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Microsoft reports Q4 revenue of $33.7B, up 12% YoY, operating income of $12.4B, up 20% YoY, and net income of $13.2B, up 49% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — July 18, 2019 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2019, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:
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Sources: WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann has cashed out more than $700M from the company ahead of its IPO through a mix of stock sales and debt — Adam Neumann has sold some of his WeWork stake and borrowed against some of his holdings, investing the proceeds in real estate and startups
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics — As many as 4 million people have Web browser extensions that sell their every click. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Inside 18 months of turmoil at Grindr, which some former employees say began with its sale to Chinese company Kunlun Group and elevation of Scott Chen — Over the last 18 months, Grindr has faced a federal investigation, layoffs, mismanagement, and internal turmoil.| Jennifer Miller / New York Times: |
As podcast service Blubrry says there are now over 700,000 podcasts, with 2,000 to 3,000 launching every month, a look at whether we have reached “peak podcast” — If past experience (cough, blogs) is any indication, a shakeout is nigh. — In 2016, Morgan Mandriota and Lester Lee …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Instagram strengthens moderation policies, introducing an alert to warn people when their account is close to being deleted and giving moderators more leeway — Instagram is strengthening its moderation policies today and adding a new alert that will warn people who violate rules when their account is close to being deleted.
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| Bloomberg: |
How Amazon Go, which offers all the selection of a 7-Eleven but with more complexity and cost, became the company's most ambitious research project — Jeff Bezos and his company have spent seven years and hundreds of millions of dollars getting rid of cashiers. Will it pay off?
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
In its first earnings report since its IPO, CrowdStrike beats with Q2 revenue of $96.1M, up 103% YoY, vs. $95.6M est.; stock up 12%+ after hours — Shares in CrowdStrike, the cyber security company that uncovered Russian hackers inside the servers of the US Democratic National Committee … | Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
In some ways, Netflix's Q2 results were a disaster, highlighting the weakness of its US market, limits of international growth, and pain of losing huge shows — As US growth slows, executives look to international markets — Netflix reported earnings on Wednesday night, and the results were disastrous.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
The Kazakhstan government is making ISPs force users to install a government-issued certificate on all devices and in every browser to intercept HTTPS traffic — Kazakh government first wanted to intercept all HTTPS traffic way back in 2016, but they backed off after several lawsuits.
Tweets: @campuscodi, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, and @campuscodi
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Slack says it is resetting passwords for 1% of its users after receiving new info about the company's 2015 security breach; in April, Slack said it has 10M DAUs — Company said it received a batch of compromised credentials related to the 2015 hack via its bug bounty program.
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| Joey Roulette / Orlando Weekly: |
Orlando cancels the second phase of its Amazon Rekognition pilot, which began in October 2018, and says it has no immediate plans for future pilots of the tech — Orlando's two-phase pilot with Amazon to try out real-time facial recognition software ended Thursday, capping 15 months of technical lags … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
A look at the challenges facing Boston Dynamics, chief among them public perception, as it prepares to launch its first commercial bot, called Spot, this year — Not many robotics companies can boast legions of fans online, but not many robotics companies make robots quite like Boston Dynamics.
Tweets: @alexjamesfitz, @carlquintanilla, @bob_malak, and @jjvincent
| Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
DNC warns 2020 presidential campaigns not to use FaceApp; alert from DNC's chief security officer notes that the app was “developed by Russians” — Washington (CNN) — The Democratic National Committee sent a security alert to 2020 presidential campaigns Wednesday afternoon warning …
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Axios, Reuters, CNET, NPR, Business Insider, CNBC, Washington Post, Android Authority, Android Central, Gizmodo, Avast EN, Digital Trends, The Daily Caller, The Ringer, USA Today, Vanity Fair, The Daily Dot, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @espiers, @zackwhittaker, @donie, and @cnn
| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
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Tweets: @frankthorp, @chronic, @wongmjane, @allbrightnfl, @nicoleperlroth, @chronic, @_inside, @karissabe, @moorehn, @amaramarasingam, @paultassi, and @panzer
| European Commission: |
European Commission fines Qualcomm €242M for abusing its dominance in 3G baseband chipsets by selling below cost to force its competitor Icera out of the market — The European Commission has fined Qualcomm €242 million for abusing its market dominance in 3G baseband chipsets.
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Tweets: @vestager, @pablopereza, and @tomwarren
| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
US Treasury's FinCEN says scammers tried to steal an average of $301M per month via business email compromise scams in 2018, up from $110M per month in 2016 — The frequency of business email compromise (BEC) scams has increased year over year and so did the value of attempted thefts …
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