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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
The DOJ sues Google, joined by California and seven other US states, calling for the breakup of its ad tech business that allegedly monopolizes the US ad market — The US Justice Department and eight states sued Alphabet Inc.'s Google, calling for the break up of the search giant's ad-technology business …
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Q2: revenue up 2% YoY to $52.7B, net income down 12% YoY to $16.4B, Dynamics 365 revenue up 21% YoY, LinkedIn revenue up 10% YoY; stock rises 4%+ — Earnings Release FY23 Q2 Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives Second Quarter Results REDMOND, Wash. — January 24, 2023 …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft reports Q2 devices revenue down 39% YoY, Xbox hardware revenue down 13%, Xbox content and services revenue down 12%, and Windows OEM revenue down 39% — Microsoft has just posted the second quarter of its 2023 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $52.7 billion …
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
A review of Ivory, a new Mastodon iOS app from Tapbots, maker of the now-defunct Tweetbot: an inspired design, Tweetbot-like gestures, custom filters, and more — There's an intangible, permeating quality about Tapbots apps that trascends features and specs: craftsmanship.
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| Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Riot Games says the company won't pay a ransom after hackers exfiltrated source code for League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and “a legacy anticheat platform” — Riot Games, the video game developer and esports organizer, said on Tuesday that it had received a ransom email following a social engineering attack last week.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
LastPass parent company GoTo confirms hackers stole encrypted backups, an encryption key for some data, billing info, and more, in a breach disclosed in 2022 — GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) is warning customers that threat actors who breached its development environment in November 2022 stole …
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says ChatGPT's underlying techniques are “not particularly innovative” and other companies and research labs do similar work — Much ink has been spilled of late about the tremendous promise of OpenAI's ChatGPT program for generating natural-language utterances …
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| WABetaInfo: |
WhatsApp releases a beta version of its native macOS app, built with Mac Catalyst, to all users via its website, following a limited TestFlight app early-beta — After releasing a very limited early-beta program of WhatsApp beta for macOS for a small number of people on TestFlight … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches RxPass, which lets US Prime users pay $5 per month to get as many generic versions of medications as they need, initially for 80 common ailments — More than two years since announcing Amazon Pharmacy to take some of the prescription drugs business away from big (and smaller) …
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
A second Twitter whistleblower tells the FTC and Congress that engineers can access “GodMode” and tweet from any account, supporting Mudge's complaint from 2022 — Too many people can still access a program that lets them tweet under any account, he says in a complaint
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Binance admits to mistakenly storing collateral for some of its tokens in the same wallet as customer funds; reserves for 41 out of 94 coins are in one wallet — Binance Holdings Ltd., the world's largest crypto platform, acknowledged that it mistakenly keeps collateral for some of the tokens …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter updates its web version to default to the timeline a user had open last, rather than reverting to the algorithmic feed; coming to iOS and Android “soon” — Twitter should now be less annoying about pushing its “For You” algorithmic timeline.| J.D. Capelouto / Semafor: |
Live Nation President Joe Berchtold to Congress: during Taylor Swift's tour presale, Ticketmaster saw triple the bot traffic, which then impacted Verified Fan — The president of Ticketmaster's parent company explained to a U.S. Senate committee Tuesday why its site melted down in November during …
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
NYC-based VC firm Thrive Capital sells a 3.3% stake for ~$175M to Disney CEO Robert Iger and others, valuing Thrive at $5.3B, a rare move to expand its reach — Group of five investors is paying about $175 million for 3.3% of venture firm — Venture firm Thrive Capital is selling a stake … | Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A World of Warcraft Classic co-lead developer departs after internally criticizing Activision Blizzard's stack ranking; Microsoft ended stack ranking in 2013 — A manager at video game developer Blizzard Entertainment said he was ousted after refusing to give a low evaluation to an employee …
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| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Netflix, Apple, and Amazon accounted for 19 Oscars nominations, down from 37 in 2022, and only one streaming title got more than one nomination — Despite all of the uncertainty about the future of theatrical distribution, streaming services collectively took a step back in this year's Oscar race … | Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
How Twitter Director of Product Management Esther Crawford has become one of the most influential leaders from the old guard in Elon Musk's “hardcore” Twitter — Days after Elon Musk had completed his $44bn buyout of Twitter, Esther Crawford shared a picture of herself sleeping …
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Tweets: @tonytassell, @mattnavarra, @alexwitzleben, @wholemarsblog, and @alexstubb
| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Strava acquires Fatmap, a 3D mapping app with 1.6M registered users, and sets up a team to integrate the tech into Strava for paid and free users in mid-2023 — Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has acquired Fatmap … | David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Sources: bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi plans to sell ~$160M of loans backed by ~68K bitcoin mining machines; some have defaulted or appear undercollateralized — Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi Inc. plans to sell about $160 million of loans backed by around 68,000 Bitcoin mining machines …
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Cointelegraph, Coinpedia Fintech News, Inside Bitcoins, and Cryptopolitan
Tweets: @smidnico and @0xalphainsights
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
At a town hall, CEO Sundar Pichai asked staff to remain motivated as Google faces competition in areas like AI and indicated there would be executive bonus cuts — - Google CEO Sundar Pichai and executive leaders addressed employee questions at a town hall meeting on Monday after last week's job cuts.
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Bloomberg, Silicon Valley Business …, TechCircle, New York Post, and The Register
Tweets: @alex, @jenn_elias, @bdowney, @adoug, @daniel_rubino, @lutherlowe, and @jordannovet
| Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post: |
Filing: Google plans to end a pilot program that lets political campaigns evade Gmail's spam filters and says the RNC didn't join before the 2022 US midterms — The technology giant introduced the exemption after the GOP blamed Gmail spam filters for the party's poor fundraising performance
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