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Apple reports Q3 revenue of $59.7B, up 11% YoY, of which $46.5B came from products, $13.1B from services, and net income of $11.2B; stock up 5%+ after hours — Revenue up 11 percent and EPS up 18 percent to new June quarter records — Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2020 third quarter ended June 27, 2020.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Apple confirms new iPhone models will arrive a few weeks later than they have in years past, confirming earlier news reports and supplier comments — Apple's financial chief said Thursday that this year's new iPhone models will arrive a few weeks later than they have in years past … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple Q3: iPhone sales of $26.42B, up 1.66% YoY and beating expectations of $22.37B, Greater China sales of $9.33B, up from $9.16B YoY — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Thursday delivered blowout quarterly results, reporting year-on-year revenue gains across every category and in every geography …
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Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $38.3B, down 2% YoY, net income of $6.96B, down from $9.9B YoY, Other Bets operating loss grew to $1.1B — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 30, 2020 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2020.
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| Amazon.com: |
Amazon reports Q2 revenue of $88.91B, up 40% YoY, net income of $5.2B, up from $2.5B in Q1 2019, and AWS revenue of $10.81B, up 29%; stock up 5%+ after hours — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2020.
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Emails between Eddy Cue and other Apple execs from 2011, revealed in House hearing, show Apple considered 40% cut of first year digital content subscriptions — Apple once considered taking a 40 percent cut from some subscription apps, according to documents shared today by the House Judiciary Committee (via Bloomberg).| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Internal emails from 2010 show how an Amazon ad prompted Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller to block in-app purchases of Kindle books on iOS — As part of the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust probe into Apple, lawmakers have released a variety of internal emails from Apple.
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| Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
A trove of 1M+ documents from the House antitrust panel builds a far better antitrust case against the tech giants than anything the CEOs said under questioning — - Wednesday's Big Tech hearing provided almost no new information or insight into potential antitrust activity by Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google.
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| Geoffrey Fowler / Washington Post: |
An overview of attempts by tech CEOs to obfuscate and minimize during the hearing, claiming their companies are not that big and data remains under user control — No, Google, we're not really in control of our data. And yes, Facebook, you profit from harmful information.
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| Robin Givhan / Washington Post: |
Democrats at the hearing focused on big questions about the power of Big Tech, while the Republicans focused on Google and how it is “unfair” to conservatives — The congressional hearing starring the country's tech titans began as so many video conferences have in the midst of a pandemic …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook Q2: $18.68B revenue, up 11% YoY, net income $5.18B, up 98% YoY, as DAUs rise 12% YoY to 1.79B, MAUs rise 12% YoY to 2.7B; stock up 6%+ after hours — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2020.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Zuckerberg says there is “no end in sight” for US Facebook employees working from home due to the surge in US COVID-19 cases — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said there is no timetable for when employees will return to the company's offices amid a continuing surge in Covid-19 cases in the U.S.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook says Apple pushed back the time period that US employees would come back to the office until early 2021 — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said the company has pushed back a plan to return to its U.S. offices. — “We've kicked the time period that U.S. employees … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google teases the launch of a phone on August 3, presumed to be its budget phone Pixel 4a — While thoroughly leaked, Google has stayed quiet about when to expect its next mid-range phone. That's changing today with a “lorem ipsum” tease for what is most likely the Pixel 4a.
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| Washington Post: |
Rakuten: Amazon's share of US e-commerce fell to 38.5% in June from 42.1% in January; Target's share grew from 2.2% to 3.5% and Walmart's from 4.2% to 5% — Amid surging sales, some struggles to address worker safety concerns and get parcels to customers quickly opened the door to rivals.
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