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Alphabet reports Q1 revenue of $31.1B, up 26% YoY, net income of $9.4B, up from $5.4B YoY, but capital expenditures hit $7.3B, up from $2.5B YoY — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 23, 2018 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018.
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| Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
Alphabet says its “other revenues”, which include cloud business and hardware sales, made $4.4B in Q1 revenue; Other Bets had revenue of $150M on a $571M loss — Brushing back concerns about recent attacks on data-driven advertising, Alphabet Inc. today beat profit and revenue forecasts … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is working on a domestic robot codenamed Vesta that can navigate inside homes like a driverless car — Prototypes can navigate from room to room like driverless cars — Company hopes to start testing bots in homes later this year — Ten years ago, Amazon introduced …
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Apple's acquisition of Shazam faces extended EU probe as antitrust regulators worry that Apple might halt Shazam referrals and use Shazam data to hamper rivals — EU says concerned Apple could use Shazam data to hamper rivals — Probe also looking whether Apple could halt Shazam referrals
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After Amazon clamped down on paid reviews in 2016, the community dispersed but still flourishes, with most comments on some popular categories still fake — SAN FRANCISCO — On Amazon, customer comments can help a product surge in popularity. The online retail giant says that more than 99 percent …
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
In pilot program debuting soon, Uber says it will start obscuring the log of rider pickup and drop-off locations given to drivers, instead showing general areas — In a pilot program launching soon, Uber will begin obscuring riders' exact pickup and drop-off locations in the trip history displayed to drivers.
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Symantec: hacker group called Orangeworm is targeting equipment in US healthcare, like X-Ray and MRI machines, as well manufacturing, agriculture, IT devices — Yet another hacker crew has been battering the healthcare industry in recent months. But rather than just aim for the PCs …
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| Jen Wieczner / Fortune: |
Mark Karpelès, the CEO of Mt. Gox until its 2014 bankruptcy, becomes CTO of Denver-based London Trust Media, which owns the popular Private Internet Access VPN — Mark Karpelès, the CEO who presided over Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox until it went bankrupt in 2014, has had a hard time finding work for the last four years.| Nour Al Ali / Bloomberg: |
Middle Eastern ride-hailing app Careem says 14M users' names, email addresses, phone numbers, and trip data was stolen in cyberattack; it became aware on Jan 14 — Customers' names, email, phone number and trip data stolen — The platform has over 20 million users, according to website
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Glowforge finally launches its $2,495 3D laser printer to consumers, after breaking crowdfunding records for the device in October 2015 — Glowforge has raised more investment dollars as the Seattle startup starts selling its 3D laser printer to the general public and continues to fulfill delayed orders from its crowdfunding campaign.
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Razer doubles down on Southeast Asia and payments with announcement of deal to acquire MOL Global for $61M, after investing $20M in the company last year — Gaming hardware maker Razer, which went public in a big IPO in Hong Kong last year, is doubling down on payments after it announced … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook gives its definition of terrorism, says it took action on 1.9M pieces of ISIS and al-Qaeda content in Q1, ~2x the previous quarter, finding 99% itself — Facebook Inc. said it was able to remove a larger amount of content from the Islamic State and al-Qaeda in the first quarter of 2018 by actively looking for it.Sponsor Posts
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