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Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2015 Results of Google — Revenues of $18.7 billion and revenue growth of 13% year over year; constant currency revenue growth of 21% year over year — Substantial growth of mobile search revenue, complemented by contributions from YouTube and Programmatic Advertising
| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Alphabet beats expectations with $18.7B in revenue and $7.35 earnings per share, announces $5B in stock buybacks; stock rises more than 10% after hours — Google's first earnings as Alphabet: Strong $18.7B in revenue, $7.35 earnings per share, $5B in buybacks
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Microsoft announces first quarter results: Windows 10 running on 110M devices, commercial cloud annualized revenue run rate exceeds $8.2B — Earnings Release FY16 Q1 — Strong Execution Drives Microsoft First Quarter Results — Windows 10 running on 110 million devices …
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Bing finally reaches profitability, contributing more than $1B to Microsoft's Q1 revenue — Microsoft's Bing search business finally is profitable — Microsoft's search business has turned the corner and is finally profitable, and generated $1 billion in revenues during the company's first quarter of 2016.
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Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Sales up 23% to $25.4 Billion — Majority of units shipped expected to be Prime — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2015. — Operating cash flow increased 72% to $9.8 billion …
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Handily Beats Analyst Expectations With $25.4B In Sales, Stock Spikes 11% — Amazon — once again — surprised investors by beating analyst expectations for its third-quarter earnings report, bringing in $25.4 billion in net sales and earnings of 17 cents cents per share.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook makes all 2 trillion public posts available to search, improving ability to view real-time conversations — Facebook is unleashing universal search across its entire social network — Almost a year ago, Facebook transformed the search bar normally used to find other Facebook users …
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Sources: Major Windows 10 update set for early November release with UI changes, Messaging app, but no Edge extensions — Next big Windows 10 update will arrive in early November — Microsoft is currently putting the finishing touches on its next big Windows 10 update.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram's New Standalone App Boomerang Captures 1-Second Video Loops — Instagram doesn't want its feed getting stale, but doesn't want to bloat its app with extra features either. So today it's launching Boomerang on iOS and Android. It's a dead-simple app where you shoot a one-second burst …
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| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Comcast considers launching a hybrid wireless service using its Wi-Fi hotspots and Verizon's cellular network — Comcast Said to Be Planning Wireless Push With Verizon's Network — Cable giant could resell Verizon's service under 2011 deal — Comcast seen offering Wi-Fi, cellular service like Google Fi
| Eleazar David Meléndez / South Florida Business Journal: |
Sources: Magic Leap close to closing a $1B funding round valuing the company at $4.5B — Exclusive: Magic Leap close to receiving a $1 billion funding round, sources say — Dania Beach startup Magic Leap is close to inking a $1 billion financing round, two sources close to the deal told the South Florida Business Journal.| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Nasdaq Acquires SecondMarket to Help Startups Sell Shares — Nasdaq has agreed to buy SecondMarket Solutions to combine forces with the Nasdaq Private Market. The group will facilitate the exchange of shares for private companies including DocuSign, Pinterest, Shazam and Tango.| Bloomberg Business: |
EU's Top Court Rules That Bitcoin Exchange Is Tax-Free — Bitcoin and other virtual currencies can be exchanged tax free, the EU's top court ruled on Thursday. — The virtual currencies should be treated in the same way as traditional money, the Court of Justice said.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
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