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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 6%+ — 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 for the trailing twelve months …
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AWS accounted for ~11% of Amazon's Q1 revenue at $5.44B, up 49% YoY, vs. $5.26B est., with $1.4B in operating income, or 73% of Amazon's total operating income — Amazon's cloud business exceeded analyst estimates, with revenue climbing 49 percent in the first quarter.| Microsoft Investor Relations: |
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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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snap launches slimmer Spectacles 2.0 with water resistance and faster pic and video transfer times, available at Spectacles.com for $150, $20 more than before — They're slimmer, they take photos, and you can take them in the pool. But will you? — Snap today released the next generation …
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Square acquires website builder Weebly in $365M cash and stock deal, says it will give sellers one cohesive solution to start or grow an omnichannel business — Square announced an agreement on Thursday to buy website-building company Weebly for $365 million.| Ruhi Sarikaya / Amazon Developer Services: |
Amazon details upcoming Alexa features: discovering skills via natural language, storing/retrieving arbitrary info, follow-up questions without “Alexa” prompt — Friction is any variable that impedes your progress toward a goal, whether it's purchasing a product or navigating traffic to make your 9 a.m. meeting on time.
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Intel hires Jim Keller, Tesla's key chip designer and head of Autopilot, as an SVP to lead silicon engineering — Legendary chip architect Jim Keller has seen an increasingly important role at Tesla since he joined the company in 2015. — He most recently took over the responsibilities … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nintendo reports operating profit of $1.62B, up 505% YoY, on strong Switch sales of 15M units in the year ending March, and names Shuntaro Furukawa as president — Nintendo sold just over 15 million Switch consoles in the last financial year, matching its own raised expectations after a hugely successful launch.
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| Hollywood Reporter: |
MoviePass hasn't offered a $10/mo for 1 movie/day plan to new subscribers since April 13, offering 4 movies/mo and 3 months of iHeartRadio All Access instead — The subscription service famous for supplying a movie ticket per day for just $9.95 a month hasn't been offering that wildly popular package since April 13.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Intel reports Q1 revenue of $16.1B, up 13% YoY, client computing group revenue of $8.2B, up 3% YoY, data center unit revenue of $5.2B, up 24% YoY; stock up ~7%+ — CEO Brian Krzanich noted that Intel's data-centric businesses accounted for almost half of Q1 revenue.
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EU lawmakers, member states strike preliminary deal to make streaming platforms finance production of local content in proportion to revenues in the country — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU lawmakers and member states on Thursday struck a preliminary deal that will allow countries …
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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 …
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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 …
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IBM partners with a jewelry consortium to introduce TrustChain, a blockchain to prove the provenance of jewelry by following the supply chain from mine to store — Every time I talk to someone about the viability of blockchain, I get challenged to show a real project beyond the obvious bitcoin use case.
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| Paula Parisi / Variety: |
US House unanimously passes Music Modernization Act to streamline licensing and ensure royalty protection for pre-1972 performances; bill now goes to Senate — In what is being hailed as a historic day for music creators, theMusic Modernization Act passed the House Wednesday … | Sui-Lee Wee / New York Times: |
A look at China's “programmer motivators”, attractive women hired at tech firms to chat up, fan, and calm male coders, as well as give massages to ease stress — BEIJING — China's vibrant technology scene is searching for people like Shen Yue.
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| 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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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
As the Google-led Chat carrier service shows, encryption is only viable for closed systems, so increased privacy regulations may further entrench walled gardens — It was eight years ago next month that Vic Gundotra, then-VP of Engineering at Google, delivered a blistering attack on Apple for not being open:1| Bloomberg: |
Samsung, the exclusive supplier of iPhone X OLED screens, says its Q1 profits for its display business were “affected by slow demand for flexible OLED screens” — IPhone X screenmaker adds to chorus of sales concerns — Samsung is exclusive supplier of OLED screens to Apple
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