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Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $32.7B, up 26% YoY, and net income of $3.2B including EU fine; excluding the fine, net income was $8.3B; stock up 3%+ after hours — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2018 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2018.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Alphabet's Other Bets, which now includes Loon, Wing projects alongside Waymo, Verily, and others, had Q2 revenue of $145M with operating losses rising to $732M — The company's total advertising revenue was $28.1 billion, up from $22.7 billion a year ago.
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Qualcomm unveils first mmWave 5G and sub-6GHz antenna modules for 5G smartphones and mobile hotspots in 2019 — Qualcomm has solved a big problem for a certain variation of 5G: getting the chips small enough to fit in handheld devices. — On Monday, Qualcomm unveiled its new QTM052 millimeter wave …
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Amazon rolls out “Tap to Alexa” feature for Echo Show, to let hearing- and speech-impaired users trigger customizable Alexa skills with a few taps on the screen — Smart speakers like the Amazon Echo have brought voice controls into millions of homes — but what if you can't hear what Alexa has to say?
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon adds audio equalizer controls for Echo devices in Alexa app, as well as via English voice commands in US, and opens the EQ functionality to third parties — Audiophiles love to nitpick over the way their music sounds, but until now, you haven't been able to do that with any of Amazon's Echo smart speakers.
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Google partners with blockchain startup Digital Asset to let Google Cloud developers build blockchain apps using DAML, the startup's smart contract language — Google is increasingly betting that blockchain technology, which creates a permanent ledger across multiple computers … | Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: Pinterest is aiming for IPO by mid-2019, is close to ~$1B in ad sales in 2018 after hitting $500M in 2017, and now has a valuation between $13B-$15B — - Pinterest is poised to almost double revenue this year, getting close to $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Sources: Microsoft working on two new Xbox consoles, one of them a lower-powered streaming box for upcoming game streaming service referred to as Scarlett Cloud — Back at E3, Microsoft mentioned that they were working on a next-generation console. At that time, I noted that this new console …
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Google says none of its 85,000+ employees have been successfully phished since early 2017, when it required use of physical Security Keys in place of passwords — Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017 … | Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Susan Fowler Rigetti, the former Uber engineer who blew the whistle on sexual harassment at the company, has joined the NYT as technology opinion editor in SF — - Susan Fowler Rigetti, the woman who blew the whistle on Uber's sexist culture, has been hired by The New York Times.
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| Bloomberg: |
According to speed test service Ookla, Apple's iPhone X on average has downloaded data at 29.7 Mbps, well behind Samsung's Galaxy S9 at 38.9 Mbps — - Loading speeds have become a key selling point for Samsung — Qualcomm says its modems produce faster connections for phones
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| James Ball / Columbia Journalism Review: |
It is time for newsrooms to cover technology extensively, across desks, acting as watchdogs rather than cheerleaders — A lowly tech employee was trying to do some simple task online and found out it was really hard. Inspired by that difficulty, he—and it was almost always a he …
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