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Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results — CUPERTINO, California — January 26, 2016 — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 first quarter ended December 26, 2015. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $75.9 billion and record quarterly net income of $18.4 billion, or $3.28 per diluted share.
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple says it sold 74.8M iPhones, up under 1% year-over-year, the slowest growth pace ever — Apple Reports Slowing Growth in iPhone Sales — Company sees revenue in current quarter declining at the steepest rate in 15 years — Apple Inc. said iPhone sales grew at the slowest pace since …
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Apple's “Other products” (including Apple TV, Apple Watch) recorded $4.35B sales, up 43% QoQ, 62% YoY — Apple TV And Apple Watch (Probably) Had A Big Quarter — Apple posted its quarterly earnings after the bell on Tuesday, showcasing record profits of $18.4 billion.
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Confirmed: Twitter Appoints Longtime American Express Executive Leslie Berland as CMO — Here's some positive executive news coming out of Twitter: It has found its new chief marketing officer. — Twitter has appointed longtime American Express executive Leslie Berland to CMO …
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See also Mediagazer| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Inbox By Gmail Gets Smarter Search With Quick Answer Cards — Inbox by Gmail, Google's next-gen email client for mobile and the web, is getting a nice little update today that will make it easier to find information like addresses, membership numbers and package tracking numbers in your emails.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Bing-powered iOS news app, News Pro, and personalizes interests by using Facebook and LinkedIn sign-ins — Microsoft Launches A Bing-Powered News App For iOS Devices, News Pro — Microsoft today unveiled yet another application aimed at iOS users …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces first technical preview of Azure Stack, which puts Azure on-premises, to launch January 29 with full release slated for Q4 — Microsoft Announces The First Technical Preview Of Azure Stack — With Azure Stack, Microsoft wants to bring its Azure cloud computing services into its customers' data centers.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Periscope integrates with GoPro to bring live streaming to action cameras — Periscope just took its first steps away from the smartphone. The Twitter-owned live-streaming app announced an integration with GoPro that will let users broadcast to their followers from an action camera for the first time.
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| Heather Clancy / Fortune: |
Slack hires Foursquare SVP of Product Strategy Noah Weiss for AI push — Slack Hires Foursquare Exec for Artificial Intelligence Push — This story was updated at Tuesday afternoon to include comments by Noah Weiss. — It seems Foursquare, the once-high-flying location app company, can't catch a break.| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Waze announces Transport SDK to let apps integrate driver guidance data, launches with six partners including Lyft, JustPark, 99taxis — Waze to Scoop up More Data through New Partnerships — Waze changed how millions of people drive by convincing them to share their locations in return for real-time …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 44 arrives with ability for sites to send notifications after webpage closed with the user's permission and RC4 encryption support discontinued — Firefox 44 arrives with push notifications that sites can send even after users close the page — Mozilla today launched Firefox 44 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.
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| Cam Bunton / 9to5Google: |
LG shipped 59.7M smartphones in 2015, 15.3M in Q4, while losing $36M+ in mobile division, promises 2 new flagships in 2016 — LG plans to launch two flagship phones in 2016 following 4th quarter mobile loss — LG announced its Q4 2015 earnings this morning and revealed that although … | Reuters: |
Sources: Apple building paywall system to let publishers offer subscription content through the News app — Apple plans to offer subscription content through News app — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is working to make subscription content available through its News app, giving publishers with paywalls …
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See also Mediagazer| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google brings real-time responses from presidential candidates to search results in an experimental feature rolled out in partnership with the Fox News Channel — Google Takes On Twitter By Integrating Real-Time Responses From Presidential Candidates Into Search Results
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Sony merges PlayStation businesses into US-based Sony Interactive Entertainment — Sony has merged the entire PlayStation business into one new company called Sony Interactive Entertainment. As of April 1st, SIE's president and CEO will be Andrew House, and the business will be run out of San Mateo, California.| Facebook Developers: |
Facebook expands its Audience Network ad product to serve the mobile web in addition to apps — Audience Network for Mobile Web Brings More Value to Publishers & Advertisers — Today the Audience Network is expanding to include support for mobile web, bringing the value of native ad formats … | Bloomberg Business: |
Sony agrees to buy Israel's Altair Semiconductor, maker of LTE communication chips for IoT, for $212M — Sony to Buy Chipmaker Altair in Internet of Things Push — Sony to pay $212 million, close deal in early February — Semiconductor firm makes chips for ‘Internet of things’
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
YouTube now lets video creators use Donation Cards, which overlay the page, to help raise money for charities directly — YouTube's New Donation Cards Help Video Creators Raise Money For Charities — YouTube just made it a lot easier for its users in the U.S. to use their videos to drive donations to nonprofit organizations.
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9to5Google, The Next Web, YouTube Creator Blog and BuzzFeed
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin Moves To A New Role, To Be Replaced By Current COO — There's a major leadership shakeup happening at your second-favorite crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo. — After eight years at its helm, Indiegogo co-founder Slava Rubin is stepping down from his role as CEO … | Ina Fried / Re/code: |
AT&T misses expectations on Q4 revenue of $42.1B, up 22% YoY, wireless revenue dropped 4.9% YoY to $18.9B, adds 2.8M customers — AT&T Adds 2.8 Million Customers but Wireless Revenue Falls — AT&T said Tuesday that it added 2.8 million wireless customers as it continues to add a large number of non-phone devices to its network.| Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal: |
Canada's Vidyard raises $35M Series C at, source says, $350M valuation to expand its business video streaming and analytics platform — Canada's Vidyard Raises $35 Million to Help It Expand — Financing gives the video-software startup a valuation of about $350 million
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Backblaze, the cloud backup service, will now loan you a hard drive full of your data — Backblaze, my preferred cloud backup service for a few years now, is today making it a bit easier and cheaper to restore all of your data if your computer should ever crash or get lost / stolen.
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| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
French drivers from taxi unions clash with police in nationwide strike calling for an end to ride-hailing apps like Uber — French taxi drivers clash with police in anti-Uber strike — French taxi unions have once again staged a nationwide strike, shutting down roadways across Paris … Sponsor Posts
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