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Apple reports Q1 revenue of $111.4B, up 21% YoY, with international sales making up 64% of Q1 revenue; iPhone, Wearables, and Services set new revenue records — Revenue up 21 percent and EPS up 35 percent to new all-time records — iPhone, Wearables, and Services set new revenue records
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Apple, Axios, Six Colors, Silicon Republic, MediaNama, The Mac Observer, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, Daring Fireball, The Economic Times, iPhone Hacks, and PYMNTS.com
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
IDC says Apple has shipped 90.1M iPhones in Q1, the largest number of shipments in a single quarter since IDC started tracking smartphones — - The iPhone is booming: Sales were up 17% year-over-year to a whopping $65.6 billion in a single quarter. — Research firm IDC estimates …
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IDC, Canalys.com, Counterpoint Research, 9to5Google, AppleInsider, Silicon Republic, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Gizchina, Business Insider, Huawei Central, Android Authority, iMore, Huawei Central, and XDA Developers
Tweets: @fjeronimo, @munster_gene, @fjeronimo, @benbajarin, @vladsavov, and @fjeronimo
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
In an interview, Tim Cook says Apple has an active installed base of 1.65B devices, up from 1.5B a year ago, including an installed base of over 1B iPhones — (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Wednesday reported holiday quarter sales and profits that beat Wall Street expectations …
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Gizchina, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocketnow, and Ubergizmo
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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9to5Mac, Macworld, The Verge, Six Colors, CNBC, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and coinspeaker.com
Tweets: @patrickmcgee_, @asymco, @denverbitcoin, @michaelzimmer, @asymco, @mikeelgan, and @apollozac
| Pippa Stevens / CNBC: |
As Reddit's r/WallStreetBets pushes GameStop's stock to record levels, other stocks mentioned in the subreddit surge, like AMC, which closed up 300%+ — - Shares of AMC Entertainment jumped more than 300% at the opening bell on Wednesday. — In addition to GameStop …
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Tweets: @elonmusk, @josephpalbanese, @passionweiss, @jyarow, @miakhalifa, @jsccounterpunch, @bloombergtv, @sarahljaffe, and @clairlemon
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
As r/WallStreetBets causes GameStop, BlackBerry, and others to surge, online trading platforms like Robinhood and WeBull have rapidly climbed US app store ranks — - The flurry of Redditors taking on Wall Street appears to have resulted in a usage boom for share trading apps.
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| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Zuckerberg says Apple is one of Facebook's “biggest competitors” and uses its dominant position to preference apps like iMessage against WhatsApp and Messenger — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the opening remarks of the company's fourth quarter earnings call to blast Apple …
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The Verge, Washington Post, MacRumors, ZDNet, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, Fast Company, iPhone Hacks, PCMag, and SlashGear
| The Information: |
Sources: Facebook is preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for forcing developers to abide by App Store rules that Apple's own apps don't have to follow — A long-simmering public dispute between Facebook and Apple has neared a boiling point. With the aid of outside legal counsel …
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CNET. Tweets: @alexeheath, @jesselehrich, @stevekovach, @ali_heston, @ow, @thehonorableat, @joannastern, and @iansherr
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds opt-in biometric fingerprint, face, or iris scan authentication for WhatsApp on desktop or web — WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned popular messaging app with more than 2 billion users, has been getting a lot of heat and losing users in recent weeks after announcing (and then delaying) changes to how it uses your data.
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The Verge, The Next Web, Android Authority, Engadget, Windows Central, 9to5Mac, PCMag, XDA Developers, MacRumors, Android Central, 9to5Google, Android Authority, SlashGear, NextPit, and The Economic Times
Tweets: @whatsapp and @samerkamal
| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Europol, the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies worldwide have seized control of malware botnet Emotet's infrastructure and disrupted it from the inside — Europol and FBI among agencies that have taken control of the botnet infrastructure used by cyber criminals behind some of the most prolific malware and ransomware attacks.
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Europol, ZDNet, Krebs on Security, BleepingComputer, BetaNews, Threatpost, SecurityWeek, BBC, Team Cymru, Europol, National Crime Agency, Check Point Software, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @europol, @joetidy, @hatr, @dannyjpalmer, @modernhomesla, @bobbychesney, @malwaretechblog, @ergobtc, @ericgeller, @briankrebs, and @k3r3n3. Thanks:@steveranger
| TechCrunch: |
Apple says its App Tracking Transparency feature, which will be enabled by default, will roll out with iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 updates in early spring — Apple has shared a few more details about its much-discussed privacy changes in iOS 14. The company first announced at WWDC …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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| Facebook: |
Facebook reports Q4: $28.1B revenue, up 33% YoY, 1.84B DAUs, up 11% YoY, 2.6B people used a Facebook service daily, up 15% YoY; headcount up 30% YoY to 58,604 — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2020.
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
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| Reuters: |
Samsung reports Q4 earnings with total revenue of ~$55.2B, up 3% YoY, and operating profit of ~$8.2B, up 26% YoY, but sees mobile sales drop 11% YoY to $19.3B — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday it expects its overall profit to weaken in the first quarter of 2021 … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
US and Bulgarian authorities seize a dark web site used to publish data stolen from victims of NetWalker, which has been among the most rapacious ransomware — U.S. and Bulgarian authorities this week seized the darkweb site used by the NetWalker ransomware cybercrime group to publish data stolen from its victims.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SAP to acquire Signavio, a Berlin-based business process automation company, reportedly for $1.2B — Rumors have been flying this week that SAP was going to buy Berlin business process automation startup Signavio, and sure enough the company made it official today.
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Tweets: @saphellascyprus and @tprstly
| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Facebook's Oversight Board issues first-ever rulings, which Facebook said it will abide by, overturning four out of the five cases it reviewed — Facebook's Oversight Board on Thursday issued its first round of decisions, overturning several of the company's decisions to remove posts … | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
YouTube says its TikTok competitor Shorts is getting 3.5B views per day in its test run in India and plans to expand the feature into more markets in 2021 — - YouTube's short video feature is gaining traction in India, the company's CEO, Susan Wojcicki, said Tuesday.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Zuckerberg says Facebook will stop recommending civic and political groups to users permanently and is considering reducing political content in News Feeds — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday announced that the company will no longer recommend civic and political groups to its users.
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