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Facebook reports Q1 revenue of $15.08B, up 26% YoY, as advertising revenue hits $14.91B, up 26% YoY; sets aside $3B related to a forthcoming FTC settlement — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2019.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook had 2.38B MAUs in Q1, up 2.5% QoQ, as DAUs hit 1.56B, up 2.63% QoQ; EPS is $0.85 instead of $1.89 after setting aside money for potential FTC fine — A massive penalty hangs over Facebook's head, but it otherwise had a very strong Q1 earnings report.
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Despite reporting that it expects a $3B-$5B fine from the FTC, Facebook's stock was up ~7.5% after hours, adding ~$40B to its market cap — Facebook will set aside $3 billion to cover expenses associated with a fine from the Federal Trade Commission over its privacy practices. All good here, say investors.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q3 revenue of $30.6B, up 14% YoY, as net income rose by 19% YoY to $8.8B; Intelligent Cloud revenue rose 22% YoY to $9.7B — REDMOND, Wash. — April 24, 2019 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2019, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon team auditing Alexa commands has access to user location data, making finding customer addresses easy; Amazon says access is tightly controlled — - Some members of Alexa Data Services see latitude and longitude — The team is charged with helping Alexa improve its performance
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the NSA has recommended that the White House drop a once-secret US phone-surveillance program that collects info about Americans' phone calls and texts — The program, created after 9/11, has encountered compliance challenges and questions about its efficacy in recent years
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Facebook admits it often confuses advocacy and commentary on racism and white complicity in anti-blackness with attacks on a protected group — It was spirit week, and Carolyn Wysinger, a high school teacher in Richmond, California, was cheerfully scrolling through Facebook on a break between classes.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Slack previews new features rolling out in the coming weeks and months: responding to messages via email, new calendar integrations, universal search, and more — Most of the new features will be available later this year — Slack arrived more than five years ago with the bold attempt to try to kill email in the workplace.
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| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
Report: Amazon is testing a program to help fight utility patent infringements by matching a seller and an accused merchant with a third-party lawyer for $4,000 — Amazon has been battling counterfeit products and knock-off goods for years. It's tried charging merchants large fees … | Katie Roof / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Slack plans to reveal by Friday its prospectus for a direct listing on the NYSE; it had already confidentially submitted its filing to regulators — Paperwork will be for its direct listing debut on NYSE — Messaging platform Slack Technologies Inc. is taking the next step toward going public … | Nicholas Vinocur / Politico: |
Critics question the willingness of the Irish Data Protection Commission, EU's lead GDPR enforcer, to crack down on tech firms that dominate Ireland's economy — The GDPR is the world's toughest standard for data privacy. But nearly a year later, its chief enforcer has yet to take a single action …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Ad-blocking browser Brave rolls out optional Brave Ads to desktop users, with users who opt in receiving 70% of the gross ad revenue in Basic Attention Tokens — Brave today rolled out Brave Ads, its digital advertising model, to desktop users in Canada, France, Germany, the U.K. …
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| Jennifer Lynch / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Massachusetts' top court rules that warrantless access by police to an individual's real-time cellphone location data violates that person's right to privacy — There's heartening news for our location privacy out of Massachusetts this week. The Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court …
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| PayPal: |
PayPal reports Q1 revenue of $4.13B, up 12% YoY, net income of $667M, up 31% YoY, and $161 billion in total payment volume, up 22% YoY — GAAP EPS of $.56, increasing 34%; non-GAAP EPS of $.78, increasing 37% $.08 EPS benefit related to PayPal's strategic investment in MercadoLibre 9.3 million net …
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Hacker says he can access 27K user accounts of GPS tracking services iTrack and ProTrack, which had weak default passwords, and can kill some users' car engines — “I can absolutely make a big traffic problem all over the world,” the hacker said. — A hacker broke into thousands …
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| Kim Hart / Axios: |
Microsoft has managed to dodge the Big Tech backlash, with its reputation improving since 2016 thanks to a methodical approach to thorny issues — The tech industry is feeling the pain of an unprecedented backlash over its business practices and broad impact on society …
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
SoftBank subsidiary HAPSMobile is investing $125M in Alphabet's Loon as part of a strategic partnership to develop airborne tech for providing wireless internet — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A SoftBank Corp business seeking to find a way to fly cellphone antennas high in the atmosphere …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google makes Fit, its activity tracker, available on iOS as a standalone app with full Health integration — Last August, Google Fit was completely revamped with the Material Theme and a focus on two new metrics. The health and activity tracking application is now coming to iOS with full Apple Health integration.
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| Mark Surman / The Mozilla Blog: |
Mozilla's 2019 Internet Health Report examines machine learning bias, ways to rethink the digital ad economy, rise of smart cities, and more — Our annual open-source report examines how humanity and the internet intersect. Here's what we found — Today, Mozilla is publishing …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Source: Bond Capital, Mary Meeker's new growth equity VC firm that spun out from Kleiner Perkins, has secured $1.25B+ for its debut fund — Bond Capital, the growth equity firm spun out of Kleiner Perkins last year, has secured $1.25 billion in commitments for its debut fund, Axios has learned from a source.| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
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