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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
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| 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 …
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| Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Tim Cook says iPhone revenue would have grown without supply constraints, currency fluctuations were a challenge, and layoffs are a “last resort kind of thing” — Revenue in holiday quarter fell for the iPhone maker for the first time in nearly four years
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| 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 …
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| Thomas Maxwell / Insider: |
YouTube Shorts has surpassed 50B daily views, up from 30B in April 2022; YouTube began sharing ad revenue with Shorts creators starting February 1 — - YouTube Shorts now sees more than 50 billion daily views, up from 30 billion the year prior. — The short-form video format was launched in 2021 as a response to TikTok.| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $76B, net income down 34% YoY to $13.6B, Google Cloud revenue up 32% YoY to $7.3B, and employees up 22% YoY to 190,234 — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - February 2, 2023 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.
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Amazon reports Q4 revenue up 9% YoY to $149.2B, net income down 98% YoY to $278M, AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $21.4B, and number of employees down 4% YoY to 1.54M — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2022. Fourth Quarter 2022
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| 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 …
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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 …
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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.
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| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital sold 1,500 BTC in January, amid a rallying crypto market, to cover some of its expenses; Marathon still holds 11,418 BTC — The bitcoin miner sold 1,500 bitcoins in January. — Feb 3, 2023 — Crypto Software Firm President: We're Trying to Make California's DMV More Efficient With Blockchain| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Apple removes decentralized social networking app Damus from China App Store, two days after debut, per CAC's demand as it includes content “illegal in China” — Damus, one of the fastest-growing Twitter alternatives, has been pulled from China's App Store just two days after the app was approved by Apple.
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