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Apple reports Q3 revenue of $81.4B, up 36% YoY, net income of $21.7B, up from $11.2B YoY, Services sales of $17.4B, up from $13.2B YoY, iPhone sales of $39.6B — Revenue up 36 percent to new June quarter record — Services revenue reaches new all-time high
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple's greater China sales in Q3 were up 58% YoY to $14.76B, Americas grew 33% to $39.57B, paid Services subscribers grew to 700M, up 150M YoY — - Apple reported strong fiscal third-quarter earnings on Tuesday, demolishing Wall Street expectations. — Every one of Apple's major product lines grew over 12% on an annual basis.
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| Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: |
| Microsoft - Investor Relations: |
Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $46.2B, net income up 47% YoY to $16.5B, commercial cloud revenue up 36% YoY to $19.5B, LinkedIn revenue up 46% YoY — Earnings Release FY21 Q4 REDMOND, Wash. — July 27, 2021 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| Alphabet - Investor Relations: |
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue of $61.88B, up 62% YoY, operating income of $19.36B, up 31% YoY, Google Cloud operating loss down to $591M; stock up 2%+ after hours — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 27, 2021 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2021.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Activision Blizzard staff aim to walk out on Wednesday, demanding fairer treatment for underrepresented staff and ending arbitration clauses in staff contracts — Bobby Kotick said in an all-staff email that the company's recent actions were ‘tone deaf’ — Activision Blizzard Inc. Chief …
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Tweets: @jasonschreier, @feliciaday, @seitz_unseen, @wowhead, @aaronmehta, @ppu512, @alexisthenedd, and @kellen_browning
| The Guardian: |
Facebook will restrict how advertisers can target users under 18 across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, only allowing age, gender, and location targeting — Advertisers on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger will no longer be able to market to under 18s based on their interests
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| Olivia Solon / NBC News: |
Instagram announces changes for teen accounts, including making them private by default and restricting messages from “suspicious” adults — Instagram has introduced protections for its teenage users to default young people into private accounts and make it harder for “suspicious” … | Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
In the new iPadOS 15 beta, Apple makes its controversial Safari redesign optional, letting users choose a more conventional tab layout in settings — Enable the new (bad) tab experience in settings — Apple has started trickling out its fourth iOS and iPadOS 15 betas …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter hires the team that built Brief, a subscription-based news summary app founded by former Google employees; the app will wind down July 31 — Twitter's recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief.
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| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Facebook is recalling ~4M foam face masks for Oculus Quest 2, after reports of irritation; Quest 2 goes on sale again Aug. 24 with improved 128GB base storage — Oculus Quest 2 sales are paused as Facebook adds a silicon cover to the boxes of every new headset, following reports of facial skin irritation with the original foam.
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| Andrés Engler / CoinDesk: |
Valora, a mobile-first digital crypto wallet built on the open source blockchain network Celo, raises $20M Series A led by a16z — The digital wallet has been spun out of parent company cLabs with some fresh funding. — Valora, a mobile-first digital wallet native to the Celo network …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
AMD Q2: revenue of $3.85B, up 99% YoY, Computing and Graphics revenue of $2.25B, up 65% YoY, Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom revenue of $1.6B, up 183% YoY — The company reported second quarter earnings of 58 cents a share on revenue of $3.85 billion, up 99% from a year ago.
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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
SensorTower: Clubhouse had 484K global installs from July 21 to 25, up 17% from the previous five days, after moving from invite-only to general availability — Just a few days after ditching its invite-only status, the audio chat app had fewer than 500,000 new downloads.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Discord debuts threaded conversations, which auto-archive after 24 hours of inactivity and will roll out by Aug. 17, and a premium feature for private threads — After announcing that threads were on the way earlier this year and teasing the feature on Twitter, Discord is now introducing …
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| Washington Post: |
Survey of 20,699 Americans: those who rely on Facebook for COVID-related news are less likely to get vaccinated than average and less likely than Fox viewers — Biden said social media companies are ‘killing people’ by spreading vaccine misinformation — The White House has been sharply critical …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok expands LIVE platform with new features, including events, co-hosts, Q&As, moderation tools, and more, to make it more competitive with Instagram Live — TikTok announced this morning it's expanding its TikTok LIVE platform, which currently allows creators to livestream to fans … | Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Following appliance energy efficiency laws in CA, CO, HI, OR, VT, and WA, Dell has stopped shipping select power-hungry PCs in those markets — Energy efficiency rules appears to be limiting the availability of gaming rigs — Dell is no longer shipping energy-hungry gaming PCs to certain states …
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| Kate Kaye / Digiday: |
In letters to companies, CA AG says data sharing via analytics trackers, like cookies, for ad and analytics purposes fits CCPA's definition of a data “sale” — “Why would I care about cookies?” — The question was one privacy lawyer Odia Kagan heard from a client … | Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Kili Technology, which helps companies transform raw data into high-quality annotated data for AI training, raises $25M Series A led by Balderton Capital — AI data training platform Kili Technology has raised $25 million in a new funding round. This is just six months after a seed investment of $7 million.| Maurice Klaehne / Counterpoint Research: |
US smartphone market sales grew 27% YoY in H1 2021 despite component shortages; OnePlus rose by 428% YoY, Motorola by 83%, Apple by 53%, as Google dropped 7% — Denver, Boston, Toronto, Denver, London, New Delhi, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul - July 27, 2021 — The US smartphone market saw …
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| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Eco, a personal finance app and digital wallet, raises $60M in funding led by Activant Capital and L Catterton, after raising $26M in March — - Activant Capital, L Catterton lead latest fundraising series — All-in-one digital wallet firm attracted $26 million in March
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Orum, whose AI-powered tech helps sales representatives automate outbound calling workflows, raises $25M Series A led by Craft Ventures at a $125M valuation — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Sales support platform Orum today announced …
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| Eshe Nelson / New York Times: |
A look at the rise of ultra-fast grocery delivery startups, some with a goal of 10-minute deliveries, across major cities, led by Turkish startup Getir — Venture capital's newest darling is the online rapid grocery delivery industry. Getir, a six-year-old Turkish company …
Tweets: @chandrarsrikant, @nytimesbusiness, @shiraovide, @sarthakgh, and @catchdini
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