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October 23, 2015, 11:25 AM

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Bing finally reaches profitability, contributing more than $1B to Microsoft's Q1 revenue — Microsoft's Bing search business finally is profitable — Microsoft's search business has turned the corner and is finally profitable, and generated $1 billion in revenues during the company's first quarter of 2016.

More: Search Engine Land, TIME, Inquirer, BetaNews, CNET, WebProNews, InfoWorld, SiliconANGLE, eWeek, TechEye, Beyond Search, Seeking Alpha and TechCrunch

Tess Stynes / Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft beats expectations with $4.62B profit on $21.7B revenue, with Azure revenue more than doubling year-over-year — Microsoft Profit Climbs — Results beat analysts' estimates; shares climb after hours — Microsoft Corp. said its earnings improved from a year earlier, helped by lower costs, despite a decline in revenue.

More: New York Times, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Reuters, CNBC, Forbes, USA Today, VentureBeat and The Verge. Tweets: @davezatz

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BBC:

UK ISP TalkTalk suffers massive breach, warns data of 4M customers including credit card and bank details, could have been accessed — TalkTalk website hit by cyber-attack — Police are investigating after a “significant and sustained cyber-attack” on the TalkTalk website, the UK company has confirmed.

Barbara van Schewick / Medium:

As EU votes on net neutrality rules on Tuesday next week, activists urge MEPs to adopt key amendments — Europe Is About to Adopt Bad Net Neutrality Rules. Here's How to Fix Them — On Tuesday, October 27, the European Parliament will vote on rules intended to protect network neutrality in the European Union (EU).

More: Ars Technica, BerlinVC, TorrentFreak and Inquirer

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business:

CEO Jack Dorsey Gives a Third of His Twitter Stock Back to Employees — Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey is giving a third of his Twitter stock to the company's employees, he said in a tweet today. — The shares amount to 1 percent of the company, and the move is to “reinvest directly in our people,” he said.

More: Re/code, Business Insider, Washington Post, CNET, New York Times, TechCrunch, Reuters, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Wall Street Journal

Tweets: @jack, @jack, @jimcramer, @stevekopack, @rsg, @davidu, @bettina, @scottmaustin, @semil, @sacca and @sarahfrier

Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

Pandora will pay RIAA $90 million for playing pre-1972 songs — The maze of state copyright laws is an expensive headache for online music. — Internet radio company Pandora has agreed to pay the major US record labels $90 million over streaming of pre-1972 songs, which aren't covered …

More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, Business Wire, New York Times, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, Billboard, Reuters and Variety. See also Mediagazer

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Alphabet beats expectations with $18.7B in revenue and $7.35 earnings per share, announces $5B in stock buybacks; stock rises more than 10% after hours — Google's first earnings as Alphabet: Strong $18.7B in revenue, $7.35 earnings per share, $5B in buybacks

More: Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, New York Times, USA Today, InfoWorld, Phandroid, Bloomberg View, TechEye, MediaNama, Adotas, BBC, eWeek, Fone Arena, CNET, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily, Re/code, Mercury News and The Verge. Tweets: @ellenhuet

Ryan Whitwam / Android Police:

MapQuest Updated To v3.0 With Improved Maps, Multi-Stop Route Optimizations, And More — Okay, MapQuest still exists. I know, now that I've completely blown your mind, I can also tell you the MapQuest Android app has been updated to v3.0, and there are some substantial improvements.

Tweets: @mathewi

Robin Wauters / Tech.eu:

Naspers acquires majority stake in Russian online classifieds group Avito in $1.2 billion transaction — South African Internet and media company Naspers has become the largest shareholder in Avito, the leading online classifieds platform in Russia with more than 35 million unique monthly visitors …

More: Medium, Bloomberg Business, breakit.se, FinSMEs, Reuters, TechCrunch and EWDN. Tweets: @fdestin

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

New attacks on Network Time Protocol can defeat HTTPS and create chaos — Exploits can be used to snoop on encrypted traffic and cause debilitating outages. — Serious weaknesses in the Internet's time-synchronization mechanism can be exploited to cause debilitating outages …

More: TechEye, darkREADING, Softpedia News, The Register, Threatpost, Talos Intel, Talos Intel, SecurityWeek, Network World, ZDNet and Security Affairs

Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:

Amazon Handily Beats Analyst Expectations With $25.4B In Sales, Stock Spikes 11% — Amazon — once again — surprised investors by beating analyst expectations for its third-quarter earnings report, bringing in $25.4 billion in net sales and earnings of 17 cents cents per share.

More: TechEye, ZDNet, GeekWire, The Register, PCWorld, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, WebProNews and Re/code. See also Mediagazer

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