|
October 28, 2022, 11:20 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Washington Post: |
Elon Musk takes over Twitter and fires several top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and policy head Vijaya Gadde — Musk's $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company closed on Thursday night — Elon Musk became Twitter's owner late Thursday …
More:
Wall Street Journal, Reuters, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, New York Times, The Verge, Reuters, Bloomberg, Reuters, Thurrott, Bloomberg, Insider, CNN, Bloomberg, Decrypt, The Irish Times, New York Times, CNN, Axios, Fortune, Washington Post, Metaverse Post, Axios, CoinDesk, The Economic Times, BuzzFeed News, Android Central, SlashGear, CNBC, The Addition, Insider, CoinGape, BBC, USA Today, CNBC, TheGamer, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Financial Times, Huawei Central, Wired UK, Wired, Insider, Neowin, New York Post, Politico, Marketing Dive, Tech.co, New York Times, Watcher Guru, Coinspeaker, Protos, Platformer, Mashable, Bitcoinist.com, Firstpost Tech, Pocket-lint, CryptoPotato, BGR India, Livemint, Silicon Republic, International Business Times, Broadband TV News, Search Engine Journal, TheStreet, and Ethereum World News
Tweets: @elonmusk, @thierrybreton, @davidfaber, @cz_binance, @techemails, @briannawu, @mattzeitlin, @nedsegal, @mmasnick, @kashhill, @beeple, @nedsegal, @biz, @eliothiggins, @binance, @sarthakgh, @lkrauss1, @oneunderscore__, @danprimack, @danprimack, @film_girl, @austinj, @sifill_, @cnbctech, @jsnell, @marcoarment, @ben_rosen, @duolingo, @cnbctech, @anthony, @alexhern, @joshtpm, @cushbomb, @buzz, @jaredlholt, @byyourlogic, @rsarver, @matthewstoller, @alwaleed_talal, @vilile, @repboebert, @davemilbo, @striedinger, @repmtg, @jennaellisesq, @mmasnick, @pulte, @hsouthwellfe, @klonick, @growing_daniel, @film_girl, @paulg, @jason_kint, @lizzadwoskin, @backlon, @pwnallthethings, @campuscodi, @megan, @snowden, @maxkennerly, @bondhack, @pkedrosky, @ashcryptoreal, @paulg, @karaswisher, @keemstar, @paulmozur, @petestrzok, @pwnallthethings, @0xfoobar, @esqueer_, @davidakaye, @wajahatali, @functi0nzer0, @noahpinion, @itguy1959, @eve6, @xpangler, @sriramk, @heydave7, and @robbystarbuck
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
“Welcome to hell, Elon”: Musk won't be able to grow Twitter users and revenue without compromises and realizing that content moderation is the main product — You break it, you buy it. … Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself …
More:
Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Deadline, WRAL TechWire, and Tech Xplore
Tweets: @reckless, @courtneymilan, @martinsfp, @mmasnick, @reclaimthenethq, @mikeelgan, @scottlowe, @fxshaw, @joannastern, @rjcc, and @cwarzel
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Elon Musk plans to become Twitter CEO, but may cede the role, and reverse lifetime bans, including eventually for Donald Trump — Elon Musk plans to assume the role of chief executive officer at Twitter Inc. after completing his $44 billion acquisition, taking the helm … | Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Elon Musk takes Twitter private, merging the company with X Holdings, delisting from NYSE, dissolving the board, and moving to cash-based employee compensation — The social media company went public in 2013. But Elon Musk is taking it private as part of his acquisition of the firm.
More:
NPR, USA Today, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, SEC.gov, Financial Times, Fox Business, The Independent, CNN, Bloomberg, The Wrap, Variety, Washington Post, BBC, Barron's Online, Sky News, Slate, ITV News, Cointelegraph, and Reuters
Tweets: @davidmackau, @chrismessina, @danprimack, @carnage4life, @edludlow, @oothoon, @jolyonmaugham, and @soutikbbc
| Anders Melin / Bloomberg: |
More:
Axios. Tweets: @nut_bunnies, @vaniilaessence, @sandeep_pt, @gaberivera, @jackalltogether, @jcoviedo6, @hayekmg, @tanayj, @shiringhaffary, and @alexhern
| Bloomberg: |
More:
Insider, The Information, New York Post, New York Times, The Guardian, Android Police, and Android Headlines
Tweets: @sawyermerritt, @schachin, @jckarter, @rustybrick, @wongmjane, @levie, @lawrencehurley, @ross, and @wongmjane
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
More:
New York Times, Forbes, Associated Press, Insider, Bloomberg, New York Post, Livemint, NPR, Mashable, Insider, Digiday, Fossbytes, Pirate Wires, Cryptopolitan, Tech Xplore, AdExchanger, and International Business Times
Tweets: @elonmusk, @esqueer_, @sep, @theonion, @ndrew_lawrence, @jamesfourm, @oneunderscore__, @beccalew, @taylorlorenz, and @robinw
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
More:
Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, The Verge, TMZ.com, Social Signals, HITC, CNBC, Coinpedia Fintech News, and NewsBTC
Tweets: @elonmusk, @walterisaacson, @jtcrombie, @compilesandruns, @cz_binance, and @briannawu
| Apple: |
Apple reports record Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to $90.1B, net income up 1% YoY to $20.7B, and annual revenue up 8% YoY to $394.3B; stock is up 6%+ — September quarter record for Revenue and EPS — Active installed base of devices reaches all-time high for all major product categories
More:
MacDailyNews, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Six Colors, KnowTechie, CNBC, and Coinspeaker
Tweets: @waltlightshed, @greengart, @pt, @rsgnl, and @austen
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q4 revenue: iPhone up 9.67% YoY to $42.63B, iPad down 13.06% YoY to $7.17B, Other Products up 9.85% YoY to $9.65B, and Services up 4.98% YoY to $19.19B — - Apple reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations on revenue and earnings per share.
