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Apple reports Q3 iPhone unit sales of 41.3M, up from 41.0M YoY, revenue of $53.3B, up 17% YoY, net income of $11.5B, up from $8.7B YoY — Revenue Up 17 Percent and EPS Up 40 Percent to New June Quarter Records — Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Apple reports $9.55B in services revenue, up 31% YoY, vs. $9.21B est., as the company moves toward its goal of $14B in quarterly services revenue by 2020 — - Wall Street had expected software and services revenue to remain essentially unchanged from the previous quarter, according to StreetAccount.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Pay had 1B+ transactions in Q3, and will launch in Germany and at US-based CVS and 7-11 stores later this year — During today's earnings call for the third quarter of 2018, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple plans to bring Apple Pay to Germany later this year.| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it has over 4M people in its beta programs for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — For the past few years, Apple has made early versions of its operating systems available to those willing to brave the bugs. Through its beta software program, anyone willing to deal with spotty battery life …
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Facebook bans 32 Pages and accounts from FB and Instagram for “coordinated inauthentic behavior”, says they were far better at covering tracks than Russia's IRA — Today we removed 32 Pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook has alerted Congress to new coordinated political influence campaign, with dozens of inauthentic accounts and pages, ahead of midterms — WASHINGTON — Facebook is preparing to announce that it has identified a coordinated political influence campaign …
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Ecommerce startup Brandless, which sells most of its generic home-goods staples for $3, raises $240M from SoftBank's Vision Fund at a $500M+ valuation — Brandless sells about 300 generic home-goods staples, mostly for $3 each. — It's tough to wow Masayoshi Son with a bargain … | Bloomberg: |
Inside Waymo's self-driving efforts in Phoenix and its partnership with the city's metro authority as it readies a pilot to connect people to public transit — For the past year, Kyla Jackson has been one of the only teenagers in the world who gets a ride to high school from a robot.
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| Lily Katz / Bloomberg: |
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance buys Trust Wallet, its first acquisition, for undisclosed amount; the crypto wallet provider launched in Nov., has 10 employees — Binance, one of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, is embarking on its first acquisition as it seeks to give customers more control over their digital coins.
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IDC: 342M smartphones were shipped worldwide in Q2 2018, down 1.8% YoY from 348.2M, with Huawei passing Apple to ship the second-most smartphones — According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped …
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| Richard Kerby: |
Review of ~1,500 VCs shows about 40% attended either Stanford or Harvard, and the group is 82% male, 70% white, 26% Asian, 3% black, and 1% Hispanic — The lack of diversity within venture capital is something I have been hard at work to try and remedy and I write about frequently.
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
DocuSign acquires Chicago-based cloud document management company SpringCM for $220M in cash to grow its business beyond electronic signatures — DocuSign said it has agreed to acquire SpringCM, a Chicago-based cloud document generation and contract management company, for $220 million in cash.| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple has recently come under fire from several Chinese state media outlets for allegedly failing to effectively counter prohibited content in iMessages — The state-controlled media criticism comes amid rising trade tensions with the U.S. — BEIJING— Apple Inc. AAPL .32% has come under fire …
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
DHS announces the creation of a new center aimed at guarding the nation's banks, energy companies, and other industries from major cyberattacks — Vice president's remarks are strongest White House condemnation to date and come as DHS forms new cyber hub to protect critical U.S. infrastructure
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Tweets: @ericgeller, @wsj, @acupoker, @dnvolz, and @dnvolz
| New York Times: |
A look at how robotic hands are evolving to perform more complex tasks on their own, thanks to advances in AI and machine learning — Robotic hands could only do what vast teams of engineers programmed them to do. Now they can learn more complex tasks on their own. — A robotic hand?| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Facebook is redesigning its mobile app's navigation bar to show people shortcuts for the products they use most frequently like Marketplace, Groups, or Watch — Facebook said Tuesday it's redesigning its mobile app's navigation bar — at the bottom of the screen for iPhones … | Washington Post: |
Genetic testing firms including Ancestry and 23andMe pledge to be upfront when they share users' DNA data with 3rd parties, but the new guidelines are voluntary — Ancestry, 23andMe and other popular companies that offer genetic testing pledged on Tuesday to be upfront when they share users' DNA data …
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Engadget, Gizmodo, USA Today, Future of Privacy Forum, and Fortune
| Bloomberg: |
Tencent's stock has dropped 25% from its January peak, erasing $143B in value, as global investors become warier of big tech's potential growth — If you thought the slump in U.S. technology stocks was bad, take a look at Tencent Holdings Ltd. — The Chinese Internet giant has tumbled 25 percent …
Tweets: @markets, @northmantrader, and @carnage4life
| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Sony reports Q1 revenue of $17.9B with ~$1.8B in profit and 3.2M PS4 sales but lost ~$97M from its smartphone division and predicts those sales will worsen — Sony's new CEO Kenichiro Yoshida has been at the company's helm for just a few short months now, but fortunately …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Customer messaging unicorn Intercom debuts its app store with 100+ apps from partners including Google, Stripe, Salesforce, Atlassian, and Marketo — A look at Intercom's app store. — Ask Intercom CEO Eoghan McCabe about what he calls the “p word,” and he'll wince like he's describing an overripe fruit.
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