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Alphabet Q4: revenue of $39.3B, up 22% YoY, net income of $8.9B, CPC down 29%, and paid clicks on Google properties up 66% YoY; stock down 3% — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - February 4, 2019 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2018.
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Alphabet's traffic acquisition costs hit $7.44B for Q4, up from $6.58B in Q3, and ad revenue grew 20% YoY to $32.6B, amid competition from rivals like Amazon — - Traffic acquisition costs as a percent of advertising revenue came in at 23 percent, matching analyst estimates and falling right in line with previous quarters.| Mark Zuckerberg: |
On Facebook's 15th anniversary, Zuckerberg says it will spend more on safety and security in 2019 than it had revenue at its IPO, pans critics' “negative” focus — Fifteen years ago today, I launched the first version of the Facebook website from my college dorm.
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| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Sources: Facebook hires the team behind Chainspace, a startup building tech for decentralized “smart contracts”, its first blockchain acquisition — Facebook has made its first acquisition in the blockchain space. — The social network has quietly hired the team behind Chainspace …
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| Bloomberg: |
In a Russian filing, Apple says it stores user data including names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers on Russian servers to comply with a local law — - User information limited to customer names and contact details — Apple made similar agreement in China last year for iCloud
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| Paul Tassi / Forbes: |
EDM artist Marshmello held two in-game concerts in Fortnite this weekend, with the first reportedly having 10M+ concurrent players watching — I'm still trying to process just how cool yesterday's live Marshmello concert in Fortnite was, and I found myself wondering just how many people were actually “in attendance,” so to speak.
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| Erik Schatzker / Bloomberg: |
How a US-based manufacturer of an “indestructible” smartphone screen helped FBI in its Huawei sting after the Chinese giant allegedly tried to steal its secrets — The sample looked like an ordinary piece of glass, 4 inches square and transparent on both sides.
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| Pradeep / MSPoweruser: |
TomTom expands its partnership with Microsoft to bring its location data to mapping services across Microsoft including Bing, Cortana, and Windows — Back in 2016, TomTom first announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring enterprise-grade location-based services to Azure, based on TomTom's maps, traffic and navigation software.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Slack says it has submitted a confidential draft filing to go public with the SEC — - The business chat provider is just one of several tech IPOs expected in 2019, including Uber, Lyft and Airbnb. — Slack confidentially filed to go public, according to a press release published Monday.
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| Chris Pearce / Mozilla Hacks: |
Beginning with the upcoming release of Firefox 66, Firefox for Android and desktop will block auto-playing audio and video by default — Isn't it annoying when you click on a link or open a new browser tab and audible video or audio starts playing automatically?
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
After the death of a British teen, Instagram head announces plans to debut “sensitivity screens” to blur images of self-harm unless users click to reveal them — Facebook-owned app promises changes to better shield users from self-harm images — Instagram will introduce …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple's iOS 12.2 beta has a new Motion & Orientation Access toggle in Privacy settings, off by default, that limits gyroscope and accelerometer access in Safari — Last month, Apple released iOS 12.2 in beta with several new features, including the Apple News app in Canada …
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Filing: Amazon names Rosalind Brewer, Starbucks' COO and board director, to its all-white board, making her its second black director and the first since 2009 — SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com has named its first black director after facing growing pressure to diversify the all-white board overseeing … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
HoloLens co-inventor Avi-Bar-Zeev left Apple in Jan. after joining in Jun. 2016 and working on the company's rumored AR/VR headset expected to launch in 2020 — AR/VR pioneer and Hololens co-inventor Avi Bar-Zeev left Apple last month, Variety has learned.
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MacRumors, Neowin, Cult of Mac, MSPoweruser, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, 9to5Mac, and Road to VR. Thanks:@jank0
| Daniel Heyman / Hacker Noon: |
Looking at 2017's crypto frenzy through the lens of Carlota Perez's tech life cycles: blockchain is likely in the “gestation” stage and more bubbles are coming — Why another bubble is likely and what the blockchain space should focus on now — In the aftermath …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Instant Tethering, launched in 2017 to let Chrome OS easily share a Pixel's cell connection, is coming to dozens of non-Google Chrome OS and Android devices — Google introduced Instant Tethering in 2017 to let Chrome OS devices automatically share an Android phone's cellular connection.
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| Simon Carraud / Reuters: |
Apple reaches a deal with France to pay backdated taxes, with reports putting the sum at around €500M — PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. technology giant Apple said it had reached a deal with France to pay an undeclared amount of back-dated tax, with French media putting the sum at around 500 million euros ($571 million).
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| Anand Murali / FactorDaily: |
Despite vast amounts of data being collected across India, the lack of high-quality local datasets is hampering the country's AI researchers and companies — The global race in artificial intelligence is like the space race of the 20th century with large powers vying for the pole position.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it has banned four armed groups in Myanmar and will remove all “related praise, support, and representation” — Facebook is taking action in Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country where the social network has been used to incite racial tension and violence, after it banned four armed groups from its service.
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