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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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| Apple: |
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 ~7% — 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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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
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| Andrei Zakharov / BBC: |
Hackers publish private messages from 81K Facebook accounts, put up to 120M accounts for sale for $0.10/each; Facebook blames third party browser extensions — Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts.
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| Justin O'Beirne: |
A detailed look at Apple's new maps for iOS 12 covering San Francisco and the Bay Area with seemingly better road data than Google Maps but worse location data — HAS APPLE CLOSED THE GAP WITH GOOGLE'S MAP? — TAP OR CLICK ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE — Perhaps the biggest surprise about Apple's new map is how small it is:
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
In a wide-ranging interview Elon Musk talks about his tweeting habits, the past year of Tesla, new Navigate on Autopilot feature, full autonomy, and more — Musk talks about his “excruciating” 2018, fighting with journalists on Twitter, why Tesla won't build an electric scooter and much more.
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Business Insider, USA Today, Telegraph, CNBC, TheStreet, The Verge, Cult of Mac, The Daily Caller, Electrek, and Vox
Tweets: @negarmortazavi and @ryanfelton
| Yahoo: |
Sources: in 2011, Iranians used Google search to identify a string of websites CIA was using to communicate with its agents, compromising CIA's wider network — In 2013, hundreds of CIA officers — many working nonstop for weeks — scrambled to contain a disaster of global proportions … | Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Profile of cryptocurrency millionaire Jeffrey Berns who says he has spent $300M to build an experimental community based on blockchain in Nevada — A man spent millions on an enormous plot of land near Reno. Now he wants to build a community based on the blockchain technology introduced by Bitcoin.
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PR Newswire, Bitsonline, and ETHNews
Tweets: @nathanielpopper, @levie, @0xabad1dea, @excellion, @el_hdh, @maguirekevin, and @anondran
| IDC: |
IDC: 355.2M smartphones were shipped worldwide in Q3 2018, down 6% YoY from 377.8M; Samsung saw a decline of 13.4% and Huawei grew 32.9% — According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped a total …
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MacRumors, Strategy Analytics, Inquirer, Engadget, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, VentureBeat, The Verge, Fortune, and CNET. Tweets: @ryanreith
| Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung will share more details about its foldable screen phone and open Bixby to third-party developers at its developer conference next week — New features for Bixby are meant to challenge the dominance of Apple, Amazon and Alphabet in artificial intelligence
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Testing of battery life on flagship phones, including iPhone XS and Pixel 3, shows newer phones die faster than older ones, likely due to screen tech like OLED — Despite some notable exceptions, many 2018 smartphone batteries can't keep up. Here's why — and what we can do about it.
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Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @dcseifert, @geoffreyfowler, @geoffreyfowler, and @geoffreyfowler
| 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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| 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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Tweets: @textfiles, @shortformernie, @slavin_fpo, @digiphile, @daniel_rubino, @waxpancake, @tomcoates, @dsilverman, @yoda, @donmacaskill, @olebegemann, and @nikhewitt
| Simone Stolzoff / Quartz: |
Profile of Asana, a provider of collaboration software for teams that has roots as a popular task management tool for Facebook's engineering department — There's work, and then there's the work that goes into doing your work. And a lot of workers spend more time on the latter.
Tweets: @alexrkonrad and @jasonlk
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Spotify makes an early version of its Apple Watch app available to a limited number of users via Apple's TestFlight beta testing program — Spotify is officially coming to Apple Watch, as the streaming music service today delighted users with an early beta version of the watchOS app through TestFlight.
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VentureBeat, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, and iPhone Hacks
| David McCabe / Axios: |
Google says Susan Molinari, its Vice President of Public Policy for the Americas and head of its D.C. office, is leaving next year — Google's top U.S. public policy official is stepping down from the role, the company confirmed on Friday. — Why it matters: The departure … Thanks:@dmccabe
| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Yelp brings Yelp Reservations, its online reservation management service, to Buick Marketplace, the first time the service has been integrated in vehicles — Until Buick lets you order coffee and fuel with your voice, you'll have to stick to using your digits.
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Digital Trends and VentureBeat
| Gram Slattery / Reuters: |
Sources say Amazon is struggling to ramp up operations in Brazil amid challenges like the nation's tax system, complicated logistics, and testy vendor relations — SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is struggling to ramp up its operations in Brazil, a promising market that so far … | 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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Tweets: @ciaraobrien, @googlewalkout, @hadas_gold, @cbsthismorning, @kennethn, @nymag, @greta, @timesupnow, @jodikantor, @starfire2258, @starfire2258, @starfire2258, @starfire2258, @mollywood, @jasminesachar, @gizmodo, @geekwire, @richardjnieva, @rmac18, @tictoc, @williamturton, @stevekovach, @kateconger, @mvvoice, @danprimack, @katiecanales1, @jmorse_, @jacobotarrio, @nwlc, @arsetechnica, @stevekovach, @rmac18, @gizmodo, @melaniehannah, @gizmodo, @justinebateman, @hunterwalk, @jonskeet, @ciaraobrien, @markdistef, @kevinroose, @spacekatgal, and @lauracatriona
| Jeremy B. Merrill / ProPublica: |
Investigation finds that 12 Facebook campaigns masked sponsorship of political issue ads, exposing a gap in enforcement of Facebook's disclosure policy — A Facebook ad in October urged political conservatives to support the Trump administration's rollback of fuel emission standards … Sponsor Posts
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