Apple reports Q3 revenue of $53.8B, up 1% YoY, record Services revenue of $11.5B, up from $10.2B YoY, iPhone revenue of $26B, down from $29.5B YoY; stock up 4%+
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iPhone is less than half of Apple's revenue for the first time since 2012; Mac had Q3 revenue of $5.8B, up from $5.3B YoY, iPad's rose to $5B, up from $4.6B
except the iPhone David Becker / Appleosophy : Apple Releases Q3 2019 Earnings Chris Velazco / Engadget : Apple's wearables and services made up for weak iPhone sales Tweets: Neil Shah / @neiltwitz : ...
Researchers from UCSF and Facebook Reality Labs have successfully decoded question-and-answer dialogue from brain signals in real time, via brain implants
The project is the first to decode question-and-answer speech from brain signals in real time — In 2017, Facebook's Mark Chevillet …
Samsung posts Q2 operating profit of ~$5.6B, down 56% YoY, on revenue of ~$47.4B, down 4% YoY, after profits from its chip and mobile businesses declined YoY
Samsung expects “persistent uncertainties” in the memory business for the remainder of the year but will pursue an aggressive investment plan in the second half.
Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in the open-source Data Transfer Project, will develop interoperable systems to bring data in and out of iCloud
Just over a year after its official launch, the Data Transfer Project is announcing a new set of partners and features.
Spotify reports 108M paying subscribers in Q2, up 31% YoY, and an operating loss of €3M on revenue of €1.67B, up 31% YoY
Spotify closed its second calendar quarter this year with 108m paying subscribers and 232m total Monthly Active Users (MAUs).
Samsung announces Galaxy Tab S6, it's most high-end Android tablet, with a 10.5-inch OLED display and Snapdragon 855, coming September 6 for $649+
Thinner, lighter, and faster than the Tab S4 — Samsung has officially announced the new Galaxy Tab S6, a high-end Android tablet that's designed …
Tim Cook says the Apple Card will launch in August
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Chrome 76 arrives with Flash blocked by default, a new safeguard to prevent Incognito mode detection, PWA improvements, and more
Google today launched Chrome 76 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The release includes Adobe Flash blocked by default, Incognito mode detection disabled …
Apple's Wearables, Home, and Accessories business generated $5.525B in Q3 revenue, up nearly 50% YoY
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Sources: Chinese importers in Russia buy ~$30M worth of tether, a USD pegged crypto coin, every day, to send large sums of money back home
The Takeaway — Chinese importers in Russia are buying up to $30 million a day of tether (USDT) from Moscow's over-the-counter trading desks.
Sources: Facebook is working on a new TV device that can stream video and make video calls using its Portal tech, and has approached Netflix, Disney, and others
Facebook has approached Netflix, Disney and other media companies about putting their streaming services on a new Facebook device …
Google employees have donated more to Elizabeth Warren than any other presidential candidate; some staffers think antitrust action wouldn't hurt Google's value
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders want to break up Google. That isn't stopping Googlers from donating to their presidential campaigns.
Behind the rise of the funeral livestreaming industry in the US, where an estimated 20% of funeral homes offer livestreaming services
It was early enough in the morning that Natalie Levy probably shouldn't have been awake—she had recently left a high-stress job at a private-equity firm in San Francisco … Tweets: @parismartineau and ...
Lightricks, which makes the popular selfie editing app Facetune, raises $135M Series C led by Goldman Sachs at a post-money valuation of $1B
Facetune, a photo editing app that empowers users to cover their gray hairs, refine their jaw lines, and reshape their noses …
Amazon announces general availability of Neural Text-to-Speech and “newscaster style” in Amazon Polly, its cloud service that converts text to speech
Not to be outdone by Google's WaveNet, which mimics things like stress and intonation in speech by identifying tonal patterns …
Waze now lets Carpool drivers invite up to four other riders to join a carpool; previously, riders beyond the first had to initiate requests to join a carpool
Waze, the community navigation app owned by Google, now allows Carpool users to invite multiple people to join a ride.
