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Sources: Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon circulating draft open letter to Trump on recent immigration order ahead of planned release this week — It's the first joint effort from big U.S. businesses to try to support immigration. — Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft …
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| Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft asks Trump administration for a formal process to grant exceptions to visa-holding workers and students affected by immigration order — Proposal calls for case-by-case exception process for law-abiding visa holders with pressing needs — In last Friday's executive order …
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| Bob Fernandez / Philly.com: |
Thousands of Comcast employees stop work in Philadelphia and other cities to protest Trump's immigration executive order — Thousands of Comcast employees in Philadelphia streamed out of the Comcast Center on Thursday afternoon to protest President Trump's recent executive order on Muslim immigrants and refugees from seven nations.
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Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 22% to $43.7 Billion — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2016. — Operating cash flow increased 38% to $16.4 billion for the trailing twelve months …
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| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Amazon misses Q4 revenue expectations, reporting $43.7B, vs $44.68B est.; stock down 3%+ — Mixed faces in Seattle today as Amazon delivered its Q4 2016 earnings. The e-commerce company reported lower than expected revenue of $43.74 with better than expected earnings per share of $1.54.
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Hackers release iOS cracking tools used by Cellebrite, the Israeli firm known for breaking into phones; expert says the tools are similar to jailbreaking tools — The hacker says this demonstrates that when organizations make hacking tools, those techniques will eventually find their way to the public.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Outlook for iOS with support for apps and add-ons, starting with Giphy, Evernote, Trello, more — Microsoft is bringing apps and add-ins to its Outlook for iOS email application today. The software giant has partnered with Evernote, Giphy, Nimble, Trello …
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Sources: Spotify weighs plan to delay its IPO until 2018 in order to improve margins, renegotiate licensing deals, more — Feb 2, 2017, 10:40 amFeb 2, 2017, 11:19 am — Spotify — the music streaming company with over 100 million users (40 million of them paying) …
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See also Mediagazer| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Report: Snapchat has 160M DAUs, up from 130M in Q1 2016, as revenue reaches $400M in 2016, beating internal targets — Some Snap Inc stats have leaked ahead of its expected IPO filing today, and they show strong progress in earning money, but slowed user growth.| Chance Miller / 9to5Google: |
Google to shut down Hands Free payment service on February 8, shifting efforts toward Android Pay, after piloting it since March 2016 — Google announced to users today that it is shutting down its Hands Free payment service on February 8th. The feature was quietly announced at Google I/O … | John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to let users search for photos using keywords to describe them, powered by its Lumos AI, which has been used to help the visually impaired — Initially used to improve the experience for visually impaired members of the Facebook community, the company's Lumos computer vision platform …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Mozilla lays off about 50 from its connected devices team, bringing the project to an end — The nonprofit is cutting about 50 people after struggling to extend the influence of its Firefox web browser for PCs. — A last vestige of Mozilla's effort to expand its technological influence beyond …
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