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Amazon reports Q1 revenue of $108.5B, up 44% YoY, net income of $8.1B, up from $2.5B YoY, and says AWS has become a $54B annual sales run rate business — Amazon today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2021. • Operating cash flow increased 69% …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Amazon says AWS had Q1 revenue of $13.50B, 32% growth YoY and 28% growth QoQ, beating estimates and contributing $4.16B to operating income — - Amazon Web Services revenue growth accelerated in the first quarter even as the segment leads the cloud infrastructure market.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will reduce its cut for PC games in Microsoft Store from 30% to 12% starting August 1, in a bid to compete with Steam — Microsoft puts the pressure on Valve's Steam store — Microsoft is shaking up the world of PC gaming today with a big cut to the amount of revenue it takes from games on Windows.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple clarifies that the first-gen Magic Keyboard is “functionally compatible” with the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro but may not “precisely fit when closed” — In a new support document published today, Apple has clarified the situation around the Magic Keyboard's compatibility with the new 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
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| Tonya Riley / Washington Post: |
A task force of 60+ experts from industry, government, nonprofits, and academia calls on the US and allies to take steps to fight a surge in ransomware attacks — A task force of more than 60 experts from industry, government, nonprofits and academia is urging the U.S. government and global allies …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Twitter reports Q1 revenue of $1.04B, up 28% YoY, vs $1.03B est., monetizable DAUs of 199M, up 7M QoQ, vs 200M est.; stock drops ~8%+ — - The company reported revenue of $1.04 billion for the quarter, which was up 28% from $808 million a year prior. — Twitter guided that it is expecting …
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| Shira Ovide / New York Times: |
Combined revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Facebook hit ~$1.2T this year, up 25% since March 2020, benefitting from a “perfect positive storm” — The dictionary doesn't have enough superlatives to describe what's happening to the five biggest technology companies …
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| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
US Labor Secretary says “in a lot of cases” gig workers should be classified as employees; shares of Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash fell sharply afterwards — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's top labor official said most gig workers in the United States should be classified as …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: US is investigating a recently discovered hack against federal agencies that used a vulnerability in Pulse Secure VPN, that began during Trump years — (Reuters) - For at least the third time since the beginning of this year, the U.S. government is investigating a hack …
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| Marie Fazio / New York Times: |
Zoë Roth, the girl from the “Disaster Girl” meme who is now a college senior studying peace, war, and defense, sells the meme as an NFT for ~$500,000 — Zoë Roth, now a college senior in North Carolina, plans to use the proceeds from this month's NFT auction to pay off student loans and donate to charity.| Nikkei Asia: |
Source: Taiwan told foreign and domestic staffing companies to remove all listings for jobs in China, emphasizing listings that seek to poach chip-making talent — Home of TSMC and Foxconn takes drastic move to secure lead in semiconductors — TAIPEI — Taiwan has told staffing companies …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Facebook joins the Rust Foundation, the org driving Rust, following Amazon, Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Mozilla, and details its use of Rust since 2016 — Facebook is also ramping up internal developer support for Rust after targeting infrastructure written in C++.
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Google removed an educational coding app called DroidScript, which was on the Play Store for 7+ years, without recourse, seemingly over allegations of ad fraud — Creator suspects his app's ad identifier was copied but Google keeping quiet — On the last day of March, DroidScript … | Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Founders and VCs are flocking to Miami for “Miami Tech Week”, an impromptu event kicked off by a tweet from Delian Asparouhov, a principal at Founders Fund — Founders and funders are flocking to the beach for an impromptu event that some are calling “South by Southeast.”
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TechCrunch and Miami Herald
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| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
China asks 13 companies, including Tencent, ByteDance, and the fintech affiliate of Baidu, to introduce similar changes to those imposed on Ant Group — Tencent, ByteDance and 11 others summoned as Beijing extends pressure beyond Jack Ma's Ant Group — Chinese officials have told 13 …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Plus One Robotics, which makes computer vision software for robotics in logistics and warehouse settings, raises $33M Series B, bringing total raised to $40M+ — San Antonio-based Plus One Robotics today announced a $33 million Series B. The round follows an $8.3 million Series A announced …
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Financial services use Facebook's ad targeting to block people in certain age groups from seeing their ads, violating Facebook's anti-discrimination policies — Such ads, along with other age-targeted financial product ads, may violate civil rights laws, attorneys say
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Filing: during Q1, Alphabet saved $268M in expenses from company promotions, travel, and entertainment, compared to Q1 2020, “primarily as a result of COVID-19” — With Covid-19 restrictions lifting, more people are booking trips and hotels online, which is very good for Google's advertising business.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds new features to let users mute their microphones and even turn their video off while using Instagram Live, as it seeks to compete with Clubhouse — In addition to Facebook's Clubhouse competitor built within Messenger Rooms and its experiments with a Clubhouse-like Q&A platform on the web …
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