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Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $32.7B, up 26% YoY, and net income of $3.2B including EU fine; excluding the fine, net income was $8.3B; stock up 3%+ after hours — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 23, 2018 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2018.
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Sources: Microsoft working on two new Xbox consoles, one of them a lower-powered streaming box for upcoming game streaming service referred to as Scarlett Cloud — Back at E3, Microsoft mentioned that they were working on a next-generation console. At that time, I noted that this new console …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Google partners with blockchain startup Digital Asset to let Google Cloud developers build blockchain apps using DAML, the startup's smart contract language — Google is increasingly betting that blockchain technology, which creates a permanent ledger across multiple computers …
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Google says none of its 85,000+ employees have been successfully phished since early 2017, when it required use of physical Security Keys in place of passwords — Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017 … | Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
Source: Verizon is seeking to partner with Google or Apple to provide a TV service when it launches 5G to homes in LA and Sacramento later this year — - First wireless broadband service with video launches this year — Live, online TV to be part of showcase for superfast network
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon adds audio equalizer controls for Echo devices in Alexa app, as well as via English voice commands in US, and opens the EQ functionality to third parties — Audiophiles love to nitpick over the way their music sounds, but until now, you haven't been able to do that with any of Amazon's Echo smart speakers.
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon rolls out “Tap to Alexa” feature for Echo Show, to let hearing- and speech-impaired users trigger customizable Alexa skills with a few taps on the screen — Smart speakers like the Amazon Echo have brought voice controls into millions of homes — but what if you can't hear what Alexa has to say?
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
City of Nanjing launches $1.48B blockchain investment fund to foster the token economy and public projects in China, and help blockchain firms move to the city — Nanjing, the capital of China's Jiangsu province, has launched a 10 billion yuan ($1.48 billion) blockchain investment fund …
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| Lucia Moses / Digiday: |
Publishers like NPR, Al Jazeera, and Bloomberg Media add editorial resources to smart speaker efforts but monetization remains unclear — Home voice assistants or smart speakers are still in their infancy as a consumer and revenue proposition, but publishers are stepping up their efforts … | Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Susan Fowler Rigetti, the former Uber engineer who blew the whistle on sexual harassment at the company, has joined the NYT as technology opinion editor in SF — - Susan Fowler Rigetti, the woman who blew the whistle on Uber's sexist culture, has been hired by The New York Times.
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Qualcomm unveils first mmWave 5G and sub-6GHz antenna modules for 5G smartphones and mobile hotspots in 2019 — Qualcomm has solved a big problem for a certain variation of 5G: getting the chips small enough to fit in handheld devices. — On Monday, Qualcomm unveiled its new QTM052 millimeter wave …
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Sources: Pinterest is aiming for IPO by mid-2019, is close to ~$1B in ad sales in 2018 after hitting $500M in 2017, and now has a valuation between $13B-$15B — - Pinterest is poised to almost double revenue this year, getting close to $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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