Apple reports Q3 iPhone unit sales of 41.3M, up from 41.0M YoY, revenue of $53.3B, up 17% YoY, net income of $11.5B, up from $8.7B YoY
Revenue Up 17 Percent and EPS Up 40 Percent to New June Quarter Records — Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High
Facebook and Instagram add activity dashboards to help people manage their time on social apps
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Sources and leaked docs: Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and filter search results
Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights …
IDC: 342M smartphones were shipped worldwide in Q2 2018, down 1.8% YoY from 348.2M, with Huawei passing Apple to ship the second-most smartphones
According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped …
Apple sold 3.7M Macs in Q3, down 9% QoQ and down 13% YoY, with a 5% decline in Mac revenue YoY
Matt Weinberger / INSIDER :
Apple's “other products” revenue was $3.74B in Q3, up 37% YoY, and wearables revenue, which includes Apple Watch and AirPods, grew 60% YoY
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
France bans the use of smartphones in schools for students up to 15 years old starting in September
PARIS, France - French schoolchildren will have to leave their smartphones switched off or at home as the new academic year begins in September, after lawmakers voted for a ban on Monday.
Apple says iPhone X was the best-selling iPhone in Q3 and had 98% customer satisfaction, based on survey of US consumers, and that iPhone revenue was up 20% YoY
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :
Apple Pay had 1B+ transactions in Q3, and will launch in Germany and at US-based CVS and 7-11 stores later this year
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
Microsoft releases Windows 10 test build with Your Phone app feature for Android 7.0 and above that syncs most recent photos to PCs automatically
Microsoft is starting to test its new Your Phone app for Windows 10. The software maker first unveiled the app back at the company's Build …
Samsung announces Galaxy Tab S4 with 10.5-inch Super AMOLED display, 16:10 aspect ratio, and 64GB or 256GB options for $650+, shipping on August 10
At a small press gathering in Manhattan today, just one week before the company heads over to Brooklyn for its big Galaxy Note 9 event, Samsung announced the new Galaxy Tab S4 tablet.
Apple reports $9.55B in services revenue, up 31% YoY, vs. $9.21B est., as the company moves toward its goal of $14B in quarterly services revenue by 2020
Sara Salinas / CNBC :
Snap announces new Snapchat Lenses that respond to English language voice prompts, not movement, rolling out globally today
Today, Snapchat announced that it is rolling out a new set of Lenses that will respond to your voice. There's no need to make a facial gesture …
Bird is launching a pilot program of its electric scooter service in Paris Tuesday with about 100 scooters followed by Tel Aviv in the coming weeks
Electric scooter startup Bird, the one worth $2 billion, is going international. This does not come as a surprise given TechCrunch's June report …
Chinese smartphone market declined 7% YoY in Q2 2018, the fourth consecutive quarter of annual decline; Huawei's marketshare grew from 20% to 26%
James Yan / Counterpoint Research :
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance buys Trust Wallet, its first acquisition, for undisclosed amount; the crypto wallet provider launched in Nov., has 10 employees
Binance, one of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, is embarking on its first acquisition as it seeks to give customers more control over their digital coins.
Google says it's working with news organizations, including ProPublica, to surface data from data journalism projects in search results
Google today announced that it is working with a number of news organizations to surface more data from their data journalism projects in its search results.
After lawsuit from multiple states, federal judge issues temporary restraining order blocking online distribution of 3D printed gun tutorials
but we should still be worried New York Times : Opponents Try to Block Posting of Blueprints for Homemade Guns CBS News : Federal judge blocks release of blueprints for 3D-printed guns Jason Hanna / C...
Code snippets in iOS 12 beta 5 suggest dual-SIM support is coming to future iPhone models
Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac :
Logitech to acquire Blue, a maker of studio-quality microphones popular for podcasts and YouTube channels, for ~$117M cash in deal expected to close in August
Marrian Zhou / CNET :
Facebook bans 32 Pages and accounts from FB and Instagram for “coordinated inauthentic behavior”, says they were far better at covering tracks than Russia's IRA
Sources: Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Grab to announce $1B in new funding on top of its previous $1B round from Toyota
Ride-hailing company took over Uber's Southeast Asian business in March, faces deep-pocketed rival in Go-Jek — Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Grab Inc …
Baidu beats Q2 estimates with total revenue of ~$3.81B, up 24.4% YoY, on strong growth of its online advertisement business, and net income of ~$939.4M
Genetic testing firms including Ancestry and 23andMe pledge to be upfront when they share users' DNA data with 3rd parties, but the new guidelines are voluntary
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Source: Trump to nominate Kelvin Droegemeier, a meteorologist who has served in government, as his top science and technology adviser, filling ~19-month vacancy
Tony Romm / Washington Post :
Despite claiming openness, tech companies seek to patent AI tech; one study finds filings mentioning “machine learning” grew from 145 in 2010 to 594 in 2016
AT GOOGLE'S CLOUD computing conference in San Francisco last week, CEO Sundar Pichai mused on his company's commitment to openness, and artificial intelligence.
WhatsApp expands business-focused features by adding real-time support, shortcut buttons to start conversations, and more, in an effort to monetize
Shannon Liao / The Verge :
Baidu's video streaming service iQiyi says its Q2 loss more than doubled to ~$316.9M on ~$932.5M revenue and reported 66.2M paid subscribers as of June 30
Driving Baidu's growth is artificial intelligence — Baidu Inc.'s BIDU -1.68% revenue reached a record $3.93 billion in the June quarter …
DocuSign acquires Chicago-based cloud document management company SpringCM for $220M in cash to grow its business beyond electronic signatures
Nat Levy / GeekWire :
Inside Waymo's self-driving efforts in Phoenix and its partnership with the city's metro authority as it readies a pilot to connect people to public transit
Bloomberg :
Facebook is redesigning its mobile app's navigation bar to show people shortcuts for the products they use most frequently like Marketplace, Groups, or Watch
Richard Nieva / CNET :
Chinese regulators to investigate Pinduoduo over media reports of counterfeit goods and intellectual property infringements on the online group buying platform
Ecommerce startup Brandless, which sells most of its generic home-goods staples for $3, raises $240M from SoftBank's Vision Fund at a $500M+ valuation
http://www.bloomberg.com/... Jay Kapoor / @jaykapoornyc : Thought there was extra 0 by accident. Nope. $240M. FYI This biz is just over 2 yrs old Seed: $1.5M by Slow Ventures (Mar 16) Series A: $16M b...
Pandora beats with $384.8M in Q2 revenue, up from $378.8M YoY, a net loss of $92M, down from $289.7M YoY, reports ~6M subs to Pandora Plus and Pandora Premium
Max A. Cherney / MarketWatch : Tweets: @lamonicabuzz See also Mediagazer Tweets: Paul R. La Monica / @lamonicabuzz : Please don't stop the music. Pandora beat on revenue and reports smaller loss than...
Zillow expands its Zillow Rental Manager service by letting US landlords collect applications and rent
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