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Spotify has been experimenting with incorporating non-musical formats over the last couple of years, including videos and multimedia podcasts . Next up: Motion comics based on new  Archie stories. For those of you who haven’t been keeping track of the comics incarnations of Archie and his friends, the title was recently rebooted by writer Mark Waid ( Kingdom Come ) and artist Fiona Staples ( Saga ). While I was initially skeptical about the need to mess with the characters’ classic designs, I found the first collection to be a perfectly enjoyable combination of teen comedy and soap opera. Now, as announced in Nerdist , the first six issues have been transformed by digital comics startup Madefire with music and voice acting. It’s still a comic book, and you can still see Staples’ gorgeous art, but it’s a story that you hit a “play” button to experience, rather than turning any pages. (Madefire and its CEO Ben Wolstenholme prefer the term “motion books”  to distinguish th...

Juli Clover / MacRumors : Apple's “other products” revenue was $3.74B in Q3, up 37% YoY, and wearables revenue, which includes Apple Watch and AirPods, grew 60% YoY   —  Apple's “Other Products” category, which includes AirPods, Apple TV, Apple Watch, iPod touch, HomePod, Beats products … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2Atr9qr

Juli Clover / MacRumors : Apple Pay had 1B+ transactions in Q3, and will launch in Germany and at US-based CVS and 7-11 stores later this year   —  During today's earnings call for the third quarter of 2018, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple plans to bring Apple Pay to Germany later this year. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2OwkKOr

Among the many things the current administration has been criticized for is its lack of a unified strategy to combat cyber threats, especially in light of ongoing election interference and psy ops perpetrated by Russia. The Department of Homeland Security is advancing the ball with the creation of the National Risk Management Center, intended on protecting critical infrastructure from attacks and subversion by online adversaries. The NRMC was announced today at a cyber summit in New York held by the agency, where DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen explained the purpose and justification for this new entity. Remarkably, she directly contradicted the ongoing soft-pedaling by the Executive of Russian operations targeting the country. “Let me be clear: Our intelligence community had it right. It was the Russians. It was directed from the highest levels. And we cannot and will not allow it to happen again,” she said. DHS Secretary Nielsen in 2017. Thus the creation of the NRMC, which wi...

Nat Levy / GeekWire : DocuSign acquires Chicago-based cloud document management company SpringCM for $220M in cash to grow its business beyond electronic signatures   —  DocuSign said it has agreed to acquire SpringCM, a Chicago-based cloud document generation and contract management company, for $220 million in cash. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2LSKNkn

Sara Salinas / CNBC : Apple reports $9.55B in services revenue, up 31% YoY, vs. $9.21B est., as the company moves toward its goal of $14B in quarterly services revenue by 2020   —  - Wall Street had expected software and services revenue to remain essentially unchanged from the previous quarter, according to StreetAccount. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2voZpOd

Apple is inching closer and closer to becoming a $1 trillion company today after posting third quarter results that beat out what analysts were expecting and bumping the stock another few percentage points — which, by Apple standards, is tens of billions of dollars. The company’s stock is up around 2.5% this afternoon after the report, which at a prior market close with a market cap of around $935 billion, is adding nearly another $20-plus billion to its market cap. A few quarters ago we were walking about how Apple was in shooting distance of that $1 trillion mark, but now it seems more and more like Apple will  actually hit it. Apple is headed into its most important few quarters as we hit the back half of the year, with its usual new lineup of iPhones and other products and its accompanying critical holiday quarter. Here’s a quick breakdown of the numbers: Revenue:   $53.3 billion, up 17% year-over-year compared to analyst expectations of $52.34 billion. Earning...

Business Wire : Apple Reports Third Quarter Results   —  Revenue Up 17 Percent and EPS Up 40 Percent to New June Quarter Records  —  Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High  —  CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2018 third quarter ended June 30, 2018. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2vaDwTB

Max A. Cherney / MarketWatch : Pandora beats with $384.8M in Q2 revenue, up from $378.8M YoY, a net loss of $92M, down from $289.7M YoY, reports ~6M subs to Pandora Plus and Pandora Premium   —  Pandora Media Inc. P, -2.46% shares rose more than 8% in the extended session Tuesday after the streaming music company reported narrower … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2mVRwvI

James Yan / Counterpoint Research : Chinese smartphone market declined 7% YoY in Q2 2018, the fourth consecutive quarter of annual decline; Huawei's marketshare grew from 20% to 26%   —  Huawei was the fastest and lone brand registering a positive 22% YoY growth leading the market with an all-time-record share. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2LFem9K

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg : Ecommerce startup Brandless, which sells all of its generic home-goods staples for $3, raises $240M from SoftBank's Vision Fund at a $500M+ valuation   —  Brandless sells about 300 generic home-goods staples, mostly for $3 each.  —  It's tough to wow Masayoshi Son with a bargain … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/2Mamo6w

The social network has found evidence of a co-ordinated campaign to influence the US mid-term vote. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8290670 https://ift.tt/2LQwmx6

Apple's share value could climb through the trillion-dollar mark. What other companies are close? from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8290670 https://ift.tt/2Oyopvg

The technology company says sales of its phone were lower than expected, but has plans to fix the problem. from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8290670 https://ift.tt/2LFFGob

Unknown midterm election attackers that Facebook has removed were hosting a political rally next month that they pinned on Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other organizations, according to third-party event websites that scraped the now-removed Facebook events. Facebook provided an image of the deleted “No Unite The Right 2 – DC” event as part of its announcement today that merely showed its image, title, date, location, and that a Page called “Resisters” was one of the hosts of the propaganda event. But a  scraped event description  TechCrunch discovered on Rallyist provides deeper insight into the disruptive information operation. Facebook won’t name the source of the election interference but said the attackers shared a connection through a single account to the Russian Internet Research Agency responsible for 2016 presidential election interference on Facebook. “We are calling all anti-fascists and people of good conscience to participate in international days of act...

TV Time , the consumer app that helps bingers keep track of where they are with favorite shows and socialize with fellow viewers, is today expanding its business with the launch of an analytics platform called  TVLytics.  The new service will allow creators and distributors to tap into real-time data from across more than 60,000 TV shows. It will also offer other anonymized data collected from viewers, including things like on which platforms viewers watched, their favorite characters, bingeing behavior, viewers’ locations, anticipation from fans for new episodes, social engagement and more. The data is pulled from the app’s community of around a million daily users  from more than 200 countries who check in with the app some 45 million times per month. To date, TV Time has tracked more than 10 billion TV episodes, and has seen 210 million reactions. TV Time began its life as a source for TV show GIFs known as WhipClip , but later pivoted to a social TV community afte...