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Microsoft reports GAAP revenue of $20.6B, operating income of $3.1B for FY16 Q4; stock up 3% — Microsoft Cloud Strength Highlights Fourth Quarter Results — Commercial cloud annualized revenue run rate exceeds $12.1 billion — REDMOND, Wash. — July 19, 2016 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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Twitter now lets anyone request a verified account — Twitter is opening the blue checkmark to everyone. Starting today, the company will let users request a verified account on its website by filling out a form with a verified phone number and email address, a profile photo …
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Brazilian judge orders phone carriers to block WhatsApp, the third such incident in 8 months — A Brazilian judge ordered wireless phone carriers to block access to Facebook Inc's WhatsApp indefinitely, starting on Tuesday, the third such incident against the popular phone messaging app in eight months.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Pokémon Go to launch in Japan tomorrow; McDonald's will be the first launch partner, with 3K+ stores set to be sponsored “gym” locations — Pokémon Go fever has doubled the value of Nintendo's business, pushing it past Sony in the process.
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Snapchat confirms acquisition of Toronto startup Bitstrips, integrates Bitmojis into app to offer more personalized emoji — Snapchat bought Bitstrips, the startup behind Bitmoji, back in March. The acquisition was worth a reported $100 million, but at the time, how the product would be integrated wasn't clear.| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
WiFi Startup Zenreach Emerges From Stealth With $50 Million And Peter Thiel On Its Board — Jack Abraham's idea was so simple that for three years, he kept his startup quiet. On LinkedIn it was simply “new company.” And he raised $50 million across three rounds of funding without a peep to the press.
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Music-streaming service Deezer launches to all in the US for $10 per month with 30-day free trial — The French company goes up against an array of competitors, including Spotify and Apple Music — French music-streaming service Deezer is launching to the masses in the U.S. this week …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Slack, now with 600 apps on its platform, pours $2M into 14 Slackbot startups via its Slack Fund — Slack, the popular messaging app for co-workers to chat, share files and distract each other with GIFs, has taken some major steps forward to establish itself as a wider productivity platform.
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| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
Google is spending almost half a billion dollars by 2017 to remake its image in Europe — A yearlong digital training course for Irish high school teachers started in 2014. A fund to help European news outlets adapt to the web popped up in 2015. And in March, a virtual reality exhibition began … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
NBA to create two original programs to stream exclusively on Twitter, post more game highlights on the social network and Vine — But Twitter isn't getting any game broadcasts. — Twitter has secured the rights to stream live video content from the NBA starting next season.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Skycure lands $16.5M Series B round for mobile cybersecurity platform — Sitting in a Tel Aviv office, my interviewee borrowed my iPhone for a simple demo. Inside two minutes, he was displaying my key strokes and web browsing onto a big screen in the meeting room, entirely remotely.| Andrew Dalton / Engadget: |
Mercedes' CityPilot autonomous bus technology connects to city network, communicates with infrastructure on a 20km test drive in the Netherlands — Mercedes-Benz's CityPilot autonomous bus technology just got a real-world, long-range test drive on the streets and highways of the Netherlands.
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