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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Meta beats with Q4 revenue of $33.67B vs. $33.4B est., up 20% YoY, 2.91B MAUs, up 4% YoY, but misses with EPS of $3.67 vs. $3.84 est.; stock down 20%+ — - Facebook earnings came in below expectations for the fourth quarter, and the company said numerous challenges are ahead in the first quarter.
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| Meta: |
Meta breaks out Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp as Family of Apps, with Q4 revenue of $32.8B, up 20% YoY, and will adopt the META ticker in H1 2022 — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2021.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Meta CFO says Apple's ATT privacy changes will cost the company $10B in revenue during 2022 and says Google “faces a different set of restrictions from Apple” — Meanwhile, the company accused Apple of favoring Google over app-based platforms like Facebook with its privacy policies
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| Bloomberg: |
Meta stock slumps as much as 22% in premarket trading, cutting $200B from its market value, one of the worst one-day drops on record, after weak Q4 results — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is set to shed about $200 billion in market value, in what would be one of the biggest … | Washington Post: |
Meta reports its first-ever sequential decline in global Facebook daily active users, falling from 1.930B to 1.929B QoQ — Facebook parent Meta's stock nosedives in after-hour trading as the company refocuses on the metaverse. — Facebook parent Meta's quarterly earnings report …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Meta breaks out its AR/VR-focused Reality Labs unit, reporting 2021 revenue of $2.3B, up from $1.1B in 2020, and losses of $10.2B in 2021, up from $6.6B in 2020 — Meta's AR and VR ambitions come with a significant price tag: Meta's Reality Labs unit lost $10.2 billion last year …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Blockchain bridge Wormhole confirms a hacker stole $322M worth of ETH and moves its site into maintenance mode; Wormhole is offering a $10M “bug bounty” — A threat actor has abused a vulnerability in the Wormhole cryptocurrency platform to steal an estimated $322 million worth of Ether currency.
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| Los Angeles Times: |
Sources: in a Spotify staff meeting, CEO Daniel Ek said the company sees itself as a platform for, not a publisher of, Joe Rogan's podcast — Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told employees Wednesday morning that the streaming service doesn't closely supervise controversial podcast host Joe Rogan …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Pixel Vault, a decentralized entertainment startup focused on an NFT collection of superheroes, raises $100M from 01 Advisors and Velvet Sea Ventures — The world of NFTs is bizarre, confounding and exhilarating. Detractors see a space full of capital-obsessed hucksters who want to choke …
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| Arif Bacchus / OnMSFT.com: |
Report: Microsoft scrapped plans for a HoloLens 3 in 2021, shifting instead to a mixed reality device with Samsung and leaving the HoloLens team “inflamed” — Microsoft turned heads when it first introduced HoloLens, and it even launched a second generation of the mixed reality headset …
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
KP Snacks, a major British snack producer, has been hit by the Conti ransomware, impacting supplies of Skips, Hula Hoops, McCoy's, and others to supermarkets — KP Snacks, a major producer of popular British snacks has been hit by the Conti ransomware group affecting distribution to leading supermarkets.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Counterpoint: Apple sold 2.3M iPhones in India during Q4, up 34% YoY, netting ~$2.09B revenue; Xiaomi sold 9.3M, up 2% YoY, and Samsung sold 7.2M, down 8% YoY — Apple Inc. had its strongest quarter for iPhone sales in India yet, a sign the Cupertino, Calif.-based company is finally making progress …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nintendo reports 10.67M Switch sales in Q3, down 8% YoY, bringing lifetime Switch sales to 103.54M, ahead of the Wii's 101.63M — A good holiday quarter, but Nintendo cut its forecast — The Nintendo Switch had a relatively strong holiday quarter, with 10.67 million units shipped between October … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
GameStop plans to launch an NFT marketplace in 2022, built on the Ethereum-based Immutable X platform, and is creating an “up to $100M” fund for game developers — It hopes a $100 million fund will make developers use it — GameStop plans to launch its own marketplace for non-fungible tokens …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Yuga Labs, the startup behind Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, is in talks to raise funds from a16z at a $4B-$5B valuation, its first outside funding — NFTs pioneer Yuga Labs seeks $4bn-$5bn valuation from Silicon Valley investor — The start-up behind Bored Ape Yacht Club …
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| Ben Egliston / Wired: |
Game companies are increasingly using big gameplay data sets to gain insight into what players like, how they play, what they'll likely spend money on, and more — Players generate a wealth of revealing psychological data—and some companies are soaking it up. … APPLICATION — COMPANY
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Germany-based Flip, a chat app for frontline workers, raises $30M led by Notion Ventures and HV Capital and says it has 1M users across 200 organizations — More than 80% of the world's workforce, some 2.7 billion people, do not spend their days in front of computers, and that has led … | Reuters: |
Sources: Israeli surveillance company QuaDream used the zero-click ForcedEntry exploit to access iPhones in 2021; ForcedEntry was also used by NSO Group — A flaw in Apple's software exploited by Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group to break into iPhones in 2021 was simultaneously abused … | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
France-based Snapshift, a service for managing frontline workers, raises a $45M Series A led by Highland Europe and says it has over 6,000 customers — With the so-called “Great resignation” many frontline workers (nurses, truck drivers etc) are re-assessing their lives in the wake of the pandemic …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
How OpenSea became synonymous with the NFT boom, hiding the complexity of ERC-721 transactions for a mass audience; OpenSea made $386M from fees in January 2022 — On a cold day in January, NFTs started disappearing. Major services like MetaMask and Twitter were suddenly unable …
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| Brooke Masters / Financial Times: |
A look at efforts to reinvigorate Scotland's “Silicon Glen”, led by Edinburgh, which has the largest concentration of academic AI researchers in Europe — Scottish AI entrepreneurs dream of resurrecting Silicon Glen and making it last — Thirty years ago, Scotland had a burgeoning tech industry.| Michael Smith / Bloomberg: |
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