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Twitter’s quarterly earnings reports are proof that you can beat the Street and still disappoint your investors. Despite the fact that the company brought in $361 million in revenue when analysts were expecting closer to $351 million, the company’s stock plummeted ten percent in after-hours trading following its third quarter earnings release.

The culprit, as ever, is Twitter’s growth. The company reported 284 million monthly active users in its third quarter earnings report, 13 million more than in the second quarter. But in the second quarter, Twitter had added 16 million more from the quarter before. In short, Twitter’s growth rate is slowing. Not good news for a company still early in its public market days.

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CEO Dick Costolo addressed the concerns early in his opening remarks on the earnings call. “It’s more critical then ever that we increase our pace of execution,” Costolo said. He wants to see “faster…

One of the big challenges for mobile devices is how to get them to work better together — so that your tablet, phone, and desktop have the same settings and data whenever you pick them up.

Nextbit is a startup that is adding these kind of integration features by deeply modifying Android. As opposed to Apple’s local network-based approach called Continuity, Nextbit’s features work through the cloud and require an internet connection.

Nextbit gave its first public demo at a Re/code mobile conference taking place south of San Francisco on Monday. Its first product for the United States is Nextbit Baton, which is a feature for select Android devices running CyanogenMod that lets users pick up what they were working on on another device. Simply long-press the multitasking button and you’ll see an option to transfer whatever you’re doing to another Android device running CyanogenMod, which is an alternative firmware distribution based on Android.

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IBM announced a bunch of new cloud data services on Monday, including an intelligent data-preparation tool, an in-memory analytic database and even a local version of a historically cloud-based database. It’s an impressive and in some cases even unique set of capabilities that complements the work IBM has been pushing with its Bluemix platform since February.

Here’s what’s new:

• DataWorks seems potentially very useful as a cloud-based take on the handful of new data-preparation technologies currently emerging from software startups.
• Cloudant Local is, as far as I know, the only NoSQL database offered both as a cloud service and a local deployment by the same company that built it. (Cloudant launched as a cloud database startup in 2008 and IBM acquired the company in 2014.)
• With the Netezza-powered dashDB, IBM joins Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft with a homegrown analytic service built atop columnar database technology.

Already on Bluemix, IBM…