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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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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @jack, @facebook, @gregisenberg, @aoc, @evleaks, @teddyschleifer, @pixelatedboat, @mosseri, @heatherkelly, @viacristiano, @danpfeiffer, @yoda, @joshconstine, @twittersafety, @kantrowitz, @markgurman, @ibogost, @mathewi, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @ambermruffin, @pwnallthethings, @_kinjalbshah, @donie, @beijingdou, @loomdart, @larakiara, @tobi, @aprilaser, @cmclymer, @lollardfish, @janelytv, @the_law_boy, @buzzfeed, @bocxtop, @nickclegg, @aldiuk, @pixelatedboat, @jason_kint, @kottke, @kamirieck, @facebook, @cwarzel, @ricmac, @danprimack, @mahon_e, @artificialnix, @bensoskis, @teddyschleifer, @teddyschleifer, @kurtwagner8, @noahshachtman, @hshaban, @brandyljensen, @cwarzel, @pierce, @sandofsky, @hananc, @joshuatopolsky, @jboorstin, @jeremy_childs, @rmayemsinger, @scobie, @mh4oh, @masonpelt, and @fbnewsroom
| 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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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @alexsobel, @tressiemcphd, @jonesonthenba, @alexeheath, and @mathewi. Thanks:@thekenyeung
| Andrew Bosworth: |
Andrew Bosworth says Meta will replace the Oculus brand starting in early 2022, changing Oculus Quest to Meta Quest and Oculus App to Meta Quest App — 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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The Verge, PCMag, Vox, UploadVR, Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, Protocol, SlashGear, GameSpot, and Liliputing
Tweets: @devindra, @nathievr, @katienotopoulos, @bcarlton727, @stephentotilo, @tomwarren, @gavindyoung, and @kentbye
| 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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VICE, The Verge, Bloomberg, UploadVR, GameRevolution, Road to VR, VentureBeat, Ad Age, UploadVR, Forbes, Mashable, and Livemint
Facebook: Facebook Reality Labs. Tweets: @edludlow, @caseynewton, @carolecadwalla, @manoushz, @kantrowitz, @janelytv, @willoremus, @caseynewton, @kantrowitz, @willoremus, @tobi, @sarafischer, @jason_koebler, @can, @samfbiddle, @donie, @kevinbankston, @benedictevans, @heatherkelly, @heatherkelly, @ashleyrgold, @harrymccracken, and @teroterotero
| 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 — Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.
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Oculus, Axios, MobileSyrup, CNET, Facebook Technology, Road to VR, Oculus Blog, UploadVR, TechCrunch, Engadget, techadvisor.com, CNET, Gizmodo, Livemint, The Verge, VentureBeat, and VRScout
Tweets: @daveyalba, @technology, @papapishu, @axios, @jeffbercovici, and @boztank
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Facebook teases Project Cambria, a high-end mixed reality headset coming next year with cameras that allow high-resolution passthrough — We'll learn more next year — Facebook is planning a high-end virtual and augmented reality headset codenamed “Project Cambria.”
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UploadVR, VentureBeat, Engadget, UploadVR, CNET, KnowTechie, Road to VR, and IGN. Tweets: @scottnover
| 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 …
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WISH-TV, Windows Central, CNET, UploadVR, Social Media Today, TechCrunch, and Road to VR
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
| 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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iThinkDifferent, Reuters, apple.com, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, Macworld, MacRumors, Engadget, ZDNet, SlashGear, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iPhone in Canada Blog, Six Colors, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @iansherr, @rogerwcheng, @neilcybart, @neilcybart, @jsnell, @starfire2258, @jsnell, @jsnell, @jsnell, and @jsnell
| 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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The Verge, MacRumors, MobileSyrup, AppleInsider, CNET, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @neilcybart and @growth_value_
| 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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CNBC, Yahoo Finance, GeekWire, Protocol, CNET, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, The Verge, ZDNet, and CNBC
Tweets: @timbray, @thestalwart, @dee_bosa, @asymco, @fshakir, @dee_bosa, @jordannovet, @spencerchen, @asymco, @somospostpc, @jonerlichman, @robotodd, and @lamonicabuzz
| 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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Tom's Hardware, YouTube, XDA Developers, Jeff Geerling, HotHardware.com News, and PCWorld. Tweets: @raspberry_pi
| 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, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Apple Support, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Tom's Hardware, How-To Geek, iThinkDifferent, MobileSyrup, The Verge, MSPoweruser, and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @jatodaro
| 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, Engadget, 9to5Google, Android Central, and phonearena.com
Tweets: @richontech, @jrraphael, and @9to5google
| 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, Bloomberg, and Decrypt
| 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.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Apple joins Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems, a program by Belgium-based R&D organization Imec to help reduce environmental impact of chips — Apple today announced that it has joined Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems (SSTS), a new research program launched … | Jennifer Ryan / Bloomberg: |
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, who earned $154.6M last year, will take a pay cut to $62,500 and forego equity grants until diversity goals are met — - Compensation included paying CEO $154.6 million last year — Company facing sexual harassment and discrimination case
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| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the impact of Apple's ATT on Alphabet and Facebook: limits on Facebook's ad targeting raises ad spends for brands, sending some advertisers to Google — New iPhone privacy standards rocked digital advertising, raising some boats and lowering others| Washington Post: |
NYU research suggests Twitter's algorithms promote conservative politicians because they are more likely to be “ratioed”, which Twitter may count as engagement — Our research suggests conservative politicians are ‘ratioed’ more often. That may explain why they're in your timeline.| Reuters: |
Shopify reports Q3 revenue of $1.12B, up 46% YoY, gross merchandise volume of $41.8B, up 35% YoY, and says cumulative GMV reached $400B — Canada's Shopify Inc's (SHOP.TO) third-quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street estimates, hurt by stiff competition as rivals invest more money to develop their e-commerce platforms.| Berber Jin / The Information: |
UnitedMasters, a music distribution app for independent musicians, raises a $50M Series C led by a16z at a $550M valuation — UnitedMasters, a music distribution app for independent musicians, has raised $50 million in a round led by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz at a $550 million valuation, including the new investment.| 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.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Anomalo, which uses AI to find issues in data sets, raises a $33M Series A led by NVP, formally launches, and says it already has $1M+ in revenue — As companies gather ever-growing sets of data, finding issues with that data that could impact the viability of a machine learning model becomes increasingly important.| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Samsung reports Q3 net profit of ~$10.5B, up 31% YoY, on record revenue of ~$63B, up 10% YoY, beating estimates; semiconductor sales nearly doubled to ~$8.5B — Credit high demand for chips, foldables, Switch OLED, and the iPhone 13. — In 2020, Samsung weathered the pandemic by posting … | Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Crypto infrastructure company Alchemy, which wants to be the “AWS for blockchains”, raises a $250M Series C at a $3.5B valuation led by a16z — Crypto infrastructure company Alchemy said Thursday it raised $250 million in a Series C round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) …
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