Apple Q1: 77.3M iPhones, down 1% YoY, with $796 ASP; 13.2M iPads, up 1% YoY; 5.1M Macs, down 5% YoY; $8.5B services revenue, up 18% YoY
Revenue and EPS Hit New All-Time Records — Active Installed Base of Devices Reaches 1.3 Billion in January — Apple today announced financial results …
Apple reports Q1 revenue of $88.3B, up 13% YoY; $20.1B net income, up from $17.89B YoY; China revenue of $17.96B, up 11% YoY; Q2 revenue guidance of $60B-$62B
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac :
Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai to be succeeded by current CFO in April; Sony reports record Q3 profits of $3.2B boosted by games division; smartphone shipments down to 4M
Sony trimmed the sales forecast for its mobile business following a weak fiscal Q3, as it also announced changes in its top management.
Google releases YouTube TV app for Apple TV and select Roku devices for $35/month, bundling over 50 channels with option to separately purchase more
As announced with a tease on Twitter, Google has just released an Apple TV client for YouTube TV, providing owners of the fourth-generation Apple TV …
YouTube says it will start labeling videos from state-funded broadcasters like PBS and RT, considers surfacing videos from credible sources alongside hoaxes
Google unit to provide more context around some videos — YouTube said it is planning changes to give users more context …
Alphabet Q4 revenue $32.3B, up 24% YoY, net loss of $3B due to $9.9B tax charge; Google ad revenue $27.2B; Other Bets revenue $409M, operating loss $916M
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - February 1, 2018 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2017.
Apple Q1 wearables revenue up ~70% YoY; Watch sales grew 50% in units, revenue for fourth consecutive quarter; Series 3 selling 2x units over Series 2 last year
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
Amazon beats with Q4 revenue of $60.5B, up 38% YoY; $1.9B net income, up from $749M YoY; ~$789M benefit from new tax law
SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2017.
California DMV self-driving report: Waymo and GM lead with 63 disengagements over 352K+ miles and 105 disengagements over 131K+ miles, respectively
So how'd everyone do? — California's Department of Motor Vehicles released its annual autonomous vehicle disengagement report today.
Bitcoin briefly dropped below $8K, for the first time since November, amid the broad cryptocurrency market sell-off
Biggest digital token takes losses since peak to about 60% — Rival coins including Ripple, Ether and Litecoin tumble — Bitcoin fell below $8,000 as a miserable 2018 continued …
CFO Luca Maestri says Apple plans to reduce its net cash balance to “approximately zero” following the new US tax law, possibly via M&A, dividends, and buybacks
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times :
Alphabet names John Hennessy as chairman, after Eric Schmidt's departure last year; Google's traffic acquisition costs to distributors reaches 24% of ad revenue
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch :
Sources: HQ Trivia is raising a $15M round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund at a $100M+ valuation
Founders Fund partner Cyan Banister is leading the round. — HQ Trivia, the popular trivia gameshow app, plans to raise money in a new round of financing that values the company north of $100 million...
Google rolling out Chrome OS 64 with browser enhancements, a new screenshot shortcut, and ability to enable VPN for Play apps
Following updates to Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux last week, version 64 is now rolling out to Chrome OS. In addition to several browser enhacements …
Analysis: Google's G Suite platform for businesses is used by just 15 of S&P 500 firms; Gartner puts 2016 G Suite sales at $1.3B, far behind Office's $13.8B
Paresh Dave / Reuters :
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says Google Cloud, which includes G Suite and Google Cloud Platform, is a $1B per quarter business
but it's still way behind Amazon Tweets: Arik Hesseldahl / @ahess247 : Put another way, Google cloud is one-fifth the size of AWS. http://www.techmeme.com/...
AWS reports Q4 sales of $5.1B, up 45% YoY, vs. $4.97B expected, as operating income reaches to $1.35B
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
India's restaurant search and food delivery service Zomato raises $200M from Ant Financial at a pre-money valuation of $880M
The funding includes a $50 million secondary share sale by Zomato shareholder Info Edge to Ant Financials, which will dilute its stake in Zomato to about 30.91% post the fresh capital infusion
Motorola Solutions to acquire Avigilon, Canadian maker of surveillance cameras and software, for ~$1B amid concerns around critical infrastructure and China
Motorola Solutions Inc. sees an opening to take advantage of a backlash against Chinese-made technology products with its latest acquisition.
CEO Brian Chesky says Airbnb will not go public in 2018; CFO Laurence Tosi is stepping down to focus on his investment fund; Belinda Johnson becomes first COO
Deirdre Bosa / CNBC :
Amazon's “other” revenue category, which is mostly from ads, grew to $1.7B in Q4, a 60% rise YoY, small revenue compared to Google, Facebook, but growing faster
Shareen Pathak / Digiday :
StatCounter data shows Windows 10 has overtaken Windows 7 in usage share for the first time with 42.8% vs. 41.7%, around 30 months after Windows 10's launch
...at least not according to Netmarketshare
Instagram announces plan to bring Carousel Ads to Stories, letting advertisers show up to three photos or videos in Stories
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Sources: Intel plans to sell a majority stake in its AR business, seeking as much as $350M, which has been working on smart glasses for smartphones
Bloomberg :
Twitter debuts Full-archive Search API, starting at $99/mo, that gives access to the full tweet archive, previously only available to enterprise API customers
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Dell says it is evaluating a potential public offering or a combination with VMware
Sonam Rai / Reuters :
India's biggest online grocer BigBasket says it raised $300M, led by Alibaba, at a $950M valuation
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
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