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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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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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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
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.| 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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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
As pre-orders open, Apple says iPhone X screen replacement will cost $279, compared to $169 for iPhone 8 Plus; other out-of-warranty repairs will cost $549 — The iPhone X went on sale today, and with it, Apple released some information about the phone's repair pricing — and like the phone itself, it gets expensive.
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| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
WhatsApp starts rolling-out feature that lets you delete sent messages within 7 minutes — Message recalls have been rumored on WhatsApp for months now and every couple of weeks, we got a glimpse of the functionality in a beta version but it was always a false alert and never properly worked.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Walmart testing robots in 50+ stores for repetitive jobs like scanning shelves for out-of-stock products, incorrect pricing, and mislabeling — The world's largest retailer has had a well-documented struggle with empty shelves in its stores. — Walmart is testing the use of aisle-roaming robots … | 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.| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
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.| 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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Apple asks SEC for permission to exclude a shareholder proposal on tying leadership diversity to CEO performance measures — Apple has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to exclude a new shareholder proposal on tying diversity figures for its executives to CEO performance … | Microsoft Investor Relations: |
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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