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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple's international sales were 59% of Q4 revenue but were down 28.6% YoY in China to $7.95B, likely due to the delayed arrival of new iPhones — While 2020 won't be remembered fondly in history books, it has been quite good for Apple, which is ending its fiscal 2020 with record revenues for three of its four quarters.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung launches SmartThings Find app to track down lost Galaxy devices, works with Galaxy phones, tablets, Buds, Watches, and more — Smartphones and other devices are so intertwined with our lives that losing one can be traumatic. To that end, Samsung has unveiled SmartThings Find …
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| Elena Schneider / Politico: |
Biden campaign says Facebook blocked thousands of its ads approved prior to Facebook's ban; Facebook blames advertisers' misunderstanding and a technical glitch — Biden's campaign said ads that had previously been approved by the tech giant have been erroneously removed.
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook confirms it has stopped recommending that people join online groups dealing with political or social issues in the lead up to Election Day — “This is a measure we put in place in the lead-up to Election Day. We will assess when to lift them afterwards, but they are temporary." — Copy| IDC: |
353.6M smartphones shipped in Q3 2020, with Samsung shipping 80.4M up 2.9% YoY, Huawei 51.9M, down 22%, Xiaomi 46.5M, up 42%, and Apple 41.6M, down 10.6% — FRAMINGHAM, Mass., October 29, 2020 -The worldwide smartphone market showed signs of improvement in the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20) … | Facebook: |
Facebook Q3: $21.47B revenue, up 22% YoY, net income $7.85B, up 29% YoY, as DAUs rise 12% YoY to 1.82B, MAUs rise 12% YoY to 2.74B — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2020. — “We had a strong quarter as people and businesses continue …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Under Armour to sell MyFitnessPal to investment firm Francisco Partners for $345M, after buying it in 2015 for $475M, and sunsetting Endomondo, bought for $85M — Global fitness giant Under Armour announced this morning that it will be selling MyFitnessPal to investment firm Francisco Partners …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Instagram says it will temporarily remove the “Recent” tab from hashtag pages to reduce the spread of misinformation leading up to the US election — - Instagram announced it will temporarily remove the recent tab from hashtag pages to reduce the spread of misinformation in the lead up to the U.S. election.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK's ICO reduces Marriott fine for a 2014 data breach, in which 339M Starwood hotels guest records were affected, from £99M to £14.4M — The UK's ICO has reduced the size of a data breach penalty for hotel business Marriott — dropping it to £14.4 million (~$23.8M) …
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
YouTube reports $5B in Q3 ad revenue, up 30% YoY from $3.8B, has more than 30M paid music and premium subscribers; YouTube TV has more than 3M subscribers — Parent company Alphabet reported better-than-expected third quarter ad revenue results — Google parent company Alphabet's third … | Alphabet: |
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Profile of FCC's Brendan Carr, a potential FCC chairman if Trump is reelected, and a key figure in the Republican fight against Big Tech — SHARE All sharing options — Ted Cruz was shouting at Jack Dorsey. — “Who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what the media are allowed … | Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Researchers find candidates and PACs are increasingly turning to influencers for the election as platforms like Facebook and Twitter clamp down on bots and ads — Platforms like Facebook and Google are sharing their plans to pause political ads around Election Day. That's won't stop all paid campaigning.
Tweets: @wired and @pardesoteric
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google adds a free VPN service for users of its 2TB plan on Google One, rolling out first to US Android users, with more countries, iOS and web to follow — Back in July, Google's storage subscription service made phone backups free on Android and announced plans for iOS.
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| Amazon.com, Inc.: |
Amazon reports Q3 revenue of $96.15B, net sales increase of 37% YoY, net income of $6.3B, up from $2.1B YoY, and AWS net sales of $11.6B, up 29% YoY — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2020.
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