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Amazon reports Q2 revenue of $113.08B vs. $115.2B est., net sales grew 27% YoY, net income of $7.8B, and AWS net sales of $14.8B, up 37% YoY; stock down 5%+ — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) July 29, 2021—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2021.
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Amazon reports Q2 “other” category revenue, which mostly covers its ad business, of $7.9B, up 83% YoY, and subscription services revenue of $7.9B, up 28% YoY — Amazon saw second quarter net sales of $113 billion, up 27% but below expectations, dinging the shares in late trading.| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
EU fines Amazon a record $888M for violating GDPR data storage rules; Amazon says in a filing that the fine is “without merit” — - Luxembourg watchdog wields new powers with highest data fine — Fine follows probe based on complaint by French privacy group| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood closes down 8% on its first day of trading, after raising $2.1B in its IPO at a valuation of around $32B — - Stock trading app Robinhood fell more than 8% on its first day of trading on the Nasdaq. — Robinhood's opening price was $38 per share.
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Binance says it will wind down futures and derivatives trading in Europe, amid regulatory pressure; users will have 90 days to close from a date specified later — Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance said on Friday it would wind down its futures and derivatives products offerings across Europe …
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Source: NSO Group has temporarily blocked several government clients globally from using its technology as the company investigates their possible misuse — Israeli spyware company NSO Group has temporarily blocked several government clients around the world from using its technology … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Snap says it resolved an issue that prevented some Snapchat users from logging in and advises users to manually update the app if the issue persists — Snap resolved an issue preventing users from logging in — Snapchat experienced a massive issue Thursday evening, with more than 125,000 users reporting problems on Downdetector.
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A look at the fallout from the Activision Blizzard suit, as the company confirms it fired WoW lead for misconduct last year and hires “union-busting” law firm — Activision Blizzard is in crisis mode. The World of Warcraft publisher was the subject of a shocking lawsuit filed …
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Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, raises $205M Series C led by Vy Capital, with GV and others participating — In addition to SpaceX and Tesla, Neuralink is another Elon Musk company. Focused on building a brain machine interface, Neuralink today announced … | Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Researchers detail a never-before-seen attack against Iran's train system and transport ministry from a new threat actor using a reusable wiper called Meteor — SentinelOne analysts were able to recreate the July 9 attack and identify the threat actor behind it.
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Pinterest misses on user growth in Q2, with 454M MAUs vs. 482M est., as revenue beats, with $613M, up 125%+ YoY, vs. $562.1M est.; stock down 20%+ — - The company declined to provide third-quarter guidance on monthly active user due to the unknown impact of Covid-19 variants.
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Sources: SEC has stopped processing IPO and other registrations by Chinese companies as it crafts guidance for investors disclosures over China's crackdown — (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has stopped processing registrations of U.S. initial public offerings … | Bloomberg: |
China orders 25 tech companies, including Alibaba and Tencent, to do internal inspections to rectify issues from data security to consumer rights protections — - Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan among firms summoned to meetings — MIIT has announced 6-month campaign on the internet sector| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
48 civil rights and advocacy groups ask the FTC to ban corporate facial surveillance technology and continuous corporate surveillance of public space — The open letter uses Amazon as a case study to argue that corporate surveillance technologies cause immense harm and fall under the FTC's authority to ban.| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Profile of Israeli surveillance startup Paragon, funded with $5-10M from US-based Battery, which sources say allows police to hack encrypted messaging apps — Paragon Solutions doesn't have a website. There's very little information at all about them online, even if the Tel Aviv-based …
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