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Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — Capital Return Program Expanding to $250 Billion — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 second quarter ended March 26, 2016. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $50.6 billion and quarterly net income of $10.5 billion, or $1.90 per diluted share.
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Apple misses with Q2 revenue of $50.6B, down from $58B last year; net income down to $10.5B; 51.2M iPhones sold; sees Q3 sales drop to $41B-$43B; stock down 7%+ — Apple Forecasts Another Sales Decline as iPhone Demand Cools — Apple Inc. posted its first quarterly revenue drop …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Dropbox previews Project Infinite, which will show files locally but store them remotely; no launch timeline or pricing set — Dropbox's Project Infinite shows all company files locally but stores them remotely — Cloud file syncing and sharing software company Dropbox today is announcing …
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| Twitter: |
Twitter Q1 2016 Shareholder Letter — Total revenue in the first quarter reached $595 million, up 36% year-over-year, with 30% adjusted EBITDA margin. We saw a return to sequential growth in monthly active usage, driven by seasonality and marketing initiatives.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter reports mixed Q1 on sales of $595M revenue, up 36% YoY but less than $608M expected, 310M MAUs, up 3% YoY; stock drops 12%+ after hours — Twitter's woes continue on Q1 sales of $595M, a sluggish 310M MAUs and weak guidance — Twitter reported its Q1 earnings today, and they're not great.
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Nokia enters the digital health realm with $192 million acquisition of France's Withings — Nokia has today announced that it is acquiring Withings, the company behind a range of connected health products, including watches, fitness bands, sleep-trackers, thermometers, and scales.
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| Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: FBI plans to keep iPhone-hacking method secret, will discourage White House from beginning internal review of whether it should be disclosed to Apple — FBI Plans to Keep Apple iPhone-Hacking Method Secret — Move would likely keep Apple in the dark about security weakness
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
YouTube brings a new homepage with larger thumbnail previews and improved recommendations powered by machine learning to its iOS and Android apps — YouTube brings a new homepage with improved recommendations to its iOS and Android apps — Next time you open the YouTube app on your iOS or Android phone … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
YouTube debuts non-skippable, 6-second Bumper ad unit, to complement existing ad formats — YouTube introduces six-second Bumper ads — YouTube announced a new ad format today that's all about brevity. — In a blog post, Product Manager Zach Lupei said YouTube has been exploring formats …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
AT&T meets expectations with $40.5B Q1 revenue, $3.8B in net income, is losing U-Verse customers faster than adding DirecTV subs; adds 1.8M wireless subscribers — AT&T adds 1.8 million U.S. wireless customers as sales top $40 billion — AT&T on Tuesday reported quarterly revenue … | Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Interbank messaging platform SWIFT warns customers of multiple cyber fraud cases, saying the Bangladesh Bank hack was not an isolated incident — Exclusive: SWIFT warns customers of multiple cyber fraud cases — SWIFT, the global financial network that banks use to transfer billions of dollars every day …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Google, Ford, Volvo, Uber, and Lyft join coalition to push federal action to help speed self-driving cars to market — Google, Ford, Uber launch coalition to further self-driving cars — Alphabet Inc's Google unit (GOOGL.O), Ford Motor Co (F.N), the ride-sharing service Uber [UBER.UL] … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Microsoft releases Skype for Business Mac Preview with Outlook calendar integration today, plans to add instant messaging, telephony, and more this summer — Microsoft introducing Skype for Business Mac Preview w/ Outlook calendar integration — Microsoft is getting serious with the Mac today … | Aaron Tilley / Forbes: |
Hover Camera, a foldable drone, follows you automatically, with 13MP camera for 4K video, ships in summer for less than $600 — Hover Camera Is A Self-Flying Drone That Doesn't Look Like Anything You've Seen Before — Hover Camera's creator, Meng Qiu “MQ” Wang, pulls out a small …
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| Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: |
Turner to launch ad-free subscription streaming video service, FilmStruck, this fall, to be managed by TCM and the Criterion Collection; price not yet finalized — Time Warner's Turner Appeals to Film Nerds With Web-Only Service — Ad-free FilmStruck will be managed by Turner Classic Movies
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