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Amazon beats with Q1 revenue of $51B, up 43% YoY, net income of $1.6B, up from $724M YoY; stock up 7%+ after hours — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2018. — Operating cash flow increased 4% to $18.2 billion …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon to raise the price of Prime from $99 to $119 in the US, the first increase in 4 years, going into effect for new subs on May 11 and existing subs in June — The increase is effective for new customers starting May 11. — Amazon is increasing the price of its Prime membership …
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Apple to stop production of AirPort Express, Extreme, and Time Capsule Wi-Fi base stations, which were last updated in 2013, but will sell while stock lasts — AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule will continue to be sold while supplies last but then Apple is done with the router business... at least for now.
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| Microsoft Investor Relations: |
Microsoft reports Q3 revenue of $26.8B, up 16% YoY, profit of $7.4B, up 35% YoY, says it spent $6.3B on dividends and share repurchases, up 37% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — April 26, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018 …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Next major Windows 10 update, dubbed the “10 April 2018 Update”, to release on April 30 with features like Timeline, Focus Assist, and an updated Edge browser — After a brief delay (though Microsoft won't confirm or deny this), Microsoft today announced that the Windows 10 April 2018 Update …
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| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
Cryptographer's doubts about Ozzie's CLEAR key-escrow system: securing private keys at OEMs and disabling a phone once law enforcement accesses it are hard — Yesterday I happened upon a Wired piece by Steven Levy that covers Ray Ozzie's proposal for “CLEAR”.
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Square acquires website builder Weebly in $365M cash and stock deal, says it will give small business customers a way to easily build sites and online stores — - Square announced an agreement on Thursday to buy website-building company Weebly for $365 million.
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Canalys: Q1 2018 smartphone shipments in China see biggest decline ever, down 21%+ YoY; Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi accounted for 73%+ of shipments — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Thursday, 26 April 2018 — Smartphone shipments in China suffered their biggest ever decline …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon has launched a portal offering home security services including installations, with no monthly service contracts, in five price tiers from $240 to $840 — Amazon's made a slew of acquisitions in the area of smart home services, and now it's offering a product that brings them together under one roof — your roof.
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Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint have made progress in negotiating merger terms and are aiming to successfully complete deal talks as early as next week — (Reuters) - U.S. wireless carriers T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) and Sprint Corp (S.N) have made progress in negotiating merger terms and are aiming …
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| Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: |
DocuSign prices shares at $29, higher than the already increased $26-$28 range, would raise at least $629.3M at a valuation of $4.4B — DocuSign Inc. DOCU, +0.00% announced Thursday evening that it had priced its initial public offering at $29, higher than the price range it was seeking.
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| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
Sony posts strong FY2017 results of ~$78.1B revenue and ~$6.7B profit on robust PS4 sales of 19M units; mobile revenue down to ~$6.6B from ~$6.9B in FY2016 — Sony's latest earnings reveal a simple truth: former CEO Kaz Hirai left the company in a relatively good position.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Intel reports Q1 revenue of $16.1B, up 13% YoY, client computing group revenue of $8.2B, up 3% YoY, data center unit revenue of $5.2B, up 24% YoY; stock up ~7%+ — CEO Brian Krzanich noted that Intel's data-centric businesses accounted for almost half of Q1 revenue.
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