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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 that 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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Meta opens down 24%+, erasing $200B+ from its market cap, the biggest loss of market value in single day for a US company, after weak Q4 results and Q1 guidance — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is set to shed about $200 billion in market value, in what would be one of the biggest …
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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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| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Meta and Alphabet are the least diversified of the tech giants, relying on ads for 98% and 81% of revenue, respectively, a long-neglected vulnerability — Alphabet Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the world's biggest digital advertising platforms, once again raked in astonishing amounts of money in 2021.| 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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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nintendo reports 10.67M Switch sales in Q3, down 8% YoY, bringing lifetime Switch sales to 103.54M, overtaking the Wii's 101.63M in under five years — A good holiday quarter, but Nintendo cut its forecast — The Nintendo Switch had a relatively strong holiday quarter …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Audio: Daniel Ek says Spotify needs exclusives for leverage to land deals with Amazon, Google, and others, and he finds many things Rogan says “very offensive” — He says Spotify is a platform, not a publisher — Spotify CEO Daniel Ek addressed employees about the Joe Rogan controversy …
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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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| 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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Sources: Israeli surveillance company QuaDream used the zero-click ForcedEntry exploit to break into 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 …
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
The Conti ransomware group hits major British snack producer KP Snacks, affecting the supply of Skips, Hula Hoops, McCoy's, and others to leading 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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| 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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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Counterpoint: Apple shipped 2.3M iPhones in India in Q4, up 34% YoY; Xiaomi shipped 9.3M smartphones, up 2% YoY, and Samsung shipped 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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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Interview with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition, preparing for the metaverse, the future of gaming and workplaces, and more — Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy.
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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 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla shuts down Firefox Reality, its web browser launched in 2018 for Oculus and other AR/VR headsets, and directs users to Igalia's upcoming browser Wolvic — A top VR web browser is closing down. Today, Mozilla announced it's shutting down its Firefox Reality browser …
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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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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bengaluru-based Jar, a daily savings app that lets users invest in “digital gold”, raises a $32M Series A led by Tiger Global, sources say at a $200M+ valuation — A seven-month-old fintech app that is helping millions of Indians to begin their investment and saving journeys … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Bold, which offers a card reader and “pay-by-link” service to SMBs in Colombia, raises a $55M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $65M — Bold, a technology company working to enable financial access to electronic payments in Colombia … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
The US Senate Judiciary Committee approves the Open App Markets Act, which would allow app sideloading and let developers use their own in-app payment systems — The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee today approved the bipartisan Open Markets Act, an antitrust bill that would allow for sideloading and alternate app stores on the iPhone.Sponsor Posts
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