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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Apple reports Q1 revenue of $78.4B, up from $75.9B a year ago, as profit reaches $17.9B; 78.3M iPhones sold, up 5% YoY, as iPad sales declined 19% YoY to 13.08M — Apple today disclosed that it produced a $17.8 billion profit, or $3.36 in earnings per diluted share, on $78.35 billion in sales …
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Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results — iPhone, Services, Mac and Apple Watch Set All-Time Records — Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2017 first quarter ended December 31, 2016. The Company posted all-time record quarterly revenue of $78.4 billion …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Slack debuts Enterprise Grid, an admin-focused tool to scale its software for large firms, including the ability to create an unlimited number of “workspaces” — With the launch of its new ‘Enterprise Grid’ — Team communication service Slack today announced a new product designed … | Seth Fiegerman / CNNMoney: |
Lyft, Airbnb, and Stripe, all backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, have now criticized Trump's immigration order — Peter Thiel defends his support of Donald Trump — Lyft is having what could only be described as a banner week. — The ride-hailing service earned praise from customers …
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BuzzFeed and The Guardian. Tweets: @rmac18, @nitashatiku, @melaynalokosky, @ashleyfeinberg, @mikebutcher, and @johnwilson
| Hamza Shaban / BuzzFeed: |
Amazon and Expedia join Washington State's lawsuit against Trump's travel ban, file sworn statements in court; Microsoft is working with the State AG office — The attorney general of Washington state filed a lawsuit Monday challenging President Donald Trump's controversial immigration order …
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Reuters, Microsoft on the Issues, Business Insider, Engadget, International Business Times, ITworld.com, The Mozilla Blog, Windows Central, GeekWire, Racked, CNET, Petri, Fortune, Silicon Valley Business …, TechSpot, Adweek, Investor's Business Daily, On MSFT, Breitbart, Marketing Land, SiliconBeat, The Verge, The Daily Caller, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Computerworld, Refinery29, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Inquirer, The Guardian, Mashable, The Fire Hose, Tech Times, and Associated Press. Thanks:@hshaban. See also Mediagazer
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
American Civil Liberties Union joins Y Combinator's winter batch of startups, giving access to mentoring and Demo Day — The American Civil Liberties Union will learn how to turn the $24 million it raised over the weekend into growth and progress with help from top Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @cramforce and @alexhern
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
New FCC chair Ajit Pai quietly removed a proposal to force pay-TV operators to open-source their set-top boxes from the FCC's agenda last week — The cable guys win one, courtesy of a Trump appointee. — Looks like the cable guys won't have to open their boxes after all.
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The Register, BGR, Variety, TechCrunch, CNET, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @marketplacetech. See also Mediagazer
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple-recommended LG UltraFine 5K Display doesn't operate well near routers, dropping connections or freezing connected Macs; LG acknowledges the issue — Apple discontinued its Thunderbolt Display last summer after five years on the market, and now Apple recommends the LG UltraFine 5K Display …
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Daring Fireball, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Apple, Engadget, ZDNet, ExtremeTech, Tech Times, TechConnect, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @inafried and @detroitborg
| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
How Lego built Lego Life, its child-friendly social network with Instagram-style profiles, a news feed, and more, available today on iOS and Android — There are Lego bricks and Lego movies, Lego videogames and Lego books. The stackable, sortable plastic molds permeate all corners of society.
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Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Quartz, BBC, The Verge, The Next Web, Mashable, Ubergizmo, LEGO Ideas, BetaNews, The Memo, Pocket-lint, Engadget, SlashGear, and CNET
Tweets: @taylorlorenz and @archimage
| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Uber strikes deal with Daimler to add self-driving Mercedes-Benz to Uber's fleet — Uber Technologies Inc has signed another deal with a major automaker as the popular ride service accelerates efforts to build out one of the world's first fleets of autonomous vehicles.
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Uber Global, New York Times, and VentureBeat
| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Walmart drops membership fee for its free two-day shipping program on purchases of $35 or more, discontinuing its $49/year ShippingPass program — The only catch is a $35 order minimum. — If Walmart.com is ever going to put a dent in Amazon's dominance, this will have to be the starting point.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is now training its News Feed algorithm to detect authenticity of posts to reduce the promotion of spammy, fake, and sensational stories — Facebook is prioritizing “authentic” content in News Feed with a ranking algorithm change that detects and promotes content “that people consider genuine …
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Facebook, Marketing Land, Slate, The Next Web, Adweek, The Daily Caller, Social Media Today, and LJ INFOdocket
Tweets: @kantrowitz and @mathewi
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google open-sources Chrome for iOS, adding the code to the Chromium project repository — Google has uploaded its Chrome for iOS code into the open source Chromium repository. In other words, Chrome for iOS has now been open-sourced like Chrome for other platforms, letting anyone examine, modify, and compile the project.| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Nintendo says that 5%+ of 78M people who downloaded Super Mario Run paid the $10 to unlock full game and that Animal Crossing for iOS is delayed — Nintendo today rolled out an update to Super Mario Run that includes a collection of feature additions and bug fixes, along with a new “Easy Mode.”| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
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TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, Engadget, Ubergizmo, VG247, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, Siliconera, AppAdvice.com Latest, InvestorPlace, AppleInsider, Business Insider, Android Authority, BGR, MacStories, MacRumors, The Next Web, Reuters, VG247, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @wsjd
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Streaming media app Plex acquires news video startup Watchup, which will now be integrated into the Plex app, with an expected launch of Q2 2017 — In recent months, streaming media app Plex has expanded its focus from offering tools to organize and stream your home media collection of photos … Sponsor Posts
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