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Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Sales up 28% to $29.1 Billion — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2016. — Operating cash flow increased 44% to $11.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $7.8 billion …
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Amazon Web Services generated $604M operating income, revenue up 63% YoY to $2.56B in Q1 2016 — Amazon Web Services grabs $2.5 billion in revenue in Q1 2016, up 63% over last year — Amazon today released its earnings statement for the first quarter of the year, and things are looking up …
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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Amazon earns $513M in Q1, its biggest profit ever, thanks to fast-growing Amazon Web Services business; stock jumps 12% after hours — Amazon Posts Strong Profit, Thanks to Its Cloud — SEATTLE — Amazon delivered a blowout quarter on Thursday, joining Facebook as one of the rare bright spots … | Re/code: |
Google hires former Motorola CEO Rick Osterloh to head new hardware division that includes Nexus, Chromecast, Chromebooks, Pixel C, OnHub, ATAP, and Glass — Google is building a new hardware division under former Motorola chief Rick Osterloh — Rick Osterloh is coming back to Google.
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| Davis Fields / Facebook: |
New Facebook and Messenger apps launched for Windows 10; Instagram comes to Windows 10 Mobile, with video support — Introducing Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Windows Apps — There are many people using Facebook, Messenger and Instagram on Windows, so today we're excited …
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| Jacob Pramuk / CNBC: |
Carl Icahn announces he sold all of his Apple shares, says China's attitude towards Apple affected his decision — Icahn: We're out of Apple, and it's China's fault — Carl Icahn, Chairman of Icahn Enterprises, talks about his view on Apple. … Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has sold …
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| Christina Rogers / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Alphabet in late-stage talks with Fiat Chrysler on self-driving car technology partnership — Fiat Chrysler, Alphabet in Partnership Talks — Alphabet has been seeking auto-industry partnerships, offering to sell self-driving car technology under development for several years
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Rants, Engadget, Digital Trends, The Verge, 9to5Google, MacRumors, AppleInsider and iPhone Hacks
| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Steam is now accepting Bitcoin payments through processing service BitPay — Gaming Platform Steam Now Accepting Bitcoin — Confirming a long-rumored move, gaming and digital media platform Steam is now accepting bitcoin payments through processing service BitPay.
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The BitPay Blog, The Verge, SlashGear, Inquirer, Ubergizmo, International Business Times, TechSpot, Tech Times, cloudpro.co.uk, Lifehacker, Fortune, Softpedia News, VG247, Engadget, Polygon, The Merkle, SiliconANGLE, Bitcoinist.net and Brave New Coin. Tweets: @alex
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
HP announces ultra-thin Chromebook 13, the first with an Intel Core M processor, starting at $499 — HP today unveiled its all-new Chromebook at an event in New York. — The new HP Chromebook 13 sports a 13.3-inch screen and comes replete with a QHD+ (3200 x 1800) resolution display …
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HP, The Verge, PCWorld, eWeek, IT Peer Network, BetaNews, The Verge, TalkAndroid.com, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Android Authority, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Laptop Mag and ZDNet. Tweets: @mims
| Dave Gershgorn / Popular Science: |
Elon Musk and Sam Altman's OpenAI releases Gym, a toolkit for developers to test reinforcement learning algorithms — Elon Musk's Artificial Intelligence Group Opens A ‘Gym’ To Train A.I. — In any scientific arena, good research is able to be replicated.
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Wired, OpenAI, Business Insider, The Next Web, MIT Technology Review, Inverse, InfoQ, The Verge, VentureBeat and Tech Insider
| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone relaunches Jelly as an anonymous Q&A platform — Twitter cofounder Biz Stone launched a startup, then pivoted it, and now he's launching the original idea all over again — In 2013, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and former Twitter executive Ben Finkel set out to launch a startup called Jelly.
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Medium, The Verge, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, The Next Web, CNET, Mashable, VentureBeat, Fast Company and WebProNews
Tweets: @joshelman and @biz
| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
OnHub Supports Home Automation Via IFTTT After Latest Software Update — The OnHub has been out for more than six months now, and it hasn't evolved much beyond the basic router functionality. Google promised us smart home features, and now it's starting to happen. The latest OnHub update added support for IFTTT.
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OnHub, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Phandroid, Droid Life, Android Central and Lifehacker
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snapchat hits 10B daily video views, up from 8B in February; over a third of daily users create Stories — Snapchat User Content Fuels Jump to 10 Billion Daily Video Views — More than a third of daily users said to create snap stories — Daily video views increase from 8 billion in February
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Marketing Land, Tech Insider, The Verge, Digital Trends and Mashable
Tweets: @alex and @ourielohayon
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Comcast to Buy DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 Billion — DreamWorks shareholders to get $41 in cash for each share they own — Comcast Corp. on Thursday said it agreed to buy DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. for about $3.8 billion, a deal that could make the cable giant a rival to Walt Disney Co …
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