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Alphabet breaks out revenue numbers for YouTube ads for the first time, says they generated $4.7B in Q4 revenue and $15.15B in fiscal 2019, up from $11.16B YoY — We've never before known how much money YouTube generates — YouTube generated nearly $5 billion in ad revenue in the last three months … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
In its first revenue disclosure for Google's cloud division, Alphabet says it generated $2.61B Q4 revenue and $8.92B in fiscal 2019, up from $5.84B YoY — - Google broke out numbers for YouTube and cloud for the first time Monday. — YouTube ads generated $15.15 billion in revenue in fiscal 2019 …
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Alphabet Q4: revenue of $46B, up 17% YoY; revenue from Other Bets, which includes Verily, Fiber, others, rose to $172M as losses jumped to $2B from $1.3B YoY — Alphabet today announced Q4 2019 earnings with $46.075 billion in revenue. These numbers range from October to December …
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Twitter says it has suspended “a large network of fake accounts” and many others for abusing an API feature that let them match phone numbers to usernames — Twitter announced today that over the holidays it identified and shut down “a large network of fake accounts,” …
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Mastercard CEO details why the company pulled out of Libra, says he had concerns about how Libra went from an “altruistic idea” to Calibra, a proprietary wallet — - Money laundering questons on Facebook's digital currency — Banga does not understand how Libra makes money| HuffPost: |
Sources: Democratic digital nonprofit group ACRONYM was responsible for building the Iowa caucus app used by workers that caused delays in reporting results — Shadow, a Democratic digital firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Asana says it has confidentially filed to go public via a direct listing; the startup has raised about $213M to date and was last valued at ~$1.5B in 2018 — Workplace productivity toolmaker Asana announced late Monday that they have confidentially filed their S-1 and said in a statement … | About Facebook: |
Dropbox CEO and co-founder Drew Houston joins Facebook's board of directors, effective immediately — Facebook today announced that Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, has been appointed to the company's board of directors, effective immediately. — Mark Zuckerberg …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
A performance artist loaded 99 smartphones into a wagon and opened Google Maps on all of them, creating an artificial traffic jam that turned green streets red — Google Maps is a hugely useful tool that's used by millions of people around the globe, mostly thanks to its excellent navigation and traffic tools.
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Microsoft Teams was down for nearly three hours this morning after Microsoft forgot to renew a security certificate — Microsoft Teams is currently down worldwide after Microsoft forgot to renew a critical security certificate. Users of Microsoft's Slack competitor were met …
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HPE acquires zero-trust authentication startup Scytale, which was founded by the creators of open source projects SPIFFE and SPIRE and had raised $8M to date — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said that it has acquired Scytale Inc., a startup that develops so-called zero-trust security software …
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