Apple reports Q2 revenue of $58.3B, up 1% YoY, of which $44.9B came from products, $13.35B from services, and net income of $11.25B
Total Revenue Grows, Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High of $13.3 Billion — Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2020 second quarter ended March 28, 2020.
ICANN board has voted to reject the sale of the .org registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital
Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted to ICANN.
House Judiciary Committee demands Jeff Bezos testify at a hearing on Amazon's alleged misuse of third-party seller data or face a potential subpoena
A top House committee investigating the tech industry has asked him to agree to appear or face a potential subpoena if he declines
IDC: Global smartphone shipments dropped 11.7% YoY to 276M during Q1 2020, the largest YoY decline ever
Shipment volumes suffered its largest year over year decline in the first quarter. — The latest data from International Data Corporation (IDC) has revealed that as the world grapples …
Amazon Q1: $75.5B revenue, up 26% YoY, net income of $2.5B, down from $3.6B in Q1 2019, AWS revenue of $10.2B, up from $7.7B YoY; stock down 7%+
an estimated $4 billion — on responding to the coronavirus pandemic...Some of the $4 billion will also fund higher wages for workers, personal protective equipment.” https://www.cnbc.com/... Patrick M...
Researchers say Xiaomi phones are tracking usage habits and browsing data even in incognito mode
“It's a backdoor with phone functionality,” quips Gabi Cirlig about his new Xiaomi phone. He's only half-joking. — Cirlig is speaking with Forbes after discovering that his Redmi Note 8 smartphone ...
Apple Q2: services hit an all-time record of $13.35B, up from $11.45B in Q2 2019, as Wearables, Home and Accessories grew to $6.3B, compared to $5.13B last year
William Gallagher / AppleInsider :
Reddit has disabled its chat room feature, Start Chatting, a day after launch due to “several errors” in rollout and moderators' concerns over lack of control
The company says the rollout had several errors — Remember how Reddit announced just yesterday that it was introducing built-in subreddit chat rooms?
Workers at Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart, FedEx, Target, and Walmart join together in striking on May 1, demanding better workplace safety conditions
Demands include better cleaning services and 14-day shutdowns at affected locations — On May 1st, workers from Amazon, Whole Foods …
The UN's social distancing app, 1point5, is largely ineffective at monitoring distance between people, indiscriminately picking up any Bluetooth signals
This week a division of the United Nations announced its new social distancing app designed to help alert people when they get too close …
Apple Q2: iPhone sales of $28.9B, down from $31B in Q2 2019, Greater China sales of $9.5B, down from $10.2B YoY, authorizes additional $50B in share buybacks
Emily Bary / MarketWatch :
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have declined to remove Trump's comments on UV and disinfectants curing COVID-19, despite commitments to removing misinformation
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have declined to remove the president's statements about unproven coronavirus treatments.
Amazon reports Q1 “other” category revenue, which mostly covers its ad business, of $3.9B, up 44% YoY, and subscriptions services revenue of $5.56B, up 28% YoY
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
India says 75M+ people downloaded its contact tracing app, but privacy advocates worry about its potential as a tool for state surveillance beyond the pandemic
the app will soon include state-issued e-passes to let people move around the country + gig workers are already required to have it installed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... @PranavDixit Sarah Emers...
OpenAI announces Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles
complete with lyrics Jordan Pearson / VICE : This Software Can Make Kanye West Rap Eminem's ‘Lose Yourself’ Raf Noboa y Rivera / The Miscellanies : Hope will give us power Tweets: @openai : Introducin...
Amazon tells its Seattle and Bellevue employees already working from home since early March that they “are welcome to do so until at least October 2”
Amazon told its corporate employees working from home since early March that they “are welcome to do so until at least October 2 …
Amazon says it expects to spend $4B or more, the predicted operating profit for the company's upcoming third quarter, just on COVID-19-related expenses
The Verge :
As online exam proctoring services like Examity gain widespread adoption amid the pandemic, students are finding them invasive with privacy and security issues
As schools go remote, so do tests and so does surveillance — The stranger on the Zoom call appeared to be sitting in a tent. Tweets: @hjarche , @iethics , and @drsrcrawford Tweets: Harold Jarche / @...
