 With $2.91 Billion, In Revenue, 62% Of Ad Revenue From Mobile, 1.32B Users — Facebook's earnings beat projections for the 8th quarter straight with $2.91B in revenue and $0.42EPS in Q2 2014 . It now has 1.07 billion mobile monthly users, and 654million daily mobile users.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
OS X Yosemite planned for late Oct. as Apple preps 4K desktop & 12-inch Retina MacBook — While iOS 8 for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch is set for a September launch, Apple is planning to bring its next-generation Mac software, OS X Yosemite, into the wild a month later, in October, according to several sources.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Preview: A closer look at OS X Yosemite, just in time for the public beta — The first public OS X beta in over a decade brings quite a few changes with it. — It's not difficult to get your hands on pre-release Apple software. For a mere $198 a year ($99 each for OS X and iOS) … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple ‘tentatively’ plans mid-September iPhone event as iOS 8 nears completion — Apple is gearing up for its first major hardware and software launches of 2014. The Cupertino-based company is “tentatively” planning a keynote address in mid-September to announce the iPhone 6 and provide final details … | Janet Van Huysse / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter releases diversity report: global employees are 70% male; in US 59% white, 29% Asian — Building a Twitter we can be proud of — At Twitter, we have a goal to reach every person on the planet. We believe that goal is more attainable with a team that understands and represents different cultures and backgrounds.
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Sense sleep tracker uses two devices to analyze your room conditions and sleep patterns — Sense is a glowing sphere that watches over you while you sleep — This sleek sleep tracker analyzes your bedroom, and your sleep patterns — At age 19, Londoner James Proud decided to skip out on college and move to the States.
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Thanks:@aurlibokovza| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Preview of Foursquare 8.0, the redesigned exploration app that launches in a few weeks — The next age of Foursquare begins today — Foursquare needed a fresh start, so it created a brand new identity — In mid-May, Foursquare decided to split itself in two.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
What ‘one Windows’ really means: one group developing all Windows variants on a common core, unified store and developer platform — What ‘one Windows’ really means (and doesn't) — Summary: Is Microsoft building a single version of Windows that will run on phones, tablets, PCs and gaming consoles?
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube Music's Head Quits, a Setback to Paid Service — The head of YouTube's effort to launch a music subscription service is leaving, marking yet another hurdle for the long-delayed project. — Chris LaRosa, YouTube's product manager in charge of music, will be leaving Google this Friday to join a startup.
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| 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 …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Chernin and AT&T Set to Buy Control of Fullscreen YouTube Network — Fullscreen, the YouTube network that has been talking to prospective buyers for months, is ready to make a deal. Sources familiar with the company say it is finalizing a deal to sell a majority stake to Otter Media … | 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.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
AT&T misses Q2 expectations, but saw smartphone growth rebound — AT&T's so-called post-paid showed surprising growth, adding more smartphone customers in the period. — AT&T's customer growth continued to surge in the second quarter even as it missed Wall Street's earnings and sales expectations.| Gideon Lewis-Kraus / Wired: |
Creator of autocorrect Dean Hachamovitch, and others at Microsoft, discuss its history and 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 …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Kumo Is Raising $50 Million To Break The TV Bundle — Despite Aereo's trouble in the Supreme Court, the hope of disrupting the TV industry is still alive in the tech world. — A new startup led by Aol and Dish veteran Neil Davis is in the process of raising $50 million to fill that void.| Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
How Code2040 fellowship programs connect blacks and hispanics with Silicon Valley tech firms — In tech, some minorities are too minor. This group wants to change that. — Before Randi Williams spent last summer in San Francisco, the 19-year-old computer-engineering student from Maryland …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
New Boy of Benchmark: Rockmelt's Eric Vishria Talks About Becoming Fifth Partner at VC Powerhouse — The Boys of Benchmark — as I like to call the well-known venture capital firm, since they are four dudes — have added a fifth member, with Rockmelt co-founder Eric Vishria joining as a general partner.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Sprint and Google partner up to push Google Apps for enterprise — The struggling carrier looks to other services to boost revenue — Sprint and Google are today announcing a new partnership which allows Sprint to sell Google's Apps for Business services to its enterprise customers starting next month.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Airware Preps Launch Of Its Commercial Drone Operating System With $25M From Kleiner — Building a drone's hardware and software from scratch is tough and expensive, but open source drone kits are inflexible. So to power businesses looking to customize drones for commercial uses from agriculture … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm delivers blowout Q3, but cuts outlook over China woes — Summary: Mobile processor giant Qualcomm said a regulatory investigation in China and licensees that aren't reporting sales of licensed products will hurt fourth quarter results. — Qualcomm delivered strong fiscal third quarter sales …
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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.Sponsor Posts
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