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Meta Q3: revenue down 4% YoY to $27.7B, net income down 52% YoY to $4.4B, family daily active people up 4% YoY to 2.93B, headcount up 28% YoY; stock drops 19%+ — MENLO PARK, Calif. - October 26, 2022 - Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2022.
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| Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: |
Meta reports Reality Labs had a $3.67B loss for Q3 2022 on $285M in revenue vs. $406M est. and says the unit's operating loss will grow “significantly” in 2023 — Meta's revenues for the division came in at $285 million, down from $452 million in the second quarter.
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| Nick Statt / Protocol: |
Meta plans to launch the next generation of its consumer Quest headset in 2023 — A follow-up to the Quest 2 virtual reality headset is arriving next year, Meta said in its most recent earnings announcement. The device will be a consumer-grade headset unlike the recently released Quest Pro …
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| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk changes his Twitter bio to Chief Twit and visits the company's San Francisco office; memo to employees: “you'll all hear directly from him on Friday” — Elon Musk made his presence felt at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters Wednesday, posting a video clip of himself walking …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI, which raised $2.6B+, is shutting down; sources: parts of the company and some employees would be absorbed by Ford and VW — Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle startup that burst on the scene in 2017 stacked with a $1 billion investment, is shutting down …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Xbox Game Pass is profitable and accounts for ~15% of Xbox's content and services revenue, after sharing PC Game Pass subscriptions rose 159% YoY — Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has revealed that the company's Xbox Game Pass subscription service is already profitable.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: the US DOJ launched a criminal probe into Tesla in 2021 that is still underway, following over a dozen crashes, some fatal, with Autopilot activated — Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is under criminal investigation in the United States over claims that the company's electric vehicles can drive themselves …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Following complaints from prominent developers, Apple says it has “paused ads related to gambling and a few other categories on App Store product pages” — Apple today rolled out new ad placements in the App Store on the iPhone, allowing developers to advertise their apps in more places …
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| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Andy Rubin incorporated home security monitoring software startup Simple Things in July 2020 and appears to have hired staff from his defunct startup Essential — Andy Rubin is planning his next act. — The former Google executive, who received a $90 million severance package following … | Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: a16z's flagship crypto fund is down ~40% in H1 2022, above the 10%-20% losses at rival funds; a16z dramatically slowed its crypto investments in 2022 — Chris Dixon, a partner who led the charge, says he has a ‘very long-term horizon’ — Crypto Crashed, Coinbase's Stock Followed: What Went Wrong
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| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
Source: Apple is working on an iPad with a 16-inch screen, the largest iPad yet and in line with the company's largest laptop, and is planning a Q4 2023 release — Apple is developing its largest iPad yet, a model with a 16-inch screen that it hopes to release in the fourth quarter of next year …
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Samsung Q3: operating profit down 31%+ YoY to $7.65B, revenue up ~4% YoY to $54.1B, semiconductor sales down 14% YoY; first quarterly profit decline in ~3 years — Samsung's quarterly profit declined in the third quarter for the first time in nearly three years economic uncertainty continues … | Han Chen / Axios: |
Report: US state and local governments kept buying Chinese telecom equipment despite a federal-level ban; only five states have rules to limit such purchases — Despite federal efforts to block Chinese telecom equipment from U.S. supply chains, state and local governments across …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Leaked data from TheTruthSpy stalkerware network reveals its Android apps tracked the calls, locations, and other information of hundreds of thousands of people — Leaked data reveals the apps tracked locations and recorded calls of Americans — A massive cache of leaked data reveals …
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| Keerthi Vedantam / Crunchbase News: |
Atlanta-based ConnexPay, which integrates incoming user payments with supplier payments in one platform, raised $110M from FTV Capital for European expansion — Fintech platform ConnexPay announced on Tuesday it received $110 million in growth investment led by FTV Capital to expand the company beyond the U.S. and into Europe.
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| Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: |
iPad Pro (2022) review: M2 runs GPU-intensive tasks well and Pencil hover is nice, but the upgrade is incremental and the front camera remains on the wrong side — This year's iPad Pro has even more power. It's nice, but a true upgrade beckons. — If you're an Apple Pencil devotee …
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Source: Israeli cybersecurity startup Cybereason laid off 200 employees, or 17%, after letting ~100 staff go in June and filing for a US IPO earlier in 2022 — This is the second round of layoffs at the company, which parted ways with around 100 employees in June| Bloomberg: |
Seagate misses Q1 estimates with $2.04B revenue and plans to cut ~3,000 jobs, saying big buyers are reducing orders; the stock drops 6%+ and is down 50%+ YTD — Seagate Technology Holdings Plc, the biggest maker of computer hard drives, said it's eliminating about 3,000 jobs and that big buyers …
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