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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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Despite reporting that it expects a $3B-$5B fine from the FTC, Facebook's stock was up ~7.5% after hours, adding ~$40B to its market cap — Facebook will set aside $3 billion to cover expenses associated with a fine from the Federal Trade Commission over its privacy practices. All good here, say investors.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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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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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 … | Eli Blumenthal / CNET: |
Verizon begins preorders for Samsung Galaxy S10 5G starting at $1,300 and names 20 cities that will get 5G in 2019 — Verizon's 5G rollout is spreading to more markets. And with the expansion comes the launch of Samsung's Galaxy S10 5G. — On Thursday, the largest wireless carrier …
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Microsoft report: 41% of voice assistant users are concerned about trust, privacy, and passive listening; 52% worry their personal info or data is not secure — Forty-one percent of voice assistant users are concerned about trust, privacy and passive listening, according to a new report …
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Facebook admits it often confuses advocacy and commentary on racism and white complicity in anti-blackness with attacks on a protected group — It was spirit week, and Carolyn Wysinger, a high school teacher in Richmond, California, was cheerfully scrolling through Facebook on a break between classes.
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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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Child stars on Instagram and YouTube aren't being protected by child labor laws, which were designed to prevent exploitation by parents and employers — ‘Kidfluencers’ are earning millions on social media, but who owns that money? — They open boxes, play with toys, pull pranks and make slime.| Bloomberg: |
Nintendo misses analyst estimates of Switch sales with 17M units shipped in 2018 and 18M forecast for 2019, says no plans for new Switch at E3 this year — - Forecast for profit, Switch shipments below analyst estimates — President Furukawa says new hardware won't be unveiled at E3
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Report: Amazon is testing a program to help fight utility patent infringements by matching a seller and an accused merchant with a third-party lawyer for $4,000 — Amazon has been battling counterfeit products and knock-off goods for years. It's tried charging merchants large fees … | 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 … | 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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| Nicholas Vinocur / Politico: |
Critics question the willingness of the Irish Data Protection Commission, EU's lead GDPR enforcer, to crack down on tech firms that dominate Ireland's economy — The GDPR is the world's toughest standard for data privacy. But nearly a year later, its chief enforcer has yet to take a single action … | Jennifer Lynch / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Massachusetts' top court rules that warrantless access by police to an individual's real-time cellphone location data violates that person's right to privacy — There's heartening news for our location privacy out of Massachusetts this week. The Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court …
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SoftBank subsidiary HAPSMobile is investing $125M in Alphabet's Loon as part of a strategic partnership to develop airborne tech for providing wireless internet — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A SoftBank Corp business seeking to find a way to fly cellphone antennas high in the atmosphere …
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Online learning startup Coursera raises $103M Series E led by Seek Group, at a valuation of over $1B — Online education giant Coursera has raised $103 million in a series E round of fudning led by Seek Group, with participation from Future Fund and NEA. — Founded in 2012 …
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Security experts say companies that dominate the US election tech market have failed to acknowledge and remedy vulnerabilities in systems used to hold elections — The last few years have been an awakening for Election Systems & Software. Before 2016, very few people were publicly pressing … | 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 …
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