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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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Tweets: @scottnevins and @stephenpeters2
| Becky Peterson / INSIDER: |
Sources describe inappropriate relationships and misleading business claims at Apttus, with the CEO leaving in July after a sexual assault claim settlement — Apptus; iStock; Skye Gould/Business Insider — Kirk Krappe, the longtime CEO of $1.86 billion startup Apttus, left the company in July.
Tweets: @beckpeterson
| 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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Trusted Reviews, Liliputing, iMore, Thurrott.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBeat, and Business Insider
Tweets: @stroughtonsmith and @mattgemmell
| 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, VatorNews, Bloomberg, AVC, and GamesIndustry.biz
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 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 … | 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
| 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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