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Amazon Q4: $87.4B revenue, up 21% YoY, net income of $3.3B, up from $3B in Q4 2018, AWS revenue of $9.9B, up from $7.4B in Q4 2018; stock up 11%+ after hours — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) January 30, 2020—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2019.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple says its updated Maps are rolling out across the US, with more detailed visuals and new features like Look Around, and coming to Europe later this year — Apple's updated and more detailed Maps experience has now rolled out across the U.S., the company announced this morning.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Avast will shut down its marketing subsidiary Jumpshot following controversy over selling user data to third parties — Avast's CEO said the move is “absolutely the right thing to do.” — Avast is winding down its subsidiary Jumpshot following an explosive investigation into the sale …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Reports from four analytics companies: Huawei surpassed Apple in 2019 with global smartphone shipments of 241M vs. 198M; Samsung retains its top spot with 298M — Apple's strong fourth quarter wasn't enough to hold off the Chinese challenger — Huawei overtook Apple to become …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty to step down on April 6, to be replaced by SVP of Cloud and Cognitive Software Arvind Krishna; Jim Whitehurst to become President — - Ginni Rometty has been executive chairman, president and CEO since 2012. — Rometty has been at IBM for almost four decades; the next one has been there for three decades.
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Sources: Uber and DoorDash held failed merger talks about six months ago; the talks were at SoftBank's behest which wanted to consolidate food-delivery industry — Uber and DoorDash held talks to combine last year in a deal that would have accelerated the long-awaited consolidation …
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| Angela Chen / MIT Technology Review: |
Pitch deck details Column, a paid social network centered on tech/business notables, with Aron Ping D'Souza as CEO; investor Sarah Cone later said she was CEO — Business and technology leaders are being asked to spend $100,000 buying in to the service. — A proposed new social network …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple hired one of Netflix's top engineers in strategy to staff up the technical team supporting its newly launched TV+ subscription services — Apple Inc. AAPL 2.89% recently hired one of Netflix Inc.'s NFLX -1.87% top engineers, part of a broader strategy to build out the technical team supporting …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft launches Xbox bug bounty program, will pay rewards up to $20K for vulnerabilities found in the Xbox Live network and services — Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) to start accepting vulnerabilities in Xbox gaming platform. — Microsoft announced today the launch …
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Woman tried for 4 years to get Facebook to remove a business page someone created for her “butthole”; the company removed it only after BuzzFeed wrote about it — “This unofficial Page was created because people on Facebook have shown interest in this place or business.
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| Eun-Young Jeong / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung reports weak Q4 earnings from low memory chip sales as net profit slumps to $4.4B, down 39% YoY, on revenue of $50.52B, up 1.1% YoY — Company reports weak fourth-quarter earnings from low memory-chip sales — SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. reported a 39% drop in fourth-quarter net profit …
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Americans spent $170 on average on streaming TV services in 2019, a 30% increase since 2017, when they spent $130 — The dollars are adding up fast. So here are some tips for pruning the subscriptions you no longer use. — Online subscriptions sure sound cheap, but what do a few bucks …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nintendo says Switch passed SNES in lifetime sales with 52M+ sold, reports sales of $9.39B and net profit of $1.8B for the nine months ended in December — Nintendo said it is upgrading its forecast for profits in the fiscal year ending March 31, thanks to strong sales of the Nintendo Switch and games that run on it.
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| Emma Court / Bloomberg: |
Practice Fusion, which offers free, ad-supported health records software to doctors, agrees to pay $145M DOJ fine for its role in boosting opioid prescriptions — - Practice Fusion ensured that addictive drugs were on the menu — 'It's evil. There's really no other word for it,' doctor says
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| Ryan Houlihan / Input: |
Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, key members of the original iPad team, on the early days of the project and their regrets about how the iPad has evolved — Ten years ago, Apple introduced one of the most influential products of the company's modern era: the iPad.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI says it will migrate to Facebook's PyTorch machine learning framework for future projects, eschewing Google's TensorFlow platform — In what might only be perceived as a win for Facebook, OpenAI today announced that it will migrate to the social network's PyTorch machine learning framework … | Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press: |
House subcommittee launches an investigation into dating apps such as Tinder and Bumble for allegedly allowing minors and sex offenders to use their services — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A House subcommittee is investigating popular dating services such as Tinder and Bumble for allegedly allowing minors … | Sarah O'Rourke / Google Online Security Blog: |
Google releases OpenSK, an open-source implementation for security keys that supports both FIDO U2F and FIDO2 standards — Posted by Elie Bursztein, Security & Anti-abuse Research Lead, and Jean-Michel Picod, Software Engineer, Google — Today, FIDO security keys are reshaping … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spatial, which develops a 3D “holographic” collaboration platform, raises $14M Series A led by WhiteStar Capital, iNovia, and Kakao Ventures — The worlds of virtual and augmented reality have yet to land on the applications and hardware to truly spark mass-market …
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| Anirban Sen / Reuters: |
Sources: online pharmacy Alto, which offers same-day deliveries and medication management apps, has raised ~$250M led by SoftBank, at a valuation of over $1B — BANGALORE (Reuters) - SoftBank's second Vision Fund has led a new round of funding for Silicon Valley-based drug delivery firm Alto Pharmacy … | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google shows off far-flung A.I. research projects as calls for regulation mount — Google is working on several long-term artificial intelligence projects it hopes to launch widely someday. — Projects in advanced stages include real-time language translation and anemia detection.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
EA reports Q3 revenues of $1.98B, beating expectations, on growth of its live services to $993M, up 27% YoY; digital net income was $4.13B for 2019, up 15% YoY — Electronic Arts reported earnings that beat Wall Street's expectations for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31 …
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