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November 1, 2018, 7:45 PM
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Apple reports Q4 revenue of $62.9B, up 20% YoY, profit of $14.1B, says services revenue reached an all-time high of $10B, up 27% YoY; stock down 6%+ after hours — Revenue Up 20 Percent and EPS Up 41 Percent to New September Quarter Records — Services Revenue of $10 Billion Reaches New All-Time High
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Macworld, Business Insider, MacRumors, ZDNet, Ars Technica, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, CNET, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, CNBC, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, Investor's Business Daily, and Cult of Mac
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple will stop reporting unit sales for iPhone, iPad, and Mac starting next quarter, as CFO says units sold isn't representative of the state of business — Apple just announced on its earnings call that it will stop reporting unit sales for iPhone, iPad and Mac from next quarter — the start of its next financial year.
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The Verge, Engadget, GeekWire, Digital Trends, Telegraph, MacRumors, CNET, Engadget, and MacDailyNews
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple warns holiday sales may miss Wall Street expectations; Cook says negative forecast due to exchange rates, supply uncertainty, weakness in emerging markets — (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Thursday said sales for the crucial holiday quarter could miss Wall Street expectations …
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Business Insider, Quartz, TechCrunch, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Fortune, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, and MacStories. Tweets: @reuters
| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Apple's 29% Q4 iPhone revenue increase YoY, despite almost no change in iPhone unit sales, suggests Apple's price hike strategy appears to be working — Apple devices are getting more expensive across the board, helping the company earn more per device — Despite a zero percent change …
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MacRumors, VentureBeat, Axios, iMore, and CNBC
| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Apple reports Q4 revenue of $62.9B, vs. $61.57B est., and says it sold 46.89M iPhones, vs. 47.5M est., ASP of $793, vs. $750.78 est., and soft Q1 guidance — - Apple locked in a strategy of boosting prices to offset slowing sales during the key September quarter.
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MacDailyNews and Six Colors
| The Cut: |
Google walkout organizers share demands: end pay inequality and forced arbitration, better sexual misconduct reporting, a harassment transparency report, more — Last week, the New York Times published an article about Google's history of harassment, discrimination, support for abusers …
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CNN, Quartz, Washington Post, The Hill, Recode, BBC, The Next Web, The Register, The Atlantic, The Verge, CNBC, Android Central, Business Insider, Search Engine Watch, The Guardian, Gizmodo, Forbes, TechCrunch, ClickZ, Refinery29, Wired, Mashable, Mercury News, Slate, Silicon Valley Business …, Vox, Observer, Motherboard, HuffPost, Engadget, Gothamist, Yourstory.com, GeekWire, Axios, Newser, and Trusted Reviews
| BuzzFeed News: |
Google workers from Singapore, Japan, Israel, the UK, Ireland, India, and the US staged a walkout to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment — Groups of Google employees are staging walkouts at offices across the world in protest at how sexual misconduct allegations are handled by the company.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Flickr says it will end 1TB storage for free accounts and delete all but the most recent 1,000 photos or videos if users don't upgrade to Pro by February 2019 — Flickr was purchased in April by professional photo hosting service SmugMug, and today, the first major changes under the new ownership have been announced.
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Flickr Blog, Flickr Blog, VentureBeat, Business Wire, iMore, Engadget, CNET, Digital Trends, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, Digital Photography Review, and TechCrunch
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| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Sonos says it is delaying support for Google Assistant, announced in 2017 and slated for the Sonos One in 2018, until 2019 — ‘The reality is that we need a bit more time to get the experience right’ — Sonos is delaying support for Google Assistant until 2019, the company announced in a blog post today.
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Sonos Blog, TechCrunch, Android Authority, The Next Web, TechSpot, Trusted Reviews, Pocket-lint, Engadget, and Thurrott.com
Tweets: @backlon, @steakscience, and @ow
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Geekbench results for the new iPad Pro show single-core and multi-core performance is on par with some 2018 MacBook Pro i7 models — A series of benchmark results have shown up on Geekbench for the new iPad Pro, and its new eight-core A12X Bionic chip is truly a powerhouse.
