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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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| 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 …
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| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
Meta's Reality Labs division posts a $2.81B loss for Q2 2022, vs. $3.67B est., on $452M in revenue, compared to a $2.96B loss for Q1 2022 on $695M in revenue — Meta reported revenue of $452 million for the division, down from $695 million in the first quarter. — Jul 27, 2022
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg: the economic downturn will broadly impact the digital ad business and Meta thus plans to “steadily reduce headcount growth over the next year” — - It appears the economy has begun a downturn, said Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, on the company's Q2 earnings call.
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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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| Richard Speed / The Register: |
Microsoft details Austria-based malware group Knotweed, which has used Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits to attack European and Central American organizations — Reports seeing ‘offensive actor’ flinging SubZero malware — Microsoft has published an analysis of a Europe-based …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils Chrome OS features: video editing in Google Photos, PDF editing in Gallery, light and dark themes, and the ability to save a virtual desk — Google today announced that it is adding a new movie editor and a few new video editing features to Google Photos …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google delays phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome to H2 2024, after deferring the plan 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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| 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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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Google rolls out a new Gmail UI, moving the Mail, Meet, Spaces, and Chat buttons onto a rail in the top left, and teases a tablet update for later in 2022 — It's not that different — We've been tracking the progress of Google's interface refresh for Gmail since February, and as promised …
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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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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Former US national security officials form the Open Source Intelligence Foundation to promote analyzing public data like social media posts for intel-gathering — Social media, satellite images, mobile-phone data can yield as much insight as traditional espionage, but few rules exist
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has hired Luigi Taraborrelli, who was most recently Lamborghini's head of chassis and vehicle dynamics, to work on its self-driving electric car — Apple Inc. has enlisted one of Lamborghini's top car-development managers in a sign that it's stepping up work …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Qualcomm reports Q3 revenue up 37% YoY to $10.93B, vs. $10.88B est., net income up 53% YoY to $3.36B, and chip segment revenue up 45% YoY to $9.38B — - Qualcomm reported third-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday, slightly beating Wall Street expectations, but guidance …
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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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| 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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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal has sought to spend more time with advertisers to keep the company's $4.5B/year ad business afloat amid its Musk legal battle — Legal battle to enforce $44bn sale has exacerbated tensions between leadership and staff — Twitter is suffering from falling morale … Sponsor Posts
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