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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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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.| Facebook: |
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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| 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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| 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: |
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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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 — Center's creation is driven by growing recognition that sophisticated cyberattacks can cause systemic failure across society, official says
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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Samsung misses Q2 estimates with an operating profit of ~$13.4B, up 5.7% YoY, on revenue of ~$52.19B, down 4% YoY, amid weak sales of Galaxy S9 — Samsung Electronics Co.'s net income fell short of analysts' estimates as slowing growth in the global smartphone market hits demand for its Galaxy devices … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nintendo has sold 19.7M Switch consoles to date, with net sales of $1.513B in the quarter ending June 30, up 9% YoY, and profit of $394.6M, up 42% YoY — Nintendo reported net sales of $1.513 billion for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30, up 9 percent from $1.386 billion for the same period a year ago.
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| 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
| 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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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Despite Facebook's disappointing Q2 earnings, its moats are deeper than ever and its money-making potential is not only huge but growing — While I was mostly unplugged on my vacation last week, with the news of Facebook's disappointing earnings report and subsequent stock decline … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
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