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Alphabet reports revenue of $41.2B, up 13% YoY, net income of $6.8B, up from $6.7B YoY, Other Bets operating loss grew to $1.1B; headcount grew to 123K, up ~20K — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 28, 2020 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google's teleconferencing service, Meet, is adding 3M new users per day, up from 2M earlier this month, with 100M DAUs compared to Zoom's 300M — That's up from two million per day earlier this month — Google's Meet teleconferencing service is now adding about 3 million users per day …
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| Jon Swartz / MarketWatch: |
Alphabet Q1 earnings show the pandemic is responsible for “a significant slowdown in ad revenues”, with $33.8B revenue from ads; stock up ~9% after hours — Earnings come in lower than diminished expectations, but sales growth tops projections despite COVID-19 effects — Referenced Symbols
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
In an email to staff, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company will allow employees to return to offices no earlier than June 1 and take a “staggered” approach — - Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company will allow employees to return to offices no earlier than June 1 …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Google Cloud revenue increased 52% to $2.78B in Q1, driven by “significant growth” in Google Cloud Platform and “ongoing strong growth” in G Suite — Google Cloud revenue increased 52% to $2.78 billion in the first quarter, helping Google parent Alphabet beat Wall …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Source: Uber executives discuss cutting ~20% of its 27,000 headcount in the coming weeks; company veteran CTO Thuan Pham has resigned — Executives at Uber are discussing plans to cut around 20% of the company's employees, as it copes with a sharp decline in its ride-hailing business due …
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| Matt Stroud / OneZero: |
The CEO of Banjo, a SoftBank-backed surveillance firm that's raised nearly $223M, was once a neo-Nazi and was involved in the drive-by shooting of a synagogue — magazine profiles and on conference stages, Damien Patton, the 47-year-old co-founder and CEO of the surveillance startup Banjo, often recounts a colorful autobiography.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
YouTube adds fact-check info boxes to some searches, above the search results, in the US, after launching in Brazil and India last year — The program launched in Brazil and India last year — YouTube will begin adding informational panels containing information from its network …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Zuckerberg more actively in charge of Facebook after five departures from board of directors since 2019, as he attempts to consolidate decision-making — The 35-year-old tycoon has recast the company's board of directors and sought a high-profile role for the social-media giant in the Covid-19 pandemic
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds COVID-19 testing site information to Apple Maps across the US and makes improvements to its Mobility Trends site — Apple has now added COVID-19 testing sites to its Apple Maps app across the U.S., covering all 50 states and Puerto Rico. The update provides testing locations …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Kaspersky researchers detail a targeted espionage campaign via Play Store spyware apps, aimed at a few hundred users in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, India — Malicious Android apps from the so-called PhantomLance campaign targeted hundreds of users, and at least two slipped past Google's defenses.
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| David Gelles / New York Times: |
A look at efforts by the tech industry to procure PPE for frontline workers, including one led by Salesforce's Marc Benioff to secure 50M pieces of PPE for $25M — A call from a university chancellor set in motion a private sector effort to procure 50 million masks, gowns and swabs for American medical facilities.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify's Anchor launches a tool that turns video chats into podcast-ready audio; works with a range of videochat products including FaceTime and Instagram Live — Spotify is tapping into the increased usage of video conferencing during the coronavirus quarantine to grow its own podcast business.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
How a handful of employees at Apple quickly pushed forward the development of a contract tracing API and collaboration with Google in less than a month — - Apple and Google announced a partnership to bring contact tracing to smartphones on April 10th. Their software toolkit will be released on Friday.
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Instagram has been overrun with cash giveaways, which are often framed as charity, but are part of growth schemes run by social media marketing firms — As the coronavirus continues to disrupt lives and livelihoods, influencers are offering free money to followers — and gaining a lot more in return.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Ford says it is delaying the commercial launch of its self-driving vehicle services being developed with Argo AI to 2022, to reassess its strategy amid COVID-19 — Ford said Tuesday it will delay plans to launch an autonomous vehicle service to 2022, as the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted … | Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Samsung reports Q1 earnings with total revenue ~$45.4B, up 5.6% YoY, and operating profit of ~$5.2B, up 3% YoY, as chip demand was solid amid COVID-19 crisis — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said its operating profit rose 3% in the January to March period …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 is acquiring DivvyCloud, a cloud security and governance startup, for $145M in cash and stock — Rapid7 announced today after the closing bell that it will be acquiring DivvyCloud, a cloud security and governance startup for $145 million in cash and stock.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches a way for users to fundraise for nonprofits while livestreaming, showing streamers a breakdown of donors, so they can give them a shout-out — Instagram is today launching a new way for users to fundraise for nonprofits via Instagram Live, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Ryan Kovatch / 9to5Google: |
Google is shutting down Shoelace, a hyper-local social networking app it had launched in New York City in July 2019 — In July 2019, Google's experimental project incubator Area 120 launched a new local meetup app that would connect users in New York City.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Microsoft is pushing privacy bills, modeled on the Washington Privacy Act it failed to get passed twice, in Arizona, Hawaii, Illinois, and Minnesota — The company is pushing versions of the failed Washington Privacy Act in at least four states far from Redmond.| Bloomberg: |
TripAdvisor says it will cut 600 US positions and 300 others globally, shut San Francisco and downtown Boston offices; most remaining employees to take 20% cut — TripAdvisor Inc. is cutting about a quarter of its workforce in a bid to shrink costs as the global coronavirus pandemic decimates travel.
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