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Amazon beats with Q1 revenue of $51B, up 43% YoY, net income of $1.6B, up from $724M YoY; stock up 7%+ after hours — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2018. — Operating cash flow increased 4% to $18.2 billion …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon to raise the price of Prime from $99 to $119 in the US, the first increase in 4 years, going into effect for new subs on May 11 and existing subs in June — The increase is effective for new customers starting May 11. — Amazon is increasing the price of its Prime membership …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AWS accounted for ~11% of Amazon's Q1 revenue at $5.44B, up 49% YoY, vs. $5.26B est., with $1.4B in operating income, or 73% of Amazon's total operating income — Amazon's cloud business exceeded analyst estimates, with revenue climbing 49 percent in the first quarter.
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Microsoft reports Q3 revenue of $26.8B, up 16% YoY, profit of $7.4B, up 35% YoY, says it spent $6.3B on dividends and share repurchases, up 37% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — April 26, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018 …
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| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Apple to stop production of AirPort Express, Extreme, and Time Capsule Wi-Fi base stations, which were last updated in 2013, but will sell while stock lasts — AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule will continue to be sold while supplies last but then Apple is done with the router business... at least for now.
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Square acquires website builder Weebly in $365M cash and stock deal, says it will give small business customers a way to easily build sites and online stores — Square announced an agreement on Thursday to buy website-building company Weebly for $365 million.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Snap unveils next gen Spectacles with water resistance and improved transfer speed, available today from $150 with prescription and polarized lens options — They're slimmer, they take photos, and you can take them in the pool. But will you? — Snap today released the next generation of Spectacles …
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Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint have made progress in negotiating merger terms and are aiming to successfully complete deal talks as early as next week — (Reuters) - U.S. wireless carriers T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) and Sprint Corp (S.N) have made progress in negotiating merger terms and are aiming …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
iTunes now available from the Microsoft Store for Windows 10, nearly a year after Microsoft announced it would be coming to the store before the end of 2017 — Apple is finally bringing its iTunes app to Microsoft's Windows 10 app store today. Microsoft first revealed nearly a year ago …
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| Ruhi Sarikaya / Amazon Developer Services: |
Amazon details upcoming Alexa features: discovering skills via natural language, storing/retrieving arbitrary info, follow-up questions without “Alexa” prompt — Friction is any variable that impedes your progress toward a goal, whether it's purchasing a product or navigating traffic to make your 9 a.m. meeting on time.
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| Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
Intel hires Jim Keller, Tesla's key chip designer and head of Autopilot, as SVP for silicon engineering; he also worked on Zen at AMD, led Apple's chip efforts — Legendary chip architect Jim Keller has seen an increasingly important role at Tesla since he joined the company in 2015.
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| Damian Collins / UK Parliament: |
Disappointed with answers from Facebook's CTO at a parliamentary inquiry, MPs consider using summons power to force Zuckerberg to testify if he enters the UK — Following the questioning of Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's Chief Technology Officer, today at a public session of the Digital …
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| Laura Noonan / Financial Times: |
Spain's BBVA becomes first global bank to issue a loan using blockchain; BBVA says the process cut negotiation time for €75M corporate loan from “days to hours” — Spain's BBVA has become the first global bank to issue a loan using the distributed ledger technology …
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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Pinterest aims to make discovery more inclusive with a new beta feature that lets people narrow beauty search results by skin tone range — WHEN CANDICE MORGAN joined Pinterest in 2016 as the company's first-ever head of diversity and inclusion, her goals initially centered on improving diversity within the company.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Intel reports Q1 revenue of $16.1B, up 13% YoY, client computing group revenue of $8.2B, up 3% YoY, data center unit revenue of $5.2B, up 24% YoY; stock up ~7%+ — CEO Brian Krzanich noted that Intel's data-centric businesses accounted for almost half of Q1 revenue.| Hollywood Reporter: |
MoviePass hasn't offered a $10/mo for 1 movie/day plan to new subscribers since April 13, offering 4 movies/mo and 3 months of iHeartRadio All Access instead — The subscription service famous for supplying a movie ticket per day for just $9.95 a month hasn't been offering that wildly popular package since April 13.
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| Julia Fioretti / Reuters: |
EU lawmakers, member states strike preliminary deal to make streaming platforms finance production of local content in proportion to revenues in the country — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU lawmakers and member states on Thursday struck a preliminary deal that will allow countries …
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