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Alphabet Q4: revenue of $39.3B, up 22% YoY, net income of $8.9B, CPC down 29%, and paid clicks on Google properties up 66% YoY; stock down 3% — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - February 4, 2019 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2018.
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Alphabet's traffic acquisition costs hit $7.44B for Q4, up from $6.58B in Q3, and ad revenue grew 20% YoY to $32.6B, amid competition from rivals like Amazon — - Traffic acquisition costs as a percent of advertising revenue came in at 23 percent, matching analyst estimates and falling right in line with previous quarters.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Alphabet's “Other Bets”, which includes Waymo, Verily, Fiber and others, had Q4 revenue of $154M, with operating losses rising to $1.3B, up from $732M in Q3 — Alphabet today announced its Q4 2018 earnings to wrap up the last fiscal year. Including the busy holiday season … | Mark Zuckerberg: |
On Facebook's 15th anniversary, Zuckerberg says it will spend more on safety and security in 2019 than it had revenue at its IPO, pans critics' “negative” focus — Fifteen years ago today, I launched the first version of the Facebook website from my college dorm.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Slack says it has submitted a confidential draft filing to go public with the SEC — Slack confidentially filed to go public, according to a press release published Monday. — Slack is one of a number of tech IPOs expected in 2019, including Uber, Lyft and Airbnb. — Here is the full release from Slack:
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple's iOS 12.2 beta has a new Motion & Orientation Access toggle in Privacy settings, off by default, that limits gyroscope and accelerometer access in Safari — Last month, Apple released iOS 12.2 in beta with several new features, including the Apple News app in Canada …
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
After the death of a British teen, Instagram head announces plans to debut “sensitivity screens” to blur images of self-harm unless users click to reveal them — Facebook-owned app promises changes to better shield users from self-harm images — Instagram will introduce …
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| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Sources: Facebook hires the team behind Chainspace, a startup building tech for decentralized “smart contracts”, its first blockchain acquisition — Facebook has made its first acquisition in the blockchain space. — The social network has quietly hired the team behind Chainspace …
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| Erik Schatzker / Bloomberg: |
How a US-based manufacturer of an “indestructible” smartphone screen helped FBI in its Huawei sting after the Chinese giant allegedly tried to steal its secrets — The sample looked like an ordinary piece of glass, 4 inches square and transparent on both sides.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
HoloLens co-inventor Avi-Bar-Zeev left Apple in Jan. after joining in Jun. 2016 and working on the company's rumored AR/VR headset expected to launch in 2020 — AR/VR pioneer and Hololens co-inventor Avi Bar-Zeev left Apple last month, Variety has learned.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google announces Live Transcribe, a near-real time transcriber, and Sound Amplifier; both are Pixel 3 accessibility features and available as apps on Play store — It's also releasing a Sound Amplifier feature — both only on Android — Google is announcing two new features for Android phones today …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Instant Tethering, launched in 2017 to let Chrome OS easily share a Pixel's cell connection, is coming to dozens of non-Google Chrome OS and Android devices — Google introduced Instant Tethering in 2017 to let Chrome OS devices automatically share an Android phone's cellular connection.
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| Bloomberg: |
In a Russian filing, Apple says it stores user data including names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers on Russian servers to comply with a local law — - User information limited to customer names and contact details — Apple made similar agreement in China last year for iCloud| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Crypto exchange Kraken acquires British trading startup Crypto Facilities in a deal worth at least $100M, says it is raising $100M from its largest customers — The cryptocurrency exchange Kraken says it has paid “nine figures” to acquire Crypto Facilities, a British trading firm that specializes in derivatives.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft acquires DataSense, a data management platform used by schools across the US, and the team behind it from BrightBytes for an undisclosed sum — One of Microsoft's oldest and biggest verticals for its Azure cloud business has been education, and today it announced an acquisition …
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Filing: Amazon names Rosalind Brewer, Starbucks' COO and board director, to its all-white board, making her its second black director and the first since 2009 — SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon.com has named its first black director after facing growing pressure to diversify the all-white board overseeing … | Chris Pearce / Mozilla Hacks: |
Beginning with the upcoming release of Firefox 66, Firefox for Android and desktop will block auto-playing audio and video by default — Isn't it annoying when you click on a link or open a new browser tab and audible video or audio starts playing automatically?
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| Julia Fioretti / Reuters: |
Tencent-backed Maoyan Entertainment, China's biggest movie-ticketing platform by sales, fell 1.1% in its Hong Kong debut after raising $250M in its IPO — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tencent-backed Maoyan Entertainment, China's biggest movie-ticketing platform by sales, fell 1.1 percent …
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| Pradeep / MSPoweruser: |
TomTom expands its partnership with Microsoft to bring its location data to mapping services across Microsoft including Bing, Cortana, and Windows — Back in 2016, TomTom first announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring enterprise-grade location-based services to Azure, based on TomTom's maps, traffic and navigation software.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
US court overturns FCC's attempt to deny tribal residents broadband subsidies, says FCC failed to provide evidence and ignored harm of limiting broadband access — Court: FCC failed to provide evidence and ignored harm to broadband access. — A federal appeals court has overturned Ajit Pai's attempt …
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| BBC: |
UK police seize 60+ devices suspected of being used in attacks by Webstresser, a now-shuttered DDoS service, and plans action against 400+ Webstresser customers — UK police have seized more than 60 computers and other gadgets suspected of being used to carry out web attacks.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU report: tech firms are now assessing 89% of flagged content within 24 hours and 72% of such illegal hate speech is removed, up from 40% and 28% in 2016 — In its latest monitoring report of a voluntary Code of Conduct on illegal hate speech, which platforms including Facebook …
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EU Press Room, CNET, Computer Business Review, New Europe, and MIT Technology Review. Tweets: @danbraun79
| New York Times: |
The Instagram egg account, with 10M+ followers, was started by an advertising professional; a Hulu ad based on the egg debuted Sunday promoting mental health — He works in advertising. — When Chris Godfrey learned in early January that the record for “likes” on an Instagram post was held …
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| Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg: |
Amid a relatively weak-looking lineup of games for 2019, Sony reports operating income in games fell 14% YoY to ~$666M for the holiday quarter; stock drops 8%+ — Sony Corp. reported weaker profits in the PlayStation business and cut its annual revenue forecast, triggering the steepest share decline in almost three and a half years.
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