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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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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Xbox Live has ~90M MAUs, up ~50% YoY, and discloses Xbox Game Pass subscriber count for the first time, saying the service has 10M+ subscribers — Surface and Xbox are both flat during the recent quarter — Microsoft posted the third quarter of its 2020 financial results today … | Facebook: |
Facebook Q1: $17.7B revenue, up 18% YoY, as DAUs rise 11% YoY to 1.73B, MAUs rise 10% YoY to 2.6B; COVID-19 will likely flatten Q2 revenue growth; stock up 8%+ — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020.
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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 … | 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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| Washington Post: |
Survey of US adults finds skepticism about Apple and Google's COVID-19 contact tracing efforts, with smartphone owners split 50-50 on whether they would use it — Nearly 3 in 5 Americans say they are either unable or unwilling to use the infection-alert apps under development by Google and Apple …
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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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| 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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| Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
Sources: Amazon has begun cracking down on communication across its widely-read email listservs after employees used them to protest and organize — Amazon and other tech employees protesting during the global climate strike in September 2019. Karen Ducey/Getty Images
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter updates its API platform to make it easier for developers and researchers to study the public conversation around COVID-19 — Twitter is making it possible for developers and researchers to study the public conversation around COVID-19 in real time with an update to its API platform.
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| 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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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Pittsburgh-based Niche, a school search service for prospective US students, raises $35M Series C led by Radian Capital, bringing total raised to ~$44M — Niche, a school search platform, announced this morning it has raised a $35 million Series C round of funding led by Radian Capital.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue of $5.21B, up 7% YoY, and says the pandemic reduced demand for smartphone chips by 21% YoY and will continue to do so into Q3 — - Qualcomm reported second-quarter earnings on Wednesday. — The stock was up more than 4% after hours, in addition to a nearly 5% rise during trading on Wednesday.
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
Facebook announces Blender, an open source chatbot aimed at AI research that it says has been trained on 9.4B parameters — It could help tomorrow's AI converse more naturally with people — The virtual assistants that inhabit our smartphones are helpful, sure, but they're not going to pass the Turing test any time soon.
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| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify beats with Q1 revenue of €1.8B and net income of €1M; MAUs rose 31% YoY to 286M, premium users rose 31% to 130M, and ad-supported MAUs rose 32% to 163M — The coronavirus may be decimating some corners of the economy, but the impact on the digital music …
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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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Sources: Amazon bought thermal cameras to check worker temperatures from Dahua, a Chinese company blacklisted by the US over alleged help monitoring minorities — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) has bought cameras to take temperatures of workers during … | Doug Palmer / Politico: |
Trump administration lists Amazon's websites in Canada, UK, Germany, France, and India as “notorious markets” for counterfeit goods; the move carries no penalty — The Trump administration Wednesday included Amazon's foreign websites in Canada, the U.K., Germany …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
eBay reports Q1 revenue of $2.37B, down 2% YoY, active buyers up 2% to 174M but GMV fell 1% to $21.3B, and it returned $4.0B to shareholders via stock buybacks — After a quarter in which eBay, tussling with an activist investor, completed the sell-off of its ticketing business StubHub …
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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
USPTO says AI cannot be an inventor, as only “natural persons” can receive a patent, after two patents filed in 2019 had an AI system credited as inventor — On Monday, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published a decision that claims artificial intelligences cannot be inventors.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce details its AI Economist, built in partnership with a Harvard economist, that helps design policies by modeling the impact of different tax rates — Salesforce today announced the AI Economist, a research environment designed to elucidate how economic design might be improved … Sponsor Posts
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