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Sources: Elon Musk takes over Twitter and fires several top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and policy head Vijaya Gadde — Musk's $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company closed on Thursday night — Elon Musk became Twitter's owner late Thursday …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Elon Musk plans to become Twitter CEO, but may cede the role, and reverse lifetime bans, including eventually for Donald Trump — Elon Musk plans to assume the role of chief executive officer at Twitter Inc. after completing his $44 billion acquisition, taking the helm …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Elon Musk pens an open letter to calm Twitter advertisers, arguing his goal is not “to make more money” and the service “cannot become a free-for-all hellscape” — Mega-billionaire Elon Musk, nearing the finish line in his rocky takeover of Twitter …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk asked Tesla engineers to meet with Twitter product leaders to review code, which Twitter can no longer change until the deal closes — Elon Musk asked engineers from Tesla Inc., the electric-car maker he runs, to meet with product leaders at Twitter Inc. …
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| Apple: |
Apple reports record Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to $90.1B, net income up 1% YoY to $20.7B, and annual revenue up 8% YoY to $394.3B — September quarter record for Revenue and EPS — Active installed base of devices reaches all-time high for all major product categories
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q4 revenue: iPhone up 9.67% YoY to $42.63B, iPad down 13.06% YoY to $7.17B, Other Products up 9.85% YoY to $9.65B, and Services up 4.98% YoY to $19.19B — - Apple reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations on revenue and earnings per share.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon reports Q3 advertising services revenue grew 25% YoY to $9.55B, vs. $9.48B est., and subscription services revenue grew 9% YoY to $8.9B — - Amazon reported third-quarter results on Thursday that missed analysts' estimates. — It also gave a disappointing sales forecast for the fourth quarter.
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Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $127.1B, net income down 9% YoY to $2.9B, and AWS revenue up 27% YoY to $20.5B; the stock drops 10%+ on weak Q4 guidance — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2022.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it has awarded researchers ~$20M total, including 20 rewards of $100K+ each for high-impact issues, since opening its bug bounty in December 2019 — Along with announcing its new Lockdown Mode feature this past summer, the company mentioned an upgraded bounty program, a donation to fund ethical security research, and more.
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| Sofia Pitt / CNBC: |
Meta's stock closes down 24.56% at $97.94, its lowest price since 2016, after Mark Zuckerberg reiterated his commitment to spending billions on the metaverse — - The parent company of Facebook reported its second straight quarterly decline. — Meta's Reality Labs division …
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Twitter tests a blockchain-agnostic tool for displaying NFTs in tweets with “select users” in partnership with Dapper Labs, Magic Eden, Rarible, and Jump.trade — Social media platform Twitter today announced that it will let users buy, sell, and display NFTs directly through tweets in partnership with four marketplaces.
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| Harmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 12% YoY to 301M units in Q3 2022, the lowest Q3 level since 2014; Apple was the only top-five brand to grow YoY, up 2% — - The global smartphone market declined by 12% YoY even as it grew by 2% QoQ to reach 301 million units in Q3 2022.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Responding to user feedback, YouTube splits video content into three tabs on channel pages: Videos, Shorts, and Live — YouTube is rolling out a change impacting how videos appear on its platform. The company today announced a redesign that now splits video content into three different tabs …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Joe Belfiore, who has been Microsoft's VP of Office Group for the past two years and with the company for 32 years, has announced his retirement — Joe Belfiore, who has been the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Office Group for the past two years and with the company in various roles for 32 years, has announced his retirement.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q3 revenue down 15% YoY to $15.34B, vs. $15.25B est., Datacenter and AI revenue down 27% YoY to $4.21B, and ~$10B in cost cutting over three years — - Intel plans up to $10 billion in cost reductions and efficiency improvements in the next three years.
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Intel, TheStreet, Coinspeaker, SiliconANGLE, The Register, and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @menakadoshi
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on running the company, growing a SaaS business, content moderation, community satisfaction, Web3, and more — Stack Overflow is basically Reddit for developers. CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar explains how the company moderates its content.
Tweets: @stackoverflow and @reckless
| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
A look at the ongoing Qualcomm-Arm legal dispute, as Qualcomm claims Arm plans to stop licensing its CPUs to semiconductor companies after 2024 — No More External GPU, NPU, or ISP's Allowed In Arm-Based SOCs — The Qualcomm-Arm saga is epic and there is a new massive update in the case.
Tweets: @stevesi
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