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Apple: 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 -
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 -
Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: Mac and iPad sales break quarterly records in Q3, with Mac revenue of $8.2B, up 16% YoY, and iPad revenue of $7.4B, up 12% YoY -
10 minutes ago Kif Leswing / CNBC: Apple warns that supply constraints due to “legacy node” chip production will be worse in Q4 than in Q3 and will likely affect sales of the iPhone and iPad -
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 -
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 -
Thomas Wilde / GeekWire: Microsoft's overall gaming revenue rose to $3.7B in Q4, up 11% YoY, with hardware revenue up 172% YoY, but Xbox content and services down 4% YoY -
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 -
Todd Spangler / Variety: YouTube reports $7B in Q2 ad revenue, up 84% YoY from $3.81B, and says its Shorts feature now has 15B global daily views, up from 6.5B in March -
The Guardian: Facebook will restrict how advertisers can target users under 18 across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, only allowing age, gender, and location targeting -
Olivia Solon / NBC News: Instagram announces changes for teen accounts, including making them private by default and restricting messages from “suspicious” adults -
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 -
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 -
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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% -
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 -
Sponsor Post Oura: 7 Tips for a Good Night's Sleep — Want to improve your sleep and build healthy habits that can last a lifetime? Put these 7 tips to the test. -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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