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Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 8.6% YoY to $7.97B, vs $8.04B est., and a 970K subscriber loss vs an estimated 2M subscriber loss; stock jumps 7%+ after hours — - Netflix only lost around 970,000 subscribers during the second quarter, a smaller loss than the 2 million it had projected last quarter.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix plans to launch its cheaper, ad-supported plan in “the early part of 2023”, starting in “a handful of markets where advertising spend is significant” — Netflix is angling to win over a new bloc of value-conscious consumers — and help turn around …
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Google plans to test AR prototypes in public, starting with a few dozen employees and trusted testers in August and ramping up to hundreds by the end of 2022 — The camera-enabled assistive glasses won't be able to take photos or video, though. — Scott Stein
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| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
Google finds Android spyware, distributed outside the Play Store, that Russians disguised as an app for Ukrainians to launch DDoS attacks against Russian sites — Details were published in a blog post from the Threat Analysis Group, which tracks state-backed cyber activity
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
US lawmakers release internal Amazon, Meta, and Google documents that they say show evidence of self-preferencing, as they call for tougher tech antitrust laws — The House Judiciary Committee released new documents Tuesday — New internal documents released Tuesday detail how three … | Katyanna Quach / The Register: |
Google and Oracle report some of their cloud services and servers in the UK went offline due to cooling failures amid the country's record-breaking heatwave — Clouds burst as nation hits 40C — Cloud services and servers hosted by Google and Oracle in the UK have fallen offline due …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft unveils Viva Engage, a social-community app launching in late August, that brings Stories and other image and video sharing tools to Teams — Microsoft is adding Engage, another new Yammer-based app to its Viva employee-experience platform. Here's what it is for and how Microsoft is positioning it.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with Matthew Ball on his new book about the metaverse, which he sees as the next phase of the internet, Meta's big pivot, AR hardware, and more — Let's talk about the metaverse. — You probably can't stop hearing about it. It's in startup pitches, in earnings reports … | CNBC: |
The Delaware Court of Chancery grants Twitter an expedited five-day trial in October in its lawsuit against Elon Musk, who wanted the trial to begin in 2023 — - Twitter won its motion for an expedited trial in its lawsuit against Elon Musk on Tuesday. — Delaware Court …
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| Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal: |
Senate votes 64-34 to advance a bill to provide ~$52B in US chip production subsidies, paving way for a larger package that would include additional R&D funding — Significant bipartisan support in first procedural vote signals likely passage of larger package to address chip shortages
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Charles, which lets businesses sell products and offer support on messaging apps like WhatsApp, raised a $20M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures — Conversational commerce isn't exactly a new phenomenon, with countless companies using live chats, messaging apps, chatbots …
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| Rachael Levy / Reuters: |
Sources: Neuralink co-founder Paul Merolla left the company in recent weeks, the latest in a string of departures at the Elon Musk-backed brain implant startup — A founding member of Elon Musk's Neuralink left the company in recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the matter …
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