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Facebook reports Q2 revenue of $13.23B, up 42% YoY, 1.47B DAUs, up 11% YoY, and net income of $5.1B, up 31% YoY; stock down 20%+ after hours — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2018. — “Our community and business continue to grow quickly …
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Facebook's Q2 earnings saw MAUs climb just 1.54%, down from Q1's 3.14%, marking its slowest ever growth rate, and revenue of $13.23B missed estimates of $13.36B — Facebook succumbed to the public backlash over its handling of fake news, privacy, and digital wellbeing to miss Wall Street's estimates …
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Qualcomm will owe a $2B breakup fee to NXP if deal is terminated as expected at end of day Wednesday; Qualcomm launches $30B stock buyback program — - Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf will address his company's share buyback plans during today's conference call.
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Amid patent dispute, Qualcomm says it believes Apple intends to solely use modems from a competitor, likely Intel, for the next iPhone release — Apple appears to be making some big changes to the chips in its upcoming iPhones — and that could mean your next iPhone downloads data slower than rival Android devices.
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Qualcomm reports Q3 revenues of $5.6B, up 4% YoY, net income of $1.2B, up 41% YoY; says it will terminate proposed acquisition of NXP; stock up 4%+ after hours — SAN DIEGO - July 25, 2018 - Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced results for its fiscal third quarter ended June 24, 2018.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Google unveils Titan Security Key, a phishing resistant 2FA device that has USB and Bluetooth versions for ~$20 and ~$25 each, coming to all within a few months — When Google boasted that none of its 85,000-plus employees had their accounts hacked since early 2017, it was all thanks …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Sources: YouTube removed four videos from Alex Jones' channel for hate speech and child endangerment, but counted the takedowns as one strike toward the channel — The video site removed four of Jones' videos on Tuesday — Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' YouTube channel received a strike …
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| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Facebook rolls out Watch Party, a feature that lets users simultaneously watch, comment, and react to Facebook videos together, to all users — Facebook has made it clear that it wants to make video a crucial part of its business, as it looks to compete with the likes of YouTube, Amazon and Netflix.
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Waymo partners with Walmart, AutoNation, Avis, and others to ferry their customers to various locations in Phoenix, Arizona — Waymo, the Alphabet company that spun out of Google's former self-driving car division, is partnering with some of the country's largest companies to expand how many people ride in its self-driving vehicles.
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| Marc Vartabedian / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook's General Counsel Colin Stretch, who led the company's investigation into Russian election interference, is leaving at the end of the year — Colin Stretch's announced exit marks the second high-level departure in recent weeks — Facebook Inc.'s FB 1.78% top lawyer … | Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Source: Chinese government has withdrawn its approval for Facebook's new subsidiary in the country — SHANGHAI — For Facebook, success in China was brief. Very brief. — For several hours, a Chinese government database showed that Facebook had gained approval to open a subsidiary in the eastern province of Zhejiang.
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon's Cloud ESP, a feature for third-party Alexa devices that lets the device closest to a user respond to a question or command, is now generally available — One of the biggest parts of Amazon's strategy for expanding the voice-activated Alexa ecosystem is to help third-party manufacturers make Alexa gadgets of their own.| Kevin Parrish / Digital Trends: |
Some 2018 MacBook Pro and iMac Pro users reporting crashes, possibly due to Apple's T2 processor and Bridge OS; some fixes in macOS 10.13.6, no complete fix yet — Many iMac Pro owners have reportedly suffered numerous kernel panics — the MacOS version of the dreaded Blue Screen of Death in Windows …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
The CEO of Nextdoor, Nirav Tolia, plans to step down from his role after almost eight years, emailing employees that he will take an “active” chairman role — Tolia is looking for his own replacement, but the move raises a number of questions for Nextdoor.
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Source: Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey to testify before Senate Intelligence Committee in September; Sundar Pichai has not yet responded to committee's invite — Internet executives are expected once again to face a grilling by lawmakers about foreign interference on their platforms … | Axios: |
Big pharma firm GlaxoSmithKline buys $300M stake in 23andMe, forming 4-year partnership to develop new drugs, whereby both firms will share costs and revenues — 23andMe, the maker of genetic testing kits for consumers, is partnering with pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline to develop new drugs.| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Coinbase says its investigation into whether any employees profited from insider trading relating to Bitcoin Cash has concluded and found no wrongdoing — Photograph by Winni Wintermeyer for Fortune — Coinbase, the biggest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, launched an inquiry last December …
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