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February 4, 2022, 6:25 AM

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Amazon:
Amazon reports Q4 revenue up 9% YoY to $137.4B, net income up 98% to $14.3B, AWS revenue up 40% to $17.8B, and FY 2021 revenue up 22% to $469.8B; stock up 15%+  —  SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) February 3, 2022—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon breaks out advertising services revenue for the first time: $9.7B for Q4, up 32% YoY, and $31.2B for FY 2021; subscription services grew 15% to $8.1B  —  - Amazon shares rallied in extended trading Thursday after the company posted a big earnings beat for the fourth quarter …
Taylor Soper / GeekWire:
Amazon will raise Prime's US prices by $20 to $139 per year and by $2 to $14.99 per month, on February 18 for new members and March 25 for current members  —  Amazon is upping the price of Prime, increasing the annual fee of its membership from $119/year to $139/year.
Bloomberg:
Meta closes down 26%, erasing ~$250B from its market cap, the biggest single-day loss in market value 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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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Activision Blizzard reports Q4 revenue of $2.16B, down 10% YoY, net bookings of $2.49B, down 18% YoY, 371M MAUs, down from 397M a year ago  —  Activision Blizzard's net bookings of $2.49 billion in the fourth quarter ended December 31 short of expectations on Wall Street …
Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
Snap reports its first quarterly net profit, with Q4 revenue of $1.3B, up 42% YoY, and net income of $23M; FY 2021 revenue grew 64% to $4.1B; stock is up 55%+  —  - Snap reported earnings for the fourth quarter Thursday that beat analyst estimates on earnings, revenue and user growth.
Andrew Thurman / CoinDesk:
Wormhole's parent company replaces $322M worth of ETH stolen by a hacker on Wednesday; the bridge's operations resumed after the attack vector was patched  —  Wormhole's parent company has stepped in to prevent chaos across the Solana DeFi landscape.  —  After one of the most devastating exploits …
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 App Markets Act, an antitrust bill that would allow …
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Nike sues online reseller StockX for selling unauthorized NFTs of its shoes, citing its trademarks, and promises “a number of virtual products” later this month  —  Sneaker giant Nike sued online reseller StockX in New York federal court on Thursday for selling unauthorized images of Nike shoes …

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