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Microsoft reports Q1 revenue of $29.1B, up 19% YoY, net income of $8.8B, up 34% YoY; Azure revenue grew 76%, LinkedIn revenue grew 33%, Surface revenue grew 14% — Microsoft Cloud Strength Powers Record First Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — October 24, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's Q1 revenue beats estimates as Productivity revenue up 19% YoY to $9.8B, Intelligent Cloud up 24% to $8.6B, and Personal Computing up 15% to $10.7B — Microsoft today reported earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2019, including revenue of $29.1 billion, net income of $8.8 billion … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Tim Cook attacks the “data industrial complex” and calls for comprehensive US privacy laws in speech at conference on data protection and privacy in Brussels — Apple's CEO Tim Cook has joined the chorus of voices warning that data itself is being weaponized again people and societies …
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Google now lets users review and delete their recent search activity and provides easier access to privacy controls, on desktop today and mobile apps later — We're always working on making it easier for you to understand and control your data so you can make privacy choices that are right for you.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
A look at two features Twitter is testing: “presence indicators”, which say what users are doing while they tweet, and “ice breakers” to start conversations — Executives say they want to enhance conversations on the platform — Twitter is testing new features designed …
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Leaked Google contract stipulates that Android device makers provide at least two years of security updates for phones and tablets that have 100K+ activations — Every month, a security team at Google releases a new set of patches for Android — and every month, carriers and manufacturers struggle … | The Daily Beast: |
Amazon pitched its facial recognition surveillance tech to ICE and continued its dialogue with the US immigration agency in the midst of critical media coverage — Amazon employees are up in arms about possible collaborations with law enforcement. That hasn't stopped Amazon reps from pitching ICE on its face-scanning tech.
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| Angelo Amante / Reuters: |
Italian anti-trust watchdog fines Apple and Samsung €5M over phone throttling complaints and Apple an additional €5M over lack of info on battery replacement — ROME (Reuters) - Italy's anti-trust watchdog said on Wednesday it was fining Apple Inc. (AAPL.O) and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd … | Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Leaked internal survey of Snap's ~3,000-person workforce shows 40% don't plan to stay, up 11% since Q1 2018, as Snap stock has tumbled in recent months — Snapchat employees are looking to jump ship in growing numbers after a botched app redesign and drop in stock price soured many on the company's future …
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The marked contrast between Amazon's and Sears' compensation plans shows the shift in recent years away from employees to shareholders — Half a century ago, a typical Sears salesman could walk out of the store at retirement with a nest egg worth well over a million in today's dollars, feathered with company stock.
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| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Sources describe problems at GM's Cruise self-driving car unit, which has had delays, issues with software, and more, after landing $5B in investments — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - It's one of the biggest bets going in the world of cars. — Since May, General Motors Co …
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| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Interviews with dozens of employees detail Rockstar Games' culture of “crunch”, after a studio co-founder's 100-hour weeks remark triggered industry discussion — In the final year of development on Red Dead Redemption 2, the upcoming Western game, the top directors decided …
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Facebook says its AI tools helped moderators remove 8.7M user-posted images of child nudity during the last quarter — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Wednesday that company moderators during the last quarter removed 8.7 million user images of child nudity with the help … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
AMD reports Q3 revenue of $1.65B, vs. $1.7B est., up 4% YoY, net income of $102M, up from $61M YoY, but low Q4 guidance; stock down 20%+ after hours — The company missed third quarter revenue targets and issued lower-than-expected fourth quarter guidance.
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| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Facebook rolls out music-related features: expanding Lip Sync Live, adding music stickers to Stories, and songs to a new music section on user profiles — Facebook is rolling out more music features today, bringing more ways to integrate its licensing partnership with all three major labels into Stories …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Two years after acquiring Drip, Kickstarter hands control of the platform to Andy Baio and XOXO co-founder Andy McMillan and provides new seed funding for it — Taylor Hatmaker @tayhatmaker / 7 hours — Two years ago, Kickstarter acquired Drip, an indie musician crowdfunding platform, on the eve of the service's untimely demise.
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Tweets: @laura_hudson, @xoxo, @drip, @waxpancake, @chrismessina, @bluechoochoo, and @waxpancake
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Researchers: Germany-based spyware firm Wolf Intelligence left 20GB of data on an unprotected server and a public Google Drive folder, including customer info — The Germany-based spyware startup Wolf Intelligence exposed its own data, including surveillance target's information …
Tweets: @josephfcox, @jason_koebler, @lorenzofb, and @dangoodin001
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus begins rolling out new features, including a system-wide option for reporting abuse and the ability to cast the screen to a phone, currently in beta — Oculus is rolling out new features, including a system-wide option for reporting abuse. The update is available on the Oculus …
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Leap Motion loses VP of design and global creative director Keiichi Matsuda; sources say the company has moved out of its SF office to cut costs — - Leap Motion, a company that specializes in developing VR and AR software and hardware, has lost its VP of design, Keiichi Matsuda.| New York Times: |
Sources: US intelligence has determined that China and Russia spy on phone calls Trump makes using his iPhones instead of his secure White House landline — WASHINGTON — When President Trump calls old friends on one of his iPhones to gossip, gripe or solicit their latest take on how he is doing …
Tweets: @normative and @mcwm
| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Japan's finance regulator grants legal status to cryptocurrency exchange association as a self-regulatory industry body — The Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan's finance regulator, has formally approved a cryptocurrency exchange association as a self-regulatory industry body.
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Google says that, thanks to its 50M+ Local Guides, more than 40M places on Maps now have accessibility information — Navigating the physical world is one of the most challenging problems for the more than one billion people who have disabilities. It is also a hard technical problem to solve.| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Snap says it hired Jeremi Gorman, most recently Amazon's head of ads sales, as its chief business officer and Jared Grusd as its chief strategy officer — - Jeremi Gorman will become chief business officer, and was previously head of advertising sales for Amazon.
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Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @jyarow, and @sarahfrier
| New York Times: |
Google plans to reach five million schoolchildren with a digital citizenship education program, but critics say it should be disqualified from doing so — The tech giant is positioning itself in schools as a trusted authority on digital citizenship at a moment when the company's data-handling practices are under growing scrutiny.
Tweets: @samueljscott, @lam_barrett, @aprilaser, @nytimes, @fightextremism, and @nytimestech
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