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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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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: |
Global chip shortage dampens Microsoft's Q4 Surface revenue, down 20% YoY, and Windows OEM revenue, down 3% YoY — Cloud and Office say the revenue day — Microsoft posted the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2021 financial results today, reporting revenue of $46.2 billion and a net income of $16.5 billion.
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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 3%+ — 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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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
YouTube reports $7B in Q2 ad revenue, up 84% YoY from $3.81B, and says its Shorts feature now has 15B global daily views, up from 6.5B in March — YouTube accelerated back into high growth for the second quarter of 2021, as ad revenue hit a record $7.0 billion for the period.
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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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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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| Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Google announces a new bug bounty program, called Bug Hunter University, and says the existing program found 11,055 bugs from 2,022 researchers, paying ~$30M — The platform includes a new “Bug Hunter University.” — Google announced a new bug bounty platform as it celebrated …
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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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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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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Report: malware developers are increasingly writing malicious code in “exotic” programming languages like Golang to hamper analysis efforts and evade detection — They are focused on exploiting pain points in code analysis and reverse-engineering.| Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
A Harvard biostatistician is reconsidering plans to use Apple Watch as part of a study after finding inconsistencies in heart rate variability data collected — Algorithms can change without warning — A Harvard biostatistician is rethinking plans to use Apple Watches as part of a research study … | 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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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
IBM report: in 2021, the average data breach costs companies $4.24M to remedy, up 10% YoY; “mega” breaches involving 50M+ consumer records can cost $401M — IBM research estimates that the average data breach now costs upward of $4 million. — The average cost of a data breach …
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China orders Tencent and 13 other developers to rectify problems with “harassing” pop-ups in apps, often used for ads, giving them until August 3 — - Apps must resolve misleading pop-up content by Aug. 3 — Tech rout deepens, amid tightening content restrictions| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
Insiders suggest China's internet companies, which have long emulated SV's founder-driven model, will align more with China's leadership after tech crackdown — On the fourth floor of a harborside mall on Grand Cayman, not far from touristy scuba-diving outlets and a jerk-chicken shack … | 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 … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
InVia Robotics, which offers robotics as a service for warehouse automation, raises $30M Series C led by Microsoft's M12 Ventures and Qualcomm — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — InVia Robotics, an industrial robotics company based in Los Angeles … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify reports Q2 revenue of €2.3B, up 23% YoY, as ad revenue jumped 110% YoY to €275M; paying subscribers reached 165M, up 20% YoY, total MAUs reached 365M — Spotify, citing ongoing headwinds from the COVID pandemic, fell short of its total monthly user growth goal in the second quarter of 2021.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
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