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Facebook Reports First Quarter 2016 Results and Announces Proposal for New Class of Stock — Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2016. — “We had a great start to the year,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.
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Facebook announces it will add a new class of non-voting stock for the company that will help keep Zuckerberg in control — Facebook is adding a new class of stock that will help keep Zuckerberg in control — Facebook today, as part of its earnings release, said it would add a new class …
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Facebook reports Q1 revenue of $5.38B up from $3.54B last year, 79% comes from mobile ads; 1.65B MAUs, adding 60M from Q4; stock jumps over 8% — Facebook mobile ads now make up 79 percent of its business — Facebook is more mobile than ever. Again. — The company reported …
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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Oculus releases a Minecraft version for Gear VR headsets on the Oculus Store for $6.99 — Minecraft enters virtual reality on Samsung's Gear VR headset — It's time to move beyond the smartphone screen and into the world of Minecraft. — Oculus VR, Facebook's virtual reality company …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IDC: 334.9M smartphones shipped worldwide in Q1, up just 0.2% YoY, marking the smallest YoY growth on record; Samsung extends lead over Apple — IDC: Smartphone shipments flat for the first time; Samsung widens lead over Apple in Q1 2016 — Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 334.9 million smartphones worldwide last quarter.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nintendo FY16 misses forecast as profits plunge 60%, NX console to launch in March 2017 — Nintendo earnings plunge 60 percent in fiscal year as it preps new hardware — That's an ugly bottom line. — Nintendo's earnings for the fiscal year ended March 31 fell 60.6 percent to 16.5 million yen …
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| Chris Strohm / Bloomberg: |
FBI confirms it won't send method used to hack San Bernadino iPhone to a government review that could have forced FBI to share info about the method with Apple — FBI Makes Official Its Decision to Keep Apple iPhone Hack Secret — Agency says it doesn't have the technical expertise to share
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Google Calendar adds “Find a time” feature that suggests meeting times based on mutual availability; now on Android for Google Apps for Work or Edu users — Google Calendar for Android: Find a time for my meeting — Smartphones have made productivity portable.| Johana Bhuiyan / Re/code: |
Arianna Huffington joins Uber's board of directors — Arianna Huffington, the co-founder and editor in chief of the Huffington Post (and an Uber investor already), has joined Uber's board of directors, company CEO Travis Kalanick announced today. — As a director, Huffington is in the company … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Judge finds Amazon liable for in-app charges racked up by kids — A federal court has ruled that Amazon is responsible for charges billed to parents by their kids through in-app purchases. — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) first lodged the case against Amazon back in July 2014 …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify buys photo aggregator CrowdAlbum to build more marketing tools for artists — Spotify has made another acquisition to build out the tools that it provides to artists who use Spotify's streaming platform to grow their listeners and overall business. It has bought CrowdAlbum …
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Press, Engadget, Android Police, Fortune, Music Week, VatorNews, CNET, Digital Trends, Forbes, TechRadar.com, Billboard, VentureBeat, The Next Web and RAIN News. Tweets: @shivar
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo reaches deal with activist Starboard adding 4 people to board, including Starboard CEO — As Yahoo continues to weigh up acquisition offers, the company has announced that it's reached a deal with activist investor Starboard, which had written one of its famous letters …
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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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Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @bizfleury
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Source: Facebook is offering some content creators around $250K for 20 live video posts per month over a three-month period — As Social Shifts To Video, Content Creators Win Power And Dollars — Photo illustration by Alex Kantrowitz, BuzzFeed News / Thinkstock-Facebook
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| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
PayPal beats expectations with Q1 net income of $452M, up from $353M last year, and net revenue of $2.54B, up 19% YoY — PayPal Grows Revenue 19% In Strong First Quarter — PayPal reported first quarter earnings for 2016 on Wednesday and continued to show growth in its core payments business.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Samsung's Gear 360 camera goes on sale April 29, captures near 4K-quality video for VR via two fisheye F2.0 lenses; price still unknown — Samsung's Gear 360 camera is going on sale in 2 days and we still don't know how much it costs — Samsung unveiled the Gear 360 virtual reality cameralast month at Mobile World Conference.
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| Sonam Joshi / Mashable: |
Starting 2017, all new mobile phones sold in India must have a “panic button” function that lets users make emergency calls, in move to improve women's safety — From 2017, all new mobile phones in India will have a panic button for women's safety| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Netflix to add in-app billing to Android app over the next few weeks, won't charge customers extra for subscriptions — Netflix to Add In-App Billing to Its Android App, Courtesy of Google Play … Netflix wants to make it easier for Android users to pay for their monthly subscription fees …
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