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Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2014 Results — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2014. — “This has been a good quarter with strong results,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO. “We continue to focus on serving …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp's First Half Of 2014 Revenue Was $15M, Net Loss Of $232.5M Was Mostly Issuing Stock — Facebook disclosed financials of its $22 billion acquisition of WhatsApp for the first time today, and it looks like the 600 million user messaging app's revenue is still small.
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| Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters: |
Facebook warns of increased spending in 2015, expects costs to rise 55% to 75% — Facebook warns of increased spending, shares fall — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc warned on Tuesday of a dramatic increase in spending in 2015 and projected a slowdown in revenue growth this quarter, slicing a tenth off its market value.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
MCX forbids participating retailers from accepting any competing mobile payment products, will issue “steep” fine if contract broken — Apple Pay Runs Afoul of MCX, a Group With a Rival Product — One week after its debut, Apple's new mobile wallet is showing promise with consumers.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
W3C Declares HTML5 Standard Complete — More than four years ago, Steve Jobs declared war on Flash and heralded HTML5 as the way to go. You could be forgiven if you thought the HTML5 standard — the follow-up to 1997's HTML 4 — has long been set in stone, given that developers …
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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot: |
Verizon's tech news site SugarString won't let writers report on US spying or net neutrality — Verizon is launching a tech news site that bans stories on U.S. spying — Verizon is getting into the news business. What could go wrong? — The most-valuable, second-richest telecommunications company …
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Microsoft aims to release Office 16 in second half of 2015; Mac preview and Android tablet versions expected “soon” — Microsoft's latest target release date for Office 16: Second half 2015 — Summary: Microsoft is targeting the second half of calendar 2015 as its latest release target … | Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Ruckus launches its first small business router: Could this be Google's new Wi-Fi hardware? — Ruckus Wireless will supply the gear for Google's planned business Wi-Fi service, Gigaom has learned. The catch is Ruckus has never sold any small business products — not until today, that is.
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Stripe Hires Top Google Ops Exec Claire Johnson to Lead Business Operations — Stripe has nabbed longtime Google exec Claire Johnson as its new head of business operations, in one of the first major management hires by the online payments software startup. — Johnson, who has been at the … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
OneNote for iOS gets cloud storage attachments and Touch ID, OneNote for Mac gets SharePoint Server support — Microsoft today announced updates to OneNote for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with a slew of new features. You can download the first two directly from Apple's App Store (iPhone, iPad) and the third from the Mac App Store.
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple's Greg Joswiak blames iOS 8.0.1 issues on software distribution — In a rare interview on Tuesday, Apple VP of iPhone, iPod, and iOS Product marketing Greg “Joz” Joswiak mostly towed the company line, but did reveal that issues with last month's iOS 8.0.1 rollout were caused by software distribution issues.
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| Anna Irrera / Wall Street Journal: |
U.K. Regulator to Explore Benefits of Blockchain Technology — The United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority is to explore the potential benefits of the technology underpinning bitcoin to the wider financial services industry, according to the regulator's chief executive.| Mike Carter / The Seattle Times: |
FBI created fake Seattle Times Web page to nab bomb-threat suspect — The FBI created a fake news story on a bogus Seattle Times Web page to plant software in the computer of a suspect in a series of bomb threats to Timberline High School in 2007, documents reveal.
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| Justin Diaz / AndroidHeadlines: |
Fleksy announces $2M funding round, keyboard app for iOS and Android 75% off until Friday — Fleksy Announces $2 Million In Funding For Further App Development Alongside Android Update — If you haven't tried out Fleksy Keyboard yet, there really isn't a better time to give it a shot …
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PE Hub Blog, Marketwired, PhoneDog.com, BGR, Android Police and Android and Me
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
LG Shipped A Record 16.8 Million Smartphones In Q3 2014, Up 39% Year-On-Year — Samsung is under-pressure as a long-period of growth continues to flatten out, but things couldn't be going much better for fellow Korean phone-maker LG, which just announced that it shipped a best-ever 16.8 million smartphones in Q3 2014.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Taco Bell releases iOS and Android app allowing customers nationwide to order food for pickup — You can order Taco Bell from a smartphone starting today — Get ready to order FourthMeal with your smartphone. Taco Bell will today announce a new app that lets customers nationwide order food ahead …
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Inside Mobile Apps, USA Today, TechCrunch, BGR, GeekWire, Gizmodo, Tech Times, Marketing Land, FierceMobileIT News, SlashGear, IntoMobile, CNET, Consumerist, 9to5Google and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @marktheshark
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Introduces WatchMe For Android To Bring Live Broadcasting Capabilities To Apps — YouTube is bringing its live broadcasting capabilities to the world of third-party app developers starting today with the launch of the new open source project called “YouTube WatchMe for Android.”
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YouTube API Blog, Electronista, AndroidHeadlines.com, 9to5Google and Engadget
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
FTC sues AT&T over ‘deceptive’ throttling of unlimited data customers — The Federal Trade Commission is suing AT&T because the carrier throttles speeds of its unlimited data customers, a policy that the FTC describes as “deceptive” and “unfair.”
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Apple expands iAd platform to 70 new countries, bringing total to 95 — Apple has announced that starting today, the iAd platform will be available in 70 new countries, bringing the total number of supported nations to 95. — Today's expansion is by far the largest the company has ever attempted …
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| Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
Twitch changes its rules of conduct to forbid topless and “sexually suggestive” streaming — You may have the body of a Greek god, all rippling muscle and taut sinew, but no matter how good you look in a Speedo (or out of one), Twitch would very much appreciate it if you'd keep yourself covered up while you're streaming on its service.| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Google launches Google Fit app for Android, capturing all your fitness data in one place — Google Fit was unveiled to the world back in June, promising a platform to help people track their fitness goals. It's essentially a set of APIs that lets developers dig in to rival apps and combine data …
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| Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Ex-eBay, Google payments exec Tilenius launches mobile health startup Vida — Stephanie Tilenius, who has spent much of her recent career in the payments and commerce business at Google, eBay and PayPal, is getting back to her roots in a way with her latest startup.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge review: more fun and interesting to use than Note 4, curved edge screen of little benefit — Samsung Galaxy Note Edge review — A special screen on a proven phone — but is curved covetable? — I would very much like a flexible smartphone that I could scrunch up like paper and stuff into a pocket.Sponsor Posts
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