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Apple reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $119.6B, net income up 13% to $33.9B, Americas sales up 2% to $50.4B, Europe sales up 10% to $30.4B — Services revenue reaches new all-time record EPS up 16 percent to new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2024 first quarter ended December 30, 2023.
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| William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features that the company plans to announce “later this year” — Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features that will be announced in the coming months.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q1 revenue: iPhone up 6% YoY to $69.7B, Mac up 1% to $7.78B, iPad down 25% to $7.02B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 11% to $11.95B — 10 minutes ago
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| Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: |
Tim Cook says Apple doesn't intend to license Masimo's blood oxygen detection to end the Apple Watch import ban — Apple CEO Tim Cook says there isn't any intention to license Masimo's blood oxygen detection to end the Apple Watch import ban. — Masimo has been embroiled in a patent lawsuit … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| PR Newswire: |
Meta reports Q4 revenue up 25% YoY to $40.1B, net income up 201% YoY to $14B, and family daily active people up 8% YoY to 3.19B for December 2023; META up 15%+ — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2023.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In Meta's earnings call, Zuckerberg says Apple's changes to comply with EU's DMA are “so onerous” that he doubts any developer, including Meta, would adopt them — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has added his voice to those criticizing Apple's compliance with the EU's new Digital Markets Act … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
Meta says it will pay a 50 cent dividend for the first time, and has authorized a $50B share buyback
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Cloudflare says it was hacked in November 2023 by a suspected “nation state attacker” who used auth tokens stolen in Okta's breach from October 2023 — Cloudflare disclosed today that its internal Atlassian server was breached by a ‘nation state’ attacker who accessed its Confluence wiki …
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google dropped the cache link from Search results snippets last week and plans to remove the cache functionality entirely “in the near future” — Google officially removed the cache link from the Google Search results snippets last week and Google confirmed that it will remove …
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| Amazon: |
Amazon Q4: revenue up 14% YoY to $170B, net income of $10.6B vs. $0.3B YoY, operating income of $13.2B, and subscription revenue up 14% to $10.5B; AMZN up 5%+ — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2023. Fourth Quarter 2023
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| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
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| Rebecca Falconer / Axios: |
Former CIA employee Joshua Schulte, who was convicted for leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison on February 1 for espionage and more — A former CIA software engineer who was convicted of carrying out the largest data breach in the agency's history was sentenced … | Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
Intel delays the construction of its $20B Ohio chip fabs amid a slow rollout of US government grant money; sources: the fabs are now set to finish in late 2026 — Construction on two factories now slated to be finished in late 2026 as company also waits for government incentives
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Rufus, an AI-powered shopping assistant trained on its product catalog and information from around the web, in beta for some US customers — Amazon announced today the launch of an AI-powered shopping assistant it's calling Rufus that's been trained on the e-commerce giant's product catalog …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
How the EFF, Techdirt, MuckRock, and DDoSecrets are pushing back against legal threats aiming to censor reports on Appin's alleged hacker-for-hire past — A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight the legal threats aimed at making reports of one Indian company's hacker-for-hire past disappear.| Reuters: |
Byju's US unit Alpha files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware, listing liabilities between $1B and $10B and assets between $500M and $1B — A U.S. unit of Indian education technology startup Byju's has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S. court of Delaware …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FTC settles with Blackbaud, ordering the cloud software company to delete consumers' data and boost security after a May 2020 data breach affected millions — Blackbaud has settled with the Federal Trade Commission after being charged with poor security and reckless data retention practices …
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| Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: |
Sources: some independent record labels are pushing back on Apple's plans to pay more for spatial audio tracks, saying it benefits larger record companies — Groups behind Adele and Phoebe Bridgers among those against songs recorded in higher-quality audio receiving more moneySponsor Posts
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