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Earnings release FY16 Q3: commercial cloud annualized revenue run rate exceeds $10B — Earnings Release FY16 Q3 Microsoft Cloud Strength Highlights Third Quarter Results — Commercial cloud annualized revenue run rate exceeds $10.0 billion; Windows 10 active on over 270 million devices REDMOND …
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| Alphabet Investor Relations: |
Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2016 Results — Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2016. — “Our Q1 results represent a tremendous start to the year with 17% revenue growth year on year and 23% growth on a constant currency basis.
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet posts Q1 revenue of $20.26B on analyst expectations of $20.38B as cost-per-click continues to decrease, down 9% YoY — Alphabet slides 5% after missing earnings expectations on revenue of $20.3B — For a split second, Alphabet was the most valuable company in the world.
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| Bill Gurley / Above the Crowd: |
How “dirty” term sheets protecting valuations will imperil founders, employees, and investors alike — On the Road to Recap: — Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous...For All Involved — In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith …
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| Dan Graziano / CNET: |
Acer announces range of new devices including Switch Alpha 12 liquid-cooled 2-in-1 notebook, new gaming PCs, durable Chromebook 14 for Work, and more — Acer debuts new gaming PCs with VR support and a powerful 2-in-1 laptop — The company also showed off a new smartphone and fitness devices set to arrive later this year.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Medium raises $50M Series C led by Spark Capital, adds Ben Horowitz, Judy Estrin to board; source puts value at $600M, up from $400M in Sept when it raised $57M — Ev Williams's Medium raised $57 million in September — now it's raised another $50 million — You may have heard there's …
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| Jamie Condliffe / Gizmodo: |
Opera Now Has a Totally Free and Unlimited Built-In VPN — Dodging firewalls and masking your IP address usually requires firing up separate—often paid-for—software or plug-ins while you're browsing. Now, though, Opera has its own free VPN baked right into the desktop browser.
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| Facebook: |
Facebook's News Feed starts prioritizing time spent on content, and reduces how often it shows posts in a row from the same source — News Feed FYI: More Articles You Want to Spend Time Viewing — As we work to improve News Feed, we make updates to help make sure you see the most relevant stories at the top.| Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: |
Comcast announces Xfinity app will be available to subscribers directly through Roku devices and Samsung smart TVs, without requiring leasing of a set-top box — Comcast Fires Back at FCC by Making TV Service Available Without a Set-Top Box — Comcast's full TV lineup will be available on Roku, Samsung smart TVs for first time
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| Julia Edwards / Reuters: |
FBI paid over $1.3M to break into San Bernardino iPhone, the most the FBI has admitted to paying for a hacking technique — FBI paid more than $1.3 million to break into San Bernardino iPhone — Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said on Thursday the agency paid …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Report: political infighting between Apple's iCloud and Siri teams is holding back development; Apple working on building its own internal cloud infrastructure — iCloud and Siri Teams at Odds as Apple Seeks to Move Cloud Services In-House — Apple's efforts to move its cloud infrastructure … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Live TV listings coming to search results as Google announces new ad platform for video — Following big Google Cloud announcements at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show earlier this week, the company is announcing a new ad platform to monetize and personalize video content … Sponsor Posts
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