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Facebook reports Q1 revenue of $15.08B, up 26% YoY, as advertising revenue hits $14.91B, up 26% YoY; sets aside $3B related to a forthcoming FTC settlement — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2019.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook had 2.38B MAUs in Q1, up 2.5% QoQ, as DAUs hit 1.56B, up 2.63% QoQ; EPS is $0.85 instead of $1.89 after setting aside money for potential FTC fine — A massive penalty hangs over Facebook's head, but it otherwise had a very strong Q1 earnings report.
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q3 revenue of $30.6B, up 14% YoY, as net income rose by 19% YoY to $8.8B; Intelligent Cloud revenue rose 22% YoY to $9.7B — REDMOND, Wash. — April 24, 2019 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2019, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft reports Q3 Productivity and Business Processes revenue of $10.2B, up 14% YoY; Azure revenue was up 73% YoY, and Surface revenue rose 21% YoY — Microsoft today reported earnings for its third fiscal quarter of 2019, including revenue of $30.6 billion, net income of $8.8 billion …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon team auditing Alexa commands has access to user location data, making finding customer addresses easy; Amazon says access is tightly controlled — - Some members of Alexa Data Services see latitude and longitude — The team is charged with helping Alexa improve its performance
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| iFixit: |
Samsung Galaxy Fold teardown reveals a fragile build that lacks adequate protection against the ingress of debris between the OLED screen and the bezel — A teardown of the Samsung Galaxy Fold performed by iFixit in April of 2019.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the NSA has recommended that the White House drop a once-secret US phone-surveillance program that collects info about Americans' phone calls and texts — The program, created after 9/11, has encountered compliance challenges and questions about its efficacy in recent years
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| Katie Roof / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Slack plans to reveal by Friday its prospectus for a direct listing on the NYSE; it had already confidentially submitted its filing to regulators — Paperwork will be for its direct listing debut on NYSE — Messaging platform Slack Technologies Inc. is taking the next step toward going public … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple will launch two new AirPods models in the Q4 2019 - Q1 2020 timeframe, one an iterative update, the other with a new design and higher price — Following just hours after a Digitimes report on ‘AirPods 3′, the veritable TF Industries’ Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Apple is set …
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| Kim Hart / Axios: |
Microsoft has managed to dodge the Big Tech backlash, with its reputation improving since 2016 thanks to a methodical approach to thorny issues — The tech industry is feeling the pain of an unprecedented backlash over its business practices and broad impact on society …
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| Twitter: |
Twitter is adding an option to report attempts to mislead election voters, which will be available in India from April 25 and the EU from April 29 — Voting is a fundamental human right and the public conversation occurring on Twitter is never more important than during elections.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Ad-blocking browser Brave rolls out optional Brave Ads to desktop users, with users who opt in receiving 70% of the gross ad revenue in Basic Attention Tokens — Brave today rolled out Brave Ads, its digital advertising model, to desktop users in Canada, France, Germany, the U.K. …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: former DHS Secretary tried to focus White House on potential Russian interference in 2020 election, but was told not to bring it up in front of Trump — WASHINGTON — In the months before Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, she tried to focus the White House on one of her highest priorities …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google makes Fit, its activity tracker, available on iOS as a standalone app with full Health integration — Last August, Google Fit was completely revamped with the Material Theme and a focus on two new metrics. The health and activity tracking application is now coming to iOS with full Apple Health integration.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Slack previews new features rolling out in the coming weeks and months: responding to messages via email, new calendar integrations, universal search, and more — Most of the new features will be available later this year — Slack arrived more than five years ago with the bold attempt to try to kill email in the workplace.
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| Pew Research Center: |
Survey of 2,791 adult US Twitter users shows they are younger, more likely to be Democrats, and have higher incomes than US adults overall — Twitter is a modern public square where many voices discuss, debate and share their views. Media personalities, politicians and the public turn …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Hacker says he can access 27K user accounts of GPS tracking services iTrack and ProTrack, which had weak default passwords, and can kill some users' car engines — “I can absolutely make a big traffic problem all over the world,” the hacker said. — A hacker broke into thousands … | PayPal: |
PayPal reports Q1 revenue of $4.13B, up 12% YoY, net income of $667M, up 31% YoY, and $161 billion in total payment volume, up 22% YoY — GAAP EPS of $.56, increasing 34%; non-GAAP EPS of $.78, increasing 37% $.08 EPS benefit related to PayPal's strategic investment in MercadoLibre 9.3 million net …
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
MongoDB says it will acquire Realm, an open source database platform for mobile apps, for $39M; Realm had raised $40M — MongoDB announced today that it is acquiring Realm, an open-source database geared for mobile applications, for $39 million. The startup had raised just over $40 million before being acquired today.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Source: Bond Capital, Mary Meeker's new growth equity VC firm that spun out from Kleiner Perkins, has secured $1.25B+ for its debut fund — Bond Capital, the growth equity firm spun out of Kleiner Perkins last year, has secured $1.25 billion in commitments for its debut fund, Axios has learned from a source.
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| New York Times: |
As China exports its surveillance tech to the world, a look at its use in Ecuador, where 4,300 cameras feed video to 16 monitoring stations employing ~3K people — In Ecuador, cameras across the country send footage to monitoring centers to be examined by police and domestic intelligence.
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| Hiten Shah / Product Habits: |
Founder of KISSMetrics reflects on how the analytics startup failed because of distraction from random ideas, drive-by management, lack of prioritization, more — Back in 2008, I co-founded KISSmetrics, an analytics company. — There were so many times when I thought about giving up during the early days.
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| Reuters: |
Samsung plans to invest $116B in its semiconductor division through 2030 to develop non-memory logic chips for use in self-driving cars and AI-enabled devices — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans to invest $116 billion in non-memory chips through 2030 …
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