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Twitter plans to end free access to its API starting February 9, shuttering support for both v1.1 and v2, and will launch a “paid basic tier” instead — Twitter will discontinue offering free access to the Twitter API starting February 9 and will launch a paid version …
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Q&A with ad expert Eric Seufert on Meta's Q4 report, rising ad load, ATT, Reels, the Google-Facebook duopoly, Amazon, EU regulation, Google's DOJ case, and more — An interview with Eric Seufert about Meta's earnings, the ATT recession, new European regulations, and the DOJ-Google antitrust case.
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| Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
After a big decline in 2022, Meta's stock has risen 72%+ since November 3, one of the S&P 500 Index's best-performing stocks, adding $200B+ to its market cap — A spectacular turnaround in Meta Platforms Inc.'s stock is bringing back flashes of Big Tech heydays.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony announces a beta version of Discord for the PlayStation 5 in the US, Canada, Japan, and the UK, adds Variable Refresh Rate support for 1440p, and more — Beta testers will be able to join Discord voice calls on a PS5 console in the US, Canada, Japan, and UK starting today.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sony reports Q3 sales rose 13% YoY to ~$26.4B as operating profit drops 8% YoY to ~$3.3B, beating analyst estimates; PS5 sales were 7.1M, up from 4M YoY — Sony Group Corp. revised up its full-year profit outlook after earnings beat estimates and the company had its best quarter of PlayStation 5 sales.
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
UBS study: ChatGPT reached ~100M MAUs with ~13M daily unique visitors in January, two months after launch, becoming the fastest-growing consumer app ever — ChatGPT, the popular chatbot from OpenAI, is estimated to have reached 100 million monthly active users in January, just two months after launch …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has decided not to replace its VP of Industrial Design Evans Hankey; its core group of ~20 industrial designers will report to COO Jeff Williams — Apple Inc. has decided against naming a new executive to replace its departing top product designer, marking a stark shift …
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| Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: |
Legal documents: Meta paid Bright Data to scrape data from other websites for years while publicly condemning the practice and suing companies over scraping — Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. for years paid a contractor to scrape data from other websites while publicly condemning …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
TikTok's playbook to win DC's trust, like touring its Transparency and Accountability Center in California, echoes Huawei's unsuccessful US and Europe strategy — Chinese-owned app is taking steps that are similar to largely unsuccessful tactics used by the telecom giant — How TikTok Could Become a U.S. Company
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| Nicole Herskowitz / Microsoft 365 Blog: |
Microsoft's Teams Premium hits general availability for $10 per user per month; AI-generated notes by OpenAI's GPT-3.5 are set to arrive “in the coming months” — As we face economic uncertainties and changes to work patterns, organizations are searching for ways to optimize …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis lays off less than 5% of its staff as part of a reorganization; in January, its CEO said the company plans to grow staff by ~11% and expand globally — Chainalysis Inc., a company that specializes in tracking crypto transactions and the entities behind them, said it's made layoffs affecting less than 5% of staff.
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Forbes, CoinDesk, The Information, Cryptonews, Crypto Saving Expert, and Tech in Asia. Tweets: @wublockchain
| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
A brief look at three lawsuits against generative AI tools and what music labels suing Napster but making peace with the likes of Spotify means for the future — What can Napster tell us about the future? — That was quick: Artificial intelligence has gone from science fiction to novelty to Thing We Are Sure Is the Future.
Tweets: @pkafka
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
Docs: Verily's revenue grew to $470M in the first nine months of 2022, up from $228M YoY, making the company Alphabet's second biggest subsidiary by revenue — Verily, by far the biggest Alphabet unit by revenue after Google, continues to post heavy losses, according to previously undisclosed financial information.| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A Manhattan judge dismisses a proposed class action lawsuit accusing Coinbase of selling unregistered securities and failing to register as a broker-dealer — A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit by Coinbase Global Inc (COIN.O) customers who accused …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Netflix has yet to set its US password sharing rules and takes down info from its US help page that said users must connect to a “primary Wi-Fi” every 31 days — Based on info sourced from Netflix's support pages, The Streamable reported on Tuesday details about its upcoming anti-password sharing efforts.
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| Ali Breland / Mother Jones: |
Kiwi Farms, a forum for online harassment campaigns, is fighting to stay alive after being dropped by Cloudflare, as posters congregate on Telegram and Discord — If you or someone you care about may be at risk of suicide, call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline …
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