Apple Q1: revenue from iPhone declined 15% YoY, but total revenue from all other products and services grew 19%; services revenue hit an all-time high of $10.9B
Services, Mac and Wearables Set New All-Time Revenue Records EPS Reaches All-Time High at $4.18 Cupertino, California …
Investigation finds that Facebook has been paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN to gather data on phone use habits
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck …
Apple announces Q1 2019 profit of $19.97B and revenue of $84.3B, following its revision down from $89B-$93B, and projects $55B to $59B over the next quarter
here's what every major analyst says about Apple's earnings Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Apple's global active install base of iPhones surpassed 900 million this quarter Abdullah / Gizchina : Apple rev...
Source: Apple has shut down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps, blocking early releases of Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger
Facebook's internal iOS apps simply don't launch anymore — Apple has shut down Facebook's ability to distribute internal iOS apps …
Apple says revenue from services reached $10.8B, in line with estimates, and that it now has 360M subscribers to both its own and to third-party services
services rev comps. Apple is almost too large to even conceptualize. http://twitter.com/...
Apple says it banned Facebook's Research app yesterday, before Facebook could voluntarily shut it down, and condemns “clear breach of their agreement”
In the wake of TechCrunch's investigation yesterday, Apple blocked Facebook's Research VPN app before the social network could voluntarily shut it down.
Apple Music subscribers can stream music without paying for Wi-Fi on domestic American Airlines flights in the US starting February 1
Apple Music Subscribers can Stream Over 50 Million Songs, Playlists and Music Videos on US Flights — Starting Friday, Apple Music subscribers can enjoy …
Apple's Q1 revenue of $84.3B beat analyst estimates of $83.97B, but iPhone revenue of $51.98B missed analyst estimates of $52.67B; stock up 5%+ after hours
Sara Salinas / CNBC :
Apple says Apple News monthly active users hit 85M and that Apple Music has 50M paid subscribers; Apple Pay had 1.8B transactions in 2018, up 100% YoY
and it may finally be working Peter Kafka / Recode : Apple is getting closer and closer to spelling out its TV strategy See also Mediagazer
Apple booked $13.17B in revenue from China in Q1, down 27% YoY from $17.96B
Spam monitoring service Hiya: Americans received 26.3B robocalls in 2018, up 46% from '17; FCC said it got 52,000 complaints regarding Caller ID spoofing in '18
Americans are now getting so many robo-calls on a regular basis that many are simply choosing not to answer the phone altogether.
A mother reported FaceTime bug to Apple over a week ago after her 14-year-old son discovered the flaw; Apple asked her to send report via developer account
SAN FRANCISCO — On Jan. 19, Grant Thompson, a 14-year-old in Arizona, made an unexpected discovery: Using FaceTime …
Sources: UAE hacked iPhones of activists, diplomats, and rival foreign leaders using a spying tool called Karma, which exploited an iMessage vulnerability
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked …
Alibaba Q3: revenue up 41% YoY, its weakest pace in three years, to ~$17B, driven by cloud computing revenue, up 84% YoY at $962M; net income up 33% to $4.5B
HANGZHOU, China—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) today announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2018.
Sources detail UAE's Project Raven, a group of 12+ ex-US intel operatives that help surveil governments, militants, and critics, sometimes using NSA tactics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two weeks after leaving her position as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. National Security Agency in 2014 …
Apple says more than 900M iPhones were in active use at the end of 2018, up 75M YoY, with a total active install base of 1.4B across all its devices in Q1
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WhatsApp hires EFF counsel Nate Cardozo and Facebook hires Open Technology Institute counsel Robyn Green, both as privacy policy managers
In an effort to bolster its public credibility in the wake of a very rough year, Facebook is bringing a fierce former critic into the fold.
