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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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| 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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| 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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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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| 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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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Google says it's improving 10% of English searches in the US by using NLP techniques to better understand query context and words' relationship with each other — For Google's namesake search engine, delivering the right results is about understanding what people are asking for.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Jack Dorsey criticizes Mark Zuckerberg's free speech comments, says there wasn't any talk of reach and amplification and his Iraq War mention was not authentic — Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey called out his counterpart at Facebook Inc., saying Mark Zuckerberg has a …
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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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.| James Shields / Xbox Wire: |
Ahead of Project xCloud's launch, Microsoft adds mobile gaming gear, like a new smartphone-holding clip for Xbox controllers, to its Designed for Xbox program — As Kareem Choudhry shared last month, our vision for Project xCloud is to empower gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Shipwell, a marketplace that connects shippers with freight companies and helps manage trucking logistics, has raised $35M Series B from Georgian Partners — Shipwell, the software platform for managing trucking logistics, has raised $35 million and is expanding its suite of services to become …
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| 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 …
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| Leah Williams / Kotaku Australia: |
Microsoft says it's paid $1.2B to indie game devs during the current Xbox generation, for games that came through its ID@Xbox cross-platform publishing program — [email protected] was launched in 2014 as a tool for independent developers to publish their titles across Windows PC and Xbox One.
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