US files ~$100M lawsuit against BTC-e crypto exchange and a co-owner for alleged crimes including conspiracy, money laundering, and unlawful money transactions
Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk :
Documents show that Amazon's Ring vets and authors public statements about Ring attributed to police and delays announcing partnerships with police departments
Amazon's home security company Ring has garnered enormous control over the ways in which its law enforcement partners are allowed … Tweets: @dellcam , @dellcam , @ericgeller , @dellcam , @snowjake , @...
Filings: Alphabet's cash pile reached $117B, surpassing Apple's as the world's largest for the first time in 10 years, as Apple declined from $163B to $102B
The corporate world has a new king of cash. The title for the company with the biggest financial reserves, held by Apple for a decade …
Harver, which offers pre-hire assessment software for high-volume hiring in enterprises, raises $15M Series B from Insight Partners
The robots are coming to steal our jobs, or so the popular narrative goes, but the reality of automation's impact on the workforce is somewhat more nuanced.
Capital One announces breach affecting ~106M US and Canadian customers, with most info accessed from credit card applications; FBI has arrested suspected hacker
here's what you should do next PYMNTS.com : US Lawmakers Respond To Capital One Data Breach Andrew Orr / The Mac Observer : Capital One Hack: What We Know and What You Can Do Kieren McCarthy / The Reg...
In an apparent bid to sway Trump after he rejected Apple's request for Mac Pro part import exclusions, Tim Cook says Apple plans to make the Mac Pro in the US
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AMD reports Q2 revenue of $1.53B, down 13% YoY, net income of $35M, and third-quarter guidance below Wall Street expectations; stock down 4%+ after hours
Revenue was $1.53 billion, down 13 percent year … Timothy Green / Motley Fool : AMD Cuts Its Full-Year Guidance Arjun Panchadar / Reuters : AMD revenue forecast falls short as gaming console chip dema...
Microsoft says Skype for Business Online will be “retired” on July 31, 2021; Skype consumer users will be able to communicate with Teams users starting Q1 2020
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet :
Review of DJI's RoboMaster S1 programmable robot tank toy: nice camera, supports both Python and Scratch, but it's pricey at $500 and it lacks module options
Will Greenwald / PCMag :
Sony Q1: 3.2M PS4s sold, 100M sold since launch in 2014, while smartphone revenue dropped 15% QoQ, with 900K units shipped, less than half of Q1 2018
Steve Dent / Engadget :
Coinbase's VP of Engineering Tim Wagner is leaving the exchange after just over a year at the company; two other senior engineering employees are also leaving
Google Project Zero researchers publish details and demo exploit code for five of six “interactionless” iOS security bugs; iOS 12.4 patched all but one of them
And It's Only Paying Thousands to Squash Them Firstpost Tech : Google researchers found 6 iMessage exploits that could compromise your iPhone Leo Kelion / BBC : Google reveals fistful of flaws in Appl...
Researcher discovers unsecured Honda database, now secured, containing 134M rows of employee systems data that could help hackers compromise its systems
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Confluera, which makes a cybersecurity platform that it claims offers real-time attack interception and defense, raises $9M Series A led by Lightspeed
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE :
Apple, Microsoft, Google to test CARIN Blue Button API, a newly-proposed standard for giving patients digital access to historical health insurance claims data
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch :
Ford acquires Quantum Signal, a developer of virtual testing environments for unmanned remote and autonomous systems, to boost its self-driving car effort
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Catalyst, an NYC-based startup that helps companies centralize disparate data sources on customers through one tool, raises $15M Series A led by Accel
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch :
DigitalOcean appoints former SendGrid COO and CFO Yancey Spruill as its new CEO, replacing Mark Templeton, who announced his decision to step down in May
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Workplace collaboration platform Monday.com raises $150M Series D led by Sapphire Ventures, sources say at a $1.9B valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
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