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Apple reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to $90.75B, net income down 2% to $23.64B, and announces a $110B share buyback, its largest yet; AAPL jumps 5% after hours — Services revenue reaches new all-time record — EPS sets March quarter record — Apple® today announced financial results …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone down 10% YoY to $45.96B, Mac up 4% to $7.45B, iPad down 17% to $5.56B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 10% to $7.91B — Apple CEO Tim Cook waves to journalists after his meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 17, 2024.
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| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds carveouts to its EU core tech fee, exempting free app developers and giving those with annual global revenue under €10M a three-year “free on-ramp” — Apple is tweaking how it applies a new fee that can apply to iOS developers in the European Union as it continues …
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| Sudz Niel Kar / MyHealthyApple: |
Apple Watch's AFib history feature gets FDA approval for use in clinical studies, the first digital health tech qualified under FDA's MDDT program — The FDA today announced that it has qualified the Apple Watch AFib ( Atrial Fibrillation) history feature as an MDDT (Medical Device Development Tools).| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out passkey support for all consumer accounts; Microsoft account owners can generate passkeys across Windows, Android, and iOS — Microsoft is fully rolling out passkey support for all consumer accounts today. After enabling them in Windows 11 last year …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Block Q1: revenue up 19% YoY to $5.96B, vs. $5.82B est., gross profit up 22% to $2.09B, Square profit up 19%, Cash App profit up 25%; SQ jumps 7%+ after hours — Block Inc logo is seen displayed in this illustration taken, April 10, 2023. — Block reported first-quarter earnings after the bell that exceeded analysts' estimates.
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| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Onur Aksoy, who pleaded guilty to selling fake Cisco equipment on Amazon and eBay from 2013 to 2022, making over $100M, is sentenced to over six years in prison — Some of the networking equipment sold by 40-year-old Onur Aksoy 'ended up in US hospitals, schools, and highly sensitive military …
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| Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch: |
Hubble Network, which is building a satellite network for Bluetooth devices, says it has made a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite for the first time — Hubble Network has become the first company in history to establish a Bluetooth connection directly to a satellite …
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft adds deputy chief information security officers within its product groups after a spate of cyberattacks, but declines to identify the new officials — Ann Johnson named deputy security officer to oversee outreach and communication about company's security| Senator Scott Wiener / @scott_wiener: |
[Thread] California State Senator Scott Wiener defends his AI safety bill, SB 1047, after criticism that it will “crush OpenAI's competitors” and open-source AI — AI policy is a new & fast-moving field & it's healthy & important to have a diversity of perspectives. However, this thread contains some extreme inaccuracies — indeed outright fear-mongering — about our AI safety legislation (SB 1047) that need to be corrected: 🧵
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
X tweaks its block feature to let users see replies to their posts even by users who have blocked them, with the aim of identifying and reporting “bad content” — Blocking will no longer hide your catty replies. — Elon Musk has made no secret that he's not a fan of the block button.
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Sources: cloud security startup Wiz will not acquire competitor Lacework; the deal, which was valued at $150M-$200M, fell through during due diligence process — The companies recently signed a Letter of Intent with the aim of completing a deal for around $150-200 million.
LinkedIn: Dennis V. and Matthew Smith
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Tether partners with Chainalysis to identify risky crypto addresses that could be used for bypassing sanctions or illicit activities, like terrorist financing — The monitoring system would help Tether identify risky crypto addresses that could be used for bypassing sanctions or illicit activities …
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| Bloomberg: |
Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 30% YoY to $378.6M, vs. $373.7M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates; NET drops 13%+ after hours — The San Francisco-based security company estimated that revenue would total $393.5 million to $394.5 million in the second quarter …
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| Russell Brandom / Rest of World: |
WhatsApp told Delhi High Court last week that it will be forced to leave India if required to maintain “traceability” for messages as part of 2021's IT rules — Tracing the origins of messages is more complicated than it sounds. — Russell Brandom is the U.S. Tech Editor at Rest of World.
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| Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek: |
Mimic, which helps businesses detect, deflect, and quickly recover from ransomware attacks, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed led by Ballistic Ventures — A new Silicon Valley startup called Mimic is coming out of the shadows with a hefty $27 million seed-stage funding round led by Ballistic Ventures.
More: Mimic, FinSMEs, and Ballistic Ventures
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
A look at four Chinese generative AI startups, Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and 01.ai, which have been valued between $1.2B and $2.5B in the past three months — Zhipu AI, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and 01.ai are striving to rival the success of US counterpartsSponsor Posts
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