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Apple HomePod review: best-in-class sound for $349 and above, looks great, but Siri only works with Apple Music, bad support for third-party services — It sounds amazing. Is that enough? — Photography by James Bareham; Video by Phil Esposito, Becca Farsace, Andrew Marino, and William Joel
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Snap reports Q4 revenue of $285.7M, up 72% YoY, as DAUs rise 8.9M to 187M, up 18% YoY; net loss of $350M, up 106% YoY; stock up 23%+ after hours — 02/06/18 VENICE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) today announced financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2017.
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Snap's Q4 revenue beat analysts' $252.8M estimate, marking the firm's first upbeat quarter since its IPO with average revenue per user rising 46% YoY to $1.53 — Company tops analysts' estimates for first time since 2017 IPO — In rare win, social-media underdog adds clients, runs more ads| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
A pollster Facebook hired in April '17, who quit after 6 months, says his role was to measure Zuckerberg's approval ratings and track speeches amid US tour — Why Tavis McGinn quit after six months — Tavis McGinn applied for a job at Facebook last year hoping to work in market research.
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Alphabet names Dinesh Jain, former COO of TWC, as CEO of Access, its high-speed internet unit that includes Fiber; Jain is Access' third CEO in under two years — Another new CEO at Access as Alphabet struggles to figure out the future of Google Fiber — Google parent company Alphabet … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Shazam takeover triggers competition review by the European Commission, following request by seven European countries — The European Commission has announced a review of Apple's acquisition of music discovery service Shazam — agreeing to a request made by several countries to weigh competition concerns.| Eric Zimmerman / The Keyword: |
Google begins rolling out ability to book flights and hotels directly from search results — Planning a trip involves lots of searching for flights, hotels, things to do, itineraries and more. The process is often cumbersome because we have to use multiple tools to gather everything we need—especially on a mobile phone.
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US regulators say they lack power over cryptocurrency exchanges, citing ease of price manipulation on unregulated exchanges, view ICOs as securities offerings — Two of the nation's top financial regulators said Tuesday that Congress may need to grant them new powers if they are to protect consumers …
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Streaming service ESPN Plus will cost $4.99/month and launch in spring, requires ESPN subscription via “traditional or non-traditional methods”, Disney CEO says — ESPN's standalone streaming service will launch this spring, Disney CEO Bob Iger told analysts and investors shortly … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Google brings AR stickers to its Motion Stills app for Android, which does not require ARCore-compatible smartphone or high-end specs — Want to plop a 3D T. rex into a video of your hand? The Motion Stills app for Android phones now lets you do that with a rough-and-ready technique.
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Sources: Google to buy 1.2M sq. ft. Chelsea Market building in NYC, where it leases 400K sq. ft. already, for $2B+ in deal expected to close in two months — Jamestown in contract to sell the 1.2M sf office-and-retail property at 75 Ninth Avenue — Google did not have to search far and wide for results.
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Patreon is launching its Snapchat Stories-like photo and video feed for artists as a feature called Lens in its mobile app, after announcing it last year — Patreon has launched a new feature that it announced last year: a Snapchat Stories-like feed where artists can share pictures and video with patrons.
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Netgear says it will spin off its Arlo security camera wing into a standalone business by the second half of 2018 and is planning an IPO for Arlo — Netgear announced this afternoon that it plans to spin off its Arlo wing into a standalone business. The networking hardware giant's board … | Reuters: |
In letter to US lawmakers, Apple says it sees “strong demand” for replacement iPhone batteries and is considering refunding consumers who paid full price — WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has seen “strong demand” for replacement iPhone batteries … | Motherboard: |
Pornhub says it's banning AI-generated fake porn videos because they're “nonconsensual”, yet such “deepfake” videos are still available via site search results — In its search of a platform that will host fake porn videos of celebrities created with a machine learning algorithm … | Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Uber's CISO tells Congress 2016 breach should have been disclosed earlier, company should not have used bug bounty program to negotiate $100K payment to hackers — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two individuals behind the 2016 data breach at Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] …
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Sources: in Q3 2017, Spotify made €1B in revenue, putting it on track for €4B in full year revenue, up 40% YoY, and had an operating loss between €70M and €90M — Spotify generated a billion euros ($1.2 billion) in revenue in the third quarter of 2017, according to two investors briefed on the numbers.Sponsor Posts
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