Apple reports Q4 revenue of $62.9B, up 20% YoY, profit of $14.1B, says services revenue reached an all-time high of $10B, up 27% YoY; stock down 4%+
Revenue Up 20 Percent and EPS Up 41 Percent to New September Quarter Records — Services Revenue of $10 Billion Reaches New All-Time High
Apple will stop reporting unit sales for iPhone, iPad, and Mac starting next quarter, as CFO says units sold isn't representative of the state of business
Apple just announced on its earnings call that it will stop reporting unit sales for iPhone, iPad and Mac from next quarter — the start of its next financial year.
Hackers publish private messages from 81K Facebook accounts, put up to 120M accounts for sale for $0.10/each; Facebook blames third party browser extensions
Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts.
Sources: in 2011, Iranians used Google search to identify a string of websites CIA was using to communicate with its agents, compromising CIA's wider network
In 2013, hundreds of CIA officers — many working nonstop for weeks — scrambled to contain a disaster of global proportions …
Flickr says it will end 1TB storage for free accounts and delete all but the most recent 1,000 photos or videos if users don't upgrade to Pro by February 2019
Flickr was purchased in April by professional photo hosting service SmugMug, and today, the first major changes under the new ownership have been announced.
Apple's 29% Q4 iPhone revenue increase YoY, despite almost no change in iPhone unit sales, suggests Apple's price hike strategy appears to be working
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Profile of cryptocurrency millionaire Jeffrey Berns who says he has spent $300M to build an experimental community based on blockchain in Nevada
A man spent millions on an enormous plot of land near Reno. Now he wants to build a community based on the blockchain technology introduced by Bitcoin.
Apple warns holiday sales may miss Wall Street expectations; Cook says negative forecast due to exchange rates, supply uncertainty, weakness in emerging markets
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IDC: 355.2M smartphones were shipped worldwide in Q3 2018, down 6% YoY from 377.8M; Samsung saw a decline of 13.4% and Huawei grew 32.9%
According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped a total …
Hong Kong's securities regulator says funds investing 10%+ of their portfolios in crypto will need a license and proposes new rules for crypto exchanges
Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) says it will bring crypto funds under its securities regulations to improve investor protection.
In a wide-ranging interview Elon Musk talks about his tweeting habits, the past year of Tesla, new Navigate on Autopilot feature, full autonomy, and more
Musk talks about his “excruciating” 2018, fighting with journalists on Twitter, why Tesla won't build an electric scooter and much more.
A detailed look at Apple's new maps for iOS 12 covering San Francisco and the Bay Area with seemingly better road data than Google Maps but worse location data
HAS APPLE CLOSED THE GAP WITH GOOGLE'S MAP? — TAP OR CLICK ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE — Perhaps the biggest surprise about Apple's new map is how small it is:
Testing of battery life on flagship phones, including iPhone XS and Pixel 3, shows newer phones die faster than older ones, likely due to screen tech like OLED
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Apple reports Q4 revenue of $62.9B, vs. $61.57B est., and says it sold 46.89M iPhones, vs. 47.5M est., ASP of $793, vs. $750.78 est., and soft Q1 guidance
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Google walkout organizers share demands: end pay inequality and forced arbitration, better sexual misconduct reporting, a harassment transparency report, more
Last week, the New York Times published an article about Google's history of harassment, discrimination, support for abusers …
Yelp brings Yelp Reservations, its online reservation management service, to Buick Marketplace, the first time the service has been integrated in vehicles
Until Buick lets you order coffee and fuel with your voice, you'll have to stick to using your digits.
Sources: Samsung will share more details about its foldable screen phone and open Bixby to third-party developers at its developer conference next week
New features for Bixby are meant to challenge the dominance of Apple, Amazon and Alphabet in artificial intelligence
Google workers from Singapore, Japan, Israel, the UK, Ireland, India, and the US staged a walkout to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment
and there are plenty more on the way pic.twitter.com/F5HBsN1RTk Jack Morse / @jmorse_ : SF Google office walkout has begun pic.twitter.com/iXF07JQvMI Jacobo Tarrío / @jacobotarrio : Nice turnout at NY...
