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After Blow-Out Earnings, Apple Stock Up $30 In After-Hours Trading Top
AAPL $450Apple blew away expectations in its December quarter, which it just announced this afternoon after markets closed. After trading down 1.6 percent ($7) during the day, shares are up more than 7.8 percent ($30) in after-hours trading to $453.
 
At Least Yahoo's Traffic Engagement Numbers Are Sort Of Up Top
Screen Shot 2012-01-24 at 2.08.54 PMYahoo's fourth quarter results are as underwhelming as most people expected: earnings at $0.24 a shares from $1.17 billion in revenue. The brightest spot, beyond new chief executive Scott Thompson now taking the helm to try to turn things around, is the engagement numbers. Take a look at the slide below, from the company's earnings deck. Worldwide unique visits to both Yahoo-branded sites and to Yahoo properties were up by 12%. Since this data is from comScore, I pulled the measurement firms' latest numbers to provide a little more detail. Yahoo staged a minor visitor recovery over the last three months of the year in the US, ending with nearly 176 million monthly uniques. Worldwide, it did so through November, but then dropped slightly last month to end at nearly 692 million uniques.
 
Google Consolidates Privacy Policy; Will Combine User Data Across Services Top
gogGoogle has more than 70 different privacy documents over its range of products, which overwhelming for any user to comb through (and that's after Google pared down its policies in 2010). Today, the search giant is rolling out a new, comprehensive privacy policy which the company says will consolidate more than 60 of the separate privacy notices into one simple policy. The company says the changes will take effect on March 1, and will be starting to notify users today via email and a notice on its homepage. The main change, say Google, is that if you are signed into your Google account, Google will combine user info across its products to better serve account holders. As Google says: In short, we'll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience.
 
Apple's Q1 2012: $46.3B In Revenue, 37M iPhones And 15.4M iPads Sold Top
apple earningsWe're still a few minutes out from Apple's Q1 2012 earnings call — but as is par for the course, the raw numbers have made their way out a bit early. And they.. are... insane.
 
Yahoo Earnings Meet Expectations, More-or-Less Top
Yahoo-logoYahoo just released its earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2011, with results that were basically in line with the expectations of Wall Street analysts. The company earned 24 cents per share, which is what analysts estimated. Its revenue, minus traffic acquisition costs, came in a little less than the expected $1.19 billion, at $1.17 billion.That's also a 3 percent decrease from the same period last year.
 
The Rise of Nimble Medicine Top
Innovator's Prescription - New Wave of Disruptive Models in HealthcareIn the New Yorker, Dr. Atul Gawande outlined how, at the turn of the 20th century, more than forty per cent of household income went to paying for food and food production consumed nearly half the workforce. Starting in Texas, a wide array of new methods of food production were tested. Long story short, food now accounts for 8% of household budgets and 2% of the workforce. As a wide array of small innovations ultimately led to the transformation of farming, so too is a rapidly building wave of innovative new care and payment models leading to similar breakthroughs in healthcare. I call this Nimble Medicine.
 
Paramount Begins Selling UltraViolet Movies Directly Top
braveJust over a week ago I spoke with the head of DECE and UltraViolet about the service, its origins, and where it's going. The conclusion seemed to be that there was great potential in the service as a value-add, if it's handled correctly, but that much depends on the content producers. Paramount is the first studio to start offering UV movies on their own, via a dedicated site - Paramount Movies.
 
Timehop, A Time Machine For Your Social Media Updates, Gets $1.1M From Foursquare Founders And Others Top
Screen Shot 2012-01-24 at 12.05.51 PMTimehop, a startup that humbly began as 4SquareAnd7YearsAgo, has just bagged a $1.1 million round of seed funding by OATV (Bryce Roberts) and followed on by Spark Capital (Andrew Parker) and a pretty worth list of angels including Foursquare's Dennis Crowley, Naveen Selvadurai and Alex Rainert, Groupme's Steve Martocci and Jared Hecht, Rick Webb and Kevin Slavin. Timehop was part of the TechStars NYC winter class. The startup started out aggregating user Foursquare checkins from a year ago in a daily email and recently broadened to included Facebook status updates, photos, Twitter updates and Instagram posts.
 
RIM Roadmap Leaked, Points To BlackBerry 10 Launch In September Top
29-logo-rimIt's only been one full day since former COO Thorsten Heins has taken the top spot at RIM, and we may already be privy to the company's game plan for the next 15 months. According to reports from BGR's always-willing sources, RIM is hard at work on a series of new product launches that will culminate with the launch of their first BlackBerry 10 device in the latter half of this year.
 
I Didn't Think Samsung Could Top Its Anti-Apple Ads… Until I Saw These Top
Screen shot 2012-01-24 at 2.55.00 PMNext weekend is like the Super Bowl of commercials. Well, actually, next weekend is the Pro Bowl, which is also much like a Super Bowl... for companies... with regards to their commercials. Maybe I should try a different analogy. Either way, next weekend and the weekend after are big for most companies and Samsung is getting started early with its latest "Apple fanbois are silly for waiting outside" campaign.
 
