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Intel names Robert Swan CEO, its seventh one in 50 years, following the ouster of Brian Krzanich in June 2018 — - Analysts and media outlets speculated early on about several possible candidates, including two female executives who had left Intel in the relatively recent past.
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Apple shutting down Facebook's internal iOS apps should serve as a reminder of the power Apple holds over the rest of us — At around 2:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Facebook sent me an update about the controversial market research program revealed on Tuesday by TechCrunch.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Hackers are distributing Collections #2-5, 845GB of usernames and passwords or 25B records, almost tripling Collection #1, on hacker forums and torrents — WHEN HACKERS BREACHED companies like Dropbox and LinkedIn in recent years—stealing 71 and 117 million passwords, respectively … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
IDC: 375.4M smartphones shipped in Q4 2018, down 4.9% YoY, closing out worst year; Apple shipped estimated 68.4M iPhones, down 11.5% YoY; Samsung was top vendor — The smartphone market isn't looking too hot. In a report published today, research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Starting in Denver, Uber adds a public transportation option, including real-time bus and rail info, with plans to expand elsewhere over the coming months — Starting with Denver, Uber aims to become a one-stop shop for all modes of transportation — Uber customers who live in Denver …
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Nintendo reports Q3 profit of ~$1.5B, up 36% YoY, on revenue of $5.6B, up 26% YoY, sells 9.41M Switch consoles, but cuts its fiscal year target from 20M to 17M — Nintendo sold 9.41 million Switch consoles in the three months leading up to December 31st, 2018, bringing lifetime sales to 32.27 million.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Ultraviolet, the cloud movie locker that launched in 2011 with support from major Hollywood studios, is shutting down on July 31 — Ultraviolet, a cloud movie locker once hailed as Hollywood's best bet to get consumers hooked on digital movies, is shuttering.
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| Axel Bugge / Reuters: |
Uber and Cabify to suspend services in Barcelona after local taxi protests and government ruling that they can pick up passengers only after a 15-minute delay — MADRID (Reuters) - Ride-hailing companies Uber and Cabify are to suspend their services in Barcelona in response … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says Instagram Stories has 500M daily users, will phase out Facebook-only metrics, focusing on “family” metrics like 2.7B monthly users across apps — Roughly half of Instagram's users 1 billion users now use Instagram Stories every day.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google says Google+ for consumers will shut down April 2; all content posted by consumer accounts, including Google+ pages, photos, and videos, will be deleted — In late 2018, Google announced that it would shut down Google+, its beleaguered social network, for consumers due to “low usage” … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
The Criterion Collection says it will launch Criterion Channel, a new streaming service, on April 8 in US and Canada for $10.99/month or $99.99/year — Movie buffs left out in the cold by FilmStruck's demise will soon get a new streaming service stocked with over 1,000 classic … | Daniel Funke / Poynter: |
Fake news outlets switch domain names to get past Facebook's fact-checking system, publishing old stories under new names to regain reach on Facebook — One of the most frequently debunked fake news publishers on Facebook is still getting past the platform's fact-checking system — and it's doing it by using the simplest of tricks.| Athena Jones / CNN: |
New York AG, in precedent-setting settlement, finds selling fake followers and likes or using stolen IDs on social media is illegal in its case against Devumi — New York (CNN Business)A company that brought in millions of dollars in revenue by creating fake social media posts and comments …
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Venmo processed $19B in payments in Q4, up 80% YoY, and $62B in 2018, up 79% YoY, with an annual revenue of $200M+ — - The company saw $19 billion in payments volume through its peer-to-peer lending app Venmo in the fourth quarter — an 80 percent increase year-over-year.
Tweets: @jpomie
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Samsung reports Q4 revenue of $53.3B, down 10% YoY, operating profit of $9.7B, down 29% YoY, says earnings primarily affected by falling demand for memory chips — Samsung Electronics has turned in an earnings report in line with its guidance, as happens every quarter.| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Q2: revenue of $32.5B, up 12% YoY; Productivity and Business Processes revenue of $10.1B, up 13% YoY; Intelligent Cloud revenue of $9.4B, up 20% YoY — Microsoft Cloud Strength Fuels Second Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — January 30, 2019 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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