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Alphabet reports Q1 revenue of $31.1B, up 26% YoY, net income of $9.4B, up from $5.4B YoY, but capital expenditures hit $7.3B, up from $2.5B YoY — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 23, 2018 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018.
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| Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
Alphabet says its “other revenues”, which include cloud business and hardware sales, made $4.4B in Q1 revenue; Other Bets had revenue of $150M on a $571M loss — Brushing back concerns about recent attacks on data-driven advertising, Alphabet Inc. today beat profit and revenue forecasts … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is working on a domestic robot codenamed Vesta that can navigate inside homes like a driverless car — Prototypes can navigate from room to room like driverless cars — Company hopes to start testing bots in homes later this year — Ten years ago, Amazon introduced …
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Apple's acquisition of Shazam faces extended EU probe as antitrust regulators worry that Apple might halt Shazam referrals and use Shazam data to hamper rivals — EU says concerned Apple could use Shazam data to hamper rivals — Probe also looking whether Apple could halt Shazam referrals
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After Amazon clamped down on paid reviews in 2016, the community dispersed but still flourishes, with most comments on some popular categories still fake — SAN FRANCISCO — On Amazon, customer comments can help a product surge in popularity. The online retail giant says that more than 99 percent …
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
In pilot program debuting soon, Uber says it will start obscuring the log of rider pickup and drop-off locations given to drivers, instead showing general areas — In a pilot program launching soon, Uber will begin obscuring riders' exact pickup and drop-off locations in the trip history displayed to drivers.
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Symantec: hacker group called Orangeworm is targeting equipment in US healthcare, like X-Ray and MRI machines, as well manufacturing, agriculture, IT devices — Yet another hacker crew has been battering the healthcare industry in recent months. But rather than just aim for the PCs …
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| Jen Wieczner / Fortune: |
Mark Karpelès, the CEO of Mt. Gox until its 2014 bankruptcy, becomes CTO of Denver-based London Trust Media, which owns the popular Private Internet Access VPN — Mark Karpelès, the CEO who presided over Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox until it went bankrupt in 2014, has had a hard time finding work for the last four years.| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Consortium of Amazon, Netflix, and many Hollywood studios sues IPTV service SET TV, claims mass copyright infringement, seeks injunction to shutter service — Several major Hollywood studios, Amazon, and Netflix have filed a lawsuit against Set Broadcast, LLC, which sells the popular IPTV service SET TV.
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Facebook gives its definition of terrorism, says it took action on 1.9M pieces of ISIS and al-Qaeda content in Q1, ~2x the previous quarter, finding 99% itself — Facebook Inc. said it was able to remove a larger amount of content from the Islamic State and al-Qaeda in the first quarter of 2018 by actively looking for it.| Steve Pratt / Pacific Content: |
As it prepares to launch a podcasts app, Google adds seamless podcast listening across devices, allowing users to listen on a phone and resume on Google Home — Google has a new podcasting strategy that completely reimagines how people find and listen to shows. Today, part one of our exclusive five-part series.| Nour Al Ali / Bloomberg: |
Middle Eastern ride-hailing app Careem says 14M users' names, email addresses, phone numbers, and trip data was stolen in cyberattack; it became aware on Jan 14 — Customers' names, email, phone number and trip data stolen — The platform has over 20 million users, according to website
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Microsoft:
Showcasing Industrial IoT innovations at Hannover Messe 2018 — This week at the world's largest industrial fair, customers and partners display how they're betting on Microsoft, from cloud to edge devices.
Showcasing Industrial IoT innovations at Hannover Messe 2018 — This week at the world's largest industrial fair, customers and partners display how they're betting on Microsoft, from cloud to edge devices.
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The True Size Of The Online Labor Force — Internet Association released a groundbreaking analysis that finds the online labor market is comprised of 23.9 million income positions - a number that far exceeds …
The True Size Of The Online Labor Force — Internet Association released a groundbreaking analysis that finds the online labor market is comprised of 23.9 million income positions - a number that far exceeds …
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This Earth Day, go paperless with Zoho Forms — Whether selling socks or self-driving cars, if you're still using paper forms, you're not doing it right. Here are 6 reasons why you should go digital: — 1. Environmental impact
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