Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, April 26, 2018.

Today it's an earnings bon, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and what might Samsung's

earnings mean for Apple? Also new Snapchat spectacles, a look behind the scenes at Nintendo, a possible Sonos IPO, and

Dig finds a new home.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Earnings for Amazon came in just a minute ago and the lists were expecting revenue of

49.78 billion dollars and earnings per share of a dollar and 26 cents.

Well Q1 revenue came in at 51.04 billion, representing 40% growth.

These revenue numbers include sales from Whole Foods now, of course.

Earnings per share came in at $3.27.

That represents profits of $1.6 billion

and marks the 12th straight profitable quarter for Amazon.

What investors were really clued into were the AWS numbers,

revenues for which came in at 5.44 billion versus 5.25 billion estimated. That means AWS

sales grew 49% year over year, generating 1.4 billion in operating income, representing 73% of Amazon's total operating income.

At the time of this recording, 4.30 PM Eastern Time, Amazon's stock was hitting new all-time highs up around 6%.

Microsoft also reported earnings, but this was Microsoft's quarter three revenues, and they were a beat as well.

Revenue came in at 26.8 billion up 16% year over year.

Profits were 7.4 billion, up 35% year over year.

Earnings per share were 95 cents a share.

Analysts were expecting 85 cents a share,

but at the time of this recording

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