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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's Intelligent Cloud revenue grew to $15.1B in Q3, up 23% YoY, as Azure revenue grew by 50%
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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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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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| 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.| 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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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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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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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.| 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 — Audio-streaming platform warns of uncertain growth as newer markets endure a surge in coronavirus cases| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Sysdig, which offers enterprise tools to secure containers and apps, raises $189M Series F led by Third Point Ventures and Premji Invest at a $1.19B valuation — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — Sysdig, a container, Kubernetes …
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Sources: Apple is trimming planned production of AirPods by 25% to 30%, now expecting to make 75M-85M in 2021, compared with previous forecast of 110M — Wireless earphones face heated competition from Samsung, Xiaomi and others — TAIPEI — Apple is trimming its planned production …
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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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| 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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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Huawei reports revenue of $23.5B in Q1, down 16.5% YoY, the second consecutive quarter in which Huawei's revenues declined — - Huawei said its revenues fell 16.5% year-on-year to 152.2 billion Chinese yuan ($23.5 billion) in the three months ending March 31.Sponsor Posts
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