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Apple reports record Q2 revenue of $89.6B, up 54% YoY, net income of $23.6B, up from $11.2B YoY, iPhone sales of $47.9B, up from $29B YoY — Revenue up 54 percent to new March quarter record — Services and Mac revenue reach new all-time high — Apple today announced financial results …
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple Q2: record Mac sales of $9.1B, up from $5.4B last year, iPad sales of $7.8B, up from $4.4B, Wearables, Home, and Accessories sales of $7.8B, up from $6.3B — Apple earned $89.6 billion in revenue for the second fiscal quarter of 2021, a huge Wall Street beat attributed in large part …
| Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter: |
Apple says it has 660M subscriptions across its platform; Apple Q2 Services revenue hit a record $16.9B, up from $13.3B a year ago — The tech giant's overall revenue hit $89.6 billion, up 54 percent from a year prior. — Apple's services business is off to a hot start in 2021.
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Facebook reports Q1 revenue of $26.2B, up from $17.7B YoY, MAUs of 2.85B, up 10% YoY, headcount of 60,654, up 26% YoY, avg. ad price up 30% YoY; stock rises ~5% — MENLO PARK, Calif., April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported nancial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2021.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Facebook says Q1 ad revenue was $25.4B, up 46% YoY, expects continued growth in Q2, with headwinds in H2 due to regulatory changes and Apple's iOS 14.5 update — The average price per ad in Q1 increased by 30 percent year-over-year, driving up Facebook ad revenue growth.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook hid all posts with “#ResignModi” in India; now it says the posts with the hashtag have been restored and it is looking into what happened — Updated at 1.17am IST, Thursday: Facebook comms Andy Stone said the company has restored the posts and is “looking into what happened.”
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Epic files expert testimonies before next week's trial, arguing its antitrust case and disputing Apple's claim that App Store's primary role is to protect users — The Epic Games lawsuit continues in the form of written testimony ahead of the trial next month.
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| Josef Adalian / Vulture: |
Netflix launches Play Something, an opt-in viewing mode that gives the service a more TV-like feel to fight viewers' decision fatigue — Ten years ago, Netflix got the idea that its app should work more like regular TV. This was early on in its transition from DVD delivery to streaming on demand …
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Samsung announces two lightweight laptops with OLED screens: the Galaxy Book Pro, starting at $1K, and the Galaxy Book Pro 360, a convertible starting at $1.2K — Premium screens and premium features — Samsung has announced two new Galaxy Book devices: the Galaxy Book Pro …
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify reports Q1 profit of €23M, up from €1M a year earlier, revenue of €2.15B, up 16% YoY, 356M MAUs, up 24% YoY, and 158M paid subscribers, up 21% YoY — Audiostreaming platform warns of uncertain growth as newer markets endure a surge in coronavirus cases| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon will invest $1B+ to increase wages for more than 500K of its warehouse workers by $.50 to $3 an hour, rolling out from mid-May to early June — Amazon announced Wednesday that it plans to invest more than $1 billion in wage increases for its operations workers, promising raises …
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| Sam Bourgi / Cointelegraph: |
MetaMask, an Ethereum wallet service and browser extension for decentralized applications, says it has hit 5M MAUs, after hitting 1M MAUs in October 2020 — The wallet service and browser extension has seen its active monthly users grow five times since October 2020. — 18515 Total views
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| Levi Sumagaysay / MarketWatch: |
eBay reports Q1 revenue of $3.0B, up 42% YoY and profits of $641M, as GMV rose 29% to $27.5B, while active buyers increased 7% to 187M worldwide; stock down 5%+ — EBay Inc.'s first-quarter results beat expectations on growth in its core categories, namely sneakers and luxury watches, the company said Wednesday.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Mighty debuts a premium Chromium-based macOS browser, now invite-only, that “entirely streams” from cloud, can load “hundreds” of tabs without stalling a Mac — With the underlying concept popularized by Stadia and other game services, Mighty wants to stream an entire Chromium browser from the cloud.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Shopify Q1: revenue of $988.6M, up 110% YoY, with gross merchandise volume up 114%, and net income of $1.26B due to $1.3B unrealized gain from its Affirm stake — Shopify said it expects growth rates to normalize as economies reopen, but it hasn't happened yet. Shopify's platform continues to surge.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Splitwise, which helps groups split expenses, raises $20M Series A, says its tens of millions of users have shared or managed bills totaling ~$90B since 2011 — This morning Splitwise, a Providence, Rhode Island-based startup announced that it has closed a $20 million Series A.| Shen Lu / Protocol: |
Profile of Chinese AI-driven aggregator News Break, which says it has 45M MAUs and is finding success in the US through a sharp focus on local news — It's the most downloaded news app in the world — and the content it carries is entirely local. In the U.S., it drives more traffic than all but three apps.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Senator Amy Klobuchar on her new book about antitrust, why she doesn't think reining in the App Store will harm the Apple ecosystem, and more — My guest today is Senator Amy Klobuchar, the Democrat from Minnesota who has taken up the role of antitrust enforcer in the Senate under the Biden administration.
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
YouTube is on pace to book between $29B and $30B in revenue in 2021, equaling Netflix's expected revenue of $29.7B for the year — - YouTube is on pace to bring in annual revenue comparable to Netflix's. — The Google-owned video platform is seeing a rise in more traditional television advertisers.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
The Consumer Technology Association says CES will return to Las Vegas as an in-person event in 2022, and will be held from January 5 to 8 — The world's biggest tech conference is back — The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is officially returning to an in-person format in Las Vegas in 2022 …
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| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan partners with Singapore's Temasek and DBS Group Holdings to create a blockchain-based platform for payments, trade, and foreign exchange settlement — JPMorgan Chase & Co. is teaming up with Singapore's Temasek Holdings Pte. and DBS Group Holdings Ltd. to create a new blockchain-based platform …
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| Kerry Flynn / CNN: |
Q&A with Máuhan “M” Zonoozy, hired as Spotify's first head of innovation earlier this year, about rise of live social audio, podcasting's inflection point, more — New York (CNN Business)Spotify (SPOT) is frequently one step ahead of us, suggesting undiscovered songs … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
OpenSpace, which helps construction companies track projects with AI-powered analytics and photo documentation, raises $55M Series C after raising ~$16M in 2020 — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — OpenSpace, a platform … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Twilio rival MessageBird raises $800M as an extension to its $200M Series C from last October and acquires email marketing service SparkPost for $600M — MessageBird, a communications platform out of the Netherlands, had a busy day today with two huge announcements.
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