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Investigation finds that Facebook has been paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN to gather data on phone use habits, which may violate Apple policy — Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook says it will shut down its controversial market research app on iOS, but it will apparently continue to be available for Android users — Facebook Research paid users $20 gift cards for near total access to data on their phones — Facebook will end a controversial market research program …
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Apple Q1: revenue from iPhone declined 15% YoY, but total revenue from all other products and services grew 19%; services revenue hit an all-time high of $10.9B — Services, Mac and Wearables Set New All-Time Revenue Records EPS Reaches All-Time High at $4.18 Cupertino, California …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple says revenue from services reached $10.8B, in line with estimates, and that it now has 360M subscribers to both its own and to third-party services — (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Tuesday reported sharp growth in its services business and Chief Executive Tim Cook said trade tensions between …
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces Q1 2019 profit of $19.97B and revenue of $84.3B, following its revision down from $89B-$93B, and projects $55B to $59B over the next quarter — Apple's earnings day has arrived, and despite massive revenue and profit in the billions, it's a bit of a different quarter for Apple for a few reasons.
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Apple booked $13.17B in revenue from China in Q1, down 27% YoY from $17.96B — - Apple cited weak economic conditions in China as a reason for its lowered guidance for its first quarter 2019 in its warning to investors earlier this month. — Apple's revenue in China came in at $13.17 billion during … | Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Report: Apple told studios and networks to be ready for a launch of Apple's streaming service by mid-April, the same month investors see a Disney+ preview — Studios were reportedly told to be ready by mid-April — Little is known about Apple's standalone streaming service, aside from the mountain of original content that's coming.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp hires EFF counsel Nate Cardozo and Facebook hires Open Technology Institute counsel Robyn Green, both as privacy policy managers — In an effort to bolster its public credibility in the wake of a very rough year, Facebook is bringing a fierce former critic into the fold.
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
A mother reported FaceTime bug to Apple over a week ago after her 14-year-old son discovered the flaw; Apple asked her to send report via developer account — SAN FRANCISCO — On Jan. 19, Grant Thompson, a 14-year-old in Arizona, made an unexpected discovery: Using FaceTime …
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| The Information: |
Source: Stripe has raised an additional $100M from Tiger Global, bringing its valuation to $22B+, up from its $20B valuation in September 2018 — Payments startup Stripe has raised an additional $100 million from Tiger Global Management, boosting the firm's valuation to $22.5 billion, according to a person close to the company.| Tom Bissell / New York Times: |
Zucked, a book by early Facebook investor Roger McNamee, details Facebook's damage to society, the dystopia it created, and advocates breaking up its monopoly — ZUCKED — Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe — The dystopia George Orwell conjured up in “1984” wasn't a prediction.
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| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
CipherTrace: the amount of cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged 400%+ in 2018 to $1.7B — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged more than 400 percent in 2018 to around $1.7 billion …
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Spam monitoring service Hiya: Americans received 26.3B robocalls in 2018, up 46% from '17; FCC said it got 52,000 complaints regarding Caller ID spoofing in '18 — Americans are now getting so many robo-calls on a regular basis that many are simply choosing not to answer the phone altogether.| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
AMD reports Q4 revenue of $1.42B, up 6% YoY but missing analyst estimates of $1.44B, and net income of $38M; stock up 8%+ after hours — The company's weak outlook comes after Nvidia said it was seeing softer sales. AMD said inventory and the end of the blockchain boom were issues.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon to fund computer science classes in 130+ NYC high schools, covering basic lessons, tutorials, and teacher development via a NY-area curriculum provider — Following Amazon's decision to set up one of its new headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, the company announced this morning …
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| Anumeha Chaturvedi / The Economic Times: |
Paytm has acquired NightStay, which offers last-minute bookings at luxury hotels, and says it plans to invest ~$70M in scaling up its travel operations — Paytm has launched hotel bookings on its platform and acquired NightStay, which offers deals on last-minute bookings at luxury hotels …
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| Rob Marvin / PCMag: |
Interview with Alphabet's Jigsaw product manager CJ Adams on how its AI-assisted Perspective tool, used by some publishers to weed out abusive comments, works — The Perspective API from Jigsaw, part of Google parent company Alphabet, gives online comment mods an evolving set of tools to combat abuse and harassment.| Business Wire: |
Alibaba Q3: revenue up 41% YoY, its weakest pace in three years, to ~$17B, driven by cloud computing revenue, up 84% YoY at $962M; net income up 33% to $4.5B — HANGZHOU, China—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) today announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2018.
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