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| Financial Times: |
In an email to advertisers, Twitter insists it will remain a safe place for brands after Elon Musk's takeover, as campaign groups predict rising toxicity — Campaigners and car manufacturers among groups to express concern over Tesla chief's $44bn takeover
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9to5Mac, The Verge, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, Bloomberg, Axios, New Yorker, Well, back to Work, and Lee's Newsletter
Tweets: @elonmusk, @mikeelgan, @tim, @muradahmed, @alexstamos, and @carnage4life
| Meta: |
Meta reports Q1 revenue of $27.9B, up 7% YoY, net income of $7.5B, down 21% YoY, Family of Apps daily active people of 2.87B, up 6% YoY; stock jumps 15%+ — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported nancial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2022.
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| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
Meta's Reality Labs division posts a $2.96B loss in Q1 2022, up from a $1.8B loss in Q4 2021, on revenue of $695M, and says Reality Labs has ~17,000 employees — Facebook's parent company reported revenue of $695 million for the division, which beat analysts' expectations.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @mattnavarra, @ivanthek, @scobleizer, @sadlyitsbradley, @tfadell, @patrickmoorhead, @scobleizer, @nickstatt, @lanshandle, @alexeheath, @alexeheath, @nathievr, and @charlieblix
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter reports Q1 revenue of $1.2B, up 16% YoY but below estimates, and $513M net income; mDAUs reached 229M; Twitter will offer no guidance pending Musk's bid — - Twitter reported earnings for the first quarter of 2022. — It could be one of its last as a public company …
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| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
Study of 100 popular Twitter accounts: two days after Twitter accepted Elon Musk's bid, conservatives gained 17,229 followers on average and liberals lost 6,062 — Social media data analyzed by The Verge shows conservative accounts winning and liberals losing out
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google now accepts requests to remove Search results that include users' contact info, like physical addresses, phone numbers, and emails, and login credentials — If you put in a request and it agrees they're harmful — Google says it's expanding the types of personal information …
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| Tom Burt / Microsoft On the Issues: |
Microsoft says at least six Russia-aligned actors launched 237+ cyberattacks against Ukraine from Feb. 23 to Apr. 8, including ~40 threatening civilian welfare — Tom Burt - Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust — Today, we released a report detailing the relentless …
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU will file antitrust charges against Apple next week for allegedly blocking third-parties from using NFC for Apple Pay — EU will accuse the tech giant of blocking financial groups from its Apple Pay mobile system — Apple is set to face fresh antitrust charges … | Reuters: |
Samsung reports Q1 operating profit of ~$11.1B, up 51% YoY, on revenue of ~$61.4B, up 19% YoY, driven by memory chip revenue of ~$21.23B, up 39% YoY — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) reported a 51% rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, posting its highest first-quarter profit since 2018 …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google expands its sensitive ad categories, letting users limit ads for dating, parenting, weight loss, and more across its Display network, not just YouTube — The company is adding to its sensitive ad categories — Google is expanding its sensitive ad categories options …
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
An overview of the iPhone's autocorrect feature and how it has evolved, including an interview with Ken Kocienda, who created the autocorrect keyboard software — Tpying truble? During the iPhone's first 15 years, its keyboard software has evolved, but it still sometimes flubs your lines.
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| Will Sattelberg / Android Police: |
Google blocked 1M+ apps that violated its policies from being published on the Play Store in 2021, and banned 190K developer accounts for malicious behavior — No one wants some off-brand Candy Crush knockoff melting their phone — As smartphones become the primary device for millions of users …
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Google Online Security Blog and Neowin
| BBC: |
Central African Republic lawmakers vote unanimously to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, the second country to use bitcoin as official currency after El Salvador — The Central African Republic (CAR) has approved Bitcoin as legal tender - just the second country to do so.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Sources: PayPal is closing its San Francisco office, which houses its Xoom unit, as it evaluates its global footprint; staff from the office will work virtually — PayPal is shuttering its San Francisco office as it evaluates its global office footprint. — Multiple sources say the payments giant …
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Tweets: @jason_stapleton, @terronk, @adams19080, @abc7newsbayarea, @armanddoma, @pandascutest, and @samsullivan
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Experts speculate as to what Elon Musk's takeover means for Twitter users' privacy; some worry that there is nothing stopping him from accessing users' DMs — The social network's user data and more will soon be at the whims of the world's richest man. Who's worried?
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New York Times, Hunter Walk, and Benzinga
Tweets: @elonmusk, @silvermanjacob, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @ashleevance, @bennyjohnson, @fightfortheftr, @fmbutt, @pmarca, @hunterwalk, @jhong, @pkafka, @joe_hill, @ezraklein, @jamesrbuk, @alexvtunzelmann, @jaspar, @robmanuel, @steven_strauss, @silvermanjacob, @silvermanjacob, @karlbode, @mattyglesias, and @evan_greer
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Internal email: Amazon now permanently lets its warehouse workers keep their cell phones while they work, after temporarily lifting its ban during the pandemic — The concession to warehouse workers follows the first union victory at an Amazon warehouse in US history. — Lauren Kaori Gurley| Reuters: |
Weibo says it will publish the locations of users based on IP addresses on their account pages and posts to combat “bad behaviour”; users cannot opt-out — Weibo , China's equivalent of Twitter, told users on Thursday it would start to publish their IP locations on their account pages …
Tweets: @krugermacro and @peterhoskinstv
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