Apple to stop production of AirPort Express, Extreme, and Time Capsule Wi-Fi base stations, which were last updated in 2013, but will sell while stock lasts
AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule will continue to be sold while supplies last but then Apple is done with the router business... at least for now.
Amazon beats with Q1 revenue of $51B, up 43% YoY, net income of $1.6B, up from $724M YoY; stock up 4%+
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2018. — Operating cash flow increased 4% to $18.2 billion for the trailing twelve months …
Suspected Golden State Killer caught by searching open source genealogy website GEDmatch for the genetic profile of the DNA from crime scenes
“No court order was needed to access that site's large database of genetic blueprints.” — To get a leg up in the investigation in the cold case of the …
Amazon will raise the US price of Prime for the first time in 4 years, from $99 to $119; change will take effect for new subs May 11 and existing subs June 16
The increase is effective for new customers starting May 11. — Amazon is increasing the price of its Prime membership in the U.S …
Facebook's Messenger Kids gets a sleep mode that lets parents set predetermined off times for the app
Messenger Kids was built to give parents more control and to give kids a safer space to message and video chat with close friends and family. Parental controls are core …
Next major Windows 10 update, dubbed the “April 2018 Update”, to release on April 30 with features like Timeline, Focus Assist, and an updated Edge browser
After a brief delay (though Microsoft won't confirm or deny this), Microsoft today announced that the Windows 10 April 2018 Update …
Microsoft reports Q3 revenue of $26.8B, up 16% YoY, profit of $7.4B, up 35% YoY, says it spent $6.3B on dividends and share repurchases, up 37% YoY
REDMOND, Wash. — April 26, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018 …
Cryptographer's doubts about Ozzie's CLEAR key-escrow system: securing private keys at OEMs and disabling a phone once law enforcement accesses it are hard
Yesterday I happened upon a Wired piece by Steven Levy that covers Ray Ozzie's proposal for “CLEAR”.
AWS accounted for ~11% of Amazon's Q1 revenue at $5.44B, up 49% YoY, vs. $5.26B est., with $1.4B in operating income, or 73% of Amazon's total operating income
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Intel hires Jim Keller, Tesla's key chip designer and head of Autopilot, as SVP for silicon engineering; he also worked on Zen at AMD, led Apple's chip efforts
Fred Lambert / Electrek :
Amazon's “other” sales, mostly comprised of its advertising revenue, jumped 139% to $2.03B in Q1, the first time sales have surpassed $2B
almost double what Wall Street expected Shareen Pathak / Digiday : Amazon advertising is now worth $2 billion Jason Del Rey / Recode : Amazon's AWS and advertising businesses are fueling its retail do...
Canalys: Q1 2018 smartphone shipments in China see biggest decline ever, down 21%+ YoY; Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi accounted for 73%+ of shipments
Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Thursday, 26 April 2018 — Smartphone shipments in China suffered their biggest ever decline …
Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint have made progress in negotiating merger terms and are aiming to successfully complete deal talks as early as next week
(Reuters) - U.S. wireless carriers T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) and Sprint Corp (S.N) have made progress in negotiating merger terms and are aiming …
Square acquires website builder Weebly in $365M cash and stock deal, says it will give small business customers a way to easily build sites and online stores
- Square announced an agreement on Thursday to buy website-building company Weebly for $365 million.
Amazon has launched a portal offering home security services including installations, with no monthly service contracts, in five price tiers from $240 to $840
Amazon's made a slew of acquisitions in the area of smart home services, and now it's offering a product that brings them together under one roof — your roof.
Intel reports Q1 revenue of $16.1B, up 13% YoY, client computing group revenue of $8.2B, up 3% YoY, data center unit revenue of $5.2B, up 24% YoY
CEO Brian Krzanich noted that Intel's data-centric businesses accounted for almost half of Q1 revenue. — Intel delivered strong …
Sony posts strong FY2017 results of ~$78.1B revenue and ~$6.7B profit on robust PS4 sales of 19M units; mobile revenue down to ~$6.6B from ~$6.9B in FY2016
Sony's latest earnings reveal a simple truth: former CEO Kaz Hirai left the company in a relatively good position.
Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud reports $7.9B in Q3 revenue, up 17% YoY, and $2.65B in profit, up 24% YoY, driven by YoY Azure revenue growth of 93%
Tom Krazit / GeekWire :
Microsoft Q3: Surface revenue up 32% YoY; Xbox software and services up 24% YoY with active users up 13% YoY to 59M; LinkedIn brought in $1.3B, up 37% YoY
Tom Warren / The Verge :
iTunes now available from the Microsoft Store for Windows 10, nearly a year after Microsoft announced it would be coming to the store before the end of 2017
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Disappointed with answers from Facebook's CTO at a parliamentary inquiry, MPs consider using summons power to force Zuckerberg to testify if he enters the UK
Damian Collins / UK Parliament :
Spain's BBVA becomes first global bank to issue a loan using blockchain; BBVA says the process cut negotiation time for €75M corporate loan from “days to hours”
Laura Noonan / Financial Times :
Ping An Good Doctor, a Chinese online healthcare platform, raises $1.1B in its Hong Kong IPO
Emma Dunkley / Financial Times :
Pinterest aims to make discovery more inclusive with a new beta feature that lets people narrow beauty search results by skin tone range
Arielle Pardes / Wired :
DocuSign prices shares at $29, higher than the already increased $26-$28 range, would raise at least $629.3M at a valuation of $4.4B
above the range it originally gave Wall Street
EU Commission proposes regs requiring more transparency from platforms, including app stores and ecommerce sites, on how they rank products and delist services
Julia Fioretti / Reuters :
Collaboration and work management provider Smartsheet raises $150M in IPO, setting stock price at $15/share, above the revised $12 to $14 range
Nat Levy / GeekWire :
Nintendo reports $1.62B operating profit, up 505% YoY, on strong Switch sales of ~15M units in the year ending March; Shuntaro Furukawa named president and CEO
Sam Byford / The Verge :
France's BlaBlaCar buys urban carpooling app Less, the eighth acquisition by the ride-sharing giant that has 60M users across 22 countries
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Amazon and the NFL will once again partner to stream Thursday Night Football, with Amazon Prime Video streaming 11 games during the 2018 and 2019 seasons
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire :
MoviePass hasn't offered a $10/mo for 1 movie/day plan to new subscribers since April 13, offering 4 movies/mo and 3 months of iHeartRadio All Access instead
Hollywood Reporter :
Baidu plans to dispose of majority stake in financial service biz that operates Baidu Wallet as Q1 revenues grow 31% YoY to $3.3B, profits up 128% YoY to $728M
Jason Booth / China Money Network :
A look at the future of Hulu, which, sources say, is nearing 20M subscribers, up 18% in 4 months aided by Handmaid's Tale and Live TV
How Tech Companies Are Breaking Out of Tech Ben Munson / FierceCable : Hulu reportedly nearing 20 million subscribers See also Mediagazer
A look at YouTube's strategy moving forward from a painful year, as it tries to rein in abusive content while encouraging creators and reassuring advertisers
YouTube is having its worst year ever. Except financially. http://www.bloomberg.com/... Peter Kafka / @pkafka : Excellent context on YouTube's fundamental conflict: It is built for scale, and scale is...
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