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April 23, 2015, 11:05 PM

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Alex Sherman / Bloomberg Business:

Sources: Comcast to drop proposed Time Warner Cable takeover deal after FCC staff recommends hearing; announcement as soon as Friday — Comcast Plans to Drop Time Warner Cable Deal — Comcast Corp. is planning to walk away from its proposed $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc. …

Bloomberg Business:

Comcast's hurdles were too high, despite political donations, deep Washington ties, and $17M spent on lobbying

More: Forbes and BuzzFeed

Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:

Comcast's Time Warner Cable bid and FCC's stance on net neutrality were separate yet intertwined issues

More: Re/code, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Business

Tweets: @jbflint, @shaliniwsj and @pkafka

Amazon.com:

Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Sales up 15% to $22.72 Billion — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2015. — Operating cash flow increased 47% to $7.84 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $5.35 billion …

More: BuzzFeed, The Register, Quartz, Washington Post, BBC, Fortune, GeekWire, Business Insider and Tech Trader Daily. Tweets: @rsarver

Rachel King / ZDNet:

Amazon Web Services generated $5.16B in revenue last year, $1.57B in revenue last quarter, up from $1.1B in the same quarter last year — Amazon breaks out cloud results for first time on Q1 earnings report — Summary:Analysts and shareholders have been waiting many moons for Amazon …

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Tweets: @jbrodkin, @delrey and @tcarmody

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon revenue up 15% YoY to $22.72B, posts net loss of $57M after $108M profit a year ago — Amazon Swings to Loss Despite Jump in Sales — E-commerce firm's cloud computing business posts revenue of $1.57 billion — Amazon.com Inc. finally revealed financial details …

More: The Atlantic Online, New York Times, TechCrunch and smartcompany.com.au. See also Mediagazer

Microsoft:

Microsoft FY15 Q3: Increasing usage of Azure, Office 365, Bing, and Xbox Live contributes to growth — Earnings Release FY15 Q3 — Strength in Microsoft Cloud Highlights Q3 Results Increasing usage of Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Bing and Xbox Live contributes to Q3 growth REDMOND …

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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Microsoft's Q3 revenue grew 6% YoY to $21.7B, Surface revenue up 44%, Commercial Cloud revenue up 106%, Office 365 hits 12.4M subscribers

More: Re/code, Windows Central and Seeking Alpha

Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed:

Apple shares list of must-have apps for Watch, including Twitter, Instagram, New York Times, Mint, Citymapper, Strava, and more, as Watch App Store goes live — Apple Thinks You Should Use These Apps On The Apple Watch — As the App Store for the Apple Watch goes live today, Apple reveals which apps it thinks are must-haves.

More: 9to5Mac, The Verge, PC Magazine, iPhone, Electronista, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, InvestorPlace, MacStories, Touch Arcade, AppleInsider and MacNN

Tweets: @wjrothman, @reneritchie and @mgsiegler

Thanks:@stephaniemlee

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:

Apple opens up the Apple Watch App Store with “more than 3,000 apps”

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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Developers describe making Apple Watch apps with no access to the device, focusing on simplicity in first gen apps, and how apps will evolve

More: Cult of Mac and iMore

Google:

Google Inc. Announces First Quarter 2015 Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2015. — “Google's first quarter revenue was $17.3 billion, up 12% year on year. Excluding the net impact of foreign currency headwinds …

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Google misses estimates with $17.26B revenue, rising US dollar and slowing growth to blame

More: 9to5Google and New York Times

Wall Street Journal:

Filings: Kleiner Perkins offers to waive nearly $1M in legal fees if Ellen Pao doesn't appeal, offered $965K settlement last year — Kleiner Perkins Is Seeking Nearly $1 Million in Legal Fees From Ellen Pao — Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers filed legal …

More: The Verge, Reuters, New York Times, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, CNET, Forbes and USA Today

Tweets: @jeffelder and @scottmaustin

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Dropbox's Collaborative Note-Taking Service, Dropbox Notes, Heads Into Beta Testing — Earlier this month, Dropbox was spotted testing an early version of an online note-taking service dubbed “Project Composer,” which appeared to have roots in the company's 2014 acquisition of collaborative docs startup HackPad.

More: The Verge, SlashGear, Pocket-lint and ResearchBuzz

Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority:

Acer unveils a new 15-inch Chromebook, Iconia One 8 tablet and gaming-centric Predator tablet — At a press event held in New York earlier today, Acer announced a slew of new products that will all be available sometime this year. The company announced a very budget-friendly Chromebook and tablet …

More: Engadget, CNET, eWeek, BetaNews, PCWorld, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, Electronista, Pocket-lint and Android Central

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Instacart Finally Tells You When It's Charging You More Than Stores — As Instacart, the grocery delivery service, has grown in popularity, one unanswered question has followed: Am I paying more on Instacart than I would if I bought the same food in a store? — Now Instacart says it's ready to be transparent about that answer.

Tweets: @delrey, @delrey, @mikeisaac and @caseynewton

Alex Dobie / Android Central:

Samsung reveals next-gen Gear smartwatch will have round face while announcing SDK release — Samsung's next Gear smartwatch will have a round screen — Samsung has announced that it'll release the SDK for its next smartwatch to developers before the product launch itself — and in so doing …

More: Samsung Mobile Press, Phones Review, iDownloadBlog.com, TechnoBuffalo, Droid Life, Phandroid, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, CNET, Digital Trends, Pocketnow, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, The Verge, Samsung Tomorrow and MobileSyrup.com

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