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Twitter reports Q4 revenue of $1.29B, up 28% YoY, and average monetizable daily active usage growth of 27% YoY to 192M, net income of $222M, up from $119M YoY — Revenue Engagement Q4 was a strong finish to the year with revenue of $1.29 billion, up 28% year over year …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Twitter says it expects expenses growth of 25%+ in 2021, alongside a 20% workforce bump; forecasts user growth to slow to the low double digits after Q1 — - Twitter's stock was flat in after-hours trading on Tuesday after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is developing a wall-mounted Echo device with a large touchscreen that serves as a smart home control panel, video chat device, and media player — - Lab126 unit developing new device with touchscreen and Alexa — Product to be thinner than Echo Show, come with video chat
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| Mikhail Klimentov / Washington Post: |
Riot Games CEO Nicolas Laurent has been accused of gender-based harassment in a lawsuit filed by a former executive assistant who was terminated in July 2020 — A lawsuit filed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court in January by Sharon O'Donnell, a former executive assistant at Riot Games …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Salesforce says “the 9-to-5 workday is dead” and that after the pandemic most staff will work a flex schedule, going into the office 1-3 days per week — ‘It no longer makes sense to expect employees to work an eight-hour shift.’ — Cloud computing company Salesforce is joining … | Dexter Thomas / VICE: |
Police officers in Beverly Hills have played licensed music while being filmed by citizens, seemingly in an effort to trigger social networks' copyright filters — Police officers in Beverly Hills have been playing music while being filmed, seemingly in an effort to trigger Instagram's copyright filters.| Bloomberg: |
A look at how Tim Cook has transformed Apple after Jobs into a more diversified company and successfully deflected political pressure — Trade war? Pfft. Trump? Please. Antitrust? Zuck's prob. (Ditto privacy.) Revenue? Endless.
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| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Leaked images purportedly show mockups of Android 12, including major UI changes, a privacy indicator, conversation widget, new themes, and more — Google is set to release its next major version of Android — Android 12 — later this year, following a series of Developer Previews and Betas …
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| Jaron Schneider / PetaPixel: |
Adobe brings document collaboration to Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fresco, enabling asynchronous editing of files across desktop, iPhone, and iPad — Adobe is leaning a bit more into the benefits of a cloud-based architecture with the rollout of an easy collaboration button and asynchronous editing …
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| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft launches two new apps for Teams: Bulletins, where organizations can share news in one place, and Milestones, which tracks the status of work items — Two new apps for Microsoft Teams are here to help improve productivity and communication. — What you need to know| Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: |
Huawei files a lawsuit against the FCC for its decision to designate the company as a national security threat, says the order was beyond FCC's scope of powers — It has accused the FCC of making the designation without providing substantial evidence. — Huawei has once again filed …
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| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
Shopify is bringing its checkout and payment processing service, Shop Pay, to Instagram today and to Facebook Shops in the next few weeks — Customers will be able to use the system, called Shop Pay, to complete purchases on the social platforms — Shopify Inc., a commerce platform for businesses …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
In iOS 14.5 beta, Maps adds a feature letting US users report accidents, hazards, and speed checks along their route using Siri or CarPlay — The iOS 14.5 beta, available to developers and public beta testers, adds a new Apple Maps feature that lets you report accidents, hazards … | Maggie Miller / The Hill: |
Google expands its US election security efforts with free training for state campaigns, after providing Titan Security Keys to 140+ federal campaigns in 2020 — Google announced Tuesday it is expanding its efforts around election security by providing free training to state and federal campaigns in all 50 states.
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| Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog: |
Prepear says it has “amicably resolved its trademark issue with Apple” and revised the logo for its recipe search app by changing the logo's leaf shape — Back in August 2020, iPhone in Canada reported on meal planner and grocery app, Prepear, and its trademark dispute with Apple.| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
A researcher was able to breach 35+ companies, including Microsoft and Apple, in a new software supply chain attack that leveraged an open source ecosystem flaw — A researcher managed to breach over 35 major companies' internal systems, including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix … | Bloomberg: |
CA DMV filing: Apple's self-driving cars topped 18,800 test miles in 2020, up from 7,544 in 2019, with disengagements every 145 miles, up from every 118 miles — - Apple vehicles drove farther in 2020 without disengagements — Company won't launch its own consumer car for at least 5 years
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| Shawna Chen / Axios: |
Match Group to acquire South Korean social media company Hyperconnect for $1.73B in cash and stock; Hyperconnect's Azar 1-on-1 live chat app has 540M downloads — Online dating company Match Group announced Tuesday plans to acquire Korean social media company Hyperconnect for $1.73 billion.
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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
London-based Nothing, a consumer electronics startup from a OnePlus co-founder working on wireless headphones, raises $15M from GV — - Nothing will release headphones, other products this year — GV backs startup's ‘Series A’ funding round with $15 million
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Qualcomm unveils its next-gen X65 5G modem, likely to appear in phones in 2022, and says it can download data at 10Gbps speeds and offers better battery life — Qualcomm's new modem is here, it's blazing fast and it's not just for phones . The Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System can download data …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Cisco reports Q2 revenue of $11.96B, nearly flat YoY, Security revenue of $822M, up 10% YoY, and Infrastructure Platforms revenue down 3% YoY to $6.39B — Cisco posted better-than-expected second quarter results, though revenue remained flat year-over-year.
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| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Researchers: flaws in how some browsers cache favicons can lead to website visitors being tracked, even if they are in incognito mode or use script blockers — // Favicons can break through incognito mode, VPNs, and Pi-holes to track your movement online — Favicons are one of those things … Sponsor Posts
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