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Microsoft says Teams has 75M+ DAUs, up from 44M in mid-March, a 70% increase, and attributes the growth to COVID-19 — The coronavirus pandemic is juicing up numbers for remote work and learning. Microsoft's fiscal Q3 2020 earnings call kicked off with CEO Satya Nadella sharing a slew of numbers.
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Microsoft Q3: revenue up 15% YoY to $35B, net income of $10.8B, up 22% YoY, Intelligent Cloud revenue of $12.3B, up 27%, LinkedIn revenue up 21%, Azure's up 59% — EDMOND, Wash. — April 29, 2020 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Zoom admits it doesn't have 300M DAUs, quietly correcting a misleading claim in its original blog post, which now says 300M “daily Zoom meeting participants” — Zoom quietly updated a blog post earlier this month — Zoom has admitted it doesn't have 300 million daily active users.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple and Google release the first version of their contact tracing API, referred to as exposure notification API, in respective developer builds — Apple and Google have released the very first version of their exposure notification API, which they previously called the contact tracing API .
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Zuckerberg: 3B+ MAUs across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp, with FB and IG Live video views up 2x and group video call time up 10x in recent weeks — The quarantine lockdown is driving a record number of users to Facebook's products. On a conference call …
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel launches flagship 10th-gen Comet Lake desktop CPUs with 10 cores based on its Skylake architecture; the $488 Core i9-10900K CPU can reach 5.3GHz — Today we get the full range of its Intel's 10th Generation processors for desktops. These chips, which fall under the banner of ‘Comet Lake’ …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter reports Q1 sales up 3% YoY to $808M as it swings to a net loss of $8M due to COVID-19, mDAUs hit record 166M, up 24% YoY; stock opens down ~6% — Despite traffic for many online properties being at an all-time high, advertising has fallen off a cliff because of the downturn …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: TikTok and its Chinese version, Douyin, pass 2B downloads on Google Play and Apple's App Store; last quarter's 315M downloads beat its 205M record — TikTok, the widely popular video sharing app developed by one of the world's most valued startup (ByteDance) …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Andreessen Horowitz raises $515M for its second fund dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has raised $515 million for its second fund dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. — Strategy: Like its $300 million predecessor … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google introduces new rules for the Chrome Web Store to cut down on spammy extensions, says developers must comply by August 27 or extensions will be delisted — Google plans to remove a bunch of garbage and useless Chrome extensions from the Web Store. — Google announced today new rules …
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Filing: Lyft is laying off 17% of its workforce, or 982 staff, and will furlough 288 employees alongside salary cuts ranging from 10% to 30% for all staff — Lyft is laying off 982 employees and furloughing an additional 288, the company announced in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Reddit launches Start Chatting, a new tool that lets users start a chat room with up to seven randomly selected users within a subreddit — The “front page of the internet” is bringing back one of the web's oldest features: chat rooms. Reddit company is introducing a new chat tool …
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| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
SoftBank says it sees a loss of ~$6.6B in the year ending March on its WeWork investment held outside the Vision Fund, extending its expected net loss to $8.4B — TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) said it sees a loss of around 700 billion yen ($6.6 billion) …
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Tweets: @counternotions and @mvzelenks
| Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
Supply chain algorithms used by companies like Walmart and Amazon, which rely on past data to forecast demand, have been completely upended by the pandemic — The data the algorithms use isn't reliable — Even during a pandemic, Walmart's supply chain managers have to make sure stores …
Tweets: @dancharvey
| Zach Edwards: |
Researcher: major sites like Wish and Mailchimp were leaking email addresses to ads and analytics companies including Facebook and Twitter via URL query strings — Breaches have been found on websites including Wish.com, JetBlue.com, Quibi.com, WashingtonPost.com, NGPVan.com and numerous other organizations...
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