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Alphabet beats Q4 estimates with $26.06B revenue; Other Bets revenue up from $150M a year ago to $262M as division's losses shrink to $1.1B from $1.2B — Google reported mixed earnings for its fourth quarter today — but we're starting to see some flashes of improvement in its “other bets” …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft reports Surface revenue down 2% YoY to $1.32B as Azure revenue increased 93% and Phone revenue declined 81% — Microsoft today reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2017, including revenue of $26.1 billion, net income of $6.5 billion, and earnings per share of $0.83.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba's Ant Financial buys US-based international money transfer service MoneyGram for $880M, an 11.5% premium to MoneyGram's Wednesday closing price — Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate controlled by billionaire Jack Ma, is close to sealing a deal to buy U.S. money-transfer service …
| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Leaked image shows Samsung Galaxy S8 with rear-facing fingerprint reader, no home button; source says S8 will be unveiled March 29 in 5.8", 6.2" configurations — EXCLUSIVE: — Samsung is preparing to unveil a pair of Galaxy S8 smartphones significantly different from past models …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Tesla files suit against former Autopilot director, says he took proprietary information and tried to poach staff for his new self-driving car startup Aurora — Tesla has sued former employee Sterling Anderson, who acted as Director of its Autopilot Programs for just over a year, for breach of contract.| Ryan Hurst / Google Online Security Blog: |
Google creates Google Trust Services to operate its own Root Certification Authority — In the support of our work to implement HTTPS across all of our products (https://www.google.com/transparencyrep ort/ https/) we have been operating our own subordinate Certificate Authority (GIAG2), issued by a third-party.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chrome 56 arrives with 28% faster page reloading, “Not secure” warning for HTTP password and credit card forms — Google has launched Chrome 56 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Among the additions is a new warning for websites that collect passwords or credit card numbers …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Facebook says it will promote longer videos with high completion rates in News Feed — Because that's what's on TV. — You know how mobile + social is supposed to = short attention span? — No more, says Facebook: It says it is going to start rewarding video makers who create longer clips.| Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
VMware reports Q4 revenue of $2.03B, up 8.7% YoY, announces $1.2B stock buyback plan — Shares of virtualization software makers VMware (VMW), majority owned by privately held Dell, are up $3.25, or almost 4%, at $87.47, in late trading, after the company this afternoon reported Q4 revenue …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Intel reports Q4 revenue of $16.4B, up from $14.9B last year, as IoT revenue grew 16% YoY to $726M and non-volatile memory revenue grew 25% YoY to $816M — Intel reported fourth-quarter earnings that were mixed, missing its target on earnings per share but beating estimates for revenues.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
The value of cryptocurrency Monero has risen from 50¢ to $12 over past one year, rising 2,760%; the collective value of all Monero has grown to close to $165M — For the cryptocurrency community, 2016 was a very good year. Bitcoin doubled in price. The far-out Bitcoin alternative Ethereum shot up by a factor of 10.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter says it's replacing the Moments tab with an Explore tab, which emphasizes trending topics and live video — Content advisory — Twitter's central Moments tab, which once terrorized obsessive-compulsive users with a blue dot that never went away, is going away.
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