More:
9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TechSpot, Macworld, The Hollywood Reporter, and Livemint
Tweets: @jsnell, @neilcybart, @patrickmcgee_, @neilcybart, @patrickmcgee_, and @trippmickle
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon reports Q3 advertising services revenue grew 25% YoY to $9.55B, vs. $9.48B est., and subscription services revenue grew 9% YoY to $8.9B — - Amazon reported third-quarter results on Thursday that missed analysts' estimates. — It also gave a disappointing sales forecast for the fourth quarter.| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $127.1B, net income down 9% YoY to $2.9B, and AWS revenue up 27% YoY to $20.5B; the stock drops 10%+ on weak Q4 guidance — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2022.
More:
Reuters, Protocol, CNBC, RCR Wireless News, Clouded Judgement, and Coinspeaker
Tweets: @retail_guru, @pt, @firstadopter, @retail_guru, @jimcramer, and @tcarmody
| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it has awarded researchers ~$20M total, including 20 rewards of $100K+ each for high-impact issues, since opening its bug bounty in December 2019 — Along with announcing its new Lockdown Mode feature this past summer, the company mentioned an upgraded bounty program, a donation to fund ethical security research, and more.
More:
Apple, Apple Security Research, The Register, Dark Reading, Apple Must, Insanely Great Mac, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @kifleswing, @pwnallthethings, @classicii_mrmac, @brinlystorm, @mdisec, @thomasareed, @campuscodi, @_r3ggi, and @martijn_grooten
| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Meta, which hit a $1T market cap in June 2021, is no longer among the 20 most valuable US companies, after losing $730B+ in value since its September 2021 peak — - Last year, Facebook was among the five most valuable U.S. companies, with a market cap over $1 trillion. Now the company is worth about $270 billion.
More:
Bloomberg, Facebook, Financial Times, Forbes, CBS News, NPR, and Coinspeaker
| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Twitter tests a blockchain-agnostic tool for displaying NFTs in tweets with “select users” in partnership with Dapper Labs, Magic Eden, Rarible, and Jump.trade — Social media platform Twitter today announced that it will let users buy, sell, and display NFTs directly through tweets in partnership with four marketplaces.| Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: |
A look at the ongoing Qualcomm-Arm legal dispute, as Qualcomm claims Arm plans to stop licensing its CPUs to semiconductor companies after 2024 — No More External GPU, NPU, or ISP's Allowed In Arm-Based SOCs — The Qualcomm-Arm saga is epic and there is a new massive update in the case.
Tweets: @dylan522p, @counternotions, and @stevesi
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Responding to user feedback, YouTube splits video content into three tabs on channel pages: Videos, Shorts, and Live — YouTube is rolling out a change impacting how videos appear on its platform. The company today announced a redesign that now splits video content into three different tabs … | Harmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 12% YoY to 301M units in Q3 2022, the lowest Q3 level since 2014; Apple was the only top-five brand to grow YoY, up 2% — - The global smartphone market declined by 12% YoY even as it grew by 2% QoQ to reach 301 million units in Q3 2022.
More:
IDC, Android Authority, Patently Apple, Android Headlines, BGR India, SamMobile, and The Register
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
Zoho:
Planned India Data Center Maintenance on 14th and 15th November 2026 from 06.00 AM to 07:00 AM IST for Zoho Payments — Dear customers,Our bi-annual infrastructure maintenance for our India Data Center is scheduled …
Planned India Data Center Maintenance on 14th and 15th November 2026 from 06.00 AM to 07:00 AM IST for Zoho Payments — Dear customers,Our bi-annual infrastructure maintenance for our India Data Center is scheduled …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
WebBrain:
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.Featured Podcasts
Great Chat:
Too soon to call it a vibe shift?
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Big Technology Podcast:
Storm Clouds Ahead For Apple?, Debating Amazon's Bee Frontier, AI as UI
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Machine Gods:
Jensen Huang's Nvidiotic Spy Scandal + Can Dems Pass AI Regulation?
The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future.
Subscribe to Machine Gods.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Encore: Chuck Klosterman on Why Football Owns TV (and Why It Won't Forever)
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Invest Like the Best:
Zach Reitano - Building Ro and Why Healthcare Should Be 50% of GDP
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Sources:
Amazon AWS CEO: AI boom is just getting started
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:20 AM ET, October 28, 2022.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Finya Swai / The Hill:Oliver Darcy / Status:
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
TheStreet, Adweek, Australian Financial Review, Reuters, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @cortessteve