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Apple reports Q2 revenue of $58B, down 5% YoY, with international sales accounting for 61% of Q2 revenue, record services revenue of $11.5B; stock up 5%+ — Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High of $11.5 Billion — Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2019 second quarter ended March 30, 2019.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple reports Q2 iPhone revenue of $31.1B, vs $30.5B est., down from $37.6B YoY, Mac revenue of $5.5B, down from $5.8B, iPad revenue of $4.9B, up from $4B YoY — iPhone and Mac sales down, iPad and services way up — Apple just reported its second quarter financial results …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Zuckerberg opens F8 reiterating Facebook's new focus on a “privacy-focused communications platform” prioritizing end-to-end encryption and interoperability — Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is doubling down on privacy. — At F8, the social network's annual developer conference …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Dating launches in 14 more countries, will come to US in 2019, adds Secret Crush feature to let users select up to 9 friends for Tinder-like matching — Facebook built Dating to be privacy-safe, hoping to avoid the awkwardness of friends or family checking out your romance profile.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook unveils plans for Messenger app for Windows and macOS, a new social video-watching feature, a lightweight and full-featured version of Messenger, more — Ahead of its annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Facebook has offered a glimpse into some of the things it's cooking …
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook launches a major redesign that ditches the blue bar at the top, features Groups and Stories more prominently, and debuts Meet New Friends feature — - Facebook is getting a major redesign. — The social network has ditched its iconic blue bar and now looks more similar to Messenger and Instagram.| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Facebook relaunches Oculus for Business, coming this fall, with a new software suite and UX customized for business use cases, adds support for the Oculus Quest — At F8, Facebook announced a launch date for the Oculus Quest and Rift S, as well as completely new enterprise-grade Oculus for Business software.
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
At F8, Mark Zuckerberg left out the fact that users are already moving towards more private sharing while discussing Facebook's privacy-focused next chapter — F8 is a conference where Facebook executives talk about the future — and at Facebook, the future is flexible. In 2015, the future was video.
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| Alphabet Investor Relations: |
Alphabet says Eric Schmidt and Diane Greene will not seek re-election to Alphabet's board; Schmidt will continue his role as a technical adviser to Alphabet — Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced it has appointed Robin L. Washington to its Board of Directors.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Instagram is launching a camera redesign to make it easier to make high quality posts without importing media, adds dedicated shopping tags for creators — Turning Instagram into a more robust commerce platform — Instagram is announcing a couple of new features today that are designed …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Facebook will make Portal and Portal+ available outside of the US, starting with Canada this June and following with a European expansion in the fall — Facebook's Portal video chat devices are about to become much easier to find, not to mention more useful.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
In a letter to creators, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube wants to have half of the videos in its trending tab come from YouTube creators — YouTube wants to have half of the featured videos in its trending tab come from streams originating on the company's own site going forward …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google employees plan to hold a “sit-in” on May 1 to protest the alleged retaliation against staff from management over previous activism — Google workers are staging a sit-in Wednesday to protest alleged retaliation from management toward employee organizers at the company.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
General counsel to both Bitfinex and Tether says in an affidavit that the USDT stablecoin is only 74% backed by cash and equivalents as of April 30 — The USDT stablecoin is only about 74 percent backed by fiat equivalents as of April 30, says its issuer's general counsel.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IDC: 310.8M smartphones were shipped in Q1, down 6.6% YoY; Samsung was the top vendor with 23.1% marketshare, followed by Huawei with 19% and Apple with 11.7% — The battle for second rages on. — While Samsung held the top smartphone spot all four quarters last year …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Ford says it is bringing Amazon Key's in-car delivery service to select Ford and Lincoln vehicles — The automaker said eligible Ford and Lincoln vehicles from 2017 onward will have the ability to link up to Amazon's Key delivery service. — Ford Motor Company said on Tuesday …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD reports Q1 revenue of $1.27B, down 23% YoY but slightly beating analyst estimates of $1.26B; computing and graphics division revenue fell 26% YoY to $831M — Advanced Micro Devices reported results for the first quarter ended March 31 that slightly beat earnings expectations.| Sage Lazzaro / OneZero: |
Residents of a rent-controlled Manhattan building are suing smart lock startup Latch for providing data about tenants and their guests to landlords — Great for landlords. Not so great for you. — atch is on a mission to digitize the front door, offering apartment entry systems …
Tweets: @sagelazzaro, @r_chirgwin, @karlbode, and @medium
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Germany-based Citycomp, an internet infrastructure provider for companies like Oracle, confirms it's been hacked and customers' financial data has leaked online — The data was stolen from Citycomp, which provides internet infrastructure for dozens of companies including Oracle, Airbus, Toshiba, and Volkswagen.
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| Seth Colaner / VentureBeat: |
Amazon says Amazon Managed Blockchain, its AWS service that helps companies quickly create their own scalable blockchain networks, is now generally available — Amazon is in the blockchain business in a big way. Its Amazon Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service designed … Sponsor Posts
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