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Twitter plans to end free access to its API starting February 9, shuttering support for both v1.1 and v2, and will launch a “paid basic tier” instead — Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version …
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| Meta: |
Meta reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to $32.2B, net income down 55% YoY to $4.7B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 2.96B; stock jumps 24%+ — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022.
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| Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
After a big decline in 2022, Meta's stock has risen 72%+ since November 3, one of the S&P 500 Index's best-performing stocks, adding $200B+ to its market cap — A spectacular turnaround in Meta Platforms Inc.'s stock is bringing back flashes of Big Tech heydays.
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
UBS study: ChatGPT reached ~100M MAUs with ~13M daily unique visitors in January, two months after launch, becoming the fastest-growing consumer app ever — ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI, is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch …
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| Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: |
Legal documents: Meta paid Bright Data to scrape data from other websites for years while publicly condemning the practice and suing companies over scraping — Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. for years paid a contractor to scrape data from other websites while publicly condemning …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony announces a beta version of Discord for the PlayStation 5 in the US, Canada, Japan, and the UK, adds Variable Refresh Rate support for 1440p, and more — Beta testers will be able to join Discord voice calls on a PS5 console in the US, Canada, Japan, and UK starting today.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sony reports Q3 sales rose 13% YoY to ~$26.4B as operating profit drops 8% YoY to ~$3.3B, beating analyst estimates; PS5 sales were 7.1M, up from 4M YoY — Sony Group Corp. revised up its full-year profit outlook after earnings beat estimates and the company had its best quarter of PlayStation 5 sales.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
TikTok's recent charm offensive, including the tour of its LA-based Transparency and Accountability Center, echoes Huawei's unsuccessful strategy in Europe — Chinese-owned app is taking steps that are similar to largely unsuccessful tactics used by the telecom giant — How TikTok Could Become a U.S. Company
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| Nicole Herskowitz / Microsoft 365 Blog: |
Microsoft's Teams Premium hits general availability for $10 per user per month; AI-generated notes by OpenAI's GPT-3.5 are set to arrive “in the coming months” — As we face economic uncertainties and changes to work patterns, organizations are searching for ways to optimize …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Netflix says US password sharing rules haven't been set yet, removes rules from its US help page that said users must connect to a “primary Wi-Fi” every 31 days — Based on info sourced from Netflix's support pages, The Streamable reported on Tuesday details about its upcoming anti-password sharing efforts.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis plans to cut under 5% of its staff as part of a reorganization; in January, its CEO said the company plans to grow staff by 11% and expand globally — Chainalysis Inc., a company that specializes in tracking crypto transactions and the entities behind them, said it's made layoffs affecting less than 5% of staff.
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
A brief look at several lawsuits challenging generative AI tools and what music labels suing Napster but making peace with Spotify tells us about the future — What can Napster tell us about the future? — That was quick: Artificial intelligence has gone from science fiction to novelty to Thing We Are Sure Is the Future.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has decided not to replace its VP of Industrial Design Evans Hankey; its core group of ~20 industrial designers will report to COO Jeff Williams — Apple Inc. has decided against naming a new executive to replace its departing top product designer, marking a stark shift … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A US judge dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit accusing Coinbase of selling unregistered securities and failing to register as a broker-dealer — A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit by Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) customers who accused the cryptocurrency exchange …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils the 6.1" Galaxy S23 for $800+ and the 6.6" Galaxy S23+ for $1,000+, with a better selfie camera and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, shipping on February 17 — Samsung's S-series phones actually look like they belong together this year. The S23 and S23 Plus have adopted the floating camera design … Sponsor Posts
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