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Apple reports Q4 revenue of $52.6B, up 12% YoY, vs. $50.7B expected; net income of $10.7B, up from $9B YoY; services revenue of $8.5B, up 34% YoY; stock up 3%+ — Revenue Up 12 Percent and EPS Up 24 Percent to New September Quarter Records — Services Revenue Reaches All-Time High
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Apple Q4: 46.7M iPhones, up 3% YoY from 45.5M; 10.3M iPads, up 11% YoY from 9.3M; 5.4M Macs, up 10% YoY from 4.9M; Q1 2018 revenue of $85-87B expected — Apple today announced financial results for the third calendar quarter and fourth fiscal quarter of 2017.
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Sources: T-Mobile resumes merger talks with Sprint by making new offer; deal could be reached within weeks — T-Mobile has restarted merger talks with Sprint and the two telecom firms could reach a deal within weeks unless they fail to agree on terms, according to people familiar with the matter.
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YouTube rolls out multiple profiles for YouTube Kids, with app tailored to children's ages if parents provide birthdate, adds parental controls — YouTube Kids, the kid-friendly, more filtered version of YouTube first introduced in 2015, is getting a notable upgrade.| Sonam Rai / Reuters: |
Qualcomm sues Apple in California court, alleging Apple breached a licensing contract by cc'ing an Intel engineer on email requesting proprietary info, more — (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) has sued Apple Inc (AAPL.O), alleging that it violated a software license contract …
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Sources: US DoJ identified more than six members of the Russian government involved in hacking the DNC and could charge them next year, but arrests are unlikely — At least six Russian government officials are identified as part of ongoing investigation — The Justice Department … | Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Documents show internal strife within Unicode Consortium over proposed “Frowning Pile Of Poo” emoji, with some worrying about a lack of oversight — Unicode, the organization that oversees the evolution of Emoji, is in the middle of a fierce debate over a frowning pile of poop.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google to shut down its QPX Express API for airfare data, which launched out of its ITA acquisition, on April 10, 2018 — As Google gradually builds out its footprint in travel search, the company is also making a move to shut down one of its data feeds to others in the travel space.
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| Associated Press: |
Secureworks finds data showing Russia's Fancy Bear targeted 4.7K Gmail users worldwide using 19K malicious links mostly generated during Moscow office hours — WASHINGTON (AP) — The hackers who disrupted the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton's campaign …
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
GoPro to introduce new entry-level camera in 2018 after it reached first profitable quarter in two years in Q3 with $14M in profit on $330M revenue — The company secured its first profitable quarter in two years — GoPro has spent the last two years laying off employees …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Open-source database startup MariaDB confirms $27M Series C led by Alibaba; valuation was reported as $354M in September — Open source database startup MariaDB has announced a new $27 million round of funding led by Alibaba, confirming the news that TechCrunch reported in September.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Activision Blizzard misses Q3 estimates with $1.62B revenue, up from $1.57B a year ago and vs. $1.74B est., with 384M MAUs, down 6% QoQ and 20% YoY — Activision Blizzard reported third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street's expectations, and the company touted the performances …
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