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Samsung announces two lightweight laptops with OLED screens: the Galaxy Book Pro, starting at $1K, and the Galaxy Book Pro 360, a convertible starting at $1.2K — Premium screens and premium features — Samsung has announced two new Galaxy Book devices: the Galaxy Book Pro …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
The Consumer Technology Association says CES will return to Las Vegas as an in-person event in 2022, and will be held from January 5 to 8 — The world's biggest tech conference is back — The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is officially returning to an in-person format in Las Vegas in 2022 …
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify reports Q1 profit of €23M, up from €1M a year earlier, revenue of €2.15B, up 16% YoY, 356M MAUs, up 24% YoY, and 158M paid subscribers, up 21% YoY — Audiostreaming platform warns of uncertain growth as newer markets endure a surge in coronavirus cases
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Sources: Apple is trimming planned production of AirPods by 25% to 30%, now expecting to make 75M-85M in 2021, compared with previous forecast of 110M — Wireless earphones face heated competition from Samsung, Xiaomi and others — TAIPEI — Apple is trimming its planned production …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
YouTube is on pace to book between $29B and $30B in revenue in 2021, equaling Netflix's expected revenue of $29.7B for the year — - YouTube is on pace to bring in annual revenue comparable to Netflix's. — The Google-owned video platform is seeing a rise in more traditional television advertisers.| Alphabet: |
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| Josef Adalian / Vulture: |
Netflix launches Play Something, an opt-in viewing mode that gives the service a more TV-like feel to fight viewers' decision fatigue — Ten years ago, Netflix got the idea that its app should work more like regular TV. This was early on in its transition from DVD delivery to streaming on demand …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Twilio rival MessageBird raises $800M as an extension to its $200M Series C from last October and acquires email marketing service SparkPost for $600M — MessageBird, a communications platform out of the Netherlands, had a busy day today with two huge announcements.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Shopify Q1: revenue of $988.6M, up 110% YoY, with gross merchandise volume up 114%, and net income of $1.26B due to $1.3B unrealized gain from its Affirm stake — Shopify said it expects growth rates to normalize as economies reopen, but it hasn't happened yet. Shopify's platform continues to surge.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Senator Amy Klobuchar on her new book about antitrust, why she doesn't think reining in the App Store will harm the Apple ecosystem, and more — My guest today is Senator Amy Klobuchar, the Democrat from Minnesota who has taken up the role of antitrust enforcer in the Senate under the Biden administration.
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| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan partners with Singapore's Temasek and DBS Group Holdings to create a blockchain-based platform for payments, trade, and foreign exchange settlement — JPMorgan Chase & Co. is teaming up with Singapore's Temasek Holdings Pte. and DBS Group Holdings Ltd. to create a new blockchain-based platform … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Sony reports Q4 PlayStation operating profit of $3.14B, on sales of 7.8M PlayStation 5 consoles as of March 31, and 47.6M PS Plus subscribers, up 14.7% YoY — 3.3 million moved from January to March — Sony has sold 7.8 million PlayStation 5 consoles as of March 31st, the company says in its latest earnings report.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
IRS arrests a Russian-Swedish citizen in LA for laundering 1.2M+ bitcoins over 10 years when he allegedly ran Bitcoin Fog, which remains online after his arrest — The alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog kept the dark web service running for 10 years before the IRS caught up with him.| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
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.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Alchemy raises $80M Series B led by Coatue and Addition at a $505M valuation to be the “AWS for blockchain”, says it's powering the majority of the NFT industry — Blockchain developer platform Alchemy announced today it has raised $80 million in a Series B round of funding led by Coatue and Addition, Lee Fixel's new fund.| Shen Lu / Protocol: |
Profile of Chinese AI-driven aggregator News Break, which says it has 45M MAUs and is finding success in the US through a sharp focus on local news — It's the most downloaded news app in the world — and the content it carries is entirely local. In the U.S., it drives more traffic than all but three apps.| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Interviews with Basecamp staff on how a “funny” customer names list sparked an internal reckoning and spurred Basecamp's societal and political discussion ban — How a list of “funny” customer names triggered an internal reckoning — I. — The controversy that embroiled …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
In 2013 emails, Eddy Cue pitched iMessage for Android, but Craig Federighi said it would simply “remove an obstacle to iPhone families” buying Android phones — ‘Do we want to lose one of the most important apps in a mobile environment to Google?’
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