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Microsoft reports FY'Q3 revenue of $41.7B, up 19% YoY, net income of $15.5B, up 44% YoY, revenue in Intelligent Cloud up 23% to $15.1B, Surface revenue up 12% — Microsoft Cloud Fuels Third Quarter Results REDMOND, Wash. — April 27, 2021 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results …
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Alphabet reports Q1 revenue of $55.3B, up 34% YoY, net income of $17.9B, up from $6.8B YoY, and Google Search revenue of $31.9B, up from $24.5B YoY — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 27, 2021 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2021.
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Spotify launches paid podcast subscriptions for creators in the US, at no cost to creators for two years and a 5% fee starting in spring 2023 — Spotify today is officially rolling out paid podcast subscriptions, after first unveiling its new subscription platform at the company's “Stream On” event in February.
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Sources: Apple's follow-up to its M1 chip has already gone into mass production, will be ready to ship in products slated for H2 — TSMC-made chipsets to replace Intel offerings in laptops set to launch in 2H — TAIPEI — The next generation of Mac processors designed by Apple entered mass production …
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Iterable, which offers SMS, email, and app notification growth marketing services and is valued at ~$2B, ousts CEO for taking LSD before a board meeting in 2019 — Marketing startup Iterable Inc. dismissed its chief executive officer over violations of company policy, Iterable said in a note to employees on Monday.
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU will charge Apple with anticompetitive behavior later this week, over concerns that the rules it sets for developers on its App Store break EU law — Case began two years ago and is among a number against the US tech group — Margrethe Vestager, the EU's competition chief …
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| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
With iPhone's privacy changes, advertisers will get more ad-performance data for ads bought through Apple than via third parties, giving its ad business an edge — Under the iPhone maker's new rules, advertisers will get more ad-performance data for ads bought through Apple than through third parties
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Amazon debuts a new Fire HD 10 tablet, now thinner with a brighter screen for $150, a more powerful $180 Fire HD 10 Plus, a Fire Kids Pro tablet line, and more — There's also a new Fire Kids Pro lineup — Amazon is overhauling its tablet lineup today with new Fire HD 10 models alongside refreshed options for kids.
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Researchers say preinstalled Android apps can access a log where sensitive contact tracing app information is stored; Google says a fix is being rolled out — Researchers say hundreds of preinstalled apps can access a log found on Android devices where sensitive contact tracing information is stored| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DC Police confirm a data breach after a ransomware gang threatens to release files that expose police informants unless the department agrees to pay a ransom — A ransomware gang is threatening to leak sensitive police files that may expose police investigations and informants unless …
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
AMD Q1: revenue of $3.4B, up 93% YoY, net income of $555M, up 243% YoY, with EPYC sales driving Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom revenue up 286% to $1.35B — AMD said its revenue from chips shipping into the data center more than doubled, quarter over quarter.
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| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Twitch has grown in popularity among many extremists and QAnon adherents, who turned away from Facebook and YouTube after a 2020 misinfo, hate speech crackdown — QAnon adherents and other far-right influencers are making thousands of dollars broadcasting election and vaccine conspiracy theories on the streaming site.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg teases upcoming Instagram features to help creators make money, including a marketplace to match brands with creators, and more — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a slew of features Instagram is working on to help creators generate more money from their content.
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Arm says its new Neoverse V1 and N2 server chip platforms for HPC, datacenters, and edge, have at least 40% better processing over the previous generation — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — Arm unveiled the performance numbers … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple files written testimonies of its expert witnesses ahead of upcoming Epic trial, laying the foundation for claims on marketshare, App Store security, more — On Monday, May 3 Apple and Epic will meet in court as their bench trial kicks off over the dispute that Epic started last summer … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
In 2013 emails, Eddy Cue pitched iMessage for Android, but Craig Federighi said it would simply “remove an obstacle to iPhone families” buying Android phones — ‘Do we want to lose one of the most important apps in a mobile environment to Google?’| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Pinterest misses on user growth in Q1, with 478M MAUs vs. 480.5M est., as revenue beats, with $485M, up 78% YoY, vs. $474M est.; stock down ~10% after hours — - Shares of Pinterest dropped as much as 10% in after-hours trading on Tuesday after it missed on user growth expectations in its first-quarter earnings.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe acquires TaxJar for its cloud-based, automated sales tax tools; financial details not disclosed, but PitchBook data says TaxJar had been valued at $179M — Stripe, the privately-held payments company now valued at $95 billion, has made an acquisition to expand the range of tools …
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Greenlight, which offers debit cards for kids and has 3M parents and kids with accounts, raises $260M Series D led by a16z, nearly doubling valuation to $2.3B — Greenlight, the fintech company that pitches parents on kid-friendly bank accounts, has raised $260 million in a Series D funding round … | Reuters: |
Russian watchdog fines Apple $12M for alleged abuse of its dominance in the mobile apps market; Apple says it will appeal the decision — Russia said it had fined Apple $12 million for alleged abuse of its dominance in the mobile applications market, in the latest dispute between Moscow and a Western technology firm.| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Senators are probing whether Google tried to influence a Match Group employee's testimony at an antitrust hearing by allegedly calling the person ahead of time — Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) are demanding more details about an alleged phone call between a Google employee and a Match Group employee.Sponsor Posts
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