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Microsoft:

Microsoft Cloud and Devices Momentum Highlights Second Quarter Results — Commercial cloud revenue grows triple-digits for the sixth consecutive quarter, reaching an annualized revenue run rate of $5.5 billion REDMOND, Wash. — January 26, 2015 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue …

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Brandon Bailey / Associated Press:

Microsoft shares down 4.4% after hours as investors react to “not great” results for flagship business — Microsoft earnings report doesn't excite market — 1 photo — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Big jumps in sales of its Surface tablets, cloud computing software …

More: PC World and Business Insider

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft sees Surface revenue jump to $1.1B in Q2 2015, sells record 10.5M Lumia smartphones

More: Ubergizmo, Windows Central and BGR

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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Slips 2% After Reporting $26.5B In FQ2 Revenue, $1.1B In Surface Revenue

More: GeekWire and Business Insider

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Microsoft sold 6.6M Xbox consoles during the holiday quarter, down 11% from a year ago

Eileen Sullivan / Associated Press:

Sheriffs pressure Google to disable Waze feature that warns when police are near, saying it endangers officers — Sheriffs want popular police-tracking app disabled — WASHINGTON (AP) — Sheriffs are campaigning to pressure Google Inc. to turn off a feature on its Waze traffic software that warns drivers when police are nearby.

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Re/code:

Snapchat “Discover” Content Feature Launches Tuesday — Snapchat's boosters have long argued the company could be more than just a messaging service: It could also be a platform for media companies to reach the startup's youthful audience. — Now Snapchat will try to deliver on its promises.

More: New York Post, CNET, VentureBeat, Marketing Land and Ubergizmo. Tweets: @mikeisaac

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Spencer Woodman / The Verge:

Exclusive: politicians are supporting Comcast's TWC merger with letters ghostwritten by Comcast — On August 21st, 2014, Mayor Jere Wood of Roswell, Georgia, sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission expressing emphatic support for Comcast's controversial effort to merge with Time Warner Cable.

More: Ars Technica, Slashdot, Electronista, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo and The Next Web

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Matt Warman / Telegraph:

Former Motorola CEO: Nexus 6 doesn't have fingerprint reader because Apple bought AuthenTec, the best supplier — Dennis Woodside on Motorola, Google and the future of Dropbox — Silicon Valley veteran Dennis Woodside reveals a Motorola Nexus 6 secret, and tells Matt Warman …

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Exclusive: Kleiner Perkins tried to ‘acquire’ Social+Capital Partnership — Venture capital stalwart Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers recently tried to “acquire” Social+Capital Partnership, a Palo Alto-based VC firm formed in 2011 by former Facebook FB executive Chamath Palihapitiya, Fortune has learned.

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Richard Lawler / Engadget:

WSJ: Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Nashville and North Carolina — Rumors broke over the weekend that Google might bring its gigabit internet Fiber connection to Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, NC next, but it's not stopping there. The Tennesseean reports Nashville has an announcement planned …

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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Analysts expect Apple Q1 2015 sales to surpass $68B, up 21% YoY, and higher than Apple's $63.5B to $66.5B guidance — Handicapping Apple's earnings — This is one of those “big, but how big?” quarters. — Apple told Wall Street to expect total sales somewhere in the range of $63.5 to $66.5 billion …

More: Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac and iMore

Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:

Google's new wireless service can switch between T-Mobile, Sprint, and Wi-Fi hotspots to find best signal, could be available nationwide first half 2015 — Google's MVNO would reportedly look for best Sprint, T-Mobile or Wi-Fi signal — Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) rumored MVNO service with Sprint …

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Kif Leswing / Gigaom:

Nest to replace old Dropcams for free before they go dark April 15 — One downside of having products that require cloud services in order to work is that the physical objects can suddenly become obsolete. — Over the weekend, Dropcam announced a “legacy camera replacement program,” …

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Tom Krazit / Gigaom:

Facebook and Instagram go down for almost an hour during Snowmadgeddon — Silent night: Facebook, Instagram go down for Snowmadgeddon — All those carefully crafted images of snowscapes will have to stay locked up for a bit, East Coasters, because Facebook and Instagram are down.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Engadget and Business Insider

Tweets: @ap, @lizardmafia, @instagram, @engadget and @monkbent

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

1Password for iOS adds one-time password tool for two factor auth, new login creator, more — The popular secure password management app 1Password is out with a big update today adding new features on both iOS and Mac. Arriving in version 5.2 of 1Password for iOS is a new login creator tool …

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Facebook Is Testing A Simple App For Low-End Android Phones — Not content with spinning out apps for stickers inside Messenger, Groups and new addition Rooms, Facebook has launched another standalone app. Facebook Lite, which some may recall as a simplified version of its mobile website from 2009-2010 …

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple Maps Connect for small businesses expands to UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Singapore — Apple Maps Connect for small businesses expands beyond the U.S. — Apple has notified Apple Maps Connect for Small Businesses users that the service has expanded beyond the United States …

More: App Advice, iMore and MacNN

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Dropbox acquires design-minded collaboration software startup Pixelapse — Summary:Pixelapse will remain a standalone product as a migration plan to the core Dropbox platform is hatched out. — Dropbox has added another collaboration startup to the portfolio with the acquisition of Pixelapse.

More: The Pixelapse Blog, The Next Web, Computerworld, VentureBeat and Neowin

New York Times:

Facebook Said to Block Pages on Muhammad to Avoid Ban in Turkey — ISTANBUL — To avoid being banned throughout Turkey, Facebook has blocked a number of pages containing content that the Turkish authorities had deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad, according to a company employee with direct knowledge of the matter.

More: TechCrunch, Mashable, The Hill, CNET and The Week

Tweets: @evacide, @jilliancyork and @zeynep

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Gulsen Solaker / Reuters:

Turkish court orders Facebook to block pages insulting Mohammad: media

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Martyn Williams / Network World:

DEA's license plate reader program tracks car journeys across US, shares data with other law enforcement agencies — DEA cameras tracking hundreds of millions of car journeys across the US — A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program to keep tabs on cars close to the U.S.-Mexican border …

More: Wall Street Journal, Blog of Rights, Reuters, The Hill, The Week, Guardian, Reuters, Mediaite and Jalopnik

Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Meg Whitman will lead HP Enterprise, Dion Weisler to head HP's PC and printer unit after split — HP Names Executive Teams for After the Big Breakup — After Hewlett-Packard splits in two later this year, Meg Whitman will be CEO of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, the forthcoming corporate computing …

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