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Uber says Q4 net revenue was $2.22B, up 61% YoY, total value of fares was $11B, UberEats is ~10% of its business, and it lost $4.5B on $7.5B sales in 2017 — Uber Technologies Inc. had a painful 2017, but the business managed to grow. — Adjusted net revenue increased 61 percent in the fourth quarter from the same period in 2016.
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Fitbit acquires cloud-based software startup Twine Health, which connects patients with health coaches and doctors and had raised ~$10M according to Crunchbase — Nearly all Twine Health employees will join Fitbit — Fitbit announced today that it has acquired a small …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's Area 120 incubator announces Reply, a project that brings Google's Smart Reply feature to other chat apps, initially available only on Android — Smart Reply, the clever A.I.-powered technology that automatically creates responses to your inbound messages, first debuted …
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| Aakash Sahney / The Keyword: |
Google announces AMP for Email, with Gmail developer preview available today, to make emails more interactive with content like appointments and questionnaires — For the past few years, we've worked to make mobile pages load faster through an open-source framework called Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP).
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple shareholders meeting recap: wearables business approaching Fortune 300 size, iPhone X has 99% customer satisfaction, Cook “not a fan” of special dividends — As scheduled, Apple's annual shareholders meeting took place at Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park today.
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| Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
Online backup service Carbonite to acquire Dell EMC's Mozy, a cloud-based backup service for enterprises, for $145.8M via cash and a $120M revolving credit line — Carbonite also reported mixed Q4 and full year earnings. — Carbonite on Tuesday announced it's entered into a definitive agreement …
| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Baidu reports Q4 revenues of 23.6B yuan, or $3.62B, up 29% YoY, confirms it has filed preliminary documents for an IPO in the US for its iQiyi video service — Internet search provider delivers fourth-quarter profit and revenue beats — Baidu Inc. BIDU 1.79% is considering listing online-video unit iQiyi …
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Amazon says it will provide Amazon.com store credit to everyone who paid to remove ads from Prime Exclusive smartphones — Last week, Amazon announced that it would stop displaying advertisements and offers on the lock screen of discounted smartphones that the company sells to Prime customers.| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Injong Rhee, Samsung Electronics' CTO, says he has left the company to lead Google's IoT business under cloud boss Diane Greene — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google this month hired Injong Rhee, who recently resigned as Samsung Electronics Co's chief technology officer … | Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
ARM unveils Project Trillium, a new mobile AI chip family, with a ML chip design coming in mid-2018 and an object detection chip design coming in Q1 — Today's Arm announcement is a bit out of the norm for the company, as it's the first in a series of staggered releases of information.
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eBay hires data scientist Jan Pedersen from Twitter to head AI efforts and says it will roll out new AR features this year — Marketplace seeks to spur spending with augmented reality — Retail consolidation could bring new partnerships, CEO says — EBay Inc. will roll …
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Skype update installer found to be susceptible to DLL hijacking, potentially giving system-level privileges; Microsoft says fix will come when app is rewritten — The bug grants a low-level user access to every corner of the operating system. — A security flaw in Skype's updater process …
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