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July 30, 2019, 11:55 PM

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Apple:
Apple reports Q3 revenue of $53.8B, up 1% YoY, record Services revenue of $11.5B, up from $10.2B YoY, iPhone revenue of $26B, down from $29.5B YoY; stock up 4%+  —  Company Revenue Sets June Quarter Record Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High  —  Apple today announced financial results …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
iPhone is less than half of Apple's revenue for the first time since 2012; Mac had Q3 revenue of $5.8B, up from $5.3B YoY, iPad's rose to $5B, up from $4.6B  —  Apple is diversifying ahead of major services coming this fall  —  Apple today reported its fiscal third quarter 2019 earnings …
Todd Haselton / CNBC:
Tim Cook says the Apple Card will launch in August  —  KEY POINTS  — The Apple Card is launching in partnership with Goldman Sachs and will provide detailed information on purchases in the iPhone's Wallet app.  — Apple may use the credit card to build more financial services into the Wallet app in the future.
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo:
Documents show that Amazon's Ring vets and authors public statements about Ring attributed to police and delays announcing partnerships with police departments  —  Amazon's home security company Ring has garnered enormous control over the ways in which its law enforcement partners are allowed …
Bloomberg:
A researcher's tip to Capital One about leaked data led to the arrest of ex-Amazon employee Paige Thompson, who prosecutors say boasted online of her exploits  —  - Former Amazon employee stole data, boasted online, U.S. says  — ‘I gotta find somewhere to store it,’ hacker allegedly wrote
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Rani Molla / Vox:
Google employees have donated more to Elizabeth Warren than any other presidential candidate; some staffers think antitrust action wouldn't hurt Google's value  —  Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders want to break up Google.  That isn't stopping Googlers from donating to their presidential campaigns.
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Apple, Microsoft, Google to test CARIN Blue Button API, a newly-proposed standard for giving patients digital access to historical health insurance claims data  —  A newly released data model and draft implementation guide for providing digital access to historical health insurance claims data directly …
Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet:
Samsung posts Q2 operating profit of ~$5.6B, down 56% YoY, on revenue of ~$47.4B, down 4% YoY, after profits from its chip and mobile businesses declined YoY  —  Samsung expects “persistent uncertainties” in the memory business for the remainder of the year but will pursue an aggressive investment plan in the second half.
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Sony Q1: 3.2M PS4s sold, 100M sold since launch in 2014, while smartphone revenue dropped 15% QoQ, with 900K units shipped, less than half of Q1 2018  —  Despite flagging sales of late, Sony's PlayStation 4 has sold 100 million units, making it the fastest-selling console to hit that number.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft says Skype for Business Online will be “retired” on July 31, 2021; Skype consumer users will be able to communicate with Teams users starting Q1 2020  —  As part of its Skype for Business Online to Teams transition, Microsoft will enable Skype consumer users to communicate …
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Identity verification startup Truework raises $12M Series A round led by Sequoia Capital  —  Truework, a San Francisco-based developer of cloud-hosted identity verification solutions, today announced that it has secured $12 million in a series A round led by Sequoia Capital, bringing its total raised to $15 million.

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