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July 24, 2014, 12:50 AM

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Facebook:

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 …

More: Re/code, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Electronista, AdExchanger, WebProNews, Marketing Land, ZDNet, BBC, Windows Phone Central, TechCrunch and ReadWrite

Tweets: @jyarow, @allen, @richbtig, @kurtwagner8, @pkafka, @hannahkuchler, @hamburger, @maureenmfarrell and @jboorstin

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.

More: GeekWire, The Register, Guardian, The Atlantic Online, VatorNews, Tech Trader Daily, The Next Web, CNET and The Technology Chronicles

Tweets: @mg, @joshconstine and @joshconstine

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

American Users Spend An Average Of 40 Minutes Per Day On Facebook

More: The Register and VatorNews. Tweets: @stevesi

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

30% of Facebook's 1.32B users are mobile-only; total mobile users grew 31% in a year to 1.07B

More: New York Times, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, ITworld.com, Wall Street Journal and Fortune. Tweets: @benedictevans

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.

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.

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Preview: A closer look at OS X Yosemite, just in time for the public beta

More: The Loop, AppleInsider, Wired, USA Today, The Register, iDownloadBlog.com, blog.chron.com, Softpedia News, GeekWire and SlashGear

Connie Loizos / StrictlyVC:

Sense, a New Sleep Tracker with a Kickstarter Campaign, Has Raised at Least $10.5 Million from Investors — James Proud, a former Thiel Fellow who sold his first company, is back with a new company and sleep-tracking product called Sense that's “part-Nest thermostat, part-Fitbit,” as Forbes describes it.

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @bryce

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.

More: BuzzFeed, Forbes, Connectedly, Laughing Squid, Technology Personalized, Tom's Guide, TechCrunch and SlashGear

Tweets: @hamburger, @om, @hello and @adamclarkestes

Thanks:@aurlibokovza

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 …

More: BGR, Engadget, Softpedia News, Gotta Be Mobile, Pocketnow, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, SlashGear and Redmond Pie

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.

More: The Foursquare Blog, Medium, PandoDaily, Softpedia News, Tnooz, Gigaom, Entrepreneur, iDownloadBlog.com, Laughing Squid, TechCrunch, iPhone Hacks and Business Insider

Tweets: @dens, @nichcarlson and @samfbiddle

Jack Linshi / TIME:

Foursquare moving all check-ins to secondary app Swarm starting Thursday

More: CNET, Search Engine Land, USA Today, bizjournals, Phandroid, ReadWrite, TUAW, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, iClarified, TechnoBuffalo, Mashable, The Next Web, Android Central, Union Square Ventures and Gizmodo

Re/code:

Razer Integrates WeChat into its Nabu Wearable, Says Should Hit U.S. for Under $100 — Hardware maker Razer said late Wednesday that it is adding support for WeChat into its forthcoming wearable device, the Nabu smartband. — In addition to getting notifications on the device …

More: The Next Web, Forbes and Wearables Arena

Kevin Rawlinson / BBC:

Music label sues YouTube star Michelle Phan for copyright infringement; one artist whose work was apparently infringed defends her — YouTube star Michelle Phan sued over copyright breach — A leading YouTube entrepreneur is facing legal action for alleged copyright infringement in her videos.

More: Techdirt, AndroidHeadlines.com and 9to5Google. Tweets: @mrragerx

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?

More: SeekingAlpha, Ars Technica, CNET, Network World, Wired, Softpedia News and Forbes

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

Reddit Live is now official, lets anyone create their own breaking news live blog — Today, Reddit officially launched its own live-blogging platform. The company calls it Reddit Live and the feature has actually been in “semi-open beta” for a few months now - you may have stumbled across …

More: reddit, VentureBeat and Mashable. See also Mediagazer

Joseph Czikk / BetaKit:

Mike McDerment's FreshBooks Raises $30 Million In First Funding Round — Toronto startup FreshBooks, the online cloud accounting software for freelancers and professionals, has raised a $30 million funding round from Oak Investment Partners with participation from Atlas Venture and Georgian Partners.

More: ventureburn, StartupCFO, Forbes, Chaney Marketing Group, SmallBusiness.com, Fortune, Techvibes Global News and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @joeyczikk

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Amazon Expands Prime Music Catalog By “Hundreds Of Thousands” Of Songs — One of the major complaints with Amazon Prime Music, the company's new streaming music service bundled in with its Amazon Prime membership program, was its lack of song selection, and especially current hits.

More: Engadget, Amazon.com, CNET, AndroidHeadlines.com, WebProNews, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketables, BetaNews, Electronista, hypebot, iMore, AndroidGuys, Gizmodo, Pocket-lint and Softpedia News. Tweets: @dujkan

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 …

More: Tubefilter. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple reportedly discussing mobile wallet plans with credit card companies, may launch with iPhone 6 — The Information has a new report out discussing Apple's progress on a mobile wallet payments service. The post echoes reporting by 9to5Mac earlier in the year.

More: The Information, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, Electronista, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo and WebProNews. Tweets: @amir

Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:

LittleBits' new cloudBit device adds your dumb gadgets and household appliances to the Internet of Things — The magnetically connected littleBits electronics library got a new internet-connected addition. The new Internet of Things cloudBit module connects all your projects to internet-scripting service, IFTTT.

More: Engadget, Wired, Wearables Arena, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, eWeek, Connectedly, Gizmodo and blogs.ft.com

Mark Hearn / 9to5Google:

HTC One Remix coming to Verizon on July 24th for $100 on a two year contract — The HTC One mini 2 is coming to America, but it will be carrying a different moniker. After weeks of rumors and leaks, Verizon confirmed today that it will start selling the HTC One Remix on July 24th for $100 with a two year service agreement.

More: Verizon Wireless Promotions, Droid Life, AndroidGuys, The Droid Guy, Greenbot, Pocketables and Phandroid

Karen Freifeld / Reuters:

Seven arrests made in $1.6 million StubHub cyberfraud case — (Reuters) - Police have arrested seven people on charges they were tied to an international ring that defrauded eBay Inc's StubHub online ticketing service of some $1.6 million, the latest in a string of high-profile cybercrime busts in recent months.

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.

More: AT&T, eWeek, BGR, Computerworld, ValueWalk, Electronista and Re/code. Tweets: @cnbc

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Messaging app Line gets serious about privacy with Telegram-inspired ‘hidden chat’ feature — Line is finally getting serious about security after it added encrypted chat options to its messaging service today with an update that is reminiscent of rival app Telegram.

More: LINE official blog, Ubergizmo, Android Community, MarketWatch, Tech Times, NDTV Gadgets and PC Magazine. Tweets: @jonrussell

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