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Apple reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $94.9B, net income of $14.74B, vs. $22.96B in Q4 2023, after paying a $10.2B charge as part of a tax decision in Europe — iPhone drives record September quarter revenue Services revenue reaches new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results …
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| CNBC: |
Apple Q4 revenue: iPhone up 6% YoY to $46.22B, Mac up 2% YoY to $7.74B, iPad up 8% YoY to $6.95B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 3% YoY to $9.04B — Apple reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results.
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let paid users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google — The new option will let the chatbot's users search for timely information much as they would on the web.
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
| Amazon.com, Inc.: |
Amazon Q3: revenue up 11% YoY to $158.9B, a $15.3B net income vs. $9.9B in Q3 2023, a $17.4B operating income vs. $11.2B in Q3 2023; AMZN jumps 5%+ after hours — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2024.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q3 revenue down 6% YoY to $13.28B, vs. $13.02B est., a net loss of $16.99B, and Q4 guidance above estimates; INTC jumps 6%+ after hours — Intel shares rose 7% in extended trading on Thursday after the chipmaker reported better-than-expected earnings and issued quarterly guidance that topped estimates.
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Google plans to release Android 16 in Q2 2025 “to better align with the schedule of device launches”; major Android releases have been in Q3 or Q4 since 2013 — Android 16 is launching in Q2 of 2025, which is months earlier than previously expected. — • — TL;DR
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft delays the rollout of its controversial Recall feature to December to “refine the experience”, after previously pushing it from June to October — Microsoft says it needs more time to make sure the AI feature is ‘a secure and trusted experience’
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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
Activision-Blizzard says the Call of Duty series has sold more than 500M copies to date; Nadella says Black Ops 6 set a record for first-day players — The Call of Duty series has sold more than 500 million copies to date, according to publisher Activision-Blizzard. “Black Ops 6” set launch-day records.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Windows users will only be able to buy one year of Extended Security Updates for Windows 10 for $30, after support ends in October 2025 — Microsoft is finally revealing that it will charge consumers $30 for a year of extra security updates to Windows 10.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google adds Gemini in Google Maps in the US, with AI-summarized reviews and answers to conversational questions by users, and adds 150 cities to Immersive View — Google Maps is getting a big update that's supposed to help you find new places to visit with AI.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude apps for Mac and Windows in public beta, and releases a dictation tool for Claude on iOS, Android, and iPadOS — Anthropic's AI-powered chatbot, Claude, now has desktop apps. — Anthropic is launching Claude apps for Mac and Windows today in public beta, which …
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| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple plans to use its own Wi-Fi chips made by TSMC's N7 process and with Wi-Fi 7 in the iPhone 17 lineup, reducing its reliance on Broadcom — Apple's big launches for 2024 are nearly complete, so reports are going to pick up regarding the 2025 product lineup.
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| Financial Times: |
Uber Q3: revenue up 20% YoY to $11.2B, above est., gross bookings up 16% YoY to $41B, a $1.1B operating income, up from $394M in Q3 2023; UBER closes down ~9% — Forecast for customer spending on ride-hailing app fell slightly short of Wall Street's estimates| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU will review Nvidia's acquisition of AI workload management startup Run:ai, after a request by Italy's regulators; Nvidia reportedly paid $700M for Run:ai — The European Union has tossed a spanner in the works of chipmaker Nvidia's proposed acquisition of Tel Aviv-based AI workload management startup Run:ai.
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| Bloomberg: |
Ex-Lacework CEO and Facebook's former global head of engineering Jay Parikh joins Microsoft's senior leadership team and will report directly to Satya Nadella — - Company struggling to ramp up data centers to meet AI demand — Jay Parikh will report directly to Microsoft CEO Nadella| Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal: |
The EU Commission opens formal DSA proceedings against Temu over the alleged sales of non-compliant products and its platform design, like addictive features — The European Union is investigating Chinese e-commerce platform Temu over concerns that it may have failed to limit the sale of illegal products.
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LinkedIn: Fiona Hurn, Betina Schiønning, and Luca Cassetti
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Waymo was valued at more than $45B, after it raised $5.6B last week, led by Alphabet — - Company is rapidly expanding number of ride-hailing trips … The business said late last week that it had raised $5.6 billion in new capital at an undisclosed value.| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Tether reports Q3 net profits of $2.5B, driven by gains in its US Treasury and gold holdings and bringing YTD profit to $7.7B, as USDT market cap nears $120B — The company also owns a significant amount of gold and the big move higher in the yellow metal boosted profits.
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| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
OnePlus unveils the OnePlus 13, its next flagship with a Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, 12GB+ RAM, and a 6,000mAh battery, available in China on November 1 for ~$630+ — OnePlus has officially announced its next flagship smartphone, the new OnePlus 13. Powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Sophos details a five-year battle with Chinese hackers exploiting its firewalls, and how its device “implants” traced the hacks to a university and a contractor — Sophos went so far as to plant surveillance “implants” on its own devices to catch the hackers at work—and in doing so …
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