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Amazon is down 11% after-hours after reporting stronger-than-expected sales. The Seattle-based retail company reported net sales of $35.7 billion for the fourth quarter of 2015 with diluted earnings of $1.00 per share. The street was expecting a gain of $1.56 per share on sales of $35.98 billion. North America continues to be the company’s bread-and-butter with net sales of… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Microsoft today reported earnings for its second financial quarter of 2016 (I know, that’s weird, but Microsoft’s financial year ends in June). The company reported non-GAAP revenue of $25.7 billion for the last quarter and $0.78 of adjusted per-share profit. Wall Street expected Microsoft to deliver an EPS of $0.71 on revenue of $25.26 billion. In the year-ago quarter, the… Read More... →

Microsoft today reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2016, including revenue of $25.69 billion and earnings per share of $0.78. Analysts had expected the company to earn $25.26 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $0.71. Microsoft’s stock was up 1.63 percent in regular trading. In after-hours, however, the company is up […]... →

Shypmate, which is part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch, is a quick, low-cost international shipping solution that relies on everyday people to transport items from the U.S. to Ghana and Nigeria. Why Ghana and Nigeria? Well, the founding team (pictured above) has members from both Ghana and Nigeria — two African markets they’re familiar with and have a need for this kind… Read More... →

Amazon today disclosed that its subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud infrastructure provider that companies use to run applications, brought in $2.4 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of 2015. That’s a 69 percent year-over-year increase. That growth rate is lower than it was in the prior quarter, when AWS posted a 78 […]... →

The automotive industry is rapidly evolving to transform the car from a simple mode of transport to a personalized information hub: There will be an estimated 220 million connected cars on the road globally by 2020. Each of those cars will be equipped with more than 200 sensors, more than double the number of sensors in connected cars on the road today. Read More... →

Представители соцсети отметили, что в дальнейшем будут тестировать способы монетизации музыкального контента... →

28 января 2016 года, 00:00. Банк «Интеркоммерц», который до конца 2015 года был основным партнёром сервиса «Рокетбанк», начал задерживать выдачу крупных вкладов физическим лицам из-за проблем с ликвидностью, сообщает РИА Новости. Также организация временно не проводит часть платежей юрлиц, отмечает агентство.Обновлено в 13:30. «Рокетбанк» разослал своим клиентам письмо, в котором предупредил о проблемах «Интеркоммерца».Обновлено в 16:50. Представители «Рокетбанка» отправили клиентам сервиса второе письмо, в... →

We’re pleased to announce today that GamesBeat 2016 is heading south to Los Angeles. And it’s going to have a new one-day event dubbed VR Pulse to zero-in on the excitement of virtual reality games and entertainment. Our ninth annual GamesBeat event takes place at the Terranea Resort on August 1 to August 3 in Rancho […]... →

Apple has acquired education-technology startup LearnSprout, Bloomberg reported a bit ago and TC just confirmed. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. LearnSprout is a three-year-old, San Francisco-based software startup whose online data insights help K-12 educator track students’ performance. The company had raised $4.7 million from investors across two rounds, including… Read More... →

Ajit Pai, FCC Commissioner and outspoken critic of the Title II regulation proposed by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, says Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs should not support Net Neutrality. Read More... →

Wael Ghonim is an activist who helped spark the Egyptian Revolution, a wave of protests and demonstrations in Egypt that were part of the Arab Spring, and which helped overthrow the long-reigning Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. Ghonim, who worked for Google at the time, used social media to unite Egyptians and create the movement in his country and was jailed for it. Thanks to social media… Read More... →

IBM today is announcing that it’s buying Resource/Ammirati, a digital marketing agency with offices in Columbus, Ohio, and New York. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The odd name of the company being acquired is a result of Resource, based in Ohio, buying Ammirati, which was based in New York, in April 2014. The deal […]... →

Cloud file syncing and sharing company Dropbox today released its diversity numbers for 2015, and the numbers show that a greater share of its employees are white and male than in 2014. In addition to releasing the figures, Dropbox also announced that it has hired Judith Williams as its new global head of diversity. Previously […]... →

BirdEye, a three-year-old, Sunnyvale, Ca.-based software company focused on helping its clients improve their business reputations and customer experiences in real time, has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Trinity Ventures. Plenty of Silicon Valley luminaries also piled into the round, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff; Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang; Square’s project… Read More... →

Google объявила размер компенсации, которую она выплатила своему бывшему сотруднику, случайно выкупившему на одну минуту домен Google.com за $12. За свою находку Санмай Вэд получил $6006,13 — в этой сумме компания спрятала шутку, связанную со своим названием.... →

Patrick Sexton asked if he can publish the new changes and additions made to the Google Webmaster Guidelines update I mentioned this morning. So here is his take on that. But first, Patrick Sexton is the author of Varvy.com and the co-founder of getlisted...... →

Dropbox just released its diversity report for 2015 on the company’s blog, citing some progress around having more women in leadership positions, with 25% of the VPs at Dropbox being women, but an overall decline in percentage of women at Dropbox overall. Last year, Dropbox was 33.9% women worldwide. This year, that percentage has dropped to 32% worldwide. Regarding blacks and… Read More... →

A refrain about my generation is that we are too ephemeral and that our memories are too fleeting. Exhibit A: Snapchat. Now, obviously generational complaints are generally bullshit and olds are meant to be ignored, but it’s also not like I just want to forget everything either. Shryne is an app for storing memories. It’s not a diary or a full backup, it allows you to… Read More... →