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| Mark Zuckerberg / About Facebook: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook the company is now Meta, to better encompass all of its products — We are at the beginning of the next chapter for the internet, and it's the next chapter for our company too. — In recent decades, technology has given people the power to connect and express ourselves more naturally.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Interview with Mark Zuckerberg on rebranding the company to Meta to avoid the awkwardness of sharing the name of its main app, building the metaverse, and more — The company wants to move past the ‘confusion and awkwardness’ of sharing a name with its main app
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| Andrew Bosworth: |
Andrew Bosworth says Facebook Reality Labs will become Reality Labs, Oculus brand will shift to Meta for hardware and Oculus Quest app starting in early 2022 — Well the cat's (officially) out of the bag: Our company is now Meta to better reflect who we are and our ambitions to help build the metaverse.
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Game Developer, Gizmodo, The Verge, FrontPageTech.com, PCMag, UploadVR, Observer, Vox, Engadget, CNET, Engadget, and TechCrunch
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
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| YouTube: |
Video of Facebook Connect 2021, where VR updates, Project Cambria, and a new Meta brand name were announced — Tune in at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET on Thurs. Oct. 28 when Facebook holds its annual Facebook Connect. The company is expected to announce Oculus updates and o...
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR spaces, Messenger VR calls, fitness VR, Quest for Business, including Work Accounts support on Quest 2, and more — this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. — Facebook has turned its social media battleship toward the metaverse …
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| The Verge: |
Facebook announces Presence Platform, with three SDKs to help create mixed reality experiences for the Oculus Quest VR headset — Facebook says the Presence Platform ‘will be key to feeling connected in the metaverse’ — At this year's Facebook Connect, the platform revealed something called … | Apple: |
Apple misses with Q4 revenue of $83.4B, up 29% YoY, vs $84.85B est., iPhone revenue of $38.87B, up 47% YoY, services revenue of $18.3B, up 25.6%; stock down 5%+ — New September quarter record with revenue up 29 percent — Services and Mac revenue reach new all-time highs
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple reports Q4 Mac revenue of $9.18B, up 1.6% YoY, and iPad revenue of $8.25B, up 21.4% YoY, and says supply chain issues cost the company ~$6B in the quarter — - Apple revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter on Thursday, which Apple CEO Tim Cook attributed …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
The Facebook View app on iOS contains an image of a potential Meta smartwatch, which has a front-facing camera, rounded screen, and a detachable wrist strap — - Device has front-facing camera, possibly for videoconferencing — Image of watch is found inside of Facebook View iPhone app
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| About Amazon: |
Amazon misses with Q3 revenue of $110.8B, up 15% YoY, vs $111.6B est., net income of $3.2B, down from $6.3B YoY, AWS net sales of $16.1B, up 39%; stock down 4%+ — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2021.
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| Zachary Basu / Axios: |
Microsoft launches a campaign to help fill 250,000 cybersecurity jobs in the US by 2025, offering scholarships and free curriculum for community colleges — Microsoft announced Thursday that it's launching a national campaign to help fill 250,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. by 2025 …
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| K.G Orphanides / Wired UK: |
Review of Raspberry Pi's new $15 Zero 2 W, featuring a 64-bit CPU, 512MB RAM, and WiFi 4: surprisingly powerful and ideal for emulation and automation projects — The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is powerful for a computer the size of a matchbox, but get a Pi 4 or Pi 400 if you want a better desktop experience
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| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
While Pixel 6 receives good reviews thanks to its Tensor SoC and other advances, hitting a 7M shipment goal requires carrier distribution, a weakness for Google — Company heavily touts new in-house chip for Pixel 6, but better carrier distribution would help sales more
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple support document says 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro users can turn on “scale to fit below built-in camera” to avoid notch app compatibility issues — Apple today shared a new support document that explains how users can ensure that an app's menu bar items do not appear hidden behind …
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9to5Mac, The Verge, Apple Support, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Tom's Hardware, iThinkDifferent, Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, MSPoweruser, and How-To Geek
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google says it will roll out e2e encrypted phone calls on Google Fi over the coming weeks — But only for calls between two Android phones on Fi — In the coming weeks, Google is rolling out end-to-end encrypted phone calls on its Google Fi MVNO, the search giant announced today.
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The Keyword, CNET, Android Police, Android Central, phonearena.com, and Engadget. Tweets: @richontech
| Reuters: |
Zendesk announces plans to acquire Momentive, which owns SurveyMonkey, in an all-stock deal worth nearly $4B; Zendesk stock falls 16% after hours — Software services company Zendesk Inc said on Thursday it would buy Momentive Global Inc and its SurveyMonkey platform for nearly $4 billion in an all-stock deal.
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ZDNet, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, and Business Wire
| Jacob Silverman / New York Magazine: |
While whistleblowing and accountability journalism are useful, only sweeping political changes can limit Facebook's power, which has proven enduring — Amid years of ongoing crisis, Facebook in recent weeks has faced the public-relations equivalent of nuclear annihilation.| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Global money laundering watchdog FATF releases guidelines that could force crypto companies to check customers' identities and report suspicious transactions — New guidelines could spur more crypto firms to check their customers' identities and report suspicious transactions to regulators
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Coin Center, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, bitcoinexchangeguide.com, and Decrypt
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Swap, a São Paulo-based BaaS startup that helps clients manage their financial operations via its APIs, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global — Swap, a São Paulo-based BaaS startup, announced today it has raised $25 million in a Series A led by Tiger Global Management.Thanks:@bayareawriter
| Reuters: |
Meme-based coin Shiba Inu rose about 160% this week, briefly surpassing dogecoin to become the eighth biggest cryptocurrency by market cap — Dogecoin, watch out! — Meme-based cryptocurrency Shiba Inu soared more than 45% over the last 24 hours, muscling its way into the top 10 largest digital tokens by market capitalization.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter launches the Spaces Recording feature that was announced last month, to a limited number of Spaces hosts on iOS and all listeners on iOS and Android — Twitter announced last month it would soon introduce an option that allows hosts to record their live audio sessions in Twitter Spaces to make them available for replay.Sponsor Posts
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