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Alphabet Q4: revenue rose 32% YoY to $75.3B, net income grew from $15.2B to $20.6B YoY, Google Cloud revenue rose from $3.8B to $5.5B YoY; stock jumps 6%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - February 1, 2022 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2021.
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Google's Q4 ad revenue came in at $61.24B, up 33% YoY; YouTube's ad revenue rose to $8.63B, up 25.4% YoY — - Alphabet beat on the top and bottom lines for the fourth quarter. — The stock jumped in extended trading after the report. — The company also announced a 20-for-1 stock split.
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EA reports Q3 revenue of $1.79B, up from $1.67B YoY, net income of $66M, down from $211M YoY, and net bookings of $2.6B, down from $2.4B YoY — Electronic Arts met expected earnings today for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, as the game publisher saw big engagement with its existing games.
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EA CEO Andrew Wilson says NFTs are not something the company is “driving on”, just three months after calling NFTs and blockchain “the future of our industry” — Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson appeared to reverse his position on non-fungible tokens in an earnings call on Tuesday …
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Cruise raises $1.35B more from SoftBank Vision Fund and launches a waitlist for a driverless robotaxi service in San Francisco that will run from 11pm to 5am — Cruise is opening up its driverless robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco as the GM subsidiary creeps toward commercialization …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
The Google One VPN service, which has been available to Android users since October 2020, comes to iOS for users paying for the 2TB $9.99/month plan or higher — The VPN service that's included with a Google One Premium subscription is finally available on iPhones after Google's promise in October 2020 that it would come to iOS.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD Q4: revenue of $4.83B, up 49% YoY, Computing and Graphics revenue of $2.6B, up 32% YoY, Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom revenue of $2.2B, up 75% YoY — - AMD reported fourth quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday. — AMD said it expected $21.5 billion in sales in 2022, higher than analyst expectations.| Wall Street Journal: |
Amid tech stocks' poor performance, especially IPOs, some venture firms are cutting back investments and startup valuations, as they renegotiate funding deals — Venture firms foresee tougher funding environment ahead, with more muted debuts after pandemic glut
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YouTube rolls out a new interface for its full-screen player on Android and iOS, making it easier to like or dislike a video, view comments, and share — Easier access to more buttons — YouTube is rolling out a new interface for its mobile app's full-screen player …
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NHTSA: Tesla will issue an OTA update for 53,822 cars and SUVs to remove an FSD feature that let vehicles roll through stop signs without coming to a halt — DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly 54,000 cars and SUVs because their “Full Self-Driving” software lets them roll through stop signs without coming to a complete halt.
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
A whistleblower working with the DOJ says NSO Group offered staffers from US mobile security firm Mobileum “bags of cash” for access to global cellular networks — Rep. Ted Lieu asks the Justice Department to investigate after hearing the account of what he called ‘fishy’ behavior.
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| John Hendel / Politico: |
Nonprofit suicide chat service Crisis Text Line ends its data sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai and asks the company to delete existing data — The nonprofit mental-health hotline Crisis Text Line ended its data-sharing relationship with a for-profit spinoff Monday …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
PayPal reports Q4 revenue of $6.92B, up 13% YoY, net income of $801M, down from $1.57B YoY; stock down 15% after hours on weak Q1 guidance — - PayPal reported mixed Q4 2021 earnings Tuesday and provided guidance for the next quarter that fell short of analyst estimates.
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| Maximiliano Firtman / firt.dev: |
iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 beta code shows that push notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support may be coming to Safari — iOS 15.4 beta has finally added icon support in the manifest, Web Push, AR, and VR experiments. — Twitter @firt About Newsletter — About 8 min reading time
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Superpedestrian, which makes e-scooters that detect and correct unsafe riding behavior in real-time, raises a $125M Series C after a $60M round in December 2020 — Shared e-scooter company Superpedestrian is gearing up to deploy its Pedestrian Defense safety system at scale …
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League, which makes a health care platform on which payers, providers, and others build their apps, raises a $95M Series C, bringing its total funding to $205M — The haul brings League's total funding to more than $205 million. The Series C funding round was led by TDM Growth Partners …
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| Michael Tobin / Bloomberg: |
Match Group reports Q4 revenue of $806.1M, up 24% YoY, vs. est. $818.6M, with 16.2M paying users, up 15% YoY, forecasts weaker Q1 growth due to Omicron effects — Match Group Inc. gave a forecast for revenue in the current quarter that lagged behind analysts' estimates …
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Jellyfish, which provides software to help manage engineering teams, raises a $71M Series C led by Accel, Insight Partners, and Tiger Global — As more companies become software companies, what is being created still needs to align with business objectives.| Jamal Michel / Washington Post: |
Black game developers say the video game industry continues to struggle with diversity, as a report shows 4% of devs were Black in 2021, up from 2% in 2005 — I first learned about Gerald “Jerry” Lawson, one of Silicon Valley's greatest gaming pioneers, a few years ago.| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
As Tumblr CEO Jeff D'Onofrio quietly departs and the company merges with Automattic, a look at its plans and enormous impact on the modern social web — The CEO of Tumblr—a social platform that was once worth more than $1 billion, and in its time was among the internet's most popular … | The New York Times Company: |
The New York Times acquires Wordle, the simple word game that has amassed “millions of daily players”, for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures” — Wordle, Josh Wardle's stimulating and wildly popular daily word game, is joining The New York Times's portfolio of original …
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Research: blockchain-based virtual real estate sales hit $501M in 2021 across Sandbox, Decentraland, Cryptovoxels, and Somnium; sales in January 2022 were $85M — - Sales of real estate in the metaverse topped $500 million last year and could double this year, according to investors and analytics firms.Sponsor Posts
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