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Apple reports Q3 revenue of $81.4B, up 36% YoY, net income of $21.7B, up from $11.2B YoY, Services sales of $17.4B, up from $13.2B YoY, iPhone sales of $39.6B — Revenue up 36 percent to new June quarter record — Services revenue reaches new all-time high
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple's greater China sales in Q3 were up 58% YoY to $14.76B, Americas grew 33% to $39.57B, paid Services subscribers grew to 700M, up 150M YoY — - Apple reported strong fiscal third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, demolishing Wall Street expectations. — Every one of Apple's major product lines grew over 12% on an annual basis.
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| Microsoft - Investor Relations: |
Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $46.2B, net income up 47% YoY to $16.5B, commercial cloud revenue up 36% YoY to $19.5B, LinkedIn revenue up 46% YoY — Earnings Release FY21 Q4 REDMOND, Wash. — July 27, 2021 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Global chip shortage dampens Microsoft's Q4 Surface revenue, down 20% YoY, and Windows OEM revenue, down 3% YoY — Cloud and Office say the revenue day — Microsoft posted the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2021 financial results today, reporting revenue of $46.2 billion and a net income of $16.5 billion.| Alphabet - Investor Relations: |
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $61.88B, up 62% YoY, operating income of $19.36B, up 31% YoY, Google Cloud operating loss down to $591M; stock up 2%+ after hours — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 27, 2021 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2021.
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
In the new iPadOS 15 beta, Apple makes its controversial Safari redesign optional, letting users choose a more conventional tab layout in settings — Enable the new (bad) tab experience in settings — Apple has started trickling out its fourth iOS and iPadOS 15 betas …
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Instagram announces changes for teen accounts, including making them private by default, restricting messages from “suspicious” adults, and limiting ads — Instagram has introduced protections for its teenage users to default young people into private accounts and make it harder for …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Activision Blizzard staff aim to walk out on Wednesday, demanding fairer treatment for underrepresented staff and ending arbitration clauses in staff contracts — Employees at Activision Blizzard Inc. are calling for a walkout on Wednesday to protest the company's responses …
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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
SensorTower: Clubhouse had 484K global installs from July 21 to 25, up 17% from the previous five days, after moving from invite-only to general availability — Just a few days after ditching its invite-only status, the audio chat app had fewer than 500,000 new downloads.
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Following appliance energy efficiency laws in CA, CO, HI, OR, VT, and WA, Dell has stopped shipping select power-hungry PCs in those markets — Energy efficiency rules appears to be limiting the availability of gaming rigs — Dell is no longer shipping energy-hungry gaming PCs to certain states …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Discord debuts threaded conversations, which auto-archive after 24 hours of inactivity and will roll out by Aug. 17, and a premium feature for private threads — After announcing that threads were on the way earlier this year and teasing the feature on Twitter, Discord is now introducing …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Nothing, launched by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, announces $99 Ear (1) wireless earbuds, available August 17 with gesture controls, ANC, and more — Nothing, the consumer tech startup led by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, has officially announced its Ear (1) true wireless earbuds.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter hires the team that built Brief, a subscription-based news summary app founded by former Google employees; the app will wind down July 31 — Twitter's recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
AMD Q2: revenue of $3.85B, up 99% YoY, Computing and Graphics revenue of $2.25B, up 65% YoY, Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom revenue of $1.6B, up 183% YoY — The company reported second quarter earnings of 58 cents a share on revenue of $3.85 billion, up 99% from a year ago.
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| Jane Lee / Reuters: |
New York-based Bubble, which offers no-code tools to build web apps, raises $100M led by Insight Partners and says it has over 1M users globally — Bubble, a New York based startup that allows non-coders to design and create web applications, said on Tuesday it raised $100 million …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok expands LIVE platform with new features, including events, co-hosts, Q&As, moderation tools, and more, to make it more competitive with Instagram Live — TikTok announced this morning it's expanding its TikTok LIVE platform, which currently allows creators to livestream to fans … | Washington Post: |
Survey of 20,699 Americans: those who rely on Facebook for COVID-related news are less likely to get vaccinated than average and less likely than Fox viewers — Biden said social media companies are ‘killing people’ by spreading vaccine misinformation — The White House has been sharply critical … | Maurice Klaehne / Counterpoint Research: |
US smartphone market sales grew 27% YoY in H1 2021 despite component shortages; OnePlus rose by 428% YoY, Motorola by 83%, Apple by 53%, as Google dropped 7% — Denver, Boston, Toronto, Denver, London, New Delhi, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul - July 27, 2021 — The US smartphone market saw … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google launches Google Cloud Retail Search, a managed service giving retailers a custom version of Google Search that integrates into their apps and websites — Google LLC is bringing the power of its iconic search engine to online retailers. — The company today announced the general availability …
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| Rachel Premack / Insider: |
Workers at CSAT Solutions, a Texas company that handles many of Apple's laptop repairs, call their workplace a “sweatshop” with broken AC and 13-hour shifts — If you're ever unlucky enough to spill a latte between the keys of your $1,300 MacBook Pro or shatter its screen …
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| Eshe Nelson / New York Times: |
A look at the rise of ultra-fast grocery delivery startups, some with a goal of 10-minute deliveries, across major cities, led by Turkish startup Getir — Venture capital's newest darling is the online rapid grocery delivery industry. Getir, a six-year-old Turkish company …
Tweets: @chandrarsrikant, @nytimesbusiness, @shiraovide, @sarthakgh, and @catchdini
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
GitHub partners with Stanford Law School to offer legal counsel to developers facing DMCA takedown requests; the advice is free for “valid” takedown claims — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey!| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
FCC challenges a bid won by SpaceX for $886M in rural broadband subsidies, concerned some of the spending may be wasteful, duplicative, or headed for other uses — - Company is among 197 winning bidders to get letters from FCC — Agency says it's cleaning up results from auction last year| Janelle Lawrence / Bloomberg: |
eBay's ex-senior global security manager, the first of five former staffers convicted in a cyberstalking campaign against eBay critics, gets 18 months in prison — - Philip Cooke took part in macabre plot to scare blogger — Cooke had spent 27 years with Santa Clara Police Department| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Element, a messaging app built on top of decentralized protocol Matrix, raises $30M Series B from Protocol Labs and others, bringing total raised to $48M — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey!
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
1Password raises $100M led by Accel at a $2B valuation, after raising $200M in 2019, and says it now has 90,000 business customers — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Password management platform 1Password has raised $100 million …
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| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Facebook is recalling ~4M foam face masks for Oculus Quest 2, after reports of irritation; Quest 2 goes on sale again Aug. 24 with improved 128GB base storage — Oculus Quest 2 sales are paused as Facebook adds a silicon cover to the boxes of every new headset, following reports of facial skin irritation with the original foam.
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CNN, CNET, Road to VR, Oculus Blog, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, and UploadVR. Tweets: @boztank. Thanks:@hmltn
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
Cryptocurrency exchanges Huobi and OKCoin are closing their subsidiaries in Beijing, as China expands its crackdown; shares of Huobi's parent drop ~22% — The latest moves by Huobi and OKCoin follow the central government's actions against businesses related to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies BTCChina …
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