Worvey— Err, Warby Parker Takes A Look Back At Its 2011 Top
warbyfeatWarby Parker — the New York-based startup that sells prescription, designer glasses for a relatively modest $95 a pop — has just released its annual year in review, outlining some key stats and factoids from the past twelve months. My favorite section: most popular misspellings people search for when they're trying to find the site, with the leaders including "Worvey Parkers" and "Warmby Parker" (Warmby? Really?). Oh, and there's some more serious stuff too.
 
Keen On… Brad Noble: Why Google's "Search Plus Your World" Is Creepy (TCTV) Top
Screen Shot 2012-01-24 at 12.01.07 AMGoogle's "Search Plus Your World" (SPYW) continues to jeopardize the company's world. It's a moral minus, Alexia says. Others have gone further - saying that SPYW fundamentally compromises Google as an objective search engine and raises many anti-trust issues. So what, exactly, will be the impact of SPYW on Google's artificial algorithm and how central will social search become in our Web 3.0 age?
 
Online Ordering Provider OLO Hits 1M Customers, Prepares To Launch GrubHub Integration Top
oloOLO, a web and mobile online ordering service for restaurants, is celebrating a lot of things: bigger office space in New York's South St. Seaport district, hitting the 1 million customer milestone, adding new restaurant partners, and plans to launch its long-awaited GrubHub integration, nearly a year in the making.
 
Between Nothing And A Blog: Check Out CheckThis, A Cool New Micro-Publishing Tool Top
checkthisI don't often get a chance to write about a startup from my home country (Belgium) that I'm super excited about, so consider me a happy camper. Meet CheckThis.com, a new micro-publishing service that lets you create and share a single, good-looking Web page in mere seconds. CheckThis is designed for people who need a little more space than a tweet but don't want to go through the hassle of setting up a new blog. In literally instants, you can use CheckThis to create a stand-alone page to sell your bike, hire a new developer for your startup, tell people what you've been up to today, set up a really quick poll, share an Instragram or Flickr photo, a party invitation with a map, a Vimeo video or whatever other simple need you might have. Quick, simple, beautiful.
 
Subscription Billings Startup Recurly Raises $6 Million Top
recurlyRecurly, a startup that makes it easy for other companies to manage their subscription billing, has raised $6 million in a Series A financing round led by BV Capital, and including Polaris Venture Partners, Harrison Metal Capital and FreeStyle Capital. This brings Recurly's total funding to $8 million. Recurly's service allows businesses to quickly implement a subscription billing system, handling tasks like credit card number storage (it also supports integration with financial software like QuickBooks). Recurly automates many of the complexities involved with subscription billing management, such as customer upgrades and downgrades, credit card errors and declines, automated customer communications, and customer retention management.
 
Lookout's New App Visualizes Mobile Security Threats As They Are Detected Around The World Top
lookoutLookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is debuting a new Android app that lets you see mobile threats as they are detected around the world. Launched from Lookout Labs, the new app basically visualizes what's happening in the mobile landscape and also shares details on top weekly threats & distribution of malware vs. spyware. For background, Lookout's web-based, cloud-connected applications for Android, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and most recently iOS devices help users from losing their phones and identifies and block threats on a consumer's phone. Users simply download the software to a device, and it will act as a tracking application, data backup and a virus protector much like security software downloaded to a computer.
 
New Trademarkia Feature Exposes Biggest Trademark Bullies; Apple, Zynga Among Top Five Top
Trademarkia-logo1For a long time, it was easy to search for patents on the Web, but trademarks? Not so much. Thanks to startups like TechCrunch 50 grad Trademarkia, anyone can now do a simple keyword search and pick through each and every U.S. trademark filed since 1870 -- if your heart so desires, of course.
 
Will This Be Apple's First $40 Billion Quarter? Top
applelogoEveryone is expecting a record quarter from Apple, which reports earnings today. "We expect a big quarter from Apple," writes analyst Colin Gillis of BGC in a research note, "and we expect most investors expect a big quarter from Apple. Our pet fish expects records from Apple." Apple is expected to announce record revenues, earnings, iPhone sales, iPad sales, and Mac sales. Here are the numbers Apple needs to beat today for an upside surprise when it announces after the markets close:
 
$299 Droid RAZR MAXX To Hit Verizon Shelves On January 26 Top
droid-razr-maxxLooks like that flubbed product page turned out to be right after all -- Verizon Wireless has just announced that the ever-so-slightly-tweaked Droid RAZR MAXX will indeed be hitting store shelves on January 26.
 
Producteev Drops Slew Of New Apps; Now Lets You Crowdsource Your Tasks On TaskRabbit Top
pdt_logoToday, Producteev is unveiling a slew of new apps, including a significantly upgraded web app, iPhone and Android mobile apps, and new Windows 7 and Mac desktop apps. The startup is reaching for the (asymptotic?) goal of universal, or at least cross-platform, task management, as professionals and businesses want (and need) to create and store tasks across platforms, devices, and services -- from email and IMs to voicemails and notes. And they're on their way.
 

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