Alphabet Shrugs Off Bad News With Big Quarter
Google’s parent company, profitable as usual, also benefited from recent corporate tax cuts. Alphabet Shrugs Off Bad News With Big Quarter Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreGoogle’s parent company, profitable as usual, also benefited from recent corporate tax cuts. Alphabet Shrugs Off Bad News With Big Quarter Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The European Parliament adopts a resolution calling for an EU audit of Facebook’s data protection and user security protocols — The European Parliament has called for a full audit of Facebook following a string of data breach scandals — including the Cambridge Analytica affair. The European Parliament adopts a resolution calling
Read MoreMegan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: Airbnb says it has hired Aristotle Balogh, Google’s VP of engineering, application storage, and indexing and serving, to be its new CTO; current CTO to leave — Megan Rose Dickey @meganrosedickey / 7 hours — Ahead of Airbnb’s expected initial public offering sometime within the next two years … Airbnb
Read MoreNiantic today announced a new feature for Pokemon GO called “Adventure Sync” — a lofty name for a very simple feature: step tracking. Specifically, Adventure Sync will record your walking distance in the background, even if you’re doing other things with your phone. Up to now, the only way for the app to track your
Read MoreThe social media company lost two million daily active users over the third quarter and reported another financial loss. Snap Continues to Struggle to Gain Users Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Interviews with 70+ current and former Netflix employees tell of a culture of candor and transparency that some find ruthless, demoralizing, and dysfunctional — Buzzwords and anxiety fill the hallways as Hollywood giant tries to maintain a winning culture amid breakneck growth; ‘sunshining’ the ‘N-word’ scandal Interviews with 70+ current and former
Read MoreDo you need to spend $900 for good earbuds? No. But spend a few minutes listening to the Fidue Sirius A91, and you might want to. I had to get the price out of the way. Not many people are willing to drop that amount of dough on full-size headphones, let alone earbuds – or
Read MoreJillian D’Onfro / CNBC: Alphabet reports Q3 Google ad business revenue of $28.95B, “other” revenues, like cloud and hardware, of $4.64B, and traffic acquisition costs of $6.58B — Google-parent company Alphabet just reported its third quarter earnings. The company beat earnings expectations but missed revenue expectations. Alphabet reports Q3 Google ad business revenue of .95B,
Read MoreMillions of dollars in local fees are at stake over efforts to accelerate the spread of 5G wireless technology. Cities are challenging the FCC with a court fight over cell sites Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreGabe Cohn / New York Times: Christie’s sells a portrait by the French art collective Obvious generated using AI for $432,500, over 40x its estimated price, a first for the auction house — Last Friday, a portrait produced by artificial intelligence was hanging at Christie’s New York opposite an Andy Warhol print and beside a
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Amazon reports AWS Q3 revenue of $6.68B, up 46% YoY, and $2.1B in operating income; AWS was 12% of Amazon’s total revenue and 56% of its total operating income — Amazon’s cloud-computing business grew 46 in the third quarter, trailing analysts’ estimates. Amazon reports AWS Q3 revenue of .68B, up 46%
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Intel reports Q3 revenues of $19.2B, up 19% YoY, and net income of $6.4B, up 42% YoY, beating analyst estimates on strong PC and data center chip demand — Intel Intel stock rose 4 percent Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected third-quarter earnings. Intel reports Q3 revenues of .2B, up 19%
Read MoreSara Salinas / CNBC: Snap reports Q3 revenue of $298M, vs. $283M estimated, up 43% YoY, and DAUs of 186M, vs. 186.1M estimated, up 5% YoY but down 1% QoQ — – Wall Street was keeping a close eye on active user numbers for Snap’s namesake photo-sharing app, Snapchat, as global social media use plateaus.
Read MoreFox Nation, a stand-alone streaming service, is the first test of an online subscription model in the cable news market. It will debut next month. Can’t Get Enough Fox News? ‘Superfans’ Can Pay a Year for More Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreAlphabet’s quarterly revenue misses expectations even as profit soars. Google financial results mixed, but Wall Street disappointed – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOne of the few times you can say $2 billion didn’t actually help. Amazon's Prime Day boost couldn't save it from disappointing sales – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreSnapchat reported third quarter earnings Thursday and said it’s user base continues to shrink, raising concerns about its future. Snapchat's users keep slipping away – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreA Picasso went for the same price. AI-made portrait sells at Christie's auction for 2,500 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNetflix’s manifesto on culture is legendary in Silicon Valley, making it a bedrock of how the tech industry treats workers. Netflix workplace culture often 'ruthless, demoralizing,' WSJ reports – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAs many as 48 people have been fired from Google over sexual harassment allegations over the past two years, CEO Sundar Pichai said, 13 of whom were senior managers and above. Google says it’s fired 48 people for sexual misconduct, amid reports it paid million to an accused harasser Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreQuantum computers are fragile miracles of physics that are unreliable, cost-prohibitive, and more error-prone than a shortstop with no depth perception. But, if we ever want to get to Star Trek levels of technology, we probably need them. To make them useful we have to make them reliable. And that’s a pretty tall order. The
Read MoreThe GePS is a musical project that shows how important integration work is when it comes to gesture controls. Creators [Cedric Spindler] and [Frederic Robinson] demonstrate how the output of a hand-mounted IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) and magnetometer can be used to turn motion, gestures, and quick snap movements into musical output. The GePS is designed
Read MoreEA is apparently determined to ensure its latest endeavor, WWII-era shooter Battlefield V, is getting as much space as possible to prove it’s different from its eternal rival Call of Duty. The company has now put the brakes on BFV‘s battle royale in favor of the game‘s single-player story, meaning that (for the time being, anyway) it won’t
Read MoreJack Nicas / New York Times: A look at how Apple combines algorithms and roughly 30 journalists to curate Apple News, which is read regularly by 90M people, and its plans for the app — Many of Apple’s employees moved into a glistening new $5 billion glass headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., this year. A look
Read MoreDavid Shepardson / Reuters: Trump signs memo asking Department of Commerce to develop a national spectrum strategy for 5G and is creating a White House Spectrum Strategy Task Force — WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a presidential memorandum directing the Commerce Department … Trump signs memo asking Department of Commerce
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