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October 24, 2014, 11:15 AM

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Tiina Jaatinen / Conversations:

Nokia Lumia to become Microsoft Lumia, Nokia branding to continue on entry-level phones — Say hello to Microsoft Lumia — When we announced that the Nokia Devices & Services business would become part of Microsoft, we also shared that Lumia, our smartphone brand, would become part of the Microsoft family.

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Amazon Takes $170 Million Writedown on Weak Fire Phone Sales — Amazon said in a conference call following the release of a disappointing third-quarter financial report that it would take a $170 million charge “primarily related to Fire phone inventory valuation and supplier commitment costs.”

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Tweets: @delrey and @asadotzler

Amazon.com:

Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Sales up 20% to $20.58 Billion — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2014. — Operating cash flow increased 15% to $5.71 billion for the trailing twelve months …

More: Bloomberg, SiliconBeat, Inquirer, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Tech Times, TechSpot, Talking New Media, USA Today, ReadWrite, Phandroid, New York Times, TechCrunch, The Verge, Bloomberg and PC World

Tweets: @bradstone, @delrey and @jandawson

John Cook / GeekWire:

Amazon posts $437 million loss, worse than Wall Street feared

More: Re/code, ZDNet, Re/code, BuzzFeed, ZDNet, Electronista, WebProNews, Gigaom, Reuters and internetretailer.com

Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC:

Amazon shares drop 13 percent on missed estimates

More: bizjournals. See also Mediagazer

Microsoft:

Microsoft Cloud Strength and Hardware Progress Drive Record First-Quarter Revenue — Strong performance across commercial and consumer segments delivers revenue of $23.20 billion. — REDMOND, Wash. — October 23, 2014 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $23.20 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2014.

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft sees Surface revenue soar to $908M in Q1 2015, Xbox console sales grow 102%

More: Forbes, Business Insider, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Engadget and Windows Phone Central

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Up 3% After Reporting Better Than Expected FQ1 Revenue Of $23.20B, EPS Of $0.54

Scott Gilbertson / Ars Technica:

Ten years of Ubuntu: How Linux's beloved newcomer became its criticized king — It may not be Superman, but Ubuntu has done wonders for Linux. — Nicolás Demarchi — In October of 2004, a new Linux distro appeared on the scene with a curious name—Ubuntu.

More: The Register and Mike Linksvayer

Ina Fried / Re/code:

LG Gets Into the Smartphone Chip Game With Nuclun, an Eight-Core Processor — Korea's LG confirmed on Thursday night that it is indeed getting into the business of making its own mobile processors. — While most phone makers get their processors from companies such as Qualcomm and Nvidia …

More: LG Newsroom, 9to5Google, Inquirer, BetaNews, Gigaom, PC World, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Phones Review, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, Electronista, SlashGear, AndroidSPIN, CNET and PhoneArena

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Judge says Aereo must shut for good as live TV, but service may survive as a cloud DVR — Broadcasters put the final nail in the coffin of Aereo as a live-streaming TV service on Thursday, but a judge's ruling could open the door to it operating as a cloud-DVR service.

More: PandoDaily, DSLreports, Washington Post, The Verge, CNET, Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Bloomberg, Variety, Engadget, The Register, SlashGear, Electronista, Gizmodo, Reuters and Ars Technica. Tweets: @blackfog. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts. See also Mediagazer

Scott Austin / Wall Street Journal:

Study finds VC confidence in Silicon Valley declining for first time in two years — Venture Capitalists' Confidence Is Waning — or So It Seems … A quarterly survey that gauges the confidence level in Silicon Valley shows that venture capitalists downgraded their enthusiasm in the third quarter.

More: Business Insider, Bloomberg, BBC, bizjournals, Valleywag, The Awl and PE Hub Blog

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Deezer Buys Stitcher, Adds 35K Talk Radio Shows And Podcasts To Its Music Platform — Deezer, the Paris-based music streaming service that competes against the likes of Spotify and Rdio, is switching up its game in the battle for more differentiation, more users and a higher profile in the U.S …

More: VentureBeat, Re/code, CNET, The Next Web, Billboard, Reuters and Android Central

Jeremy Kirk / PC World:

Microsoft discloses severe Office zero-day flaw, publishes quick fix — Microsoft has published a temporary fix for a new zero-day flaw that affects nearly all versions of Windows and is currently being exploited via PowerPoint. — The flaw affects all Windows releases except Windows Server 2003 …

More: Microsoft TechNet, F-Secure Antivirus …, Guardian, Business Insider, McAfee, Naked Security, Help Net Security, Help Net Security, TrendLabs Security …, Inquirer, SecurityWeek, Lifehacker, WinBeta, SC Magazine, ZDNet, Slate, VentureBeat and The Register

Liz Gannes / Re/code:

Shuddle, an Uber for kids with childcare pros as drivers, launches today, has raised $2.6M, founded by Sidecar co-founder Nick Allen — Shuddle Is an Uber for Kids Driven by Childcare Pros — Shuddle, a new service for parents to arrange paid rides for their children, launches today.

More: WebProNews and Guardian. Tweets: @fmanjoo

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:

Airbnb valued at $13B ahead of staff stock sale — Airbnb's valuation is set to rise to $13 billion, up from $10 billion earlier this year, as it prepares an employee stock sale, according to people familiar with its plans. — The valuation would make the accommodation site second …

More: SiliconANGLE, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, bizjournals and Reuters

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Yelp Buys Restaurant-Kritik To Expand Its Presence In Germany — Yelp has boosted its presence in Europe after announcing the acquisition of Restaurant-Kritik, a restaurant review service in Germany. Restaurant-Kritik claims to have over 330,000 reviews of more than 94,000 restaurants across Germany.

More: Yelp Official Blog, VentureVillage, Webrazzi and WebProNews

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Q&A With Facebook's Josh Miller On Why His Rooms App Isn't Anonymous, It's The Early Web Reborn — Is Rooms the anonymous Facebook app people were expecting? “No. Unequivocally No...because you cannot be anonymous in our app,” Josh Miller tells me. The Branch founder turned Facebook product manager's …

More: Digiday, TechSpot, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, Engadget and ABC News

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Launches Pseudonymous App “Rooms” That Lets You Create Forums About Any Topic

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