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Twitter's Q3 revenue of $589.6M tops estimates; MAUs grew 4% YoY to 330M, DAUs grew 14% YoY; net loss down to $21.1M; shares rise 13%+ — Monthly active users grew 4% year-over-year to 330 million — Quarterly sales of $589.6 million topped analysts' estimates
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| Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter overstated MAUs by 1-2M since Q4 2014 by including users of a service for third-party apps; according to revised numbers, its MAUs shrank in Q2 by 2M — Social media company says it had been including users of service for third-party apps as monthly users that shouldn't have been counted| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Workplace Chat desktop app and will roll out group video chat soon, says 30K organizations use Workplace and that 1M groups have been created — It's been once year since Workplace, Facebook's social network designed specifically for businesses and other organizations …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Pixelbook review: beautiful hardware, great Chrome apps performance, but has average battery life, and Android apps need to be updated for screen and pen — Can a supercomputer for web apps challenge the iPad Pro?
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A look at Google's new Advanced Protection Program, which requires two $20 physical keys: easy to set up, offers good security, but limited app support for now — Why won't the password just go away? The silly pet names, movie titles or sports teams that many people punch …
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| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Facebook partners with auto dealers, including Edmunds, Cars.com, Auction123, CDK Global, and SocialDealer, to add used car listings into its Marketplace — Facebook Marketplace has been around for a year now. In that time, the social network has gotten a firm grasp on what users are buying and selling on its Craigslist rival.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple and Cochlear launch made-for-iPhone cochlear implant, the iPhone Nucleus 7 Sound Processor, available today in Australia, and in more countries later — Apple and Cochlear originally announced their partnership back in July, and today the first product out of that partnership is available.
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| Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Trump unveils program to loosen FAA rules on drone testing to include flights over people, beyond line-of-sight, more, for companies and local government — The Trump administration on Wednesday smoothed the way for companies like Alphabet and Amazon to ramp up testing of drones for package deliveries and other commercial uses.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Reddit shuts down Nazi and white supremacist subreddits, after updating policy to ban content encouraging violence; subreddits banned had 25 to 7,000 users each — Reddit has shut down several Nazi and white supremacist subreddits after a policy change banning material that “encourages … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Sources: Roku to start streaming to third-party hardware that doesn't run its OS; one source says move will likely involve mobile devices — In a major twist, Roku is looking to start streaming videos on devices made or controlled by competitors like Apple and Google, Variety has learned …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
DxO to acquire and continue developing the Nik Collection after Google stopped updating it earlier this year — Photographers can breathe easy knowing that a beloved tool will avoid dying a premature death. Google announced earlier this year that it would discontinue development …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
LG's mobile business reports loss of ~$331.37M in Q3 with 13.7M shipments, up 9% QoQ in US — Korea electronics giant LG continues to show the world that making a profit, or even breaking even, from selling smartphones is no easy thing. — LG Mobile has posted just one quarter of profitability …
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