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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.
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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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram tests anti-bullying features like warning users before they say something hurtful, the ability to limit interactions without blocking, and Away Mode — Would we feel less envious, shameful and competitive if Instagram didn't tell us how many Likes a post received?
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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @metadevgirl, @susanwojcicki, @mhbergen, @youtubeinsider, and @samsheffer
| 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.| 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.| 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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Tweets: @krugermacro, @vinnylingham, @patio11, @iamjosephyoung, @crypto, @bitfinexed, @technology, @thrillmex, and @n_maio
| 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 … | 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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| 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
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Examity, a platform for online course providers that offers student ID verification and automated exam proctoring, raises $90M round led by Great Hill Partners — Examity, a platform that serves online course providers with proctoring services to authenticate the identity of students …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Creative Commons launches its search engine out of beta, with over 300M images indexed — Nonprofit organization Creative Commons is today publicly launching its search engine, after over two years of beta testing. The new service is designed to offer an easy way to search the commons' archive …
Tweets: @mattmcgee and @frankcatalano
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