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<h1 style="text-align: center;">tnt - 2015-02-06</h1>
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<li><strong>[00:00] twitter reports earnings</strong></li>
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<li>] doubling revenue almost every quarters since going public</li>
<li>] lost less money then previously</li>
<li>] they are getting close to making money, initial quarter they lost 500M on 250M revenue</li>
<li>] user growth troubles, strong competition for eyeballs</li>
<li>] everyone knows about twitter, the townhall of the internet</li>
<li>] more relevant than "looking at pretty pictures" on instagram</li>
<li>] new feature "logged out" timeline view</li>
<li>] are they trying to move away from obsession with</li>
<li>] prev talk about getting to 1B users, not growing quickly</li>
<li>] maybe&nbsp;twitter is a niche product, focus will be on</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] missing 4M w/Kurt Wagner @recode</strong></li>
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<li>] bug caused twitter to lose 4M users,</li>
<li>] twitter says NOT a bug, error on there part</li>
<li>] people upgrading to iOS8 cost 1M</li>
<li>] also users from Safari browsers, in iOS8</li>
<li>] safari browser users pinged</li>
<li>] g+ reported big #, everyone who touched g+ somehow and also reported "in the stream" users,&nbsp;users who actually viewed their stream</li>
<li>] g+ hasnt released user #'s in over 18 months</li>
<li>] twitter stock price is up , user growth was 4M on expectation of 8-9,</li>
<li>] this was a quarter thing, helped investors/analysts</li>
<li>] almost double their eps, making lots of money compared to the size of their user base</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/6/7991395/windows-10-phones-screenshots-leaked" target="_blank">windows 10 leaked screenshots</a> w/Tom Warren&nbsp;@theverge.com</strong></li>
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<li>] are developers excited about bringing universal apps to win 10 platform -</li>
<li>] ... ????. .....</li>
<li>] how is satya doing? he is on the right track,</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] us businesses concerns about china</strong></li>
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<li>] lobbying us gov</li>
<li>] most big chinese companies get special rules to operate, allowed to do things non chinese companies that cant do</li>
<li>] going to be a bigger problem going forward as chinese power in the world market continues to grow&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">[00:00] AD </span></strong><a href="http://personalcapital.com/tnt" target="_blank"><strong><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">personalcapital</span></strong></a><strong><strong><a href="http://personalcapital.com/twit" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">.com/tnt</span></a></strong></strong><ol>
<li><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">] <strong>money</strong> - will help you to get your finances into order, puts all of your financial accounts into&nbsp;1 place, you&nbsp;can see them easily on a single screen, will notify you of when you about to be charged fees,<strong> FREE ACCOUNT, FREE APP,&nbsp;</strong></span><strong>&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;Radio Shack files for bankruptcy</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;sad because another longstanding brand is disappearing</li>
<li>] radio shack experience hasnt been that great for the last years</li>
<li>] most valuable asset is their brand recognition</li>
<li>] some stores will become sprint stores,</li>
<li>] still 1600 stores available, some may go to amazon</li>
<li>] amazon would be interesting, in terms of using it as a pickup location, display amazon products like kindle</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] </strong><strong>ASSORTED </strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://recode.net/2015/02/05/verizon-to-sell-wireline-operations-towers-worth-over-15-billion/" target="_blank">verizon plans to sell assets</a></span> to frontier communications for 10+B&nbsp;</li>
<li>] <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/05/food-glorious-food/" target="_blank">rocket internet is investing heavily in food delivery services</a>, berlin based company, aquired a 30% stake in Delivery Hero, has previously bought x food delivery&nbsp;companies in (x) different markets, processes approx.&nbsp;78M orders a month,</li>
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<li><strong><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">[00:00] AD </span></strong><a href="http://prosper.com/twit" target="_blank"><strong><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">prosper.com/twit</span></strong></a><strong><span style="background-color: #ccffff;">&nbsp;</span></strong><ol>
<li><span style="background-color: #ccffff;"><strong>] money</strong> - a crowd source lending&nbsp;platform that cuts out the middelman. Prosper matches lenders with people looking for loans.&nbsp;Investors can&nbsp;choose your listings, &nbsp;Borrowers can Get loans of up to 35K in 5 day, for anything that you need.&nbsp;You can check your rate instantly and it wont affect your credit score. <strong>Techcrunch calls it "the industry leading platform"</strong>,&nbsp;&nbsp;TWIT fans get a $50 visa prepaid card when you get a loan</span></li>
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<li><strong>[00:00]&nbsp;ASSORTED(contd)</strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="http://recode.net/2015/02/05/linkedin-beats-earnings-estimates-as-more-employers-seek-talent/" target="_blank">linkedIn reports earnings</a> -&nbsp; they have become the defacto place to get your resume out there, also companie looking for recruits</li>
<li>] <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/6/7991355/htc-earnings-report-slim-profit" target="_blank">HTC reports earnings</a> - 1.5B revenue, 15.9M profit, slim profits for 3rd consecutive quarter</li>
<li>] <a href="http://recode.net/2015/02/05/gopro-shares-surge-on-revenue-then-drop-on-guidance/" target="_blank">goPro reports earnings</a> - &nbsp;profits of</li>
<li>] <span style="text-decoration: underline;">700K worth of apple cards</span> - dental office employees, stole dental patients personal info, applied for credit at</li>
<li>] <span style="text-decoration: underline;">google android commercial</span> - be together, not the same</li>
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<li><strong>[00:00] viewer feedback</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;jonathon bennet on S.Korean gov banning Uber&nbsp;b/c it&nbsp;says that it already has too many taxis -&nbsp;Jonathon reports that it&nbsp;ain't so, getting a cab in SK, can be an issue,</li>
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<h2>[people]</h2>
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<li><strong>] <a href="/view/people?id=88" target="_blank">twit.tv - tnt show</a></strong></li>
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<li>] host -&nbsp;<a href="/view/person?id=202" target="_blank">Mike Elgan</a></li>
<li>] producer - <a href="/view/person?id=307" target="_blank">Jason Cleanthes</a></li>
<li>] guest host&nbsp;- <a href="/view/person?id=304" target="_blank">Christina Warren</a></li>
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<h2>[places]</h2>
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<li><strong>] twit.tv - tnt show</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today/1191" target="_blank">show url</a>&nbsp;- shows home page with video of show and links</li>
<li>]&nbsp;show notes&nbsp;- detailed show notes, transpcript, links to resources&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://twit.tv/content/top-news-february-6-2015" target="_blank">show notes summary</a>&nbsp;-</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://irc.twit.tv/" target="_blank">twit chat room</a>&nbsp;-&nbsp;</li>
<li>] <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/technewstoday/" target="_blank">subreddit</a> -&nbsp;News item submissions for TWIT's Tech News Today&nbsp;</li>
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