As India revives its ban on 827 porn websites following a court order, users complain of moral policing and say the ban violates Indian net neutrality laws
Rachel Chitra / Times of India :
Task management app Asana launches a Business tier priced at $19.95 per user per month to help managers handle multiple projects simultaneously
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HPE's Spaceborne Computer, the first commercial off-the-shelf computer launched into orbit to run a teraflop in zero gravity, now available for scientific use
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) — the business-focused division within HP — announced in August 2017 the Spaceborne Computer experiment …
Google says Susan Molinari, its Vice President of Public Policy for the Americas and head of its D.C. office, is leaving next year
Google's top U.S. public policy official is stepping down from the role, the company confirmed on Friday. — Why it matters: The departure … Thanks: @dmccabe
Profile of Asana, a provider of collaboration software for teams that has roots as a popular task management tool for Facebook's engineering department
There's work, and then there's the work that goes into doing your work. And a lot of workers spend more time on the latter. Tweets: @alexrkonrad and @jasonlk Tweets: Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : At a...
DOJ charges three Taiwanese individuals, Chinese state-owned chip maker Fujian Jinhua, and Taiwanese firm UMC with stealing trade secrets from chipmaker Micron
Here's How Morgan Chalfant / The Hill : Sessions unveils new Chinese economic espionage charges, ratcheting up pressure on Beijing Tweets: Zach Dorfman / @zachsdorfman : The FBI Field Offices in Palo ...
Sources say Amazon is struggling to ramp up operations in Brazil amid challenges like the nation's tax system, complicated logistics, and testy vendor relations
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is struggling to ramp up its operations in Brazil, a promising market that so far …
Sources: Tencent is investing $250M in Chinese online tutor service Yuanfudao at a valuation of $2.8B
Tencent is investing a further $250 million in online education startup Yuanfudao at a valuation of $2.8 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Instagram is testing an ad type called “Promote” for Stories, a tool for business pages similar to a Facebook boost, and launches Instagram Analytics in beta
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Geekbench results for the new iPad Pro show single-core and multi-core performance is on par with some 2018 MacBook Pro i7 models
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Investigation finds that 12 Facebook campaigns masked sponsorship of political issue ads, exposing a gap in enforcement of Facebook's disclosure policy
and Facebook's answers look even dodgier http://www.commerce.senate.gov/ ... http://twitter.com/... David Carroll / @profcarroll : I doubt Facebook can fix this ads transparency problem without using ...
Sonos says it is delaying support for Google Assistant, announced in 2017 and slated for the Sonos One in 2018, until 2019
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Source and filing: Zume, which runs delivery trucks with robots that prepare pizza, raises $375M from SoftBank and plans for $375M more at a $2.25B valuation
Katie Roof / Wall Street Journal :
Dapper Labs, which develops the CryptoKitties consumer blockchain collectibles, raises $15M led by Venrock, its second round in 2018 after launching in February
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Alibaba reports Q2 revenue of $12.4B, up 54% YoY, missing analyst estimates, net income of $2.66B, cuts forecasted annual revenue target by 4% to 6%
still, though, overall revenue grew at 54% YoY http://techcrunch.com/...
Over 50 companies, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Intel, and Microsoft, sign letter opposing Trump administration's efforts to roll back transgender rights
Ina Fried / Axios :
Baidu says its DuerOS AI assistant is now installed on 150M devices, up from 100M in August, and has more than 35M MAUs
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Spotify meets expectations in Q3 with revenue of €1.35B, up 31% YoY, adds 4M premium subscribers for a total of 87M, and reports 191M total MAUs; stock down 6%+
The streaming music service … Tweets: Ingrid / @ingridlunden : Many have murmured that Apple has overtaken Spotify in subscribers in the US. Globally at least it's still well ahead: 87m versus 50m rep...
Sources describe inappropriate relationships and misleading business claims at Apttus, with the CEO leaving in July after a sexual assault claim settlement
Becky Peterson / INSIDER : Tweets: @beckpeterson Tweets: Becky Peterson / @beckpeterson : In July, the founding CEO of Apttus left the company without much explanation. Turns out, there was quite a l...
HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, raises $100M, led by IVP, at a $1.9B valuation and says its tools have 45M downloads
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How delivery drivers for Amazon Flex, who are contractors, are missing out on the $15/hour pay increase, as a study says drivers earn $11/hour after expenses
except for a fleet of contractors who earn $5-9/hr. As with Uber partners, many of these delivery contractors don't know what they're actually earning after expenses. http://www.bloomberg.com/... Mark...
Facebook open sources its Horizon tools, used to optimize Messenger, video, and notification features, available on GitHub
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