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Tim Cook says Apple Pay now accounts for 75% of all contactless payments made in the US — Apple reported better than expected earnings this afternoon, and one nugget shared on the call by CEO Tim Cook could be a good sign for the company's mobile payments service.
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Apple beats expectations with quarterly net income of $7.8B, down from $10.68B last year; iPad revenue grows for first time in 10 quarters, to $4.9B — Revenue drops for second straight quarter, but shares rise as results still top views — Apple Inc. said its quarterly profit fell 27% …
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| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Apple Q3 revenue down 15% YoY to $42.4B, forecasts Q4 revenue of $45.5B-47.5B; iPhone unit sales for the quarter fell 15% YoY to 40.4M; stock up 6%+ — Apple Inc. reported lower sales and forecast a third straight quarterly revenue drop, dragged down by slowing demand for iPhones amid …
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| Lucia Maffei / TechCrunch: |
Apple's quarterly Greater China revenue dropped 33% YoY to $8.85B, accounted for a little more than 20% of overall company revenue — China impacted Apple's bottom line quite a lot this quarter — and not in a good way. But the company still plans to invest in the country …
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Apple Reports Third Quarter Results — Services Revenue Grows 19% as App Store Hits All-Time Record — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 third quarter ended June 25, 2016. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $42.4 billion and quarterly net income of $7.8 billion, or $1.42 per diluted share.
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| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
The genesis story of Niantic, a gaming skunkworks overlooked at Google, and Pokémon Go, which began as an April Fool's Google Maps prank — It's not hard to spot players of the most popular smartphone game of all time. They have a peculiar way of carrying their devices in front … | Sensor Tower App Marketing Blog: |
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| Daniel Terdiman / Fast Company: |
Inside the development of Facebook's $30K Surround 360 Camera, which was just open-sourced — Today, Facebook is releasing the open-source design of its 360-degree 3D camera. Fast Company got an exclusive look behind the curtain. — Stapled to the wall outside a lab near Facebook's …
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| Alex Wagner / TmoNews: |
T-Mobile Binge On gets 16 new video services, including video content from Apple Music — Binge On is growing once again. — T-Mobile today added 16 more video providers to Binge On that customers with a 3GB or higher data plan can stream without touching their high-speed data allotment.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Popular wireless keyboards from HP, Toshiba, GE, others don't use encryption, can easily be snooped on and exploited to send malicious text to linked device — You should be able to trust your wireless keyboard. And yet security researchers have been warning people to be suspicious …
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
President Obama announces the Cyber Incident Severity Schema, a new way the feds will codify the threat level of hacking attacks, but it lacks specifics — George W. Bush's Homeland Security Advisory System—the color-coded terrorism “threat level” indicator that became a symbol of post-9/11 fear mongering …
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Twitter reports Q2 revenue of $602M, an increase of 20% YoY, 313M MAUs, up from 310M last quarter; stock drops 10%+ on low Q3 guidance of $590M-610M in revenue — Dear Shareholders, We look forward to discussing our second quarter 2016 financial results with you at 2:00 p.m. PT today.
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Xiaomi's first laptop is the $750 Mi Notebook Air — It wouldn't be a Xiaomi event if it was just announcing one product. In addition to the new Redmi Pro smartphone, the Chinese company threw in a huge surprise by launching its first-ever laptop line, the Mi Notebook Air, running on Windows 10.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Mobileye won't supply Tesla self-driving tech beyond current EyeQ3 processor — On their quarterly earnings call this morning, self-driving automotive technology company MobileEye announced that Mobileye's work with Tesla will not extend beyond EyeQ3, the processor currently used in Tesla vehicles … Sponsor Posts
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