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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter misses Q3 estimates with revenue of $823.7M, up 9% YoY vs. $874M expected; 145M monetizable DAUs, up 17% YoY; stock closes down 20%+ — Twitter today reported its earnings for the quarter that ended September 30, and the numbers delivered a big surprise, falling on both sales and earnings per share.
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Twitter says some users will start seeing more ads after it changed its historical approach of showing fewer ads to users with high follower counts — - Twitter's third-quarter earnings were marred by issues in a product that advertisers use to market mobile apps.
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| Amazon: |
Amazon Q3: $70B revenue, up 24% YoY, net income of $2.1B, down from $2.9B in Q3 2018, AWS revenue of $9B, up from $6.7B in Q3 2018; stock down 7%+ after hours — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) October 24, 2019—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2019.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Amazon reports Q3 “other” category revenue, which mostly covers its ad business, of $3.6B, up 44% YoY, and subscriptions services revenue of $5B, up 34% YoY — Amazon today reported earnings for its third fiscal quarter of 2019, including revenue of $70.0 billion … | Washington Post: |
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Tom Cotton ask US intelligence officials to determine whether TikTok poses “national security risks” — Two senior members of Congress, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) …
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Tweets: @senschumer, @drewharwell, @moorehn, @sarahfrier, @karlbode, @sarthakgh, @caseynewton, and @shiraovide
| Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News: |
TikTok says its content moderation policies are led by a US-based team and it will not remove content, including posts about Hong Kong, at the behest of China — Short-form video app TikTok can't shake an air of suspicion that surrounds it in the United States.
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Tweets: @terrygtnguyen, @broderick, and @caseynewton
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, one of the gaming world's most watched streamers, announces a move to Microsoft's Mixer from Twitch, following Tyler “Ninja” Blevins — 'I'm making moves' — Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek is the latest Twitch megastar to abandon …
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Tweets: @shroud, @ninja, @ninja, @tocelot, @samsheffer, and @loudmouthjulia
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple TV app launches on Amazon Fire TV devices starting with the Fire TV Stick 4K and HD models, with support for other devices and models coming soon — Apple today released the Apple TV app for Amazon TV devices, starting with the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K and the older HD model.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Gene Levoff, who was in charge of enforcing Apple's Insider Trading Policy, indicted for insider trading between 2011 and 2016; Levoff was fired in Sept. 2018 — - Gene Levoff, who was a senior director of corporate law, was aware of Apple financial results before they were public …
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| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
As Google opens its first gaming studio in Montreal, head of Stadia Jade Raymond discusses its strategy, including building several first-party studios — As Google unveils new Montreal development studio, Stadia Games & Entertainment boss Jade Raymond discusses the platform strategy
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Tweets: @nibellion, @gibiz, @gibiz, and @zhugeex
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint announce the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative to bring RCS to Android phones in 2020 — Here's a shocker. All four major US carriers — Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile — have just announced that they're joining forces to deliver RCS messaging in the US for Android smartphones in 2020.
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Facebook to pay some news partners as much as $3M a year for appearing in its news tab, to be available as a test Friday for a couple hundred thousand US users — Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building …
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Tweets: @pkafka, @slpng_giants, @reckless, @jason_kint, @pkafka, and @b52malmet
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Fair.com, a flexible car ownership marketplace valued at $1.2B that raised $500M from SoftBank and others, says it is laying off 40% of its staff — As the market continues to turn against the wave of highly valued, venture-backed startups operating with little end in sight to their huge losses …
Tweets: @brianmcc and @saraashleyo
| Paris Martineau / Wired: |
New report says the proliferation of right-wing content on YouTube is driven by both supply and demand rather than the platform's recommendation algorithm — In a new report, Penn State political scientists say that it's not the recommendation engine, but the communities that form around right-wing content.
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Business Insider. Tweets: @wired, @parismartineau, @parismartineau, @yxphdghvdgg, @annisch, @carnage4life, @egavactip, @timcast, and @primalpoly
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Forty music festivals including SXSW, Coachella, and Bonnaroo promise they will not use facial recognition tech, following a musician- and activist-led campaign — Activists declare the first major victory against the spread of commercial facial recognition technology in the United States.
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Tweets: @eff, @raicestexas, @acvalens, @evan_greer, @vice, and @fightfortheftr
| Shannon Liao / CNN: |
Caffeine, which aims to compete with Twitch, signs rapper Offset to live stream video games, after having raised $146M from 21st Century Fox and others — New York (CNN Business)In the world of live-streamed video games, there's Twitch and then there's everything else.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank is planning to take a writedown of at least $5B to reflect a plunge in the value of some of its biggest holdings, including WeWork and Uber — SoftBank is planning to take a writedown of at least $5 billion to reflect a plunge in the value of some of its biggest holdings …
Tweets: @feedkastcharles and @edbott
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Square says it is rolling out free fractional share trading to users of its Cash App, allowing them to buy fractions of shares for as little as $1 — It puts Cash App in competition with Robinhood — Square announced today that you'll soon be able to invest in stocks using its Cash App … | Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter: |
US-based Triller, a TikTok rival, raises $28M Series B led by Proxima, following an $11.5M Series A in 2018; company says it has 13M MAUs and 60M downloads — Triller, an AI-powered platform that enables creators to make music videos using licensed songs, has raised $28 million in Series B funding … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
AT&T says a weeks-long voicemail outage affecting some customers across the country is due to a software update, promises a patch but offers no timetable — It's telling a different story elsewhere — AT&T has been experiencing a weeks-long voicemail outage affecting some customers across the country.
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Tweets: @heatherkelly, @kifleswing, @antaryaami, and @tmorman
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel beats with Q3 revenue of $19.19B, up 6% YoY, vs. $18.05B est., and Client Computing Group revenue of $9.7B, down 5% YoY; stock up 4%+ after hours — Intel stock jumped 8% in extended trading on Thursday after the chipmaker beat third-quarter earnings expectations and reignited revenue growth.
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Tweets: @gretalwall, @terri1618, @cnbcnow, and @markhachman
| Jim Baker / Lawfare: |
Former FBI general counsel explains why US law enforcement needs to embrace encryption to protect the country against existential cybersecurity threats — I. Embrace Reality and Deal With It — From 2012 to 2014, I worked for Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund located in Connecticut.
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