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Apple reports record first quarter results — iPhone, Wearables & Services Drive All-Time Record Revenue and Earnings — Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2020 first quarter ended December 28, 2019. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $91.8 billion …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple addresses Wuhan coronavirus concerns, offers wider than usual Q2 revenue estimates, says it closed one retail store in China, slightly delayed production — Apple has suppliers in the Wuhan area of China, and it has taken precautions like closing one store in China and reducing hours at other retail locations.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Apple reports Q1 revenue of $91.8B, up 9% YoY, of which $79.1B came from products, $12.7B from services, and net income of $22.2B; $63B-$67B Q2 revenue expected — Today after the bell, Apple reported the results of the first quarter of its fiscal 2020. The company's revenue totaled $91.8 billion …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Apple reached 1.5B active devices, up from 1.4B a year ago, with ~80% of recent iPhones and iPads running iOS/iPadOS 13 — Commenting on Apple's record-breaking 2020 Q1 performance, CEO Tim Cook shared an update on how many active devices are now in customers' hands and we've also got fresh numbers …
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| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
Sources: Google is testing a new communications app for businesses, which brings together functions from Gmail, Drive, Hangouts Meet, Hangouts Chat, and more — Google is working on a mobile application for businesses that brings together the functions of several standalone apps the company already offers … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says in 2019 its bug bounty program paid 461 security researchers $6.5M, up from $3.4M to 317 researchers in 2018 — Google today announced it has paid out over $21 million since launching its bug bounty program in November 2010. In the past year alone, the company distributed $6.5 million …
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| Bill Budington / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Ring app on Android covertly sends personally identifiable information of users to third parties including Facebook and MixPanel — Ring isn't just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook VP of Engineering Jay Parikh, who was instrumental in building Facebook's data center infrastructure, is leaving the company after more than a decade — - Facebook's Vice President of Engineering Jay Parikh on Tuesday announced his departure from the company, joining a long list …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Online fraud bazaar lists 30M+ US customers' card details for sale, which experts say come from breach of convenience store chain Wawa disclosed in December — In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems …
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| Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: |
Facebook's Off-Facebook Activity tool won't actually clear the data collected about you from other apps and sites, only its connection to your Facebook account — When we talk about Facebook's myriad foibles and fuckups, we're usually laying the blame on things that happen within the Big Blue App … | Geoffrey Fowler / Washington Post: |
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Product Hunt launches YourStack, a social network for discussing various products, including apps, books, and cookware — The team that built Product Hunt — a website that helps you find new tech products — is releasing a new site that shows you all types of products that your friends and public figures recommend.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook shares proposed bylaws for its oversight board, which some have called a content moderation “supreme court”, that leave Facebook firmly in control — - In a 46-page document, Facebook outlined the powers and limitations of the board, stating that the company is committing …
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Lime to pilot AI-based technology in San Jose, CA which it claims warns riders when they are on a sidewalk 50% or more of the time — Not all electric scooter riders follow the rules of the road. Those rules include obeying traffic signals, signaling, and not riding on sidewalks where the motorized vehicles can endanger pedestrians.
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Tweets: @limebike, @vogon, @tweetermeyer, @darakerr, @a_w_gordon, and @jdolcourt
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
UK court orders Bitfinex to freeze bitcoin worth $860K after the crypto exchange and Chainalysis traced the funds to a ransomware payment — A U.K. court has ordered Bitfinex to freeze bitcoin worth $860,000 after the crypto exchange and blockchain sleuthing firm Chainalysis traced the funds to a ransomware payment.
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