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Apple reports Q3 iPhone unit sales of 41.3M, up from 41.0M YoY, revenue of $53.3B, up 17% YoY, net income of $11.5B, up from $8.7B YoY — Revenue Up 17 Percent and EPS Up 40 Percent to New June Quarter Records — Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High
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| IDC: |
IDC: 342M smartphones were shipped worldwide in Q2 2018, down 1.8% YoY from 348.2M, with Huawei passing Apple to ship the second-most smartphones — According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped …
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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Sources and leaked docs: Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and filter search results — Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook bans 32 Pages and accounts from FB and Instagram for “coordinated inauthentic behavior”, says they were far better at covering tracks than Russia's IRA — Today we removed 32 Pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook has alerted Congress to new coordinated political influence campaign, with dozens of inauthentic accounts and pages, ahead of midterms — WASHINGTON — Facebook is preparing to announce that it has identified a coordinated political influence campaign …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook and Instagram add activity dashboards to help people manage their time on social apps — Today we are announcing new tools to help people manage their time on Facebook and Instagram: an activity dashboard, a daily reminder and a new way to limit notifications.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says it's working with news organizations, including ProPublica, to surface data from data journalism projects in search results — Google today announced that it is working with a number of news organizations to surface more data from their data journalism projects in its search results.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Bird is launching a pilot program of its electric scooter service in Paris Tuesday with about 100 scooters followed by Tel Aviv in the coming weeks — Electric scooter startup Bird, the one worth $2 billion, is going international. This does not come as a surprise given TechCrunch's June report … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases Windows 10 test build with Your Phone app feature for Android 7.0 and above that syncs most recent photos to PCs automatically — Microsoft is starting to test its new Your Phone app for Windows 10. The software maker first unveiled the app back at the company's Build … | Lily Katz / Bloomberg: |
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance buys Trust Wallet, its first acquisition, for undisclosed amount; the crypto wallet provider launched in Nov., has 10 employees — Binance, one of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, is embarking on its first acquisition as it seeks to give customers more control over their digital coins.
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| Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: |
Ecommerce startup Brandless, which sells most of its generic home-goods staples for $3, raises $240M from SoftBank's Vision Fund at a $500M+ valuation — Brandless sells about 300 generic home-goods staples, mostly for $3 each. — It's tough to wow Masayoshi Son with a bargain … | Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Code snippets in iOS 12 beta 5 suggest dual-SIM support is coming to future iPhone models — We've heard rumors about a possible dual-SIM iPhone model to be released this year, with the feature coming to the Plus model and including dual-SIM support for specific regions.
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| Marrian Zhou / CNET: |
Logitech to acquire Blue, a maker of studio-quality microphones popular for podcasts and YouTube channels, for ~$117M cash in deal expected to close in August — Logitech is buying a microphone company to boost the variety of devices in its portfolio. — The computer accessories maker …
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| Reuters: |
Baidu beats Q2 estimates with total revenue of ~$3.81B, up 24.4% YoY, on strong growth of its online advertisement business, and net income of ~$939.4M — (Reuters) - China's Baidu Inc reported a 24.4 percent rise in quarterly revenue on Tuesday, driven by gains in the internet search firm's online ad business.
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