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Facebook reports Q1 revenue of $26.2B, up from $17.7B YoY, MAUs of 2.85B, up 10% YoY, headcount of 60,654, up 26% YoY, avg. ad price up 30% YoY; stock rises ~5% — MENLO PARK, Calif., April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported nancial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2021.
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Facebook hid all posts with “#ResignModi” in India; now it says the posts with the hashtag have been restored and it is looking into what happened — Updated at 1.17am IST, Thursday: Facebook comms Andy Stone said the company has restored the posts and is “looking into what happened.”
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Samsung announces two lightweight laptops with OLED screens: the Galaxy Book Pro, starting at $1K, and the Galaxy Book Pro 360, a convertible starting at $1.2K — Premium screens and premium features — Samsung has announced two new Galaxy Book devices: the Galaxy Book Pro …
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Spotify reports Q1 profit of €23M, up from €1M a year earlier, revenue of €2.15B, up 16% YoY, 356M MAUs, up 24% YoY, and 158M paid subscribers, up 21% YoY — Audiostreaming platform warns of uncertain growth as newer markets endure a surge in coronavirus cases
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Mighty debuts a premium Chromium-based macOS browser, now invite-only, that “entirely streams” from cloud, can load “hundreds” of tabs without stalling a Mac — With the underlying concept popularized by Stadia and other game services, Mighty wants to stream an entire Chromium browser from the cloud.
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| Josef Adalian / Vulture: |
Netflix launches Play Something, an opt-in viewing mode that gives the service a more TV-like feel to fight viewers' decision fatigue — Ten years ago, Netflix got the idea that its app should work more like regular TV. This was early on in its transition from DVD delivery to streaming on demand …
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Epic files expert testimonies before next week's trial, arguing its antitrust case and disputing Apple's claim that App Store's primary role is to protect users — The Epic Games lawsuit continues in the form of written testimony ahead of the trial next month.
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| Sam Bourgi / Cointelegraph: |
MetaMask, an Ethereum wallet service and browser extension for decentralized applications, says it has hit 5M MAUs, after hitting 1M MAUs in October 2020 — The wallet service and browser extension has seen its active monthly users grow five times since October 2020. — 18515 Total views
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
YouTube is on pace to book between $29B and $30B in revenue in 2021, equaling Netflix's expected revenue of $29.7B for the year — - YouTube is on pace to bring in annual revenue comparable to Netflix's. — The Google-owned video platform is seeing a rise in more traditional television advertisers.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Shopify Q1: revenue of $988.6M, up 110% YoY, with gross merchandise volume up 114%, and net income of $1.26B due to $1.3B unrealized gain from its Affirm stake — Shopify said it expects growth rates to normalize as economies reopen, but it hasn't happened yet. Shopify's platform continues to surge.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
The Consumer Technology Association says CES will return to Las Vegas as an in-person event in 2022, and will be held from January 5 to 8 — The world's biggest tech conference is back — The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is officially returning to an in-person format in Las Vegas in 2022 …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Senator Amy Klobuchar on her new book about antitrust, why she doesn't think reining in the App Store will harm the Apple ecosystem, and more — My guest today is Senator Amy Klobuchar, the Democrat from Minnesota who has taken up the role of antitrust enforcer in the Senate under the Biden administration.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Splitwise, which helps groups split expenses, raises $20M Series A, says its tens of millions of users have shared or managed bills totaling ~$90B since 2011 — This morning Splitwise, a Providence, Rhode Island-based startup announced that it has closed a $20 million Series A.| Kerry Flynn / CNN: |
Q&A with Máuhan “M” Zonoozy, hired as Spotify's first head of innovation earlier this year, about rise of live social audio, podcasting's inflection point, more — New York (CNN Business)Spotify (SPOT) is frequently one step ahead of us, suggesting undiscovered songs … | Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan partners with Singapore's Temasek and DBS Group Holdings to create a blockchain-based platform for payments, trade, and foreign exchange settlement — JPMorgan Chase & Co. is teaming up with Singapore's Temasek Holdings Pte. and DBS Group Holdings Ltd. to create a new blockchain-based platform … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Twilio rival MessageBird raises $800M as an extension to its $200M Series C from last October and acquires email marketing service SparkPost for $600M — MessageBird, a communications platform out of the Netherlands, had a busy day today with two huge announcements.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
OpenSpace, which helps construction companies track projects with AI-powered analytics and photo documentation, raises $55M Series C after raising ~$16M in 2020 — Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register fo r the AI event of the year. — OpenSpace, a platform … | Shen Lu / Protocol: |
Profile of Chinese AI-driven aggregator News Break, which says it has 45M MAUs and is finding success in the US through a sharp focus on local news — It's the most downloaded news app in the world — and the content it carries is entirely local. In the U.S., it drives more traffic than all but three apps.| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple is trimming planned production of AirPods by 25% to 30%, now expecting to make 75M-85M in 2021, compared with previous forecast of 110M — Wireless earphones face heated competition from Samsung, Xiaomi and others — TAIPEI — Apple is trimming its planned production …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Qualcomm reports quarterly revenue of $7.9B, up 52% YoY on strong smartphone demand, vs $7.62B est.; stock up 5%+ after hours — - Qualcomm raised its guidance for handset shipments this year. — The chipmaker beat on the top and bottom lines, along with quarterly guidance.
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