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Alphabet Q4: revenue rose 32% YoY to $75.3B, net income grew from $15.2B to $20.6B YoY, Google Cloud revenue rose from $3.8B to $5.5B YoY; stock jumps 6%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - February 1, 2022 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2021.
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Google begins rolling out iMessage reactions for Android's Messages app in beta, appearing next to message bubbles; some emoji reactions are not quite identical — As we spotted in November and following the latest push for RCS support on iPhone earlier this month, Google Messages is starting …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
The Google One VPN service, which has been available to Android users since October 2020, comes to iOS for users paying for the 2TB $9.99/month plan or higher — The VPN service that's included with a Google One Premium subscription is finally available on iPhones after Google's promise in October 2020 that it would come to iOS.
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The Keyword, PCMag, Engadget, MacRumors, XDA Developers, Android Police, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocket-lint, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, and iThinkDifferent. Tweets: @stshank
| Tom Krisher / Associated Press: |
NHTSA: Tesla will issue an OTA update for 53,822 cars and SUVs to remove an FSD feature that let vehicles roll through stop signs without coming to a halt — DETROIT (AP) — Tesla is recalling nearly 54,000 cars and SUVs because their “Full Self-Driving” software lets them roll through stop signs without coming to a complete halt.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Cruise raises $1.35B more from SoftBank Vision Fund and launches a waitlist for a driverless robotaxi service in San Francisco that will run from 11pm to 5am — Cruise is opening up its driverless robotaxi service to the public in San Francisco as the GM subsidiary creeps toward commercialization …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
EA reports Q3 revenue of $1.79B, up from $1.67B YoY, net income of $66M, down from $211M YoY, and net bookings of $2.6B, down from $2.4B YoY — Electronic Arts met expected earnings today for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, as the game publisher saw big engagement with its existing games.| Maximiliano Firtman / firt.dev: |
iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4 beta code shows Apple is working on adding push notifications for web-based apps to Safari — iOS 15.4 beta has finally added icon support in the manifest, Web Push, AR, and VR experiments. — Twitter @firt About Newsletter — About 8 min reading time
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
AMD Q4: revenue of $4.83B, up 49% YoY, Computing and Graphics revenue of $2.6B, up 32% YoY, Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom revenue of $2.2B, up 75% YoY — - AMD reported fourth quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday. — AMD said it expected $21.5 billion in sales in 2022, higher than analyst expectations.
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
A whistleblower working with the DOJ says NSO Group offered staffers from US mobile security firm Mobileum “bags of cash” for access to global cellular networks — Rep. Ted Lieu asks the Justice Department to investigate after hearing the account of what he called ‘fishy’ behavior.
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Amid tech stocks' poor performance, especially IPOs, some venture firms are cutting back investments and startup valuations, as they renegotiate funding deals — Venture firms foresee tougher funding environment ahead, with more muted debuts after pandemic glut
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
As Tumblr CEO Jeff D'Onofrio quietly departs and the company merges with Automattic, a look at its plans and enormous impact on the modern social web — The CEO of Tumblr—a social platform that was once worth more than $1 billion, and in its time was among the internet's most popular …
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| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
Source: the FTC, not the DOJ, will oversee the US antitrust review of Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition and will focus on potential harm to rivals — The U.S. antitrust review of Microsoft Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. will be handled by the Federal Trade Commission …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
PayPal reports Q4 revenue of $6.92B, up 13% YoY, net income of $801M, down from $1.57B YoY; stock down 15% after hours on weak Q1 guidance — - PayPal reported mixed Q4 2021 earnings Tuesday and provided guidance for the next quarter that fell short of analyst estimates.
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Global tablet shipments grew 3.2% YoY to 168.8M in 2021; Apple had 34.2% market share, Samsung had 18.3%, Lenovo had 10.5%, Amazon had 9.5%, and Huawei had 5.7% — Worldwide tablet shipments reached 46 million units during the fourth quarter of 2021 (4Q21), posting a decline for the second time since the pandemic began in 2020.| John Hendel / Politico: |
Nonprofit suicide chat service Crisis Text Line ends its data sharing relationship with for-profit spinoff Loris.ai and asks the company to delete existing data — The nonprofit mental-health hotline Crisis Text Line ended its data-sharing relationship with a for-profit spinoff Monday …
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| Robert Frank / CNBC: |
Research: blockchain-based virtual real estate sales hit $501M in 2021 across Sandbox, Decentraland, Cryptovoxels, and Somnium; sales in January 2022 were $85M — - Sales of real estate in the metaverse topped $500 million last year and could double this year, according to investors and analytics firms.| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Finnish open-source database startup MariaDB raises a $104M Series D and plans for an IPO on the NYSE via a SPAC merger seeking a valuation of ~$672M — Finland's MariaDB has closed a $104 million Series D private placement round and announced its intention to become a publicly-traded entity …
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| Nivedita Balu / Reuters: |
Chargebee, which helps businesses manage billing, subscriptions, revenue, and compliance, raises $250M at a $3.5B valuation led by Tiger Global and Sequoia — Enterprise software startup Chargebee has raised $250 million at a valuation of $3.5 billion, in a funding round lead by Tiger Global …
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Indian politician Rahul Gandhi writes to Twitter's CEO alleging the company is unwittingly complicit in a government campaign limiting followers to his account — Politician writes to Twitter CEO to complain about curbs he blames on India's government, highlighting how New Delhi polices U.S. social media companies
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The News International, ThePrint, Business Standard, and The Economic Times
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| Taylor Lyles / IGN: |
Discord starts letting US PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 users link their PSN accounts and display game activity; support for more countries is coming soon — Support will roll out first to US users, though. — PlayStation owners will able to connect their accounts to Discord starting today …
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Tweets: @calbucci, @gozutrucker69, and @dimitrimonroez
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Internal messages from the Trickbot ransomware gang during 2020 detail its structure, target choices, plans to open St. Petersburg offices, and more — Internal messages WIRED has viewed shed new light on the operators of one of the world's biggest botnets.
Tweets: @swiftonsecurity, @johnhultquist, @mattburgess1, @egeblc, @wired, @cranehassold, @nicoleperlroth, @campuscodi, @hatr, @wired, and @howelloneill
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India proposes a 30% tax on income from the transfer of crypto, NFTs, and other digital assets and will launch a digital rupee in the next financial year — India on Tuesday proposed launching digital rupee in within a year and a 30% tax on income from transfer of virtual digital assets …
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Tweets: @cz_binance, @balajis, @nexo, @chrisdunntv, @balajis, @deepakshenoy, @markets, @positivecrypto, @chandrarsrikant, and @ashwinm_
| Financial Times: |
Analysis: Google, Amazon, Meta, and Apple donated $1.2M+ to the four biggest US foreign policy think tanks in 2019-2020, up from $625K+ in 2017-2018 — Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple battle Washington's move towards stricter regulation using anti-China lobbying
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iThinkDifferent and 9to5Mac
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
SiriusXM rolls out AudioID to track its audience across its apps Pandora and Stitcher and its satellite radio service, offering first-party ad targeting — The use of tracking cookies is winding down, and Apple's anti-tracking privacy update has impacted mobile apps' advertising revenues.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers on a usage basis, raises a $30M Series A led by a16z — As more software companies shift to more flexible pricing models based on consumption, many are choosing to charge customers on a per-use, or usage, basis.Sponsor Posts
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