Foxconn is reconsidering plans for its $10B Wisconsin plant, says it plans to hire engineers and researchers instead of manufacturing workforce promised earlier
(Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group is reconsidering plans to make advanced liquid crystal display panels at a $10 billion Wisconsin campus …
Zucked, a book by early Facebook investor Roger McNamee, details Facebook's damage to society, the dystopia it created, and advocates breaking up its monopoly
ZUCKED — Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe — The dystopia George Orwell conjured up in “1984” wasn't a prediction. Tweets: @nytimes , @karaswisher , @robinwauters , and @pamelapaulnyt Tweets: ...
CipherTrace: the amount of cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged 400%+ in 2018 to $1.7B
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged more than 400 percent in 2018 to around $1.7 billion …
Health insurance firm Clover Health, which uses health and behavioral data to lower costs, raises $500M led by Greenoaks Capital, bringing total raised to $925M
Despite a number of well-publicized hiccups, venture capitalists are betting another $500 million on health insurance provider Clover Health, TechCrunch has learned.
Israeli startup Pliops, which develops cloud storage processors, raises $30M Series B led by Softbank Ventures Asia
Pliops will use the funds to accelerate development of its storage processor technology for cloud storage and database applications. — Israeli cloud storage solutions …
IBM releases its Diversity in Faces (DiF) image set, comprised of 1M faces taken from a 100M image data set, to help reduce bias in AI
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
Alphabet's Jigsaw expands its free Project Shield service to organizations across EU, including journalists, to defend against DDoS attacks ahead of elections
Lie Junius / The Keyword :
Fortanix, which provides security by encrypting applications and data at runtime, raises $23M Series B led by Intel Capital
Paytm has acquired NightStay, which offers last-minute bookings at luxury hotels, and says it plans to invest ~$70M in scaling up its travel operations
Anumeha Chaturvedi / The Economic Times :
Samsung says One UI, its redesigned mobile UI, is rolling out now to US Galaxy S9 and S9+ phones on Xfinity Mobile and to other carriers in the coming days
Marrian Zhou / CNET :
Belgium-based mobile security app startup Guardsquare raises $29M from Battery Ventures and says it has €7M in yearly revenue
Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu :
Interview with Alphabet's Jigsaw product manager CJ Adams on how its AI-assisted Perspective tool, used by some publishers to weed out abusive comments, works
Rob Marvin / PCMag : Tweets: @rjmarvin1 . Thanks: @rjmarvin1 Tweets: Rob Marvin / @rjmarvin1 : Worked on this one for a while. My @PCMag look inside @Jigsaw's efforts to combine ML and human moderati...
IT security and cloud data management firm Rubrik leaves server online without password, exposing tens of GBs of data, customer names, contact info, case work
without a password. http://techcrunch.com/...
Source: Stripe has raised an additional $100M from Tiger Global, bringing its valuation to $22B+, up from its $20B valuation in September 2018
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Report: Apple told studios and networks to be ready for a launch of Apple's streaming service by mid-April, the same month investors see a Disney+ preview
Julia Alexander / The Verge :
Amazon to fund computer science classes in 130+ NYC high schools, covering basic lessons, tutorials, and teacher development via a NY-area curriculum provider
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Intel will invest $10B alongside a $1B state grant to expand its chip fab in Israel, adding 1,000 jobs to its nearly 13,000-strong workforce in the country
eBay beats on Q4 sales of $2.9B, but global merchandise volume of $24.6B was up only 1%; will return $5.5B to investors in 2019 amid activist pressure
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
GameStop shares close down 27% after the board of the video game and electronics retailer said it had ended its search for a buyer
Rachel Siegel / Washington Post :
AMD reports Q4 revenue of $1.42B, up 6% YoY but missing analyst estimates of $1.44B, and net income of $38M; stock up 8%+ after hours
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
Slack says it now has over 10M DAUs, more than half outside the US, and its global paying customers total has grown by over 50% YoY to 85,000+
Slack : Tweets: @slackhq and @edent Tweets: @slackhq : Ten in five! Just ahead of our 5th birthday, we've crossed more than 10 million Daily Active Users, in 150+ countries. A big thanks to our custo...
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