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January 29, 2015, 8:00 PM

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Google:

Google Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2014 Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2014. — “Google's full year revenue for 2014 was $66 billion, up 19% year on year,” said Patrick Pichette …

More: ZDNet, Engadget, Quartz, Business Insider, Re/code, AdExchanger, PC World, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Pocketnow, internetretailer.com, Silicon Valley Watcher, MacDailyNews, SlashGear and MobileSyrup.com

Tweets: @ampressman, @lexnfx, @lexnfx, @lexnfx, @chris_ciaccia, @asymco and @sai

Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:

Google misses in Q4 2014 with $14.48B revenue, $6.88 EPS on slowing ad revenue growth — Updated 1:45 p.m. Pacific with new details from Google's earnings call. — Google reported its fourth-quarter earnings today, with GAAP EPS of $6.88 on revenue of $14.48 billion (minus traffic acquisition costs).

More: Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Mercury News, 9to5Google, internetnews.com, Fortune, BGR, Tech Trader Daily, GeekWire, The Verge, USA Today, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Phandroid and bizjournals. Tweets: @chris_ciaccia

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft to be a minority investor in $70M+ round being raised by Cyanogen, makers of the popular modified Android OS CyanogenMod — Microsoft to Invest in Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen — Microsoft is investing in a hot startup that's trying to weaken Google 's hold over Android.

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, Office Blogs, The Daily Dot, Telegraph, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, Droid Life, GadgeTell, The Register, Bloomberg Business, AnandTech, Pocketnow and PC Magazine. Tweets: @msftnews

Office Blogs:

New Accompli-based Outlook for iOS and Android integrates email, calendar, contacts, and files, supports Office 365, Exchange, iCloud, Gmail, and Yahoo accounts

More: TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, Business Insider, MSDN Blogs, New York Times, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, Phandroid, Macworld, Digital Trends, Redmond Pie and MobileSyrup.com

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

The best Gmail app for the iPhone is now made by Microsoft

More: AppleInsider and Business Insider

Micah Singleton / The Verge:

FCC redefines broadband: minimum download speed raised from 4 to 25 Mbps, minimum upload from 1 to 3 Mbps — The FCC has changed the definition of broadband — The Federal Communications Commission has voted to change the definition of broadband by raising the minimum download speeds needed …

More: FCC.gov, Ars Technica, Techdirt, Gizmodo, Slate, Engadget, Business Insider, Guardian, Android Authority, AppleInsider, ZDNet, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, Hit & Run, NCTA, New York Times, Electronista, CNBC, Re/code, SlashGear, Geek.com, GamePolitics blogs and Gigaom

Tweets: @wstrife and @munin

Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Amazon posts $214M profit, $0.45 EPS in Q4 2014 on $29.33B revenue; Prime membership grows 53% year over year — Amazon Prime memberships grow 53% in 2014, despite $20 price hike … Amazon's decision to increase the price of its Prime membership doesn't seem to be hurting the company.

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Alibaba invests $10M in Ouya, plans to incorporate Ouya's game library into set-top boxes — Alibaba Breathes New Life Into Game-Console Maker Ouya — Ouya, the game-console maker that has struggled to gain traction since its record-breaking Kickstarter campaign, has received a new injection …

More: Ars Technica, Android Police, The Verge, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, Engadget, GamesIndustry.biz and Gamasutra

Daniel Terdiman / VentureBeat:

Facebook launches location tips on iPhone, tests Bluetooth beacons to increase geolocation accuracy in NYC — Facebook invades Yelp, Foursquare territory with geo-specific Place Tips for iPhone — Facebook knows that being able to target users with information about exactly where they are can be extremely lucrative.

More: Facebook, Engadget, ABC News, Electronista, Marketing Land, Re/code, The Verge and Consumerist

Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:

FCC raises record $44.9B in AWS-3 spectrum auction — It's over: FCC's AWS-3 spectrum auction ends at record $44.9B in bids — The FCC said bidding in the AWS-3 spectrum auction, known as auction 97, is now closed after 341 rounds of bidding. Total provisional winning bids came in at a record $44.899 billion.

More: The Verge, Wall Street Journal, DSLreports and TmoNews. Tweets: @bfeld. Thanks:@fiercewireless

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

The App Install Ad Boom Helps Tune Raise $27 Million — A few years ago, the app install ad business — fueled by developers who want to distribute their stuff across a universe of smartphones — didn't really exist. — Now it's one of the big reasons Facebook has a giant mobile ad business.

More: VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Brian Steinberg / Variety:

Nickelodeon to unveil stand-alone streaming video subscription service in February — Nickelodeon to Unveil Stand-Alone Subscription Video Service in February — Kid-entertainment giant Nickelodeon intends to follow the example of HBO and unveil a direct-to-consumer subscription service in February …

More: TechCrunch, Reuters, CNBC, New York Times, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, New York Post, ABC News, The Verge, Consumerist, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo and Telecompetitor. See also Mediagazer

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Delhi Uber passenger who alleges driver rape sues in U.S — (Reuters) - A passenger who said she had been raped by an Uber driver in India's capital sued the online car service in U.S. federal court on Thursday, claiming the company failed to maintain basic safety procedures.

