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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook reports Q1 revenue of $11.97B, up 49% YoY, vs. $11.41B est, and net income of $4.99B, up 63% YoY; MAUs up 13% YoY to 2.20B and DAUs up 13% YoY to 1.45B — Amongst massive criticism over data privacy, Facebook showed the resiliency of its advertising machine by beating Wall Street's …
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Facebook reports Q1 advertising revenue of $11.8B, up 50% YoY, of which ~91% comes from mobile, up from 85% in Q1 2017; headcount up 48% YoY to 27,742 — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018. — “Despite facing important challenges …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Google rolls out revamp of Gmail with refreshed UI, confidential mode, snoozing, nudging for time-sensitive emails, 2FA per message, high priority notifications — Snoozing, nudging, hover actions, and a new sidebar — it's a mobile app on the web! — The world's most popular email service is getting a big overhaul today.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts Tasks, a dedicated to-do app for iOS and Android that lets users add tasks from Google Calendar and Gmail — In addition to a leak late last month, the Gmail on the web revamp confirmed the existence of Google Tasks. Today, Google's new and unified to-do solution is available …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Profile of Ray Ozzie, former CTO at Microsoft, and his quest to architect a backdoor for encrypted devices that won't lead to a security or privacy fiasco — Ray Ozzie thinks he has an approach for accessing encrypted devices that attains the impossible: It satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists.
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Errata Security. Tweets: @eastdakota, @stevenlevy, @susan_hennessey, @erratarob, @kevinbankston, @kevinbankston, @kevinbankston, @ericgeller, @kennwhite, @erratarob, @erratarob, @erratarob, and @ericgeller. Thanks:@gfififi
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap announces Snappables, AR single and multiplayer mini games that sit alongside Lenses, launching globally this week with new games released weekly — Snapchat wants to let you play its augmented reality Lenses, not just play dress-up. Today it launched Snappables — AR games that use your touch …
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Wired, Snap Inc., Digital Trends, YouTube, MacRumors, CNBC, CNET, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Engadget, The Verge, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, and 9to5Google
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| Mat Honan / BuzzFeed: |
Amazon launches a $79 Echo Dot Kids Edition with kid-friendly Alexa and one year of FreeTime Unlimited, a bundle of curated content with a Parent Dashboard — There's a new version of Alexa, Amazon's digital assistant, that's designed just for kids. The Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft is working on a new edition of Windows 10, codenamed Lean, that is 2GB smaller than the normal edition, aimed at devices with 16GB storage — Windows 10 Lean is Windows 10 on a diet. Featuring a much smaller footprint, Windows 10 Lean is designed for devices with 16GB …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers find flaw in Vingcard's Vision locks, used in 140K hotels in 160 counties, that lets them make a master key using an old key card and a $300 reader — IN 2003, FINNISH security researcher Tomi Tuominen was attending a security conference in Berlin when a friend's laptop …
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Tweets: @fsecure, @zackwhittaker, @andreabarisani, @a_greenberg, and @zackwhittaker
| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Twitter beats Q1 estimates with revenue of $665M, up 21% YoY, vs. $605.9M est., and says DAUs up 10% YoY; MAUs up 3% YoY to 336M vs. 334.2M est. — Revenue increases 21 percent, the biggest jump in two years — Monthly active users rise by 3 percent to 336 million
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| Tom Jackman / Washington Post: |
Federal appeals court upholds a 15-month prison sentence for e-waste recycler Eric Lundgren for making Windows restore disks — A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US DOJ is investigating whether Huawei violated US sanctions related to Iran, amid broader concerns about the company from the US government — Probe raises the stakes for Huawei, which faces a series of moves by Washington to diminish its already-limited business dealings in the U.S.
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Tweets: @calbucci, @joshchin, @blakesobczak, @somospostpc, and @stuwoo
| Jamie Grierson / The Guardian: |
Webstresser, a platform that offered to stress cyber defences and has been linked to 4M+ cyberattacks, taken down after international investigation — Webstresser.org, which had 136,000 users, could be rented for £10 to launch DDoS attacks — A website linked to more than 4m cyber …
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Tweets: @nca_lynneowens, @nca_uk, @europol, and @europol
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook met Trump at the White House on Wednesday, in a meeting closed to the press, amid US-China trade tensions that could affect Apple's business in Asia — Cook attended Tuesday's state dinner for France's Macron — Apple CEO has urged China and U.S. to settle trade differences
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Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @xeni, @markgurman, @colincampbell, @gizmodo, and @johnpaczkowski
| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's Azure Container Instances exits beta after July 2017 debut; the tool competes with AWS' Fargate to ease deployment of containers on Azure — Microsoft announced today that Azure Container Instances, the company's offering for running software containers without provisioning …
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Microsoft Azure Cloud …, The New Stack, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, and MSPoweruser
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
eBay reports Q1 revenue of $2.6B, up 12% YoY, non-GAAP net income of $548M, up 2% YoY, but gives weak Q2 revenue outlook of $2.64B to $2.68B, vs. $2.68B est. — EBay Inc. gave a weak outlook for revenue growth in the current quarter, taking the shine off Chief Executive Officer Devin Wenig's turn-around strategy.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD reports Q1 revenue of $1.65B, up 40% YoY, driven largely by $1.12B revenue from its Computing and Graphics division, up 95% YoY; stock up 8%+ after hours — Advanced Micro Devices is on a comeback and it is stealing market share from arch rival Intel, based on earnings results reported today.| Benjamin Robertson / Bloomberg: |
Binance founder Zhao Changpeng sued in Hong Kong court by Sequoia, who allege he breached exclusivity agreement by talking to IDG, amid a failed deal — Binance founder Zhao Changpeng sued in Hong Kong court — Dispute sheds light on how VC firms have valued the exchange
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CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, Coingeek, NewsBTC, Tech in Asia, and CCN
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube announces expanded opt-in YouTube Kids controls for parents, including locking down content to show only channels reviewed by humans — To address parents' concerns over inappropriate content on YouTube being seen by children, Google today is announcing an expanded series of parental controls for its YouTube Kids application.
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YouTube Blog, The Guardian, CNET, Android Authority, The Verge, CNNMoney, 9to5Google, Engadget, BBC, and CNBC
| Chloe Aiello / CNBC: |
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue of $5.23B, up 5% YoY, vs $5.19B est., as operating income fell to $400M, down 40% YoY, amid ongoing dispute with Apple and partners — - Qualcomm has been under pressure following a high profile fight to resist takeover efforts from rival Broadcom.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Doctor On Demand raises $74M Series C led by Goldman Sachs and Princeville Global to continue expansion of its virtual doctor visit platform — Healing America's broken healthcare industry has been at the top of the priority list for almost every politician, entrepreneur, and inventor for at least the past forty years.
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Xconomy, Silicon Valley Business …, Reuters, PE Hub Blog, and MedCity News. Tweets: @drondemand. Thanks:@mgoldman88
| Jonathan Randles / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: Peter Thiel agrees to withdraw bid for Gawker website and archives, will give eventual buyer legal release for archived articles — Billionaire venture capitalist will sit out sale of dormant blog to avoid potential legal claims against him — Billionaire investor Peter Thiel …
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| Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company: |
Digg, formerly owned by Betaworks, has been sold to Boston-based ad-tech company BuySellAds; new CEO Todd Garland plans to streamline Digg and build up ad stack — Last month, Digg, an old beloved content aggregation destination, made the sad announcement to its loyal following that it was shutting down its RSS platform, Digg Reader.
Tweets: @caleweissman, @lmatsakis, @caleweissman, and @chillmage
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