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| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta reports its first-ever YoY quarterly revenue decline and issues a lowered Q3 forecast, citing a weak ad demand environment and macroeconomic uncertainty — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META 6.55%▲ posted its first decline in revenue and issued a muted outlook … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Mark Zuckerberg told employees that Meta and Apple are in a “very deep, philosophical competition” to build the metaverse and set the internet's direction — “This is a competition of philosophies and ideas,” Meta's CEO recently told employees — Mark Zuckerberg believes …
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| Meta - Investor Relations: |
Meta reports Q2 revenue down 1% YoY to $28.8B, net income down 36% YoY to $6.69B, and Family of Apps daily active people up 4% YoY to 2.88B — Announces Plans for Chief Financial Officer Transition and Chief Strategy Officer Appointment MENLO PARK, Calif., July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify has “decided to stop further production of Car Thing units” and will take a €31M charge, citing factors like “product demand and supply chain issues” — Spotify's push to complement its music streaming with a big move into podcasting and related content appears …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Spotify reports Q2 revenue up 23% YoY to €2.9B, a €125M net loss, up from €20M YoY, MAUs up 19% YoY to 433M, and Premium users up 14% YoY to 188M; stock up 12% — Spotify turned in strong numbers for the second quarter, beating expectations for total and paid subscriber adds and reporting 23% revenue growth.
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 20+ people detail GTA developer Rockstar's attempts to change its “boys' club” workplace culture, starting in 2018, after complaints and burnout — In the summer of 2020, after a police officer killed George Floyd, Rockstar Games quietly shelved a mode of play …
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| New York Times: |
The FTC files to block Meta's acquisition of VR company Within, saying Meta “chose to buy” instead of compete, the first antitrust lawsuit filed under Lina Khan — The move is a blow to Meta's metaverse efforts and signals a shift in how the Federal Trade Commission is approaching tech deals.
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / Gizmodo: |
Internal TikTok PR documents reveal suggested responses to difficult questions, including downplaying AI, parent company ByteDance, and “the China association” — Leaked documents detail what TikTok tells the media—and what it doesn't. — Leaked documents from within TikTok reveal …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google announces Maps updates: photorealistic aerial views of nearly 100 landmarks, more detailed cycling route information, and location sharing notifications — Google — facing increasing competition from other apps like Instagram and TikTok when it comes to consumers searching for things …
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The Keyword, Android Police, Ars Technica, Android Authority, Engadget, The Verge, MacRumors, and TechRadar
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google delays the phaseout of third-party cookies in Chrome to H2 2024, after delaying it from 2022 to 2023, citing the need for more Privacy Sandbox tests — Google was originally planning to get rid of third-party cookies in its browser by 2022, but that was later pushed back to 2023.
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The Keyword, Insider, Search Engine Land, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, and Chrome Developers
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| Taylor Lorenz / Taylor Lorenz's Newsletter: |
Nostalgia for the “old”, chronological Instagram makes sense but belies changing norms around online sharing, communication, privacy, and engaging content — It isn't just the platform that has changed, we have too. — Over the past few days there's been a movement to “Make Instagram Instagram again.”
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Like Amazon's Ring, Google's Nest reserves the right to comply with emergency US law enforcement requests for video footage without a warrant or user consent — The law lets Ring and Google share user footage with police during emergencies without consent and without warrants. Here's everything you should know.
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PetaPixel, 9to5Google, Tom's Guide, Daring Fireball, Input, and KnowTechie
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
An IBM study of 550 global organizations: the average cost of a data breach is $4.35M, up 13% over the past two years, and 83% experienced more than one breach — A new report from IBM Security today reveals that data breaches are costlier and more impactful than ever before.
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
The US Senate passes the Chips and Science Act, including $52B+ for US chipmakers plus tax credits to encourage investment; the bill now heads to the House — - The Senate passed bipartisan legislation aimed to help the U.S. compete with China by injecting tens of billions of dollars into the domestic production of semiconductors.
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| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told donors at a fundraiser that the AICO Act to pare back the power of Big Tech companies doesn't have the votes — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told a group of donors that he doesn't believe that there are enough votes in the Senate …
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HuffPost, New York Post, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, and MacDailyNews
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
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| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Unstoppable Domains, which offers NFT domains as a personal identifier across Web3 apps, raised a $65M Series A led by Pantera Capital at a $1B valuation — - Unstoppable Domains announced Wednesday that it raised $65 million in a Series A funding, reaching a $1 billion valuation.
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Unstoppable Domains, SiliconANGLE, Crunchbase News, CoinJournal, TechCrunch, Coinspeaker, FinSMEs, and Forbes
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Human Security, an enterprise bot mitigation and fraud prevention service, merges with PerimeterX, which helps protect web apps; terms were not disclosed — Human Security, a bot mitigation and fraud detection platform for enterprises, is merging with PerimeterX, a company focused …
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AdExchanger, Geektime, Business Wire, and CTech
| Stefanie Marotta / Bloomberg: |
Shopify misses as Q2 revenue grew 16% YoY to $1.3B and GMV reached $46.9B, up 11% YoY; SHOP rises 6%+, after crashing 14% on Tuesday due to layoffs — Shopify Inc. rallied to one of its biggest gains of the year despite releasing disappointing earnings and a weak profit outlook for the rest of 2022.
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Tweets: @carnage4life, @carnage4life, and @markrmcqueen
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Twitter plans to reduce office space in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, Seoul, Osaka, Tokyo, Mumbai, New Delhi, Dublin, and more, in a bid to cut costs — Twitter Inc. is cutting back on its physical office space in several global markets, including San Francisco, New York and Sydney …
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Protocol, Barron's Online, and San Francisco Business Journal
Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @kurtwagner8, @carnage4life, and @kurtwagner8
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony teases more PlayStation VR2 details, including a see-through view, a broadcast mode for filming gameplay, and a cinematic mode for non-VR games and media — There are also see-through and cinematic modes — Sony is teasing some more details about its upcoming PlayStation VR2 headset today.
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PlayStation.Blog, Road to VR, Club386, SamMobile, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @playstation and @personaspeaks
| Jeff Stone / Bloomberg: |
How two college students used an IP grabbing tool to find the attacker who hacked one of their Snapchat accounts in a sextortion scheme, putting him in jail — Natalie Claus was getting accustomed to her sorority and preparing for winter break one evening in December 2019 when people she knew began receiving unusual messages from her.
Tweets: @jeffstone500 and @weldpond
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