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TechCrunch, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Trusted Reviews, Liliputing, Business Insider, VentureBeat, and Thurrott.com
Tweets: @stroughtonsmith and @mattgemmell
| Reuters: |
Spotify meets expectations in Q3 with revenue of €1.35B, up 31% YoY, adds 4M premium subscribers for a total of 87M, and reports 191M total MAUs; stock down 6%+ — LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Spotify (SPOT.N), the world's most popular paid music streaming service …
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Spotify, Business Wire, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Engadget, Quartz, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Neowin, Bloomberg, TechSpot, and Thurrott.com. Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Recode to be folded into Vox.com starting early next year with no expected layoffs; current EIC Dan Frommer will be replaced by Jason del Rey in the interim — Editor in Chief Dan Frommer to depart; no staff cuts are planned as a result of the combination, Vox said
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Recode, Nieman Lab, and Axios
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Over 50 companies, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Intel, and Microsoft, sign letter opposing Trump administration's efforts to roll back transgender rights — More than 50 companies, many of them tech firms, have signed a letter opposing any effort by the Trump Administration to roll back transgender rights.
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CNBC, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, and CNET
Tweets: @scottnevins and @stephenpeters2
| Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
Hong Kong's securities regulator says funds investing 10%+ of their portfolios in crypto will need a license and proposes new rules for crypto exchanges — Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) says it will bring crypto funds under its securities regulations to improve investor protection.
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Securities and Futures …, sfc.hk, Bitcoin Magazine, Bloomberg, The Next Web, and CryptoGlobe
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Dapper Labs, which develops the CryptoKitties consumer blockchain collectibles, raises $15M led by Venrock, its second round in 2018 after launching in February — The CryptoKitties just keep on multiplying. Dapper Labs, the company behind the consumer blockchain collectible cats, has raised $15 million in a new round of funding.
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CoinDesk, Bloomberg, The Block, GamesIndustry.biz, and AVC
Tweets: @mdudas, @ryanlawler, and @flynnjamm
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, raises $100M, led by IVP, at a $1.9B valuation and says its tools have 45M downloads — It's been a big year for open-source software. Microsoft bought GitHub. IBM bought Red Hat. Elastic went public. Cloudera and Hortonworks merged.
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GlobeNewswire News Room, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Going Long, FinSMEs, and GeekWire. Tweets: @avibryant. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg: |
Facebook open sources its Horizon tools, used to optimize Messenger, video, and notification features, available on GitHub — - Company allows free use of reinforcement learning platform — Move follows similar open source efforts from DeepMind, OpenAI
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Facebook Research, The Verge, Engadget, and VentureBeat
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple held preliminary talks with radio broadcaster iHeartMedia about an equity stake or a marketing partnership to boost its music streaming service — Apple is turning to traditional broadcasting to boost its streaming service, exploring a tie-up with iHeartMedia …
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Trusted Reviews, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, TechSpot, Cult of Mac, Engadget, Fortune, and iLounge. Tweets: @tim
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Task management app Asana launches a Business tier priced at $19.95 per user per month to help managers handle multiple projects simultaneously — Asana, the platform where people can create and track the progress of work projects, made its name originally as a place where individuals …
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Quartz, The Asana Blog, and Business Insider
| Brian Wheeler / BBC: |
UK government to launch an Android app letting EU citizens apply to remain in UK after Brexit; iOS version doesn't fully work because it can't access NFC chip — The UK government is preparing to launch a smartphone app to make it as easy as possible for EU citizens to apply to remain …
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9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, Inquirer, Patently Apple, iPhone Hacks, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @ow, @bdsams, @simonthechan, and @martinsfp
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Graph database startup Neo4j raises $80M Series E led by One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, bringing its total raised to $160M — Neo4j has helped popularize the graph database. Today it was rewarded with an $80 million Series E to bring their products to a wider market …
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VentureBeat, PR Newswire, Crunchbase News, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Valley Business …, and The Register. Thanks:@tjones0691
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