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Microsoft Q4: revenue up 13% YoY to $38B, net income of $11.2B, down 15% YoY, Intelligent Cloud revenue of $13.4B, up 17%, and Azure revenue up 47% — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2020, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's Personal Computing saw Q4 revenue rise by 14% YoY to $12.9B, with Surface up 28%; LinkedIn rose 10% YoY, Office 365 consumer subscribers hit 42.7M — Microsoft today reported earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2020, including revenue of $38.0 billion, net income of $11.2 billion … | Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Apple hires economists to help prove its App Store commissions aren't anti-competitive — Ahead of an antitrust hearing on Capitol Hill next week, Apple is fighting back against the perception that its App Store charges onerous commission rates to developers.
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Analysis Group, CNBC, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Daring Fireball, Protocol, MacRumors, Bloomberg, iMore, Fast Company, Variety, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, The Mac Observer, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, and Digital Trends
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Slack files EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft, accusing it of unfairly bundling its rival app Teams with its Office 365 tools — Workplace messaging app says it is unfair for tech group to bundle Teams with Office 365 — The workplace messaging app Slack has filed a formal antitrust complaint …
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| NBC News: |
Twitter says it will limit reach of QAnon content and permanently ban accounts violating policies, banning 7K+ QAnon accounts in last 2 weeks and limiting 150K+ — Twitter announced on Tuesday it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content and banned …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nvidia expressed interest about a potential deal for ARM as SoftBank explores selling part or all of its stake in ARM through a sale or an IPO — - Graphics chipmaker expressed interest in recent weeks — Any deal for U.K. firm likely to attract regulatory scrutiny
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Sources: Kevin Roose's tweets on Facebook stories with the highest engagement per CrowdTangle worry the News Feed team, which favors “reach"-focused metrics — What news should people see when they come to Facebook? — In the old days, your answer might have been “whatever they want to see,” or even “who cares?”
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Washington Post, Social Media Today, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, and Input
| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
AT&T told some customers their phones are not compatible with its new network, without explicitly saying the issue may not affect them until February 2022 — Amid an economy-crushing pandemic, AT&T has decided that now is the best time to send a scaremongering email to some customers …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Facebook Messenger updates with a new App Lock feature with Face ID or Touch ID authentication on iPhone and iPad, as well as a new Privacy section in settings — There's a new Privacy section in settings — Facebook now lets you add an extra layer of security when opening Messenger on an iPhone or iPad.
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Tweets: @messenger, @mattnavarra, @alexvoica, and @alexvoica
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon unveils new Alexa developer tools including Alexa for Apps, to let Alexa apps trigger actions like searches within phone apps, and Alexa Conversations — Today during Alexa Live, a virtual event for Alexa vendors and developer partners, Amazon unveiled tools and resources designed to enable new Alexa voice app experiences.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Z Flip 5G for $1,450, shipping August 7, available on AT&T and T-Mobile in the US — Samsung has officially announced the 5G version of its Galaxy Z Flip foldable phone. Called the Galaxy Z Flip 5G (naturally enough), the phone is nearly identical to its 4G predecessor.| MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple is lining up periscope telephoto lens suppliers for the 2022 iPhone; periscope lenses allow manufacturers to provide higher optical zoom capabilities — Apple analyst Ming Chi Kuo today released a new report detailing his research on which lens suppliers will begin providing parts for Apple in the coming years.| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
US bank regulator grants national savings banks and federal savings associations the authority to provide cryptocurrency custody services to their customers — The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has opened the door for federal savings associations and national savings banks …
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OCC, Decrypt, CoinDesk, Coin Center, Bitcoin Magazine, and BitcoinExchangeGuide
Tweets: @alexsaundersau, @lopp, @alexisgoldstein, @stomarova, @vtg2, and @mdudas. Thanks:@saniyamore
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple starts giving “hacker-friendly” iPhones with a custom and more accessible iOS version to vetted researchers in the iOS Security Research Device program — For the past decade Apple has tried to make the iPhone one of the most secure devices on the market.
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Threatpost, 9to5Google, CyberScoop, Daring Fireball, VICE, CNET, Reuters, MacRumors, iMore, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, BGR, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, The Mac Observer, Engadget, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @alexstamos, @alexstamos, @josephfcox, @adamely, and @zackwhittaker
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
House Republicans call on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify at Monday's antitrust hearing featuring CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google — - Republicans have called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify at the upcoming antitrust hearing featuring CEOs of Amazon, Apple …
Tweets: @karaswisher, @thedextriarchy, @kurtwagner8, @stevekovach, @lauren_feiner, @sarahfrier, @daveleeft, and @alexeheath
| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Ubisoft lays out an anti-harassment plan including a confidential third-party “listening and alert” system and the appointment of a head of workplace culture — Ubisoft Entertainment SA, the French video-gamemaker, laid out several steps it's taking to address a sexual-harassment controversy at the company.
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Windows Central, The Verge, The Verge, VentureBeat, Windows Central, Gamasutra, GamesIndustry.biz, Kotaku, USgamer.net, and Polygon
Tweets: @bloombergasia and @samueltolbert
| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Asus unveils 6.59" ROG Phone 3 with a 144Hz display, up to 16GB of RAM, and Snapdragon 865+ with 5G support, launching in the US in September — Sporting the Snapdragon 865 Plus and a very fast RAM and storage combo — Asus' new ROG Phone 3 aims to be the pinnacle of smartphones …
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VentureBeat, CNET, Android Police, The ROG Strix XG16 …, 9to5Google, Game Rant, PCWorld, Gizmodo, Android Authority, and Mashable. Tweets: @backlon
| Bloomberg: |
Italy's antitrust authority says it's investigating Apple and Amazon, suspecting them of curbing Beats headphone sales by anyone other than official resellers — Italy's antitrust authority said it's investigating Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. after a local retailer complained they'd been banned …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google delays its switch to mobile-first indexing of Search, originally scheduled for this September, until March 2021, citing “uncertain times” — With smartphone browsing so much more common in this day and age, Google wants Search results to reflect that reality.
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Google Webmaster Central Blog, Search Engine Roundtable, Android Police, and Search Engine Land
Tweets: @googlewmc, @aleyda, and @glenngabe
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A breakdown of the “four internets”: the US, China, EU, and India, the latter being driven in large part by the powerhouse telecom network Jio — Manage your Stratechery subscription. — One of the more pernicious mistruths surrounding the debate about TikTok …
Tweets: @marceloplima, @s8mb, @antoniogm, @rmantri, and @20ncounting
| Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : |
NSCAI, a federal commission led by Eric Schmidt, recommends creation of a government-funded university to train students in skills like cybersecurity and AI — The Digital Service Academy would compete with Stanford and MIT — The U.S. government's approach of letting Silicon Valley drive … | Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Profile of Tim Bray, the former VP at Amazon who quit in May criticizing its “vein of toxicity” and who is building a business case for breaking up the company — Tim Bray was a celebrated engineer at Amazon. Now, he is its most high-profile defector.
Tweets: @kyweise, @zephyrteachout, @stacyfmitchell, @nytimestech, and @pinboard
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