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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 — Revenue and EPS Hit New All-Time Records — Active Installed Base of Devices Reaches 1.3 Billion in January — Apple today announced financial results …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube says it will start labeling videos from state-funded broadcasters like PBS and RT, considers surfacing videos from credible sources alongside hoaxes — Google unit to provide more context around some videos — YouTube said it is planning changes to give users more context … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
YouTube CEO Wojcicki promises more transparency, better appeals process for demonetization, including more human reviews, and consequences for “egregious” cases — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki took to the service's Creator Blog last night to issue some broad goals for the year forward.
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YouTube Blog, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Android Police, 9to5Google, Engadget, and Ars Technica. Tweets: @scalelabnetwork
| Steve Costello / Mobile World Live: |
Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai to be succeeded by current CFO in April; Sony reports record Q3 profits of $3.2B boosted by games division; smartphone shipments down to 4M — Sony trimmed the sales forecast for its mobile business following a weak fiscal Q3, as it also announced changes in its top management.
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Tweets: @smetaldave64, @ynakamura56, and @time
| Steve Ranger / ZDNet: |
IDC says global smartphone unit shipments fell 6.3% YoY in Q4, while Strategy Analytics sees 9% drop in Q4, but 1% growth on a full-year basis in 2017 — Even with a good performance from Apple's newest devices, smartphone sales dropped dramatically in the last three months of 2017.
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IDC, AppleInsider, NDTV Gadgets 360, Business Wire, Engadget, Tech.pinions, ValueWalk, FierceWireless, VentureBeat, and SlashGear. Tweets: @fjeronimo
| Eric Lam / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin briefly dropped below $8K, for the first time since November, amid the broad cryptocurrency market sell-off — Biggest digital token takes losses since peak to about 60% — Rival coins including Ripple, Ether and Litecoin tumble — Bitcoin fell below $8,000 as a miserable 2018 continued …
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Tweets: @charlieshrem, @officialmcafee, @apompliano, @dandrezner, @vinnylingham, and @vinnylingham
| Sonam Rai / Reuters: |
Dell says it is evaluating a potential public offering or a combination with VMware — (Reuters) - Dell Technologies Inc said on Friday it is evaluating a potential public offering of its common stock or a potential business combination between the U.S. computer maker and business software provider VMware Inc (VMW.N).
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Investor Relations, The Register, GlobeNewswire News Room, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @lexnfx
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
California DMV self-driving report: Waymo and GM lead with 63 disengagements over 352K+ miles and 105 disengagements over 131K+ miles, respectively — So how'd everyone do? — California's Department of Motor Vehicles released its annual autonomous vehicle disengagement report today.| Mike Dano / FierceWireless: |
Sprint aims to be the first nationwide mobile 5G network by early 2019, says its 160 MHz of 2.5 GHz spectrum gives it advantage against competition in mobile 5G — Sprint's CEO today promised the carrier will launch mobile 5G services on its 2.5 GHz spectrum holdings on a nationwide basis in the first half of 2019.
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VentureBeat, Android Police, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, CNET, DSLreports, RCR Wireless News, Droid Life, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @fiercewireless
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Sources: HQ Trivia is raising a $15M round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund at a $100M+ valuation — Founders Fund partner Cyan Banister is leading the round. — HQ Trivia, the popular trivia gameshow app, plans to raise money in a new round of financing that values the company north of $100 million …
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New York Magazine, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Axios, Boing Boing, Mashable, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @cyantist, @jtemple, @capndesign, @teddyschleifer, @kurtwagner8, @delrey, @arlanwashere, and @rmac18
| 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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Digital Trends, Ars Technica, Roku Online Newsroom, Forbes, SlashGear, Tech Times, Cult of Mac, O'Grady's PowerPage, The Mac Observer, CNET, iLounge, DSLreports, The Loop, Ubergizmo, Android Police, Phandroid, The Verge, AppleInsider, PhoneDog.com, Android and Me, iPhone Hacks, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Android Central, PhoneDog.com, Droid Life, iDownloadBlog.com, BetaNews, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @youtubetv, @christianism, @backlon, @youtubetv, and @jessicalessin
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolling out Chrome OS 64 with browser enhancements, a new screenshot shortcut, and ability to enable VPN for Play apps — Following updates to Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux last week, version 64 is now rolling out to Chrome OS. In addition to several browser enhacements …
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The Verge, Google Chrome Releases, Engadget, Liliputing, Android Police, and Chrome Unboxed
Tweets: @aworkofmart, @chromedevtools, @scalzi, @owencm, @thehackersnews, and @tramitesenusa
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