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Microsoft Q4: revenue of $23.3B, up 13% YoY, net income of $6.5B, up 109% YoY; Intelligent Cloud revenue of $7.4B, up 11% YoY; productivity revenue was $8.4B — REDMOND, Wash. — July 20, 2017 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2017:
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Microsoft CFO Amy Hood: for the first time, Microsoft got more revenue from Office 365 subscriptions than from traditional Office software licensing — Shares of Microsoft hit record territory in after-hours trading on Thursday, topping $75 a share, after the software giant's better-than-expected financial results.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft beats with strong cloud performance; Azure sales almost double, and Office 365 app revenue rises 43% — Azure sales almost double; Office 365 app revenue rises 43% — Tax-rate benefit boosted per-share profitby 23 cents a share — Microsoft Corp.'s turnaround plan got …
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| Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast: |
Microsoft using a trademark suit to seize control of domain names like livemicrosoft.net, to cut off Fancy Bear's malware-controlling servers from their victims — A new offensive by Microsoft has been making inroads against the Russian government hackers behind last year's election meddling …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Swedish e-commerce payments firm Klarna raises around $250M at a $2.5B valuation from private equity firm Permira — Klarna, the Swedish startup that works with e-commerce businesses and retailers to provide financing and other payment services, today announced that it has picked … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon confirms it is adding Alexa to its shopping app on Android starting this week — This spring, Amazon introduced Alexa to a wider audience by making the virtual assistant a feature that could be accessed within the retailer's main shopping app. However, that integration …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
YouTube collaborates with Jigsaw to launch Redirect Method, responding to certain keyword searches with videos that discredit extremist recruiting narratives — YouTube is taking its next step in countering extremism and terrorist content on its platform. Today the company announced …
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| Kathleen Chaykowski / Forbes: |
A look at how Twitch and YouTube gamers helped Discord grow to 9M daily active users, overtaking Slack's 5M daily active users — Six days a week, a 26-year-old videogaming celebrity who goes by the name “Lirik” regales his 1.7 million followers on the streaming service Twitch …
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| Tim / Droid Life: |
Samsung sends out media invites for event at 11AM ET on August 23 in New York City, with the tagline “Do bigger things”, expected to announce Galaxy Note8 — After reports were going back and forth about dates, Samsung has made it official. The next Unpacked event …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Department of Justice and Europol announce takedown of dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and Hansa Market, both focused on drugs and fraudulent IDs — AlphaBay and Hansa Market are gone, dealing a major blow to the online drug trade — An international law enforcement effort has brought …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Intel-owned Movidius debuts $79 USB Compute Stick with 12-core Myriad 2 VPU that increases host hardware's AI capabilities — The Neural Compute Stick from Movidius makes it easy to add a machine vision processor to any device — Step by step, artificial intelligence is moving down from the cloud and into the device in your hand.| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
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