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Twitter Reports First Quarter 2015 Results; Lowers Full-Year 2015 Expectations — SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - April 28, 2015 - Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2015, and outlined lower 2015 expectations.
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Twitter shares close down 18% on Q1 revenue of $436M that missed expectations, and weak forecast — Twitter closes 18% lower on disappointing report — Twitter's earnings came out early, and the stock halted for trading. CNBC's Mary Thompson reports on the first trade as the stock resumed trading.
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Twitter Improves Ads By Acquiring TellApart, Selling Them Through Google's DoubleClick — To boost its commerce ads and sell more of them, Twitter announced some big moves as part of today's earnings. It's acquired commerce ads tech firm TellApart, which was formerly a big Facebook ad partner.
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Tweets: @jguynn, @robinwauters, @amir and @hunterwalk
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The rise of Silk Road: how Ross Ulbricht built a global drug bazaar — The Rise & Fall of Silk Road — I am a great admirer of your work. Brilliant, utterly brilliant! I will keep this short and to the point. I want to buy the site. I've been in the business for over 20 years.
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Tweets: @nickbilton, @vilile, @nateabele, @fmanjoo and @joshbearman
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Google app on Android adds Google Now cards for 70 new apps, including Zipcar, Circa, Spotify, OpenTable, and Runkeeper — New in the Google app: more Now cards from your Android apps — Our phones help us find answers to questions large and small, stay on top of what's happening … | Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Unable to restructure debt, game console maker OUYA looks for a buyer, hires Mesa Global to handle sale — Exclusive: Gaming startup OUYA needs to find a buyer quickly — Gaming company OUYA is on the auction block after tripping a debt covenant, according to a confidential email sent … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
LG debuts the G4 with a 5.5-inch QuadHD 2560 x 1440 screen, camera with f1.8 lens aperture and autofocus, Snapdragon 808 processor, and leather back — LG's new G4 is a powerhouse phone wrapped in leather — LG's new flagship smartphone, the G4, is official.
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Tweets: @dcseifert, @dcseifert, @dcseifert, @dcseifert, @dcseifert, @llsethj and @dcseifert
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Apple Watch apps whose primary function is to tell time will be rejected, say updated App Store Review Guidelines — Apple says it will reject Apple Watch apps that just tell the time, more first-party faces may be coming soon — Apple has today added a new guideline to the App Store Review Guidelines … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
China's Great Firewall has been replacing Facebook Connect's Javascript module with redirection code en route since Sunday, seemingly for DDoS purposes — Facebook's login system is being hijacked by China's Great Firewall — For the last three days, China's Great Firewall has been intercepting …
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Loop Commerce Raises $16 Million For Its “E-Gifting” Checkout Service For Online Retailers — Loop Commerce, a company that has developed an alternative checkout technology for e-commerce sites that allows customers to more easily buy gifts for friends without having to worry with product details … | Rob Triggs / Android Authority: |
Cyanogen ends OnePlus partnership, aims to work with bigger Chinese vendors — Speaking in Beijing at the Global Mobile Internet Conference, Cyanogen's Kirt McMaster and Steve Kondik have been discussing the past and future of the fledgling company. After a fairly rocky relationship …
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Amazon launches Amazon Business marketplace with exclusive merchandise and better prices, phases out Amazon Supply — Amazon Expands Business-Sales Marketplace After Three Years — After three years of testing, Amazon.com is hoping to widen the reach of its business customer marketplace site …
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Opinion: patent troll Nathan Myhrvold is a bad role model, and a poor choice for UCLA's commencement keynote — Students need a voice in commencement speaker decisions — At this year's graduation ceremony, the class of 2015 will get the chance to learn an important lesson: In the real world …
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Tweets: @seanyhide, @mmasnick, @gabrielrossman, @jeffjohnroberts, @saspatent and @caseynewton
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Uber is bringing its food delivery service to New York City and Chicago — This week Uber is launching its food delivery service, UberEats, in New York City and Chicago. The company has already piloted the program in Los Angeles and Barcelona. UberEats will be accessible from within Uber's existing app …
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Signpost Raises $20.5 Million To Take The Marketing Burden Off Brick-And-Mortar Stores — Any business today worth its salt has a need for software to manage inventory, payroll and a customer email list. What store operators don't have is extra time. So as a wave of companies rush … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal brings One Touch payments to the web to let users shop without re-entering information — PayPal Brings Its Instant Checkout Service “One Touch” Across The Web — PayPal today is making a change to its online payment service on the web, which will now allow customers to checkout …
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Amazon starts making ads from Kindle e-books for advertisers that are not selling products and services on the e-commerce site — Amazon has started making ads from Kindle e-books — Many people don't even know Amazon has an advertising business. It sells ads across Amazon.com and Amazon-owned sites like IMDB.com.
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SendGrid: Employee Account Hacked, Used to Steal Customer Credentials — Sendgrid, an email service used by tens of thousands of companies — including Silicon Valley giants as well as Bitcoin exchange Coinbase — said attackers compromised a Sendgrid employee's account … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's migration to Graph API v2.0 on Apr. 30: app developers forced to adapt to limited access to a user's friends' data, more refined privacy permissions — Facebook Is Shutting Down Its API For Giving Your Friends' Data To Apps — It was always kind of shady that Facebook … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
T-Mobile Gains 1.8 Million Customers in First Quarter as Revenue Slightly Exceeds Expectations — T-Mobile on Tuesday reported that added 1.8 million customers in the first quarter, including 1.1 million core postpaid customers under the T-Mobile brand. — The carrier also said it expects …
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LG G4 coming to AT&T and Verizon “soon”, Sprint and US Cellular in June, and T-Mobile in May via sweepstakes — LG G4 is Coming to AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, and US Cellular — According to LG, the new G4 will be available at all of the big US carriers, including AT&T …
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