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Microsoft reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $51.87B, net income up 2% YoY to $16.7B, Azure up 40% YoY, and LinkedIn up 26% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — July 26, 2022 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:
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Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $69.69B, net income of $16B, down from $18.53B YoY, and Google Cloud revenue of $6.28B, up from $4.63B YoY — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 26, 2022 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Kaspersky researchers find a malicious UEFI-based rootkit used in the wild since 2016 that keeps PCs infected after an OS reinstall or a hard drive replacement — Turns out they're not all that rare. We just don't know how to find them. — Researchers have unpacked a major cybersecurity find …
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| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told donors at a fundraiser that the AICO Act to pare back the power of Big Tech companies doesn't have the votes — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told a group of donors that he doesn't believe that there are enough votes in the Senate …
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
An IBM study of 550 global organizations finds the average cost of a data breach is $4.35M, up ~13% over the last two years, and 83% had more than one breach — A new report from IBM Security today reveals that data breaches are costlier and more impactful than ever before.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says it has “decided to stop further production of Car Thing units” and will take a €31M charge, citing demand and supply chain issues — Spotify's push to complement its music streaming with a big move into podcasting and related content appears to be paying off …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Maps updates: photorealistic aerial views of nearly 100 landmarks, more detailed cycling routes, and improved location sharing — Google — facing increasing competition from other apps like Instagram and TikTok when it comes to consumers searching for things …
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Sources: the Treasury Department has been investigating US-based crypto exchange Kraken since 2019 for potentially violating US sanctions on Iran and more — The Treasury Department is investigating whether the crypto exchange allowed users in Iran to buy and sell digital tokens, said people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg tells employees Meta and Apple are in a “very deep, philosophical competition” to build AR and VR devices and determine the internet's direction — “This is a competition of philosophies and ideas,” Meta's CEO recently told employees
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| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Meta plans to increase the prices of its Quest 2 headsets to $400 for 128GB and $500 for 256GB on August 1, and bundle Beat Saber for free through December 31 — The price for a new Quest 2 is jumping to $399 as Meta says “the costs to make and ship our products have been on the rise.”
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| Emily Baker-White / BuzzFeed News: |
Four former ByteDance employees say the company promoted pro-China content to Americans in its now-defunct news app TopBuzz; ByteDance denies the claims — Former employees claim the company placed pieces of pro-China content in its now-defunct US news app, TopBuzz, and censored negative stories about the Chinese government.
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| Stefanie Marotta / Bloomberg: |
Shopify misses as Q2 revenue grew 16% YoY to $1.3B and GMV reached $46.9B, up 11% YoY; SHOP drops 6%+, after crashing 14% on Tuesday due to layoffs — Shopify Inc. slumped in premarket trading after it warned of higher operating losses in the second half of the year and said inflation was beginning to hurt the e-commerce sector.
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| Stefania Palma / Financial Times: |
US CFPB Director Rohit Chopra says the agency should “take a very careful look” at Big Tech entering the buy now, pay later space, after Apple's BNPL debut — Rohit Chopra says his agency will take ‘very careful look’ at Big Tech foray into ‘buy now, pay later’
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Unstoppable Domains, which offers NFT domains as a personal identifier across Web3 apps, raised a $65M Series A led by Pantera Capital at a $1B+ valuation — - Unstoppable Domains announced Wednesday that it raised $65 million in a Series A funding, reaching a $1 billion valuation.
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