Microsoft says Teams is now at 145M DAUs, up from 75M DAUs YoY, and announces new Teams integrations with Dynamics 365, which saw quarterly revenue grow 45% YoY
Microsoft says revenue from LinkedIn's ads business, called LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, grew 60% YoY to more than $3B in the year ended March 31
- Microsoft said Tuesday that LinkedIn Marketing Solutions has brought in more than $3 billion in revenue in the past 12 months. Tweets: @megancgraham Tweets: Meg Graham / @megancg...
With the removal of Trump's Twitter account, many of his tweets embedded on thousands of web pages were wiped out, creating an ultimate case of “link rot”
All those embedded posts of his tweets are now broken — When Twitter banned President Trump from its platform permanently on Friday …
As Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, a shift from mainstream platforms would mark a retreat to insular conservative communities
Twitter's decision to ban President Trump mere days before the end of his term sparked a fierce political backlash among …
Sources: Zoom has begun developing a web email service for businesses, and may trial it next year, and is also considering building a calendar app
and how 2020 changed Zoom forever Tweets: Sharon O'Dea / @sharonodea : But y tho? (Seriously, no one wants this. Changing your primary email is a PITA so adding gmail won't encoura...
Global VC funding for edtech totaled $4.1B between January and July 2020, which is the highest amount raised in that time frame for the past five years
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LinkedIn says it has sold presentation-sharing service SlideShare to Scribd, which will take over its operation on September 24
SlideShare has a new owner, with LinkedIn selling the presentation-sharing service to Scribd for an undisclosed price. — According to LinkedIn …
Jeffrey Katzenberg blames COVID-19 for Quibi's paltry downloads as execs lower projections from 7M users and $250M subscriber revenue estimated for first year
Downloads of the $1.8 billion short-form streaming app, meant for phones, are paltry. “I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus,” Mr. Katzenberg said.
Microsoft says Teams has 75M+ DAUs, up from 44M in mid-March, a 70% increase, and attributes the growth to COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic is juicing up numbers for remote work and learning. Microsoft's fiscal Q3 2020 earnings call kicked off with CEO Satya Nadella sharing a slew of numbers.
Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others sign an open letter opposing more than dozen bills across the US that target LGBTQ citizens
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Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others sign an open letter opposing more than dozen bills across the US that target LGBTQ citizens
Apple is among 40 companies voicing opposition to recent bills introduced across the United States that target LGBTQ citizens.
Uber reports Q4 revenue of $4.1B, up 37% YoY, gross bookings of $18.1B, up 28%, and net loss of $1.1B; gross bookings from Uber Eats were $4.37B, up 71% YoY
@dkhos, beating street expectations https://www.ft.com/...
Uber's stock rose as much as 10% after hours after the company announced a Q4 loss that was narrower than expected and moved its profitability forecast forward
- Uber's revenue growth picked up in the quarter. — During the fourth quarter, Uber faced tighter regulations impacting …
Uber reports Q4 revenue of $4.1B, up 37% YoY, gross bookings of $18.1B, up 28%, and net loss of $1.1B; gross bookings from Uber Eats were $4.37B, up 71% YoY
Revenue of $4.1 billion, growing 37% year-over-year or 39% on a constant currency basis — Rides Adjusted EBITDA of $742 million, with continued margin expansion
Hivebrite, a community management and engagement platform, raises $20M Series A led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to about $23M
Engaging and managing online groups can be the stuff of nightmares, but it is generally worth it — communities on average generate a 6,469% return …
iPhone XR has been the top-selling model globally in every quarter since Q4 2018 and contributed to over one-quarter of total Apple sales in Q3 2019
According to Counterpoint Research's Market Pulse, the iPhone XR was the top-selling model globally in Q3 2019, capturing 3% market share.
A graduate of Slack's Next Chapter initiative, which helps former prison inmates land tech jobs, recounts how he managed to land a full-time job at the company
Jesse Aguirre's workday at Slack starts with a standard engineering meeting—programmers call them “standups”—where he and his co-workers plan the day's agenda. Tweets: @csinschools...
Eden, a B2B workplace management platform that connects office managers with service providers in 25 markets including Berlin and London, raises $25M Series B
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch : Tweets: @sameerpatel Tweets: Sameer Patel / @sameerpatel : What a great great idea for a marketplace. https://twitter.com/...
Ping, which uses AI to track the hours lawyers work and fill out timesheets, raises $13.2M Series A led by Upfront Ventures
Counting billable time in six-minute increments is the most annoying part of being a lawyer. It's a distracting waste. It leads law firms to conservatively under-bill.
Chronosphere, founded by two ex-Uber engineers, raises $11M Series A for a scalable, cloud-native production monitoring tool able to handle Uber-level scale
Ron Miller / TechCrunch : Tweets: @sameerpatel Tweets: Sameer Patel / @sameerpatel : “Uber-level scale” is the new “Uber for X”. Seeing this over and over again. https://twitter.c...