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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.| 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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| 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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| 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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Amazon posts Q1 revenue of $35.71B, up 23% YoY, as operating income declines 6% YoY to $1B — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2017. — Operating cash flow increased 53% to $17.6 billion for the trailing twelve months …
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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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| 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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| 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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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
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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| 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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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Apple in talks with payments industry partners to launch Venmo-like P2P money-transfer service; one source says service could be announced this year — Could the money-transfer service be called Apple Cash, perhaps? — Apple's on-again, off-again flirtation with building …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
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