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these are the top stories of the week alphabet lost a lot of money on crazy projects Yahoo is shaking things up again and everything else needs to know the company that owns Google alphabet released its financial numbers the number that stood out the most 3.07 billion dollars that's approximately the amount of money alphabet lost on moonshots over 12 months ending in December 2015 a moonshot is what alphabet calls its projects that could take years to become a reality the other big news was alphabets market capitalization alphabet is now the most highly valued company in the world the previous owner of that tile apple yahoo announced it is cutting around fifteen percent of its workforce that's about 1,700 jobs the company is also closing offices in Dubai Mexico City Madrid and Milan Yahoo is also sending out a number of services including games and smart TV the company is still working on a reverse spin off which would separate Yahoo's business with its interest in alibaba a major Chinese e-commerce site so much more news to know it's time to go to a super-sized rapid fire samsung announced an event for februari 21st works expected to show off the galaxy s7 LG also announced LG g5 day for february2014 or its newest awesome phone one of those maybe both februari 10th is the day YouTube red gets original programming expect three movies and a reality show on the premium version of YouTube according to a US Court Apple must pay more than six hundred million dollars to a company named vernette x four patents related to facetime video chat apple will be appealing the judgment the official power rangers twitter account announced elizabeth banks will play rita repulsa in the upcoming Power Rangers movie and a Dutch company called guard from above is training birds of prey to intercept drones really watch this don't worry the birds feet are okay because they're scaling now let's take a look at what flew under the radar Microsoft quietly made some moves first up Windows 10 is now the second most popular desktop operating system in terms of web traffic according to researcher net market share number one is still windows 7 that's not all though microsoft also purchased swiftkey an excellent keyboard for android and iOS microsoft says it will continue developing the keyboard for those platforms now you're all caught up in tech to get your daily dose of tech news check out cnet com / update for a weekly dose hit up cnet com / trader Amaya's actor signing off