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Apple Q1: 77.3M iPhones, down 1% YoY, with $796 ASP; 13.2M iPads, up 1% YoY; 5.1M Macs, down 5% YoY; $8.5B services revenue, up 18% YoY; stock up 2%+ — Revenue and EPS Hit New All-Time Records — Active Installed Base of Devices Reaches 1.3 Billion in January
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple reports Q1 revenue of $88.3B, up 13% YoY; $20.1B net income, up from $17.89B YoY; China revenue of $17.96B, up 11% YoY; Q2 revenue guidance of $60B-$62B — After forecasting a record quarter with revenue between $84 billion and $87 billion, Apple has just reported its quarterly results for the last three months of 2017.
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
CFO Luca Maestri says Apple plans to reduce its net cash balance to “approximately zero” following the new US tax law, possibly via M&A, dividends, and buybacks — Apple plans to reduce its net cash balance to “approximately zero” following a new US law that will allow …
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Alphabet Q4 revenue $32.3B, up 24% YoY, net loss of $3B due to $9.9B tax charge; Google ad revenue $27.2B; Other Bets revenue $409M, operating loss $916M — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - February 1, 2018 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2017.
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Alphabet names John Hennessy as chairman, after Eric Schmidt's departure last year; Google's traffic acquisition costs to distributors reaches 24% of ad revenue — Google parent company Alphabet's big run over the past few months came to a screeching halt today after it came … | Business Wire: |
Amazon beats with Q4 revenue of $60.5B, up 38% YoY; $1.9B net income, up from $749M YoY; ~$789M benefit from new tax law — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2017.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
| Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
CEO Brian Chesky says Airbnb will not go public in 2018; CFO Laurence Tosi is stepping down to focus on his investment fund; Belinda Johnson becomes first COO — Airbnb is losing its Wall Street-savvy CFO, getting its first COO and ruling out going public in 2018, delaying any payout …
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Google releases YouTube TV app for Apple TV and select Roku devices for $35/month, bundling over 50 channels with option to separately purchase more — As announced with a tease on Twitter, Google has just released an Apple TV client for YouTube TV, providing owners of the fourth-generation Apple TV …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube expands YouTube Go, a lightweight version of its service for emerging markets, to 130+ countries — YouTube Go, a mobile version of YouTube built for emerging markets with features like offline viewing and nearby sharing, is today expanding to over 130 countries worldwide.
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Sources: Alphabet and state-owned oil giant Aramco are in talks to jointly build data centers and a large tech hub in Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil giant and Google parent Alphabet Inc., two of the world's biggest companies, are in talks about jointly building …
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Spotify partners with gaming chat service Discord to let users connect accounts on the platform; Premium users will be able to play music within a server — Gaming-focused chat platform Discord today announced a new integration with Spotify that will allow users to connect their Spotify accounts …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram Stories begins rolling out its “type mode” feature to users, letting them post text-based pages — Not so photogenic — Instagram's newest Stories feature doesn't feel much like Instagram. The platform's new “type mode,” which starts rolling out today … Sponsor Posts
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