Microsoft Q4: revenue of $23.3B, up 13% YoY, net income of $6.5B, up 109% YoY; Intelligent Cloud revenue of $7.4B, up 11% YoY; productivity revenue was $8.4B
REDMOND, Wash. — July 20, 2017 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2017:
Microsoft using a trademark suit to seize control of domain names like livemicrosoft.net, to cut off Fancy Bear's malware-controlling servers from their victims
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Lyft creates a division to develop its own “open self-driving platform”
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Microsoft beats with strong cloud performance; Azure sales almost double, and Office 365 app revenue rises 43%
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Amazon confirms it is adding Alexa to its shopping app on Android starting this week
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Samsung sends out media invites for event at 11AM ET on August 23 in New York City, with the tagline “Do bigger things”, expected to announce Galaxy Note8
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Federal Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Milwaukee from enforcing ordinance aimed at forcing AR game makers to seek permits, insurance, and more
The city didn't like the prospect of rare flora being trampled by game players. A federal judge warns of censorship.
Sources: Swedish e-commerce payments firm Klarna raises around $250M at a $2.5B valuation from private equity firm Permira
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YouTube to shutter Video Editor and photo slideshows tools Sep. 20; Enhancements feature, which lets users trim, blur, and filter uploaded videos, will live on
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Department of Justice and Europol announce takedown of dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and Hansa Market, both focused on drugs and fraudulent IDs
Two Dark Web Markets — Have Been Shut Down Kim Crawley / Naked Security : Global police swoop shutters Hansa and AlphaBay dark web markets Carly Page / Inquirer : Dark web crackdown sees AlphaBay and ...
Sources: Y Combinator is raising up to $1B for its second Continuity fund, which will be merged with its existing early-stage investment program
Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator is raising up to $1 billion for a new venture capital fund, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
OnePlus says it has begun rolling out a fix for a bug that rebooted some OnePlus 5s trying to make emergency calls in US, UK, and Europe
YouTube collaborates with Jigsaw to launch Redirect Method, responding to certain keyword searches with videos that discredit extremist recruiting narratives
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Intel-owned Movidius debuts $79 USB Compute Stick with 12-core Myriad 2 VPU that increases host hardware's AI capabilities
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Apple updates Clips app with new overlays, including Disney-themed additions, effects, posters, more; Clips has been pre-installed on new iOS devices since May
> http://twitter.com/... Jordan Kahn / @jordankahn : Update: Confirmed, Clips has over a million monthly unique users to date https://twitter.com/...
Inside D-ID, an Israeli startup that's working to make faces unrecognizable to face recognition technology while remaining true to the original image
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A look at how Twitch and YouTube gamers helped Discord grow to 9M daily active users, overtaking Slack's 5M daily active users
Six days a week, a 26-year-old videogaming celebrity who goes by the name “Lirik” regales his 1.7 million followers on the streaming service Twitch … Tweets: @jim_mills Tweets: Jim Mills / @jim_mills ...
YouTube TV expands to 10 new areas, including Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, D.C., Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, up from its five launch metros
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Graphcore raises $30M led by Atomico for its Intelligence Processing Units designed to improve machine-learning processing speeds; first IPUs ship late 2017
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eBay reports Q2 revenue of $2.3B, up 4% YoY, and gross merchandise volume of $21.5B, up 3% YoY; non-GAAP net income was $493M; board approves $3B stock buyback
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