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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft reports overall gaming revenue of $3.6B in Q1, up 16% YoY, with hardware revenue up 166% YoY on continued demand for Xbox Series X and S consoles — Microsoft's overall cloud revenue has jumped by 31 percent — Microsoft posted the first quarter of its 2022 financial results today …
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| Steve Clarke / Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q1 revenue of $45.3B, up 22% YoY, net income of $20.5B, up 48% YoY, Azure revenue up 50% YoY, and LinkedIn revenue up 42% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — October 26, 2021 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended September 30, 2021 …
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| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q3 revenue of $65.1B, up 41% YoY, net income of $18.9B, up from $11.2B YoY, Google Cloud revenue of $5B, up from $3.4B YoY — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 26, 2021 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2021.
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Alphabet reports traffic acquisition costs of $11.50B, vs. $11.16B expected, and YouTube had a record $7.2B in Q3 ad revenue, up from $5B in Q3 2020 — - Alphabet topped analysts expectations on the top and bottom lines. — The company's shares were little changed on the results.
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Amid harassment fallout, Blizzard says it will pause plans for next year's BlizzCon event to focus on supporting its teams and game development — Feb. show nixxed in favor of “supporting our teams and progressing development...” — Following an online-only BlizzCon earlier this year …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Frances Haugen's documents have been useful to the press and groups opposing Facebook, but reporting should now expand to examine Haugen and her backers' goals — At the end of 2019, the group of Facebook employees charged with preventing harms on the network gathered to discuss the year ahead.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Adobe announces Photoshop and Illustrator web apps to improve collaboration, make quick edits, and more — Adobe has announced that it's taken “a major step forward for collaboration” by bringing its Photoshop and Illustrator apps to the web. The idea is not to do let you do complex work from a web page …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC orders China Telecom Americas to stop providing services in the US within 60 days, says the US unit is subject to Chinese government control and influence — China Telecom Americas ordered to stop providing service in US within 60 days. — The Federal Communications Commission today voted …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In Senate hearing, TikTok dodges questions about its plans for biometric data collected from US users, after changing its terms of use to allow the practice — In its first-ever Congressional hearing, TikTok successfully dodged questions about what it plans to do with the biometric data … | Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Biden names Jessica Rosenworcel to officially lead the FCC, nominates Gigi Sohn as third Democratic commissioner, but it's unclear if Senate will confirm soon — And progressive Gigi Sohn as a third Democratic commissioner — President Joe Biden named acting Federal Communications …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
AWS launches new EC2 instances powered by AI accelerators from Intel's Habana, claims 40% better price-performance to train ML models over latest GPU instances — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud services division, today announced the general availability of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) DL1 instances.| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood Q3: revenue of $365M, up 35% YoY but missing estimates of $431.5M due to less crypto trading, net loss of $1.32B, up from $11M YoY; stock down 10%+ — Stock trading app Robinhood reported a huge revenue miss in the third quarter as cryptocurrency trading dropped off.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sequoia Capital is forming the Sequoia Fund, which will hold all its US and European investments, including stakes in public companies — Sequoia Capital, one of the world's oldest and most successful venture capital firms, is forming a single fund to hold all of its U.S. and European investments …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based neobank Zolve, which aims to help immigrants in the US access financial services, raises a $40M Series A at a $210M valuation — Zolve, a neobanking startup that aims to help immigrants in the U.S. gain access to financial services, said on Wednesday it has raised $40 million …
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
AMD Q3: revenue of $4.31B, up 54% YoY, Computing and Graphics revenue of $2.4B, up 44% YoY, Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom revenue of $1.9B, up 69% YoY — AMD said enterprise use of EPYC was particularly strong in the quarter among Dell, Lenovo, Cisco and other system makers.
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| Dan Strumpf / Wall Street Journal: |
Senate GOP report: Seagate violated US export rules by continuing to sell hard drives to Huawei after export restrictions were tightened in September 2020 — The data-storage product provider sold Chinese company hard-disk drives, according to report; Seagate says it complies with regulations| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UserGems, whose AI-based data mapping tech helps companies identify prospective customers for B2B sales, raises a $20M Series A led by Craft Ventures — Finding a way to connect with people who might buy from you, while spending less time pursuing those who will never be interested …
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| Ofir Dor / Globes Online: |
Israel-based Augury, which uses AI to monitor industrial machine health, raises a $180M Series E at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $286M — With a valuation of over $1 billion, Augury becomes one of the first company's in the Industry 4.0 sector to achieve unicorn status.| Washington Post: |
Facebook documents show its News Feed algorithm treated emoji reactions as 5x more valuable than Likes starting in 2017, amplifying controversial content — Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic “like” thumbs-up: “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry.”
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