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Alphabet beats estimates with profits up 29% YoY on strong ad sales, stock rises by 3% after hours — Google, along with Facebook, now dominates online advertising — The Interactive Advertising Bureau released its annual report yesterday on the state of the digital ad market.
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Apple's self-driving Lexus seen in Silicon Valley with 64-channel lidar, at least two radars and a series of cameras — Almost two weeks after Apple Inc. secured permission to test its autonomous-car technology in California, the first images of the vehicle have emerged from Silicon Valley roads.| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Google and Facebook were victims of a $100M phishing scam by a Lithuanian man arrested in March 2017; both companies say they have recouped the funds — When the Justice Department announced the arrest last month of a man who allegedly swindled more than $100 million from two U.S. tech giants, the news came wrapped in a mystery.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Microsoft productivity business unit had $8B in revenues, up 22% YoY; LinkedIn added $975M to unit's sales in a first full quarter since acquisition — But Azure revenue remains a mystery. As usual Office and enterprise tools carry the quarter. — Microsoft said its commercial cloud revenue … | Microsoft: |
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Didi Chuxing raises $5.5B, in single largest round of funding on record, to expand beyond China; round makes it the world's most valuable startup after Uber — Didi said to raise money from SoftBank, Silver Lake and others — Didi is said to have become most valuable startup in Asia
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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Memo: Anthony Levandowski to stop work on lidar amid Waymo lawsuit, will remain with Uber, report to Eric Meyhofer who was named head of Uber's ATG — Anthony Levandowski, the head of Uber's self-driving group, is stepping aside in face of trade-theft accusations from his former employer, Waymo.
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS reports 42% YoY jump in revenue to $3.66B, up from $2.57B a year ago, as growth slows slightly — The crown jewel of Amazon's business, Amazon Web Services, posted a 42 percent jump in revenue during the first fiscal quarter of 2017, as it continues to set the standard for cloud computing.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Government requests for Facebook user account data up 9% in second half of 2016, but content restrictions declined — Facebook today released its latest report on global government requests for the second half of 2016, noting there has been a 9 percent increase in requests for user account data compared …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Cloudflare announces Orbit, a security solution for IoT devices — The Internet of Things security crisis continues apace. New botnets crop up to conscript routers and security cameras, hackers exploit medical devices to compromise entire hospital networks, and smart toys still creep on kids.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Facebook identifies efforts to falsely amplify content and sentiment using fake accounts, as seen in US election, improves detection using patterns of activity — Facebook Inc (FB.O) acknowledged on Thursday that it has become a battleground for governments seeking to manipulate public opinion …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook updates Rights Manager tool to let creators claim ad earnings on copyright-infringing videos posted by others — Facebook finally has a better solution to freebooting — the common practice of stealing video and uploading it to one's Facebook Page to reap the engagement and audience growth.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Google opens up Classroom, its learning suite, to anyone with a Google account, expanding it beyond G Suite users — Google Classroom is opening up even further: After allowing anyone to join classes last month, expanding the learner side of the equation beyond just those with G Suite …
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FCC releases the full text of Ajit Pai's proposal to roll back Title II net neutrality rules ahead of May 18 vote, opens commenting system — Bans on blocking and throttling may not be necessary, FCC says. — You can now start filing public comments on the Federal Communications Commission plan to eliminate net neutrality rules.
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