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Alphabet Q3: revenue of $27.8B, up 24% YoY, vs. $27.2B expected; net income reaches $6.73B, up from $5.06B YoY; Other Bets made $302M, lost $812M — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 26, 2017 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2017.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says people are watching YouTube on TVs for 100M hours/day, up 70% in the last year — YouTube viewing on actual TV sets is up 70 percent in the last year. — YouTube has been trying to position itself as a TV competitor for years.| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon has 540K employees after Whole Foods acquisition, nearly 7x that of Google and 4x that of Microsoft, is now the second-largest US employer after Walmart — Amazon added a whopping 159,500 employees in the last quarter, pushing its total employment to 541,900 people worldwide … | Business Wire: |
Amazon beats with Q3 revenue of $43.74B, up 34% YoY, vs. $42.14B expected; net income of $256M, up from $252M YoY — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2017.
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Google working on fix for Pixel 2 XL display issues and Pixel 2 “clicking” noise, will roll out software update within weeks; warranty extended to two years — Shortly after Google's new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL began shipping, some users noted that the devices seemed to have some... quirks.
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Microsoft Q1: revenue of $24.54B, up 12% YoY, vs. $23.56B expected; net income up 16% YoY to $6.6B; Productivity revenue hits $8.2B, up 28% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — October 26, 2017 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended September 30, 2017:
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Analyst: iPhone 8 and 8 Plus accounted for 16% of all US iPhone sales in the past quarter, compared to 43% for 7 and 7 Plus during the same period last year — Purchase data from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) suggests that the iPhone 8 is selling in smaller numbers than an ‘S’ model.
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Amazon gains wholesale pharmacy licenses in 12+ states, including Nevada, Arizona, Louisiana, Alabama, New Jersey, Michigan, Connecticut, Oregon, and Tennessee — Throughout the past year, and without much fanfare, Amazon.com Inc. has gained approval to become a wholesale distributor …
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Apple asks SEC for permission to exclude a shareholder proposal on tying leadership diversity to CEO performance measures — This post has been updated with a correction. The article incorrectly stated Denise Young Smith is the only black female executive at Apple.| Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab: |
Civil, the blockchain-based system to fund journalism, has raised $5M from ConsenSys and has attracted its first publication, news and politics site Popula — One of the most confusing efforts to fund journalism in recent memory is inching closer to reality.| William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Zenefits and former CEO Parker Conrad settle SEC charges of misleading investors; Zenefits to pay $450K penalty, Conrad to pay ~$534K — The Securities and Exchange Commission, which polices bad behavior by publicly traded companies, has for the first time taken action against a privately …
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Sources: cybersecurity firm Zscaler has confidentially filed for an IPO, plans to go public before the year's end — Zscaler, a nine-year-old, San Jose, Calif.-based company, has filed confidentially for IPO, multiple sources tell TechCrunch. The cloud security outfit is aiming to go public before the end of the year.Sponsor Posts
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