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Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch:

Twitter Will Now Put Recommended (Not Newest) Tweets At the Top Of Your Timeline — If Twitter is going to fix its growth problem, it's going to have to make some drastic moves — and, with an update today, that means even changing the timeline. — Twitter today is unveiling a new Twitter timeline …

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Wayne Cunningham / CNET News:

US government agency will consider Google's autonomous car system as the driver of the car for the purposes of federal safety standards — Feds declare that Google's self-driving car is its own driver — In a letter to Google, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration determined …

Twitter:

Twitter Q4 revenue up 48% YoY to $710M, company lowers revenue guidance for Q1 to somewhere between $595M and $610M — Twitter Q4 and Fiscal Year 2015 Shareholder Letter — SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA February 10, 2016 Dear Shareholders, As we announced last week, we're taking a new approach to our earnings announcements.

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Re/code

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TechCrunch:

Twitter reports 320M total MAUs, no change from previous quarter, but MAUs excluding SMS fast followers declined to 305M in Q4 from 307M in Q3 — Twitter's User Growth Goes Nowhere As It Meets Revenue Expectations Of $710M — Twitter today reported its fourth-quarter earnings …

Lucian Constantin / PCWorld:

Identity thieves obtain 100,000 electronic filing PINs from IRS system — The automated attack attempted to obtain E-file PINS for over 460,000 people using previously stolen personal data — The Internal Revenue Service was the target of an attack that used stolen social security numbers …

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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Marc Andreessen assails “anti-colonialism” in tweet defending Facebook's Free Basics, roiling Indian tech world, and later apologizes — Marc Andreessen Offends India Defending Facebook's Free Basics. (Yes, the Country.) — Venture capitalist and well-known Twitter philosopher …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

HBO Now has 800K paying subscribers 10 months after launch, short of predicted 1-2M subs — HBO NOW, The Network's Streaming Service For Cord Cutters, Has Just 800,000 Subscribers — HBO NOW may have scored as one of last year's top streaming apps in terms of revenue …

More: Re/code, New York Post, The Verge, Engadget, Seeking Alpha, Associated Press, Variety, Ars Technica and App Advice. See also Mediagazer

Jake Smith / ZDNet:

Opera gets $1.2B buyout offer from Chinese consortium, a 53% premium on prior stock close; Opera's board unanimously recommends deal — Opera gets $1.2 billion buyout offer from mix of Chinese firms, board recommends deal — There is “strong strategic and industrial logic to the acquisition,” according to the software maker's CEO.

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Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:

Facebook debuts auto-captioning for video ads, says having captions can increase video view time by 12% — Facebook wants advertisers to get a lot better at silent video — People are now watching 100 million hours of video on Facebook every day — but many of those users …

More: Facebook, AdExchanger, Marketing Land and Forbes. See also Mediagazer

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:

Cisco beats Q2 estimates with $11.8B in quarterly revenue, up 2% YoY; announces $15B share buyback plan; stock up over 6% after hours — Cisco tops Q2 targets with $11.8 billion in revenue — The networking giant managed to beat analyst estimates after offering a mild outlook last quarter.

More: Tech Trader Daily, Re/code and Marketwire

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Forms gets templates, support for Google's Apps Scripts and add-ons like in Docs, Sheets — Google Forms Gets Templates, Add-On Support And More — Google Forms, the company's tool for creating and analyzing surveys, is getting a major update today.

More: 9to5Google, The Next Web, Official Google for Work Blog and WebProNews

Reuters:

Storyful Managing Editor Aine Kerr to join Facebook to manage journalism partnerships — Storyful editor to join Facebook to manage journalism partnerships — The managing editor of News Corp's social media news agency Storyful said on Wednesday she is leaving to manage journalism partnerships …

More: Storyful Blog. See also Mediagazer

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

GitHub Updates Its Enterprise Product With Clustering Support, Updated Design — GitHub Enterprise, the company's on-premises solution for managing code, is getting a major update today. It comes at a time when there seems to be some upheaval in the company around the importance management has been putting on this product.

More: Business Insider, GitHub, FierceCIO News and InfoWorld

Julia Fioretti / Reuters:

Source: Google to scrub search results on all TLDs including .com when accessed from Europe to placate EU privacy regulators over right to be forgotten — Google to scrub web search results more widely to soothe EU objections — Google (GOOGL.O) will start scrubbing search results across …

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Janakiram MSV / Forbes:

Google launches alpha version of Google Cloud Functions to let devs run single-purpose functions without full server hosting, similar to AWS Lambda — Google Brings Serverless Computing To Its Cloud Platform — Google Cloud Functions, the latest addition to the Google Cloud Platform …

More: SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, ZDNet, The Register, InfoWorld, Business Cloud News, CloudTweaks.com and Google Developers

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