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April 26, 2023, 10:20 PM
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The UK CMA blocks Microsoft's $68.7B Activision acquisition, citing competition and innovation concerns in the UK cloud gaming market; Microsoft plans to appeal — The CMA has prevented Microsoft's proposed purchase of Activision over concerns the deal would alter the future …
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Meta reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $28.6B, net income down 24% YoY to $5.7B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 3.02B for March 2023; META jumps 10%+ — “We had a good quarter and our community continues to grow,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta's Reality Labs unit reports Q1 revenue down 51% YoY from $695M to $339M and operating loss up 35% YoY from $2.96B to $3.99B, after losing $13.72B in 2022 — - Meta's Reality Labs unit had a $3.99 billion operating loss in the first quarter, after losing $13.72 billion last calendar year.
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg disputes the narrative that Meta is moving its focus away from a metaverse vision and sees AI tech working in tandem with the metaverse — Things are looking up for Meta. The company beat revenue expectations, reporting an increase in year-over-year revenue for the first time in three quarters.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Meta says time spent on Instagram grew 24%+ since Reels launched thanks to AI recommendations, and expects Reels to be revenue-neutral by year end or early 2024 — Meta shared some updated engagement info around its platforms on its Q1 2023 quarterly earnings call on Wednesday …
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Amazon shuts down its health-focused Halo division, discontinues its Halo Band, Halo View, and Halo Rise devices, and plans to lay off portions of the team — Amazon has decided to shutter its health-focused Halo division, The Verge has learned. Amazon has stopped selling its three Halo products …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it plans to add E2EE to Google Authenticator “down the line”, after researchers warned that its new feature to sync 2FA codes is not E2E encrypted — On Monday, Google Authenticator launched the ability to sync 2FA codes to your Google Account.
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Lookout agrees to sell its consumer mobile security business to F-Secure in a deal valued at around $223M, transitioning into a “pure-play enterprise company” — Lookout's long-running transition to becoming an enterprise security company is all but complete …
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US senators unveil a bipartisan bill that bans kids under 13 from joining social media and requires tech companies to get parental consent for teens' accounts — A new federal bill unveiled Wednesday would establish a national minimum age for social media use and require tech companies … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Some users say Microsoft Edge sends URLs of visited pages to the Bing API website; a developer says Edge's creator follow option, on by default, may be to blame — Microsoft's Edge browser appears to be sending URLs you visit to its Bing API website. … Microsoft tells The Verge it's investigating the reports.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to $741M, platform revenue down 1% YoY to $635M, streaming hours up 20% YoY to 25.1B, and active accounts up 17% YoY to 71.6M — Users streamed a record high of 3.9 hours per active account per day during the quarter, company says| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
YouTube Music contractors from Cognizant vote to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union; Alphabet is appealing a ruling that Google is their joint employer — The majority of a group of YouTube contract staff in Texas have voted to unionize in a labor victory that could force parent company Alphabet Inc …
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| Sara Merken / Reuters: |
Harvey, which builds generative AI tools for law firms, raised a $21M Series A led by Sequoia with participation from the OpenAI Startup Fund and others — With more and more lawyers at major law firms using fast-advancing generative artificial intelligence tools, legal AI startup Harvey …
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| Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
PricewaterhouseCoopers plans to invest $1B in generative AI over the next three years, working with Microsoft and OpenAI to automate some of its US operations — Multiyear investment in U.S. business includes accessing ChatGPT maker OpenAI's language model, training staff in AI capabilities
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| Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: |
eBay reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.51B, vs. $2.48B est., gross merchandise volume down 5% YoY to $18.4B, and forecasts Q2 revenue guidance above estimates — Ecommerce firm eBay Inc (EBAY.O) forecast second-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday …
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A look at the mounting US legal pressure on Binance: the DOJ's money laundering division leading a criminal investigation, CZ hiring Latham & Watkins, and more — The scrutiny on Binance, the giant cryptocurrency exchange, has sent new tremors through a market that is still bruised by the implosion of FTX.
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Samsung reports Q1 operating profit down 95% YoY to ~$478.6M, its lowest since 2009, and revenue down 18% YoY to ~$47.6B; its chip division reported ~$3.4B loss — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) flagged a gradual recovery for chips in the second half of the year …
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Mina Lefevre, Meta's head of development and programming, to exit amid layoffs, as Meta shutters Facebook Watch Originals and ends its last show, Red Table Talk — EXCLUSIVE: Mina Lefevre, who was Head of Development and Programming at Meta, is departing Facebook's parent company.| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Sources: Andy Jassy picks 14-year Amazon veteran Eric Rimling as his technical adviser, a coveted two-year position; Jassy was Bezos' adviser in the early 2000s — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has picked Eric Rimling, a 14-year veteran of the company's fulfillment operation, as his new technical adviser … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Lenovo announces the $699 Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola, with ThinkPad-compatible productivity features, available to enterprises now and unlocked on April 28 — The Lenovo ThinkPhone by Motorola is available in the US starting today for $699, offering a suite of productivity features designed to work with ThinkPad laptops.Sponsor Posts
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