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Microsoft reports FY 2021 Q3 revenue of $41.7B, up 19% YoY, net income of $15.5B, up 44% YoY, Surface revenue up 12%, More Personal Computing revenue up 19% — Microsoft Cloud Fuels Third Quarter Results REDMOND, Wash. — April 27, 2021 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results …
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Microsoft says Teams is now at 145M DAUs, up from 75M DAUs YoY, and announces new Teams integrations with Dynamics 365, which saw quarterly revenue grow 45% YoY — A year ago, Microsoft officials said Teams had 75 million daily active users. In April 2021, that number is now 145 million, according to Micrsoft.
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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?’
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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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Interviews with Basecamp staff on how a “funny” customer names list sparked an internal reckoning and spurred Basecamp's societal and political discussion ban — How a list of “funny” customer names triggered an internal reckoning — I. — The controversy that embroiled …
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| Alan Boyle / GeekWire: |
FCC grants SpaceX's request to use a lower orbit for Starlink satellites; Amazon says the FCC's conditions adequately addressed its original objection — The Federal Communications Commission has given the go-ahead for SpaceX to modify the planned orbits for future satellites …
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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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
An overview of Tuesday's Senate hearing on algorithms and Section 230 reform, where lawmakers focused less on sound bites and crawled closer to solutions — Rather than a CEO-slamming sound bite free-for-all, Tuesday's big tech hearing on algorithms aimed for more of a listening session vibe — and in that sense it mostly succeeded.
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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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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Zomato files for $1.1B IPO in India and reports $91.8M in losses on revenue of $183.6M between April 1 and December 31, 2020 — Indian food delivery startup Zomato on Wednesday filed for an initial public offering, becoming the first tech unicorn startup from the world's second largest internet market to do so.
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| 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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| 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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IRS arrests a Russian-Swedish citizen in LA for laundering 1.2M+ bitcoins over 10 years when he allegedly ran Bitcoin Fog, which remains online after his arrest — The alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog kept the dark web service running for 10 years before the IRS caught up with him.| Nikkei Asia: |
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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