Microsoft reports Q4 revenue of $33.7B, up 12% YoY, operating income of $12.4B, up 20% YoY, and net income of $13.2B, up 49% YoY
REDMOND, Wash. — July 18, 2019 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2019, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:
Huawei says its homegrown Hongmeng operating system is not for smartphones or an alternative to Android, but is for industrial use instead
Huawei board member and senior Vice President Catherine Chen said here on Thursday that the company's Hongmeng operating system is not for smartphones …
YouTube adds one click switch between audio and video for YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscribers, has time-matched over 5M songs
Imagine listening to a new track by your favorite artist in the YouTube Music app and having the ability to seamlessly switch over to watch …
The panic over FaceApp highlighted how public attitudes about the internet have changed amid a widespread reckoning over data privacy and election interference
Shortly after the playful photo-transforming FaceApp went viral Wednesday as the most downloaded smartphone app in America …
Sources: WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann has cashed out more than $700M from the company ahead of its IPO through a mix of stock sales and debt
Adam Neumann has sold some of his WeWork stake and borrowed against some of his holdings, investing the proceeds in real estate and startups
Sources: NSO Group told buyers it can scrape users' data from cloud services of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft by copying authentication keys
The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual's data …
Microsoft's Xbox hardware revenue declined 48% YoY in Q4, but Xbox Live active users grew to 65M
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics
As many as 4 million people have Web browser extensions that sell their every click. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Microsoft reports Q4 Intelligent Cloud revenue of $11.39B, up 19% YoY, with Azure revenue up 64% YoY, its lowest growth rate in at least four years
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Microsoft reports Q4 Productivity and Business Processes revenue of $11.0B, up 14% YoY, and More Personal Computing revenue of $11.3B, up 4% YoY
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Orlando cancels the second phase of its Amazon Rekognition pilot, which began in October 2018, and says it has no immediate plans for future pilots of the tech
Orlando's two-phase pilot with Amazon to try out real-time facial recognition software ended Thursday, capping 15 months of technical lags …
Researchers say they were able to trick cybersecurity firm Cylance's AI-based antivirus engine into thinking programs like WannaCry and other malware are benign
By taking strings from an online gaming program and appending them to malicious files, researchers were able …
CB Insights: VC investment in blockchain startups is on pace to decline by ~60% YoY in 2019; as of July 1, blockchain companies have raised $784M via 227 deals
- Venture funding in blockchain startups may tumble 60% in 2019 — Meanwhile, Bitcoin's price has more than doubled this year
A look at the growing use of connected home fitness devices, as some users say convenience outweighs qualms about constantly looking at screens
The future of fitness is together but alone — Nikolas and Brittany Loecher spent their anniversary in Napa Valley, where they drank wine …
The Google Transparency Report, a searchable database of political ads has errors, delays, and often does not record political ads bought with Google's ad tools
Mistakes have occurred in the Google Transparency Report for both Democratic and Republican presidential and congressional candidates
Lexion, which develops AI-powered solutions for managing contracts, raises a $4.2M seed round
Contract management isn't exactly an exciting subject, but it's a real pain point for many companies. It also lends itself to automation, thanks to recent advances in machine learning and natural lan...
The Kazakhstan government is making ISPs force users to install a government-issued certificate on all devices and in every browser to intercept HTTPS traffic
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
A look at 5 initiatives Spotify has abandoned: original video content, its hateful conduct policy, Spotify apps, direct music distribution, and Spotify Running
While it's common for tech companies to test out new ideas in public, the streaming giant has done so more than most
BMW and Tencent partner to launch a computing center in China that will help develop autonomous driving solutions adapted to Chinese roads
BEIJING (Reuters) - German automaker BMW and Chinese online gaming giant Tencent Holdings are teaming up to launch a computing center in China …
Trump confirms he will look into Pentagon's JEDI cloud contract, set to be awarded to Microsoft or Amazon, after “tremendous complaints from other companies”
> https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @JenniferJJacobs Brian Fung / @b_fung : Via pool, Trump told reporters that “great companies” like Microsoft and Oracle are complaining about the Pentagon's cloud c...
Slack says it is resetting passwords for 1% of its users after receiving new info about the company's 2015 security breach; in April, Slack said it has 10M DAUs
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Google increases Chrome bug bounty rewards, tripling the maximum baseline reward from $5,000 to $15,000 and doubling the maximum reward from $15,000 to $30,000
Shelby Brown / CNET :
Instagram strengthens moderation policies, introducing an alert to warn people when their account is close to being deleted and giving moderators more leeway
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
US Treasury's FinCEN says scammers tried to steal an average of $301M per month via business email compromise scams in 2018, up from $110M per month in 2016
Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer :
Instagram expands its test to hide the number of likes on other users' posts to six more countries: Ireland, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch :
In its first earnings report since its IPO, CrowdStrike beats with Q2 revenue of $96.1M, up 103% YoY, vs. $95.6M est.; stock up 15%+
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times :
Chinese AI voice recognition company iFlytek has raised ~$407M from a state-backed industry fund and several provincial government funds via a private placement
Sarah Dai / South China Morning Post :
As podcast service Blubrry says there are now over 700,000 podcasts, with 2,000 to 3,000 launching every month, a look at whether we have reached “peak podcast”
that had no thought put into its content and was recorded on an iPhone—failed, therefore the whole medium is on the decline.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Ric Sanchez / @ricsanchez : “People assume tha...
German transport app FlixMobility raises Series F co-led by TCV and Permira; sources say the Series F was for about €500M, valuing the company at more than €2B
In some ways, Netflix's Q2 results were a disaster, highlighting the weakness of its US market, limits of international growth, and pain of losing huge shows
not a pay-TV killer Tristan Rayner / Android Authority : 13 things you need to know in tech today Todd Spangler / Variety : Netflix Shares Dive After Q2 Stumble: Just a Hiccup or Sign of Bigger Troubl...
How Amazon Go, which offers all the selection of a 7-Eleven but with more complexity and cost, became the company's most ambitious research project
Bloomberg :
China's internet giants see smart speakers as the ideal means to reach newly connected users who lack computer skills, as input methods shift from text to voice
South China Morning Post : Thanks: @chuakongho
Intel and SAP announce a multi-year partnership focused on data centers, combining Intel's hardware with SAP's software
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Inside 18 months of turmoil at Grindr, which some former employees say began with its sale to Chinese company Kunlun Group and elevation of Scott Chen
instances in which users flagged content or interactions that potentially violated the company's terms of service — from Grindr's internal systems.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... @mathewrodriguez ...
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