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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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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Facebook's Meta renaming is a bet on the power of founder control, and is about a future that doesn't yet exist, but one that Zuckerberg believes needs to — The obvious analogy to Facebook's announcement that it is renaming itself Meta and re-organizing its financials to separate …
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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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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Facebook's metaverse is designed to solve several problems: an ageing userbase, dependence on Google and Apple, regulatory risk, and reputational damage — If his new strategy works — a big if — it could help address several of Facebook's biggest problems.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
The Facebook View app on iOS contains an image of a potential Meta smartwatch, with a front-facing camera notch, 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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| 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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| 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 3%+ — 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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| 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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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Europol says it has detained 12 suspects that were orchestrating ransomware attacks that hit 1,800+ victims across 71 countries since 2019 — - Twelve members of a ransomware group were detained this week in Ukraine and Switzerland, Europol said. — Suspects are believed to have orchestrated …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Google releases a Chrome update that fixes seven vulnerabilities, including two zero-days exploited in the wild — Google has released Chrome 95.0.4638.69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities that attackers have actively exploited.
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Google Chrome Releases, The Record, TechRadar, KnowTechie, ZDNet, The Hacker News, and SecurityWeek
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google and Jio debut $87 JioPhone Next with a 5.45-inch HD+ display and Qualcomm's quad-core QM-215 chipset, available November 4 in India — Google and Indian telecom network Jio Platforms said on Friday that their much-anticipated budget smartphone, JioPhone Next, will go on sale …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft acquires Two Hat, a content moderation provider that it has been working with for the past few years to improve Xbox communities — The deal will help Microsoft's consumer services push — Microsoft has acquired Two Hat, a content moderation provider that's helped keep harmful content off Xbox.| IDC: |
Worldwide smartphone shipments in Q3 declined 6.7% YoY; Samsung came in first with 69M units shipped and Apple in second with 50.4M units — The double-digit growth in the smartphone market in the early quarters of 2021 came to an end in the third quarter of 2021 (3Q21) as worldwide shipments declined 6.7% year over year.
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| Bloomberg: |
Huawei reports Q3 revenue fell 38% YoY to $21.2B, the fourth straight quarter of declining sales, and ~$2.3B net income, as US sanctions continue to bite — - Quarterly revenue declines 38% after blacklisting by the U.S. — Weakness at consumer business is driving the sales drop
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