More: PC World

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

FAA imposes 30-mile radius ban on drones around stadium hosting Super Bowl XLIX — Super Bowl will have 30-mile “no drone zone” — Buzzing quarterback Tom Brady with an unmanned aircraft might sound like fun, but anyone who flies a drone remotely near the University of Phoenix stadium …

More: Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, Marketing Land, Forbes, CNET, The Verge, Gizmodo, CNET, CNN, Fox News and Popular Science

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

FTC shuts down “revenge porn” operation, but imposes no fine — In one of the most despicable scams on the internet, Colorado resident Craig Brittain ran a website that posted nude photographs of hundreds of women alongside their Facebook profiles and other personal information …

More: The Verge, Techdirt, Popehat, Federal Trade Commission, CBS News, The Huffington Post, The Hill, The Daily Beast, SC Magazine, VentureBeat, TIME, National Journal, Ars Technica and Gizmodo

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Imgur introduces new tool to make high-quality GIFs from streaming video like YouTube — Imgur's new tool makes the most beautiful GIFs on the web — Imgur has been on a quest to upgrade the GIF, and part of that means making GIFs look a whole lot nicer.

More: Gigaom, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, BuzzFeed, Geek Beat, TechCrunch, The Daily Dot, The Next Web, Engadget, Mashable and Re/code. See also Mediagazer

Barb Darrow / Gigaom:

VMware's vCloud Air to integrate Google's BigQuery analytics, Cloud Datastore, Cloud DNS, and Cloud Storage services — VMware is bringing key Google services to its cloud — Here's a deal that has “corporate synergies” written all over it. VMware and Google are working together …

More: VMware Blogs, Data Center Knowledge, eWeek, Wall Street Journal, cloudpro.co.uk, Bloomberg Business, ZDNet, Forbes, RealWire, Virtualization Review and CRN

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:

Apple resolves iTunes Connect issue presenting wrong user name and apps for developers — Widespread iTunes Connect issue presenting wrong user name and apps for developers (Update: Resolved) — iTunes Connect, Apple's portal where developers manage software published on the App Store …

More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, InvestorPlace, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, GeekWire and The Next Web

Tweets: @tapbot_paul, @tapbot_paul, @bitario, @llsethj, @9to5mac, @drbarnard and @apollozac

Alden Kroll / Steam Community:

Valve has paid out $57M+ to 1.5K creators across 75 countries through Steam Workshop since 2011; announces curated workshops for non-Valve games — Content Creators Earn Over $50M Through Steam Workshop, Can Now Earn Money in More Games — When we launched the Workshop late in 2011 …

More: games.on.net, gameinformer.com, TechSpot, GeekWire, Engadget and The Verge

Maya Kosoff / Business Insider:

Spotify working with Goldman Sachs to raise $500M at possible $6B+ valuation; could delay IPO for another year — Spotify Is Looking To Raise $500 Million In New Funding — Spotify is looking to raise $500 million with help from Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

More: Wall Street Journal, CNET, The Verge and Mashable

Tweets: @joshconstine and @finansakrobat

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica:

Nintendo to share up to 70 percent of ad revenue with game YouTubers — Video partnership program comes with some important restrictions, though. — Nintendo's somewhat indecisive stance on letting streamers and producers use video of its games online seems to be crystallizing …

More: Polygon, Kotaku, GameSpot, GeekWire, TechSpot, gameinformer.com, Zack Scott, Tech Times, SlashGear, Game Rant, Nintendo World Report Updates, TrustedReviews and Joystiq

Owen Williams / The Next Web:

Samsung's Gear VR will provide in-flight entertainment for first-class Qantas passengers — A new partnership between Samsung and Australian airline Qantas means passengers flying on the airline will be able to use a Gear VR on long-haul flights. — A limited number of Gear VR devices …

More: Qantas News Room, Slate, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, Gizmodo Australia, Tech Times and ABC News

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

GIF search engine Giphy raises $17M Series B led by Lightspeed Ventures at $80M valuation — After An Approach From Facebook, Giphy Raises $17M At An $80M Valuation — Giphy — the betaworks-backed platform for searching and sharing gifs — has just raised $17 million in Series B funding led …

More: Business Insider and Crowdfund Insider

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

‘Fitbit For Dogs’ Maker Whistle Acquires Tagg Pet Tracker And Raises $15M — Wearables for pets used to be a punchline, but now it's a legitimate business with multiple players active in the space. Said space did just get a bit smaller today, as Whistle, the startup which launched its Fitbit for dogs back in 2013.

More: Gigaom, Business Wire, bizjournals, BestTechie, PE Hub Blog and Wearable Tech Insider

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