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Amazon beats with Q1 revenue of $51B, up 43% YoY, net income of $1.6B, up from $724M YoY; stock up 7%+ after hours — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2018. — Operating cash flow increased 4% to $18.2 billion …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon to raise the price of Prime from $99 to $119 in the US, the first increase in 4 years, going into effect for new subs on May 11 and existing subs in June — The increase is effective for new customers starting May 11. — Amazon is increasing the price of its Prime membership …
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| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Amazon's “other” sales, mostly comprised of its advertising revenue, jumped 139% to $2.03B in Q1, the first time sales have surpassed $2B — - Amazon's quarterly advertising sales surpassed $2 billion for the first time in the first quarter. — Amazon doesn't break … | Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Apple to stop production of AirPort Express, Extreme, and Time Capsule Wi-Fi base stations, which were last updated in 2013, but will sell while stock lasts — AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule will continue to be sold while supplies last but then Apple is done with the router business... at least for now.
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Microsoft reports Q3 revenue of $26.8B, up 16% YoY, profit of $7.4B, up 35% YoY, says it spent $6.3B on dividends and share repurchases, up 37% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — April 26, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018 …
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Square acquires website builder Weebly in $365M cash and stock deal, says it will give small business customers a way to easily build sites and online stores — - Square announced an agreement on Thursday to buy website-building company Weebly for $365 million.
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| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
Cryptographer's doubts about Ozzie's CLEAR key-escrow system: securing private keys at OEMs and disabling a phone once law enforcement accesses it are hard — Yesterday I happened upon a Wired piece by Steven Levy that covers Ray Ozzie's proposal for “CLEAR”.
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Intel hires Jim Keller, Tesla's key chip designer and head of Autopilot, as SVP for silicon engineering; he also worked on Zen at AMD, led Apple's chip efforts — Legendary chip architect Jim Keller has seen an increasingly important role at Tesla since he joined the company in 2015.| Reuters: |
Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint have made progress in negotiating merger terms and are aiming to successfully complete deal talks as early as next week — (Reuters) - U.S. wireless carriers T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) and Sprint Corp (S.N) have made progress in negotiating merger terms and are aiming …
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Canalys: Q1 2018 smartphone shipments in China see biggest decline ever, down 21%+ YoY; Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi accounted for 73%+ of shipments — Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Thursday, 26 April 2018 — Smartphone shipments in China suffered their biggest ever decline …
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| Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: |
DocuSign prices shares at $29, higher than the already increased $26-$28 range, would raise at least $629.3M at a valuation of $4.4B — DocuSign Inc. DOCU, +0.00% announced Thursday evening that it had priced its initial public offering at $29, higher than the price range it was seeking.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
iTunes now available from the Microsoft Store for Windows 10, nearly a year after Microsoft announced it would be coming to the store before the end of 2017 — Apple is finally bringing its iTunes app to Microsoft's Windows 10 app store today. Microsoft first revealed nearly a year ago … | Damian Collins / UK Parliament: |
Disappointed with answers from Facebook's CTO at a parliamentary inquiry, MPs consider using summons power to force Zuckerberg to testify if he enters the UK — Following the questioning of Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's Chief Technology Officer, today at a public session of the Digital … | Laura Noonan / Financial Times: |
Spain's BBVA becomes first global bank to issue a loan using blockchain; BBVA says the process cut negotiation time for €75M corporate loan from “days to hours” — Spain's BBVA has become the first global bank to issue a loan using the distributed ledger technology …
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