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The UK CMA blocks Microsoft's $68.7B Activision acquisition, citing competition and innovation concerns in the UK cloud gaming market; Microsoft plans to appeal — The CMA has prevented Microsoft's proposed purchase of Activision over concerns the deal would alter the future …
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Meta reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $28.6B, net income down 24% YoY to $5.7B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 3.02B for March 2023; META jumps 10%+ — “We had a good quarter and our community continues to grow,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO.
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Meta's Reality Labs unit reports Q1 revenue down 51% YoY from $695M to $339M and operating loss up 35% YoY from $2.96B to $3.99B, after losing $13.72B in 2022 — - Meta's Reality Labs unit had a $3.99 billion operating loss in the first quarter, after losing $13.72 billion last calendar year.
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Amazon shuts down its health-focused Halo division, discontinues its Halo Band, Halo View, and Halo Rise devices, and plans to lay off portions of the team — Amazon has decided to shutter its health-focused Halo division, The Verge has learned. Amazon has stopped selling its three Halo products … | Brian Fung / CNN: |
US senators unveil a bipartisan bill that bans kids under 13 from joining social media and requires tech companies to get parental consent for teens' accounts — A new federal bill unveiled Wednesday would establish a national minimum age for social media use and require tech companies … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Some users say Microsoft Edge sends URLs of visited pages to the Bing API website; a developer says Edge's creator follow option, on by default, may be to blame — Microsoft's Edge browser appears to be sending URLs you visit to its Bing API website. … Microsoft tells The Verge it's investigating the reports.
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A look at the mounting US legal pressure on Binance: the DOJ's money laundering division leading a criminal investigation, CZ hiring Latham & Watkins, and more — The scrutiny on Binance, the giant cryptocurrency exchange, has sent new tremors through a market that is still bruised by the implosion of FTX.
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Lookout agrees to sell its consumer mobile security business to F-Secure in a deal valued at around $223M, transitioning into a “pure-play enterprise company” — Lookout's long-running transition to becoming an enterprise security company is all but complete … | Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
PricewaterhouseCoopers plans to invest $1B in generative AI over the next three years, working with Microsoft and OpenAI to automate some of its US operations — Multiyear investment in U.S. business includes accessing ChatGPT maker OpenAI's language model, training staff in AI capabilities
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Roku reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to $741M, platform revenue down 1% YoY to $635M, streaming hours up 20% YoY to 25.1B, and active accounts up 17% YoY to 71.6M — Users streamed a record high of 3.9 hours per active account per day during the quarter, company says| Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: |
eBay reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.51B, vs. $2.48B est., gross merchandise volume down 5% YoY to $18.4B, and forecasts Q2 revenue guidance above estimates — Ecommerce firm eBay Inc (EBAY.O) forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday …
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YouTube Music contractors from Cognizant vote to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union; Alphabet is appealing a ruling that Google is their joint employer — The majority of a group of YouTube contract staff in Texas have voted to unionize in a labor victory that could force parent company Alphabet Inc …
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Sources: Andy Jassy picks 14-year Amazon veteran Eric Rimling as his technical adviser, a coveted two-year position; Jassy was Bezos' adviser in the early 2000s — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has picked Eric Rimling, a 14-year veteran of the company's fulfillment operation, as his new technical adviser … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Lightspark CEO David Marcus on the current crypto winter, Lightning as a Layer 2 protocol, raising ~$175M, Libra, Nostr, Bitcoin, regulations, and more — Crypto has a lot of haters these days. The former Facebook exec is trying to prove them wrong with his Bitcoin startup.| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Mexico-based Clara, which sells corporate spend management tools in Latin America, raised a $60M Series B+ led by GGV, after a $70M Series B in December 2021 — Clara, a Mexico-based spend management company, closed on $60 million in equity in a round led by GGV Capital.| Yaling Jiang / Wired: |
Experts say that China's mostly government-led metaverse efforts are more about supporting the economy, health care, and industry than about consumer services — The government wants the metaverse to be less about having fun and shopping and more about health care and industry.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Lenovo announces the $699 Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola, with ThinkPad-compatible productivity features, available to enterprises now and unlocked on April 28 — The Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola is available in the US starting today for $699, offering a suite of productivity features designed to work with ThinkPad laptops.| Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: |
A look at the crypto hype waning in Africa, as consumer trust fades, regulators push back, startups shutter, and Web3 workers reconsider their careers after FTX — Trust is fading, startups are shutting down, and Web3 workers are reconsidering their career choices. — • LAGOS, NIGERIA
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