Walmart is piloting a 2-hour “Express” grocery delivery service for an extra $10 fee, plans to expand to 1K stores in May, using its 74K+ “personal shoppers”
Record usage of grocery delivery services amid the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delayed orders …
A look at how VR is enabling people to stay more fit by blurring the boundary between movement for fun and movement for fitness
Get over yourself and try VR workouts already. It's private, liberating, and doesn't require gym shorts. — I can without bashfulness say that I have logged hundreds … Tweets: @wired and @vinncent T...
Sensor Tower: iPad app downloads see first quarterly growth in four years, surpassing 1.1B worldwide in Q1, as consumer spending in iPad apps crosses $2B
Driven by a surge in use and adoption of the device during the COVID-19 pandemic, quarterly first-time downloads of apps …
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff asks the CEOs of Google, YouTube, and Twitter to follow Facebook's lead on coronavirus misinformation policies
Lauren Feiner / CNBC :
Raspberry Pi announces a new $50 camera board with a 12MP Sony sensor and support for interchangeable lenses
12 MP Sensor and Interchangeable Lenses Tweets: Planet Ubuntu / @planetubuntu : Ubuntu Blog: How to use the Raspberry Pi High Quality camera on Ubuntu Core https://ubuntu.com/... Daniel Cuthbert / @dc...
Pandemic conspiracy theories are being spread using Wayback Machine links of content already discredited by fact-checkers and even deleted
Since the onset of the pandemic, the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard Kennedy's Shorenstein Center, where I am the director … Tweets: @aaronwall , @thedailybeast , @wrklsshrd ,...
Andreessen Horowitz raises $515M for its second fund dedicated to cryptocurrency and blockchain investments and holdings
Dan Primack / Axios :
Design software startup Figma raises $50M Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2B valuation
Alex Konrad / Forbes :
Microsoft renames Visual Studio Online, its online code editor, as Visual Studio Codespaces and drops the price of the service by over 50%
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Dascena, which is developing AI-based diagnostic algorithms for early disease intervention, raises $50M Series B led by Frazier Healthcare Partners
Christine Hall / Crunchbase News :
Cliqz is shutting down its anti-tracking browser and search engine but says it will keep Ghostery subsidiary running
Yesterday we've announced with a heavy heart the Cliqz story is over. Tweets: @cliqz : Yesterday we've announced the end of Cliqz and our hearts are still heavy. We hope someone continues this importa...
FBI director Christopher Wray's law firm argued in favor of strong end-to-end encryption while representing WhatsApp in a sealed 2015 case involving the DOJ
which is vital for journalists and the general public—"blinds" law enforcement. Now it has emerged that his law firm went to the mat to defend it in 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/... Nicole Perlroth / ...
Sources: construction software company Procore called off its IPO and instead raised $150M at a $5B valuation, but may still go public in 2020
Bloomberg :
Google says Duplex, its AI chat agent which previously only spoke English, can now speak Spanish “only for confirming store hours” in Spain during the pandemic
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Tweets: @chrismessina and @glenngabe Tweets: Chris Messina / @chrismessina : Google Duplex now speaks Spanish... Our future automation overlord will necessarily be a poly...
Uber partners with telemedicine service Ro to give US workers free COVID assessments, as Lyft partners with One Medical for one month trial memberships
Dara Kerr / CNET : Tweets: @imeluny , @trafficbutter , and @darakerr . Thanks: @richardjnieva Tweets: Melanie Ensign / @imeluny : Don't collect what you don't need. 🙌🏻 “The company said that the asse...
SoftBank says it sees a loss of ~$6.6B in the year ending March on its WeWork investment held outside the Vision Fund, extending its expected net loss to $8.4B
Sam Nussey / Reuters :
Joe Biden names Apple's VP for Public Policy Cynthia Hogan to his four-strong VP selection committee; Hogan was Biden's chief counsel in the Senate and as VP
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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