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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Zuckerberg says he's redirected Facebook teams to serve young adults over older users, and that significant changes to Instagram will lean into video and Reels — Expect changes to Instagram to highlight Reels — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's redirected teams within his company to …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook misses on Q3 revenue, $29.01B vs $29.57B expected, and monthly active users, 2.91B vs 2.93B expected, but beat on EPS of $3.22 vs $3.19 expected — - Facebook's third-quarter earning report comes as the company faces an onslaught of stories related to its internal research.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Facebook says Q3 ad revenue grew 33% YoY to $28.28B but warns of “continued headwinds” in Q4 due to Apple's ATT changes in iOS — The social media giant also expects its “metaverse” investments will reduce operating profits by $10B for FY 2021, as it begins breaking out Facebook Reality Labs as its own business segment
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Facebook reports Q3 revenue up 35% YoY to $29.0B, profit of $9.2B, up 17% YoY, DAUs up 6% to 1.93B, headcount up 20% to 68,177, and ups share buybacks by $50B — Third Quarter 2021 Operational and Other Financial Highlights 1 Facebook daily active users (DAUs) - DAUs were 1.93 billion …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
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| Washington Post: |
Facebook documents show its News Feed algorithm treated emoji reactions as 5x more valuable than Likes starting in 2017, amplifying controversial content — Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic “like” thumbs-up: “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry.”
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Docs: Facebook tested turning off News Feed ranking for 0.05% of users in Feb. 2018 and found engagement dropped, Groups content rose, and ad views increased — New leaked Facebook documents show what happened when Facebook tried to remove feed ranking. It didn't go well.
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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Apple M1 Pro and Max review: CPU and GPU improvements offer an unparalleled combination of raw performance, unique acceleration, and power efficiency — Last week, Apple had unveiled their new generation MacBook Pro laptop series, a new range of flagship devices that bring with them significant updates …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
macOS 12 Monterey review: automation on Mac is revitalized with Shortcuts, Low Power Mode is nice, and it's packed with tons of small tweaks like AirPlay to Mac — An iterative update to Big Sur that has a little something for everyone. — Big Sur was a landmark release of macOS, in ways both technical and symbolic.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Stripe partners with Klarna to let retailers in the US, UK, and Europe more easily offer a buy now, pay later option — Tie-up will allow retailers easily to add option for customers to pay in instalments at checkouts — Online payments processor Stripe has entered a strategic partnership with …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon signs a contract with UK's GCHQ, MI5, and MI6 to host top-secret material, with data stored in the UK; the deal is worth £500M-£1B over a decade — Cloud contract for GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 with US tech group aims to speed analysis but likely to ignite sovereignty fears
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| Emily Graffeo / Bloomberg: |
Study: the top 10K individual bitcoin investors control about one-third of the cryptocurrency in circulation and ~50 miners control 50% of the mining capacity — - Research shines light on Bitcoin's elusive ownership structure — Top 10,000 investors control over one-third of supply| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
A look at the Integrity Institute, a think tank formed by two former Facebook employees that wants to bring together tech integrity workers studying tech misuse — Shortly before he left Facebook in October 2019, Jeff Allen published his last report as a data scientist for the company's integrity team …
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| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1 with SharePlay, iPhone 13 ProRes video capture, a toggle for automatic macro mode, vaccine cards in Wallet, and more — Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 15.1, the first major updates to the iOS 15 operating system that was released …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Frances Haugen's documents have been useful to groups opposing Facebook and the press, but reporting should now expand to explore Haugen and her backers' goals — At the end of 2019, the group of Facebook employees charged with preventing harms on the network gathered to discuss the year ahead.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Pixel 6 Pro review: an impressive flagship with excellent cameras, all day battery, and charging speeds up to 30W, but fingerprint sensor is “not super quick” — 2016 marked a major year for Google, with the launch of Assistant and its first self-made smartphone, the Google Pixel.
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