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Meta reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $51.2B, vs. $49.4B est., net income down 83% YoY to $2.7B, and family DAP up 8% to 3.54B for September; META drops 8%+ — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2025.
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Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to $102.35B, vs. $99.89B est., Cloud revenue up 34% to $15.16B, and net income up 33% to $34.98B; GOOG jumps 5%+ — Alphabet Announces Third Quarter 2025 Results
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q3 ad revenue rose 15% YoY to $10.26B, vs. $10.01B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $74.18B, up from $65.85B in Q3 2024 — YouTube, the internet's biggest video streaming platform, continues to flex its muscles as an advertising powerhouse …
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $77.7B, vs. $75.3B est., net income up 12% YoY to $27.7B, and More Personal Computing revenue up 4% YoY to $13.8B — Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives First Quarter Results REDMOND, Wash. — October 29, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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Sources: OpenAI is preparing for an US IPO that could value it at ~$1T and has explored raising $60B+, filing as soon as H2 2026, and listing in 2027 — OpenAI is laying the groundwork for an initial public offering that could value the company at up to around $1 trillion …
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Microsoft says an issue that impacted a subset of Microsoft 365 and Azure services for several hours on October 29 has now been mitigated — Microsoft was hit with outages in its Azure cloud and 365 services on Wednesday, hours before the company's scheduled earnings release.
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| Financial Times: |
Nvidia becomes the world's first $5T company after closing up 3% on October 29, having hit a $4T market cap in July; NVDA is up about 90% in the past six months — US chip giant's stock propelled by strong sales of AI systems and prospect of access to China
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Cursor launches Cursor 2.0, with its first coding model, Composer, that it says is 4x faster than similar models, and a multi-agent interface — Today, we're releasing two big updates that make Cursor the best place to work with agents: our first coding model, Composer, and a new interface for working with many agents in parallel.
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Sources: YouTube reorganizes its leadership team, with three product teams reporting to CEO Neal Mohan, and announces a “voluntary exit program” for US staff — Neal Mohan's internal memo about YouTube's “next frontier” and opt-in layoffs. — ∙ Paid
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| Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
A former L3Harris executive pleads guilty in a US district court to selling eight zero-day exploits to a Russian broker in exchange for millions of dollars — An ex-L3 Harris executive pleaded guilty to two counts of theft of trade secrets Wednesday, admitting to selling eight zero-day exploits …
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| Fortune: |
Sources: Mastercard is in late-stage talks to acquire crypto and stablecoin infrastructure startup Zerohash for between $1.5B and $2B — Mastercard's stock has moved in response to reports of stablecoin interest from banks and large merchants like Amazon and Walmart.
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| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Sources: Consensys, maker of crypto wallet MetaMask, plans to go public, with JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs leading its IPO; Consensys was valued at $7B in 2022 — Crypto company Consensys has picked JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO, Axios Pro has learned.
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| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
Google updates Play Store policy in the US to let developers link to external app stores and payment options, following the Epic v. Google injunction — Android users in the US are finally getting real app store freedom. — • — TL;DR — Google is opening up the Play Store in the US …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google starts rolling out the Gemini for Home voice assistant in early access in the US, on Nest devices set to English — Google is beginning to roll out the Gemini for Home voice assistant in the US for devices set to English on all Nest speakers and displays from the past decade.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail how Binance boosted the Trump family's World Liberty Financial by facilitating a $2B purchase of USD1 and building its tech ahead of CZ's pardon — Giant crypto exchange facilitated $2 billion purchase of World Liberty's stablecoin and built its technology; clemency for Changpeng Zhao surprised some in administration| Dominic Patten / Deadline: |
Disney and YouTube settle their legal dispute over YouTube's hiring in May of former Disney executive Justin Connolly to be global head of media and sports — “A Notice of Settlement of Entire Case has been filed in this case,” said an order placed in the Los Angeles Superior Court docket Wednesday.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Apollo Global reaches a deal to sell AOL to Bending Spoons, sources say in a deal valued at ~$1.5B; AOL has about 30M MAUs across its email and web properties — Apollo Global Management has reached a deal to sell AOL to Italian tech holding group Bending Spoons in a deal valued at roughly $1.5 billion, Axios has learned.
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bengaluru-based Snabbit, which offers a range of on-demand home services, raised a $30M Series C at a $180M valuation, taking its total funding to $55M — India's appetite for instant convenience — once confined to food and grocery delivery — is expanding into house help.| Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: |
UMG partners with AI music generator Udio to launch a subscription service for creating music with licensed songs in 2026, in part to settle a copyright lawsuit — Udio agrees to launch a new subscription service for fans to create music based on licensed songs
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| Oliver Barnes / Financial Times: |
Life sciences group Thermo Fisher agrees to acquire PE-owned drug trial software maker Clario for $9.4B in an all-cash deal expected to close by mid-2026 — Deal for software group marks one of the biggest private equity exits of the year — Life sciences group Thermo Fisher has sealed …
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