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Snap reports Q1 results with DAUs up 36% YoY to 166M, or 5% QoQ, revenue of $149.6M, up 286% YoY; stock down 23%+ after hours to just above its IPO price of $17 — VENICE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2017.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Snap's reported Q1 revenue of $149.6M fell short of Wall Street's expectations of $158M — Snap finished March with 166 million daily active users. — Snap reported earnings for the first time today, and Wall Street isn't happy. Shares are down more than 20 percent in after-hours trading.
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| Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times: |
Sources say Snap's acquisition strategy is fast-paced, respectful, and not tediously prepped; some acquired teams work out of existing offices — Acquisitions propelled Snapchat's evolution from a revenueless, one-trick messaging app to a $28-billion company redefining how people take and share pictures.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database with five consistency choices, and new MySQL and PostgreSQL options for Azure Database — Arguably the biggest Azure news to come out of Microsoft's Build 2017 developer conference is the debut of Azure Cosmos DB.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says 500M devices are now running Windows 10, up from 400M in September 2016 — Microsoft is announcing today that 500 million active machines are now running Windows 10. The latest statistic comes almost 8 months after the company revealed 400 million devices were running Windows 10.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2017 for Mac out of preview — At Microsoft's Build 2017 developer conference, its biggest Visual Studio news wasn't even for its own platform: Visual Studio 2017 for Mac has hit general availability (download here, requires OS X El Capitan 10.11 or higher).| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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FCC's website has been flooded with 128K+ identical fake anti-net neutrality comments via its public comment system API — Several people we spoke to denied they had posted comments to the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) feedback pages. — A bot is thought to be behind the posting …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google acquires Owlchemy Labs, the VR-focused game studio behind Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, for an undisclosed sum — Google announced today that it's acquiring Owlchemy Labs, the VR-focused studio that created Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches event suggestions in US search results on mobile web and in app; data pulled from 13 sources including Eventbrite, Ticketmaster, Meetup, StubHub — Google today is updating its app and mobile web experience in the U.S. to help web searchers more easily find things to do …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it will now rank sites with “disruptive, shocking or malicious ads” lower in News Feed — Facebook will bury links to low-quality websites and refuse to carry ads pointing to them in a News Feed algorithm changeannounced today. Facebook defines a “low-quality site” …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Founder of Nucleus, which raised $5.6M from Alexa Fund, and now faces competition from similar Echo Show device, says Amazon crippling its Alexa Fund ecosystem — Another cautionary tale for would-be Amazon partners. — When the investment arm of Amazon's Alexa division led …
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| New York Times: |
Interviews with Macron campaign staff reveal the obfuscation techniques used to slow hackers, who US intelligence believe were Russian — PARIS — Everyone saw the hackers coming. — The National Security Agency in Washington picked up the signs. So did Emmanuel Macron's bare-bones technology team.
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