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| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
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 — Apple Forecasts Another Sales Decline as iPhone Demand Cools — Apple Inc. posted its first quarterly revenue drop in more than a decade …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Apple services revenue grows 20% YoY to $5.99B, now higher than Mac revenue — Apple now makes more money from its services than selling Macs — Apple now makes more revenue from its services than it does from selling Macs. Revenue from services like iTunes, the App Store, iTunes …
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TechEye, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, MacRumors, eWeek, Silicon Valley Business …, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @gartenberg
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Tweets: @bzamayo, @stevekovach, @gruber, @marcoarment, @vindugoel, @marcoarment, @appleinsider, @vindugoel, @vindugoel, @jw, @thestalwart, @tomwarren, @inafried, @benedictevans and @dannysullivan
| 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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Reuters, CSO, InfoWorld, VentureBeat, The Next Web, SlashGear, Fortune, Digital Trends, Hit & Run, TechCrunch, Consumerist, Business Insider, MacDailyNews, MacRumors and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @devlinbarrett
| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Apple says it received its first FBI tip via Vulnerability Equities Process on April 14; vulnerability already fixed on iOS9 and El Capitan — Apple says FBI gave it first vulnerability tip on April 14 — The FBI informed Apple Inc of a vulnerability in its iPhone and Mac software on April 14 …
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9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo UK, The Register, AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET, Engadget and Fortune
| 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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Dropbox Business Blog, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Verge, Engadget, Silicon Republic, SlashGear, BetaNews, Insanely Great Mac, MacNN, iMore, Six Colors, Tech Insider, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, Tech Times, gHacks Technology News, MacRumors, cloudpro.co.uk, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, Mashable, PCWorld and ZDNet
Tweets: @danielzarick, @rauchg, @rsarver and @tomwarren
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
None of the changes Twitter made over the past year have broadened the appeal of the core service — Nothing Twitter is doing is working — Twitter reported its first-quarter earnings today, and they came in under expectations: the company's haul of $595 million was less than the $607.8 million … | Twitter: |
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VentureBeat, Marketing Land, Fone Arena, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, Business Insider, The Daily Dot, BuzzFeed, International Business Times, The Verge, Silicon Republic, The Next Web, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Tech Trader Daily and Business Insider
Tweets: @joshconstine, @mikeisaac, @jguynn, @jguynn, @danprimack and @mikeisaac
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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Tweets: @joannastern, @davepell, @jguynn and @joshconstine
See also Mediagazer| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Comcast in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation for $3B+, would likely merge DreamWorks with Universal Pictures — Comcast in Talks to Buy DreamWorks Animation for More Than $3 Billion — Deal would join DreamWorks with Comcast's Universal Pictures
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ZDNet, DSLreports, New York Times, Engadget, Gizmodo, Light Reading, The Verge, Gizmodo UK, Hollywood Reporter, Fortune, Deadline, Consumerist and Forbes. Tweets: @bizfleury. See also Mediagazer
| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Intel CEO outlines new strategy: focus on connected things like PC and IoT, cloud, new memory business like 3D XPoint, 5G, manufacturing and fab innovation — Intel declares independence from the PC as it lays out a broader 5-point strategy — The PC's just another ‘connected thing’ in this new world order.| Olivier Laurent / TIME: |
Getty Images files EU antitrust complaint against Google for scraping pics from websites, displaying and allowing downloads of hi-res images — Google Accused of Enabling Photography Piracy — Photography company Getty Images is accusing Google of scraping images from third party websites …
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Getty Images Press Room, Financial Times, TorrentFreak, 9to5Google, Inquirer, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Register, BBC, Fortune, The Verge, Ubergizmo, ResearchBuzz, Android Central, Search Engine Land and Financial Times
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @dannysullivan and @dannysullivan
Thanks:@lutherlowe. See also Mediagazer| Mat Honan / BuzzFeed: |
Ex-Twitter VP Michael Sippey launches Talkshow, a public chatroom where only invited users can talk, available on iOS today — This New Messaging App Talkshow Makes Your Texts Public (Sort Of) — It's more like a public Slack room. — Talkshow is a new messaging app where all the conversations are public.
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Talkshow, App Store, Gizmodo, Mashable and The Verge
Tweets: @caseynewton, @martinsfp and @anildash
| Sonam Joshi / Mashable: |
From 2017, all new mobile phones in India will have a panic button for women's safety — In order to provide emergency assistance to women, all new mobile phones sold in India will need to have a panic button that enables users to make emergency calls from 2017.
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Bloomberg, The Verge, Tech Times, NPR, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, Engadget, iLounge, Wired.co.uk and The Economic Times
| 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 …
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YouTube Blog, Android Authority, iMore, SocialTimes, Tubefilter, Engadget and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
HTC launches Vive X, a $100M VR startup accelerator, in Beijing, Taipei, and San Francisco — HTC launches $100 million VR startup accelerator — HTC is launching a $100 million accelerator program for startups that want to use its VR technology. The program, called Vive X …
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PR Newswire, Computerworld, VRFocus, bit-tech.net, The Next Web and VentureBeat
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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