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Apple reports Q3 revenue of $81.4B, up 36% YoY, net income of $21.7B, up from $11.2B YoY, Services sales of $17.4B, up from $13.2B YoY, iPhone sales of $39.6B — Revenue up 36 percent to new June quarter record — Services revenue reaches new all-time high
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| Microsoft - Investor Relations: |
Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $46.2B, net income up 47% YoY to $16.5B, commercial cloud revenue up 36% YoY to $19.5B, LinkedIn revenue up 46% YoY — Earnings Release FY21 Q4 REDMOND, Wash. — July 27, 2021 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30 …
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| The Guardian: |
Facebook will restrict how advertisers can target users under 18 across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, only allowing age, gender, and location targeting — Advertisers on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger will no longer be able to market to under 18s based on their interests
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| Alphabet - Investor Relations: |
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $61.88B, up 62% YoY, operating income of $19.36B, up 31% YoY, Google Cloud operating loss down to $591M; stock up 3%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 27, 2021 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2021.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Activision Blizzard staff aim to walk out on Wednesday, demanding fairer treatment for underrepresented staff and ending arbitration clauses in staff contracts — Bobby Kotick said in an all-staff email that the company's recent actions were ‘tone deaf’ — Activision Blizzard Inc. Chief …
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| Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Google announces a new bug bounty program, called Bug Hunter University, and says the existing program found 11,055 bugs from 2,022 researchers, paying ~$30M — The platform includes a new “Bug Hunter University.” — Google announced a new bug bounty platform as it celebrated …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify reports Q2 revenue of €2.3B, up 23% YoY, as ad revenue jumped 110% YoY to €275M; paying subscribers reached 165M, up 20% YoY, total MAUs reached 365M — Spotify, citing ongoing headwinds from the COVID pandemic, fell short of its total monthly user growth goal in the second quarter of 2021.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter hires the team that built Brief, a subscription-based news summary app founded by former Google employees; the app will wind down July 31 — Twitter's recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief.
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
In the new iPadOS 15 beta, Apple makes its controversial Safari redesign optional, letting users choose a more conventional tab layout in settings — Enable the new (bad) tab experience in settings — Apple has started trickling out its fourth iOS and iPadOS 15 betas …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Algolia, which provides APIs for developers to integrate real-time search into websites and apps, raises $150M Series D at a $2.25B valuation — Algolia has raised a $150 million Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Compared to the Series C round from October 2019 …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Contentful, which offers APIs to let companies manage content, raises $175M Series F led by Tiger Global at a ~$3B valuation, after a $80M Series E in June 2020 — Contentful this morning announced a $175 million Series F round of capital, led by Tiger Global, valuing the unicorn at around $3 billion.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Creators of PunkSpider say they're relaunching their search engine for hackable sites at Defcon next week to spur web admins to fix thousands of unpatched bugs — PunkSpider is back, and crawling hundreds of millions of sites for vulnerabilities. — THE WEB HAS long been a playground for hackers …
Tweets: @a_greenberg, @iblametom, @k8em0, @martijn_grooten, and @dangillmor
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Remote IT monitoring and management service Atera raises $77M Series B led by General Atlantic — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Atera, a remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform for IT teams, has $77 million in a series B round of funding led by General Atlantic.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Danish startup Dixa, which helps companies manage customer relations via messaging, email, and voice, raises $105M Series C led by General Atlantic — European customer engagement platform Dixa has raised a Series C funding round of $105 million, led by growth equity investor General Atlantic.
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| Andrés Engler / CoinDesk: |
Valora, a mobile-first digital crypto wallet built on the open source blockchain network Celo, raises $20M Series A led by a16z — The digital wallet has been spun out of parent company cLabs with some fresh funding. — Valora, a mobile-first digital wallet native to the Celo network … | Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Report: malware developers are increasingly writing malicious code in “exotic” programming languages like Golang to hamper analysis efforts and evade detection — They are focused on exploiting pain points in code analysis and reverse-engineering.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
LogicGate, which helps automate corporate governance, risk, and compliance processes, raises $113M Series C, bringing its total raised to $246M — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — LogicGate, a provider of software-as-a-service solutions for governance …
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| Bloomberg: |
PowerSchool, which develops software used by 70% of K-12 students in the US and Canada, raises $711M in its IPO, selling shares at $18, valuing it at $3.5B — Education software provider PowerSchool Holdings Inc. raised $711 million in an initial public offering priced at the bottom of a marketed range.
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| Bloomberg: |
Insiders suggest China's internet companies, which have long emulated SV's founder-driven model, will align more with China's leadership after tech crackdown — On the fourth floor of a harborside mall on Grand Cayman, not far from touristy scuba-diving outlets and a jerk-chicken shack …
Tweets: @joelwebershow and @austincarr
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
AMD Q2: revenue of $3.85B, up 99% YoY, Computing and Graphics revenue of $2.25B, up 65% YoY, Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom revenue of $1.6B, up 183% YoY — The company reported second quarter earnings of 58 cents a share on revenue of $3.85 billion, up 99% from a year ago.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
IBM report: in 2021, the average data breach costs companies $4.24M to remedy, up 10% YoY; “mega” breaches involving 50M+ consumer records can cost $401M — IBM research estimates that the average data breach now costs upward of $4 million. — The average cost of a data breach …
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| Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
A Harvard biostatistician is reconsidering plans to use Apple Watch as part of a study after finding inconsistencies in heart rate variability data collected — Algorithms can change without warning — A Harvard biostatistician is rethinking plans to use Apple Watches as part of a research study … | Nikkei Asia: |
Critics say Facebook has compromised on its community standards to access commercial opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region, home to ~1.2B Facebook MAUs — Compromises with regional governments speed access to growth markets — YIFAN YU, KIRAN SHARMA, LIEN HOANG, CLIFF VENZON and ERWIDA MAULIA, Nikkei staff writersSponsor Posts
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