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Microsoft Q1: revenue of $37.2B, up 12% YoY, net income of $13.9B, up 30% YoY, revenue for Intelligent Cloud was $13.0B, up 20% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — October 27, 2020 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended September 30, 2020, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft Teams passed 115M DAUs in Q1, up 53% from April, as Microsoft works to capitalize on remote work trends — Microsoft Teams is continuing to ride the remote work and learning wave kicked off by the coronavirus pandemic. During Microsoft's Q1 2021 earnings call …
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Cloud growth drives Microsoft Q1 with server products and cloud services revenue up 22% YoY, Azure up 48% YoY, and Office 365 Commercial revenue up 21% YoY — Microsoft continues to boost its revenue and profits during an economic downturn — Microsoft posted the first quarter …
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In Mark Zuckerberg's prepared testimony for Wednesday's Senate hearing, he advocates for Congress to update Section 230 to “make sure it's working as intended” — This shouldn't be much of a surprise, unfortunately, but it appears that once again Facebook is the first to crack …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Report: tensions over profit margins are souring Apple and Foxconn's partnership, leading Foxconn to employ questionable manufacturing and reporting tactics — The relationship between longtime partners Apple and Foxconn is eroding due to a battle over profit margins, according to a new report from The Information.
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Sources: the DOJ is scrutinizing Visa's purchase of Plaid, which helps fintech apps connect to users' bank accounts, because it could limit nascent competition — The DOJ, making preparations for potential litigation, could soon decide whether it will sue to block Visa's purchase of the fintech firm
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| Patrick Moorhead / Forbes: |
AMD says it will buy rival chipmaker Xilinx for $35B in an all-stock deal — I talked to AMD CEO Lisa Su last night and got the download on what could be a historic, $35B semiconductor deal to acquire Xilinx. AMD had a monster Q3 and guide and has been on a growth tear for years …
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
A study of ~57,000 kidney disease patients in the Boston area finds that an algorithm used to decide priority for transplants was biased against Black patients — A formula for assessing the gravity of kidney disease is one of many that is adjusted for race. The practice can exacerbate health disparities.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Reddit says that moving forward it will let employees work from home, with some exceptions, and that it won't lower pay for US staff if they move within the US — Spurred on by the seemingly endless COVID-19 pandemic — and no doubt inspired by similar moves from companies like Twitter …
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
JPMorgan says its digital token JPM Coin is now live for commercial use, as the bank launches new business unit Onyx for its blockchain and crypto efforts — - JPMorgan Chase said its digital currency, JPM Coin, is being used commercially for the first time this week by a large technology client to send payments around the world.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple acquired Barcelona-based Vilynx, a startup specializing in AI and computer vision tech, earlier this year for about $50M — - Barcelona-based Vilynx's technology makes video search easier — Apple has purchased several AI startups to buttress Siri, apps
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Audible adds 100K free podcasts to its catalog, available through the app for all listeners with or without a subscription — It's adding 100,000 podcasts to its catalog — Audible is turning into more of a podcast app. The company announced today that its catalog now contains 100,000 free podcasts … | Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Waymo and Daimler Trucks are partnering to build and sell self-driving freight trucks in the US over “the coming years” — Waymo and Daimler Trucks are teaming up on autonomous haulage, aiming to build and sell a production self-driving truck in the US.
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| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
SpaceX, in emails to interested customers, says the beta of the Starlink satellite internet service will initially cost $99/month plus a $499 upfront cost — - SpaceX is expanding the beta test of its Starlink satellite internet service, reaching out via email on Monday to people who expressed interest in signing up for the service.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Ubisoft rebrands its $15/month UPLAY+ game streaming service as Ubisoft+ and will expand the service's availability to Stadia and Luna by end of year — Ubisoft's subscription service goes multiplatform and bets big on game streaming — Ubisoft is overhauling its UPlay Plus subscription service …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter and Square employees say Jack Dorsey takes hands-off management to extremes, delegating or delaying most major decisions, partly to pursue his passions — The CEO's management style, delegating most major decisions while pursuing his personal passions, faces one of its biggest tests
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram extends time limit on live streams to 4 hours, up from 60 minutes, and will give streamers 30 days to download their videos before they are deleted — Instagram is adapting to the way creators have been using its service during the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Theta Lake, a provider of AI-powered compliance and security tools for collaboration platforms, raised $12.7M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — Theta Lake, a provider of compliance and security tools for conferencing software like Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral …
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