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Apple reports Q4 revenue of $64.7B, up from $64.0B YoY, of which $50.1B came from products, $14.5B from services, and net income of $12.7B; stock down 3%+ — Company revenue sets September quarter record Services and Mac revenue reach new all-time high — Apple today announced financial results …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Netflix increases pricing for standard plan by $1 to $14/month and premium tier by $2 to $18/month; basic plan will remain $9/month — The basic plan will remain $9 a month — Netflix is introducing price hikes for its US subscribers today, increasing its standard plan to $14 a month and its premium tier to $18 a month.
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| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q3 revenue of $46.17B, up 14% YoY, net income of $11.25B, from $7.07B YoY, Other Bets operating loss grew to $1.10B, stock up 4%+ — 'MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 29, 2020 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2020.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Alphabet's “Other Bets”, which includes Waymo, Verily, Fiber, and others, had a Q3 operating loss of $1.1B, an increase from $941M YoY, on revenues of $178M — Alphabet today announced Q3 2020 earnings with $46.2 billion in revenue. These numbers range from July to September …
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| Amazon.com, Inc.: |
Amazon reports Q3 revenue of $96.15B, net sales increase of 37% YoY, net income of $6.3B, up from $2.1B YoY, and AWS net sales of $11.6B, up 29% YoY — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2020.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
ByteDance launches its first gadget, a $119 smart lamp aimed at school-going children, with a built-in camera to let parents tutor remotely — ByteDance on Thursday unveiled its first consumer hardware product, a smart light lamp with a display, that it says is part of its education technology portfolio … | Facebook: |
Facebook Q3: $21.47B revenue, up 22% YoY, net income $7.85B, up 29% YoY, as DAUs rise 12% YoY to 1.82B, MAUs rise 12% YoY to 2.74B — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2020. — “We had a strong quarter as people and businesses continue …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds a free VPN service for users of its 2TB plan on Google One, rolling out first to US Android users, with more countries, iOS and web to follow — Back in July, Google's storage subscription service made phone backups free on Android and announced plans for iOS.
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| Christopher Bing / Reuters: |
Cybersecurity experts say FBI is investigating Ryuk ransomware attacks on more than two dozen US hospitals, and officials warned hospitals to back up systems — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating the recent targeting with ransomware of more than two dozen hospitals across …
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify had total Q3 revenue of €1.97B, up 14% YoY, ARPU of €4.19, down 10% YoY, with 320M MAUs, up 29% YoY, and 144M paying subscribers, up 27% YoY — Listening time, revenue increased as use in cars and homes grew — Spotify Technology SA moved past a slump that hit early in the pandemic …
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| New York Times: |
A look at startup culture wars happening around Coinbase, Expensify, and others as they become embroiled in a debate over the role of politics in the workplace — Coinbase, Expensify, Soylent, Clubhouse and others are embroiled in a culture war over politics and the workplace.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds live custom data types to Excel, letting users import their data, a feature currently available to Office beta testers in the Insiders program — Excel now goes far beyond text and numbers — Microsoft is overhauling Excel with the ability to support custom live data types.
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| Financial Times: |
Taiwanese contract chipmaker UMC fined $60M after pleading guilty to DOJ charges of stealing trade secrets from US chipmaker Micron — Chipmaker fined $60m and agrees to co-operate in case against China's Fujian Jinhua — Taiwanese contract chipmaker United Microelectronics Corporation …
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U.S. Department of Justice, Nikkei Asia, infosecurity-magazine.com, and South China Morning Post
Tweets: @danharris, @markhachman, and @nikkeiasia
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter beats with Q3 revenue of $936M, up 14% YoY, vs $777M est., ad revenue of $808M, up 15% YoY, but mDAUs of 187M, up 29% YoY, vs.196M est.; stock down 11%+ — - Twitter reported earnings for its third quarter of 2020 on Thursday that beat analyst estimates on the top and bottom lines.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Ant Group's $10.3B raise in 2018, its first from non-Chinese investors, promises a combined $8B gain for Silver Lake, Warburg Pincus, and others when Ant IPOs — In 2018, the financial-technology giant raised $10.3 billion in its first and only private sale of stock to institutions outside China| Scott Bauer / Associated Press: |
Wisconsin Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3M from its federal account; party chairman says the FBI is investigating — MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hackers have stolen $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party's account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump …
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| YouTube: |
Recording of Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Section 230 where Jack Dorsey, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sundar Pichai testified — Senate Commerce Committee Hearing
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Leaked 2018 doc shows Binance conceived of an elaborate corporate structure designed to intentionally deceive regulators and profit from US crypto investors — Binance Holdings Limited, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange conceived of an elaborate corporate structure designed …
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CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, and Cointelegraph
| New York Times: |
A look at “perception hacks”, small attacks that can undermine confidence if exaggerated, and other scenarios that election officials are keeping an eye on — In the final days of voting, election officials and cybersecurity experts are keeping a close eye on a range …
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BleepingComputer. Tweets: @nicoleperlroth, @ngleicher, @sangernyt, @nickconfessore, and @nicoleperlroth
| Patrick Moorhead / Forbes: |
Marvell Technology is acquiring Inphi in a $10B deal to boost its cloud and 5G offerings — I had the chance to talk last night with Marvell CEO Matt Murphy and optics leader Inphi CEO Dr. Ford Tamer on its deal valued at $10B, which considerably expands Marvell's market opportunity in the cloud data center and 5G end markets.
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