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Apple reports record Q2 revenue of $89.6B, up 54% YoY, net income of $23.6B, up from $11.2B YoY, iPhone sales of $47.9B, up from $29B YoY — Revenue up 54 percent to new March quarter record — Services and Mac revenue reach new all-time high — Apple today announced financial results …
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple Q2: record Mac sales of $9.1B, up from $5.4B last year, iPad sales of $7.8B, up from $4.4B, Wearables, Home, and Accessories sales of $7.8B, up from $6.3B — Apple earned $89.6 billion in revenue for the second fiscal quarter of 2021, a huge Wall Street beat attributed in large part …
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| Alex Weprin / Hollywood Reporter: |
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| Investor Relations: |
Facebook reports Q1 revenue of $26.2B, up from $17.7B YoY, MAUs of 2.85B, up 10% YoY, headcount of 60,654, up 26% YoY, avg. ad price up 30% YoY; stock rises ~5% — MENLO PARK, Calif., April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported nancial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2021.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Facebook says Q1 ad revenue was $25.4B, up 46% YoY, expects continued growth in Q2, with headwinds in H2 due to regulatory changes and Apple's iOS 14.5 update — The average price per ad in Q1 increased by 30 percent year-over-year, driving up Facebook ad revenue growth.
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Google says it's rolling out an update for Assistant that allows a user to train Assistant how to pronounce and recognize uncommon names, at first in English — handful new updates that will make Assistant better at pronouncing tricky names and understanding the context of conversations you share with it.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook blocked all posts with “#ResignModi” in India, says they were blocked by mistake and not due to a govt. order, and that posts have now been restored — Updated at 1.17am IST, Thursday: Facebook comms Andy Stone said the company has restored the posts and is “looking into what happened.”
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google finally gives users a way to search through Stadia's 172 games, 526 days after the service's launch — If only Google knew anyone with experience building search engines — Stadia is an online game streaming service from Google, a company that is practically synonymous with search engines …
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon will invest $1B+ to increase wages for more than 500K of its warehouse workers by $.50 to $3 an hour, rolling out from mid-May to early June — Amazon announced Wednesday that it plans to invest more than $1 billion in wage increases for its operations workers, promising raises …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will reduce its cut for PC games in Windows store from 30% to 12% from August 1, in a bid to compete with Steam — Microsoft puts the pressure on Valve's Steam store — Microsoft is shaking up the world of PC gaming today with a big cut to the amount of revenue it takes from games on Windows.| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
Q&A: Evelyn Douek, a lecturer and Ph.D. student at Harvard studying online speech regulation, on why a “proportional” approach to online speech is a good thing — Major platforms' policies aren't actually inspired by the First Amendment. This legal scholar says that's a good thing.
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| Canalys.com: |
Canalys: Q1 global smartphone shipments reach 347M, up 27% YoY; Samsung took first place shipping 76.5M for a 22% share, Apple shipping 52.4M for a 15% share — Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Thursday, 29 April 2021
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Cloud data storage startup Wasabi raises $112M Series C led by Fidelity Management, bringing its total raised to $219M — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — Cloud data storage company Wasabi today announced that it raised $112 million in series C financing …
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based digital asset custody and financial services provider Finoa raises $22M Series A led by Balderton Capital — Institutions need to keep their crypto assets somewhere. And they aren't going to keep it on some random, or consumer-grade crypto operation. This requires more sophisticated technology.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
TravelPerk, a business trip booking service, raises $160M Series D in equity and debt, led by growth equity firm Greyhound Capital — The pandemic has hammered the travel sector over the past 12 months so you'd be forgiven for feeling a bit of pre-COVID-19 déjà vu at this news …
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| Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
Manna, a drone delivery service for food, groceries, and more, raises $25M Series A led by Draper Esprit to expand into the US and add more services — - Manna has hired former Google Wing executive to head up U.S. — Series A led by Draper Esprit with Team Europe, DST Global
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| Associated Press: |
A federal appeals court rules that plans for 3D-printed “ghost guns” can be posted online without US State Department approval, reinstating a Trump admin order — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Plans for 3D-printed, self-assembled “ghost guns” can be posted online without U.S. State Department approval … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Vectra AI, which uses AI to analyze network traffic and help companies detect cyberattacks, raises $130M led by Blackstone Growth at $1.2B post-money valuation — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — San Jose, California-based cybersecurity …
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Epic files expert testimonies before next week's trial, arguing its antitrust case and disputing Apple's claim that App Store's primary role is to protect users — The Epic Games lawsuit continues in the form of written testimony ahead of the trial next month.
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Tweets: @timsweeneyepic, @nors3, @jacknicas, @benedictevans, @chrismlacy, and @timsweeneyepic
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
EU adopts controversial law forcing internet companies to remove flagged terrorist content within one hour after being notified by national authorities — Critics say the legislation could hinder free speech — The European Parliament has formally adopted a law requiring internet companies to …
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| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Facebook says it is giving $5M to support local journalists using its new newsletter service; candidates covering communities of color will be given priority — Facebook Inc said Thursday it will give $5 million to pay local journalists in multi-year deals as part of its new publishing platform …
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