Techmeme: Users around the world who infrequently log in to Facebook say it has been increasing re-engagement prompts via emails and text messages recently (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg)

Microsoft Investor Relations:

Microsoft reports $28.92B in Q2 2018 revenue, up 12% YoY, net loss of $6.3B due to $13.8B charge related to tax overhaul — REDMOND, Wash. — January 31, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended December 31, 2017: · Revenue was $28.9 billion and increased 12%

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Tweets: @jeffgrubb, @markrussinovich, @fxshaw, @maryjofoley, @mehedih_, @sai, and @greene

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft's Q2 productivity revenue up 25% YoY to $9B, Intelligent Cloud revenue up 15% YoY to $7.8B, personal computing revenue up 2% YoY to $12.2B

More: Reuters and Axios

Facebook:

Mark Zuckerberg says showing fewer viral videos reduced the total time people spent on Facebook by ~50M hours every day, as MAUs reach 2.13B, up 14% YoY — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2017.

Richard Nieva / CNET:

Facebook reports Q4 revenue of $12.97B, vs $12.55B est., up 47% YoY; net income of $4.27B, up 20% YoY, despite $2.27B charge due to tax overhaul — The world's biggest social network is almost minting money, even after Mark Zuckerberg's warnings that news feed changes could hurt business.

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Jason Del Rey / Recode:

eBay says it will stop using PayPal for its backend payments service by 2020, will work with Amsterdam-based payments company Adyen instead; PYPL down 8%+ — The shopping marketplace will instead begin working with Amsterdam-based Adyen. — One of the tech industry's most storied partnerships is coming to an end.

More: eBay Newsroom and PYMNTS.com

Katie Roof / TechCrunch:

PayPal reports Q4 revenue of $3.71B, up 24% YoY, vs. $3.63B est., processes $131B in total payments volume, up 32% YoY, and adds 8.7M customer accounts

More: PayPal Investor Relations, ZDNet, Reuters, and MSPoweruser

eBay Newsroom:

eBay reports Q4 revenue of $2.6B, with a net loss from continuing operations of $2.6B due to $3.1B tax charge, full year revenue of $9.6B

More: TechCrunch, Reuters, and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @ebaynewsroom

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Google Flights says it will use historical data and AI to predict when planes may be delayed — Google has announced two new features for its flight-booking search service. — Using historical flight status data, Google Flights will now try to predict when flights will be delayed …

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Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:

Jack Dorsey says almost all Square Cash App users can now trade bitcoin on the platform; service isn't available for users in NY, Georgia, Wyoming, Hawaii — - Users of Square's Cash payments app can now trade bitcoin, except for those located in New York, Georgia, Wyoming and Hawaii, according to the company's website.

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Tweets: @jack, @cashapp, and @cashapp

Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:

Concerns grow that Bitcoin's price is being propped up by Bitfinex, the widely-used and shadowy exchange subpoenaed in December by the US CFTC — A growing number of virtual currency investors are worried that the prices of Bitcoin and other digital tokens have been artificially propped …

More: tetherreport.com, Wired, Tony Arcieri, Business Insider, Bitfinex'ed, Coingeek, Mashable, Bitfinex'ed, and Bloomberg

Tweets: @nathanielpopper, @bryceweiner, @ncweaver, @super_crypto, and @nouriel

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Spotify is testing Stations, a Pandora-style free music app that includes some personalization options; app is currently only available on some Android devices — Music streaming service Spotify released a new Android app that's all about free music Tuesday.

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:

Users around the world who infrequently log in to Facebook say it has been increasing re-engagement prompts via emails and text messages recently — It's been about a year since Rishi Gorantala deleted the Facebook app from his phone, and the company has only gotten more aggressive in its emails to win him back.

More: NewCo Shift and Vanity Fair

Tweets: @joshconstine, @martinsfp, @kcoxdc, @jessefelder, @thestalwart, @josheidelson, @shiraovide, @alex, and @sarahfrier

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Roger Cheng / CNET:

AT&T reports Q4 revenue of $41.7B, vs. $41.8B last year, 4.1M total wireless net adds, and $19B net income, vs. $2.4B last year, boosted by tax reform benefit — AT&T has never shied away from a fight. — The Dallas telecom giant has been in the thick of a long battle …

More: AT&T, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Engadget, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Reuters, The Wrap, and FierceWireless

Tweets: @fiercecable, @rogerwcheng, @wsj, and @cnetnews. Thanks:@rogerwcheng

Eugene Kim / CNBC:

Qualcomm reports Q1 revenue of $6.04B, up 1% YoY, $6B tax reform charge, and 96% YoY operating profit decline as Apple and others withheld royalty payments — - Qualcomm reported adjusted earnings of 98 cents per share and revenue of $6 billion, beating street estimates of 91 cents per share and $5.93 billion in revenue.

More: ZDNet, Reuters, Axios, and Qualcomm Investor Relations

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:

Qualcomm and Samsung announce patent cross-licensing agreement, with Samsung withdrawing its interventions in Qualcomm's appeal against $868M fine

More: AppleInsider, PR Newswire, and Wall Street Journal

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Pandora announces restructuring, shifting resources to ad tech and audience development, cutting workforce by 5% to save $45M annually, will expand in Atlanta — Pandora is pink-slipping about 5% of its workforce, a move the streaming-music company said will help it save $45 million annually.

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Game broadcasting platform Caffeine, founded by two ex-Apple designers, raised $46M across two rounds led by Greylock in 2016 and a16z in 2017 — A team of ex-Apple engineers and execs is taking on Amazon-owned Twitch and Google's YouTube Gaming with today's official launch of a new social broadcasting platform, Caffeine.

More: Variety, Tubefilter, AppAdvice.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, and VentureBeat

Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:

Twitter now says 1.4M+ US users interacted with tweets from Russia-linked accounts during 2016 election, up from 670K previously announced, has notified them — Twitter on Wednesday said it notified 1.4 million people in the US that they engaged with Kremlin-linked troll accounts during the 2016 US election.

More: CNET, TechCrunch, Fortune, Engadget, Recode, and NBC Bay Area. Thanks:@kantrowitz

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Samsung confirms it is manufacturing ASIC chips, which are used to mine cryptocurrencies; the ASIC industry is dominated by China's Bitmain and Canaan Creative — Fresh from toppling Intel as the planet's biggest seller of chipsets, Samsung has confirmed that it has begun manufacturing ASIC chips …

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Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC:

Samsung Electronics posts record Q4 profit of $14.15B driven by chip sales, while its mobile business saw a 3.2% YoY profit decline to ~$2.25B

More: SiliconBeat, TalkAndroid.com, CNET, Forbes, Android Authority, SlashGear, Seeking Alpha, Droid Life, ValueWalk, TWICE, TechSpot, BGR, FierceWireless, and 9to5Google

Tweets: @jandawson and @jandawson

Valentina Zarya / Fortune:

PitchBook: all-female founding teams received ~2.2% of $85B total invested by VCs in 2017, up from 1.9% in 2016, as all-male founding teams received ~79% — Things are changing for women in the startup and venture capital world. Last year, a handful of them came forward to share their stories …

More: ZDNet, Forbes, and Silicon Valley Watcher

Tweets: @rossbaird, @ebboyd, @jodij, and @karenappleton

CNBC:

Venezuela's president says a pre-sale of its new “petro” cryptocurrency, with each token backed by one barrel of crude oil, will begin on February 20 — - Critics have slammed the initiative as not only illegal but nothing more than a debt issuance by the government amid quadruple-digit inflation and major shortages.

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