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January 29, 2015, 8:20 AM

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Julia White / The Official Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft launches Office for Android tablets, new Outlook mail apps for iOS and Android — Office everywhere: More great news for Office on iOS and Android — Last week, we saw the new experiences coming with Windows 10, including how Office universal apps for Windows 10 will deliver …

More: Office Blogs, Ars Technica, GeekWire, Telegraph, SiliconANGLE, iMore, Engadget, Android Authority, Gigaom, ZDNet, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Verge, SlashGear, Android Central, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo UK and bit-tech.net. Tweets: @julwhite

Office Blogs:

New Outlook for iOS and Android integrates email, calendar, contacts, and files, supports Office 365, iCloud, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail — A deeper look at Outlook for iOS and Android — Today, we announced the release of Outlook for iOS and a preview of Outlook for Android.

Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

Samsung sold 71-75M smartphones in the holiday quarter, on par with Apple's 74.5M iPhone sales — Apple and Samsung in Dead Heat for Smartphone Dominance — Apple, which years ago ceded the top spot in the global smartphone market to rival Samsung, appears to have pulled into a dead heat.

More: TechCrunch, BGR, PC World, Inquirer, Inquirer, Fortune, The Verge, iMore, Bloomberg Business, PR Newswire, Wireless Smartphone Strategies, Tech Trader Daily, Android Central, TechCrunch, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac and CNET

Youkyung Lee / Associated Press:

Samsung Electronics' Q4 earnings down 27% to $4.9B, beating estimates on strength of component business — Samsung's 4Q profit drops but beats forecast — SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday its quarterly earnings dropped smaller-than-expected 27 percent …

Garett Sloane / Adweek:

Facebook mobile ad revenue accounts for 69% of total ad revenue in Q4, up from 53% Q4 2013; 1.19B mobile MAUs — Facebook Just Shared Insane Q4 Mobile Numbers and Ad Sales — Its smartphone promos alone did $2.5 billion — Facebook's mobile sales continue to skyrocket …

More: VentureBeat, Forbes, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, NBC News, Guardian, CNNMoney, MobileSyrup.com, Fast Company, ZDNet, The Next Web, Variety, CNET, Deadline, VatorNews and Marketing Land

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Facebook video views hit 3B per day, up from 1B daily views in September 2014

More: Bloomberg Business. Tweets: @sarahfrier

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Beats Estimates In Q4 With $3.85B Revenue, User Growth Up To 2.9% QOQ To Hit 1.39B

More: Wall Street Journal, PC World, BIA/Kelsey, Seeking Alpha, GeekWire, bizjournals and Engadget

Facebook:

Facebook Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2014 Results

Travis Green / Google Commerce:

Now available in the UK: Send and request money right from Gmail — Since we announced Send Money in Gmail, paying back your friends has never been so simple, whether you're chipping in for lunch or reimbursing your housemate for your share of the rent. Today, we're excited to make this feature available for Gmail users in the UK.

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Engadget, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, Electronista and Android Central

Paul Mozur / New York Times:

New regulations in China require source code, audits, and backdoors from companies working with banks, alarming Western tech firms — New Rules in China Upset Western Tech Companies — HONG KONG — The Chinese government has adopted new regulations requiring companies that sell computer equipment …

More: PC World, Gigaom, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Electronista, Patently Apple, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica and AppleInsider. Tweets: @amir

Ben Kepes / Forbes:

Amazon to introduce WorkMail, a cloud email and calendar service aimed at Microsoft Exchange's market, in Q2 2015 — Amazon Changes The Game Again—AWS Introduces WorkMail — Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud computing business unit, continues to surprise industry commentators with both its growth and its incessant innovation.

More: Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, AWS Official Blog, Bloomberg Business, Inquirer, InfoWorld, New York Times, Network World, Bloomberg Business, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, GeekWire, The Verge and Ubergizmo

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Tumblr Takes On Medium With Upgrades To Its Writing Interface And More — Starting today, Tumblr is rolling out a series of updates to its online blogging platform designed to make the service more attractive and useful for content creators, and specifically for those writing long-form content.

More: Tumblr Staff, Digital Trends, The Verge, The Next Web and Fast Company. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer

Ben Woods / The Next Web:

Sky plans to launch a mobile voice and data service in the UK through a partnership with Telefónica — Sky has today announced that it will begin offering mobile voice and data services to customers for the first time following an agreement with Telefónica UK.

More: Engadget, Inquirer, Sky and Wall Street Journal

Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg Business:

Alibaba Q3 net income fell 28% to $964M, misses estimates as Jack Ma invests in apps, shares fall 8% in pre-market trading — Alibaba Profit Misses Estimates as Jack Ma Boosts App Spending — Don't Miss Out — … (Bloomberg) — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. posted profit …

More: Reuters, Wall Street Journal and CNBC

Ina Fried / Re/code:

Qualcomm Cuts Outlook, Warning Its Snapdragon 810 Dropped From a Flagship Device — Wireless chipmaker Qualcomm said Wednesday that it is cutting its financial outlook for the next two quarters as its Snapdragon 810 chip was dropped by a large customer. — The company also blamed continued concerns …

More: Gigaom, CNET, Android Authority, SamMobile, Reuters, Mashable, Computerworld, Forbes, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, The Register, Android Police, PC World, TechnoBuffalo, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, Pocketnow and Gizmodo UK

Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:

Peeing My Way Around New York City With Airpnp, The App For Bathroom Emergencies — Airpnp is the worst-designed app I've ever used. It's also the most profound. — Justine Zwiebel/BuzzFeed News — My bladder is the Murphy's Law of organs. — It's not that it's small, exactly; rather, it's disagreeable; neurotic.

Tweets: @jmbooyah, @jaredbkeller, @msamandalewis, @katyawachtel and @jbasher

Mark Hachman / PC World:

Microsoft adds smart search of document text and photos with OCR in OneDrive for web and iPad — Microsoft OneDrive adds super-intelligent searching of document text, photos — Microsoft just made it easier to upload more photos and files to its OneDrive cloud service.

More: OneDrive Blog, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Engadget, SlashGear, The Fire Hose, The Verge, iMore, Ubergizmo, Neowin, Windows Central, iClarified, BetaNews and WinBeta

Eric Johnson / Re/code:

App Annie 2014 Index: Google Play saw 60% more downloads than iOS App Store, but App Store generated about 70% more in revenue — Google Play Downloads Are Growing Faster, but Apple Is Still Winning the Money Race — 2014 was a big year for Android apps and games; Google Play outpaced Apple's App Store …

More: App Annie Blog, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Guardian, Gigaom and AppleInsider

Tweets: @dujkan and @mdudas

Matthias Schaefer / The Jawbone Blog:

Jawbone launches marketplace for third-party devices and apps in the US — Experience the Internet of You: Introducing the Jawbone Marketplace — “At Jawbone, we embrace the promise of the Internet of Things. We can only put all this together if we work with others …

More: 9to5Google and Fortune

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:

Armed With A Push-Bike And $25 Million, Europe Beckons For Premium Take-Out Service Deliveroo — “I was actually the first delivery driver, I still do deliveries for 4 hours a week,” Deliveroo CEO and co-founder William Shu tells me during a call. “I don't do it on the scooter anymore, I do it on the bicycle.

More: Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Techworld.com and VentureBeat. Tweets: @fdestin. Thanks:@sohear

Ina Fried / Re/code:

FTC fines TracFone Wireless $40M for throttling customers after advertising “unlimited” data — FTC Says Unlimited Data With Throttling Doesn't Count as Unlimited — In a case that could have broad implications, the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday ordered prepaid mobile provider TracFone …

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