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February 3, 2023, 9:45 AM

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Apple:
Apple reports Q1 revenue down 5% YoY to $117.2B, marking its largest annual quarterly revenue decline since 2016, and net income down 13% YoY to $30B  —  Installed base crosses 2 billion active devices and hits all-time high for all major product categories  —  Services set new all-time revenue record
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple Q1 revenue: iPhone down 8% YoY to $65.8B, Mac down 29% YoY to $7.7B, iPad up 30% YoY to $9.4B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 8% YoY to $13.5B  —  Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT  —  Apple missed expectations for revenue, profit, and sales for many of its lines …
Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal:
Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac:
Wall Street Journal:
Documents offer a look at the four men, including a former child actor, who control ~86% of Tether Holdings, incorporated in 2014, and their ties to Bitfinex  —  The stablecoin has become a lucrative business at center of crypto economy  —  Tether Holdings Ltd. operates a $68 billion stablecoin …
Davey Alba / Bloomberg:
Sundar Pichai says Google will make LLMs like LaMDA available “in the coming weeks and months”, and users will be able to use them “as a companion to search”  —  Google parent Alphabet Inc. reported fourth-quarter results that narrowly missed analysts' expectations …
Alphabet:
Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg:
Sources: US prosecutors in the DOJ's fraud unit are investigating California-based bank Silvergate over hosting accounts tied to FTX and Alameda Research  —  US prosecutors in the Justice Department's fraud unit are looking into Silvergate Capital Corp.'s dealings with fallen crypto giants FTX …
BuzzFeed News:
Twitter ending free API access could have the unfortunate side effect of effectively killing off many useful bots like @MakeItAQuote, @BigTechAlert, and more  —  “I'm not paying a dime to Elon lol.”  —  Pranav Dixit  —  One of the most popular bots on Twitter is @MakeItAQuote, which has more than 565,000 followers.
TechCrunch:
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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
A former employee of IoT manufacturer Ubiquiti pleaded guilty to stealing gigabytes of confidential data in December 2020 and extorting the company for ransom  —  Nickolas Sharp, a former Ubiquiti employee who managed the networking device maker's cloud team, pled guilty today …
Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk:
As the spat between Binance and WazirX escalates, Binance invites the Indian exchange to withdraw its assets held in Binance wallets after February 3  —  The solution ostensibly ends worries about what would happen to customer funds if Binance and WazirX end their collaboration.
Amazon:
Amazon Q4: revenue up 9% YoY to $149.2B, net income down 98% YoY to $278M, AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $21.4B, and employees down 4% to 1.54M; stock is down 5%+  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2022.  Fourth Quarter 2022

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