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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
As r/WallStreetBets causes GameStop, BlackBerry, and others to surge, online trading platforms like Robinhood and WeBull have rapidly climbed US app store ranks — - The flurry of Redditors taking on Wall Street appears to have resulted in a usage boom for share trading apps.
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| Pippa Stevens / CNBC: |
As Reddit's r/WallStreetBets pushes GameStop's stock to record levels, other stocks mentioned in the subreddit surge, like AMC, which closed up 300%+ — - Shares of AMC Entertainment jumped more than 300% at the opening bell on Wednesday. — In addition to GameStop …
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| Apple: |
Apple reports Q1 revenue of $111.4B, up 21% YoY, with international sales making up 64% of Q1 revenue; iPhone, Wearables, and Services set new revenue records — Revenue up 21 percent and EPS up 35 percent to new all-time records — iPhone, Wearables, and Services set new revenue records
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's Q1 net income was $28.8B, up from $22.2B YoY; revenue for iPhone was $65.6B, up from $56B YoY, Mac was $8.7B, up from $7.2B, and Services grew to $15.8B — Apple (AAPL) has officially reported its earnings for Q1 2021, covering the lucrative holiday shopping season.
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
In an interview, Tim Cook says Apple has an active installed base of 1.65B devices, up from 1.5B a year ago, including an installed base of over 1B iPhones — (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Wednesday reported holiday quarter sales and profits that beat Wall Street expectations …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook reports Q4: $28.1B revenue, up 33% YoY, 1.84B DAUs, up 11% YoY, 2.6B people used a Facebook service daily, up 15% YoY; headcount up 30% YoY to 58,604 — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2020.
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will stop recommending civic and political groups to users permanently and is considering reducing political content in News Feeds — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday announced that the company will no longer recommend civic and political groups to its users.| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Google details the impact of Apple's upcoming IDFA ad privacy changes, including reducing visibility into app install metrics and affecting bidding on some ads — Apple has prioritized user privacy over targeted advertising, and Google is spelling out today what that means for itself as well as game and app developers.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
After saying on Jan. 5 that it would add Apple's privacy labels to its apps “this week or the next week”, Google's flagship apps still do not have the labels — Juli Clover, writing a week ago at MacRumors: … One week later and still, none of Google's flagship apps have privacy nutrition info.
| Nikkei Asia: |
Source: Apple is expanding production of iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other products in Vietnam and India, as the company increasingly shifts away from China — Move is part of wider shift from China that includes Macs, AirPods and more — TAIPEI — Apple is ramping up the production of iPhones …
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| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
How the social network Nextdoor is replacing local newspapers as a news and opinion hub, letting governments bypass the media and present a one-sided picture — While Facebook and Twitter get the scrutiny, Nextdoor is reshaping politics one neighborhood at a time| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon's Ring announces $60 Video Doorbell Wired, its cheapest and smallest doorbell, arriving on February 24 — Available on February 24th, with preorders starting today — Amazon's Ring has debuted its latest video doorbell, the (blandly named) Ring Video Doorbell Wired which, at $59.99 … | Bloomberg: |
Squarespace says it filed confidentially for an IPO in the US; the company was valued at $1.7B in December 2017 — Website-hosting service Squarespace Inc. said it submitted a draft filing to go public to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. — Squarespace said in a statement Wednesday … | Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Bird is finalizing a deal to raise $100M in convertible debt, led by Sequoia Capital and Valor Equity, amid discussions about going public via SPAC — The scooter operators already were struggling when Covid-19 hit, robbing them of customers. As the companies position themselves …
Tweets: @theinformation and @thekenyeung
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Profile of PE firm Francisco Partners, whose portfolio includes companies like Sandvine and NSO Group, which have both pursued deals with authoritarian regimes — Don Bowman, co-founder of Sandvine Inc., was always aware of the risks his company's products posed.
Tweets: @jshilad, @gwbstr, @techwontsaveus, @rj_gallagher, @bradstone, @aaschapiro, @elinor_carmi, and @bw
| Stef W. Kight / Axios: |
Survey of 852 US college students shows 51% say the government should do more to regulate major tech companies and 77% think social media has “too much” power — The next generation of college-educated Americans thinks social media companies have too much power and influence … | Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Pressure is rising on Biden's administration to revive net neutrality, which may be difficult while the FCC is deadlocked with two Democrats and two Republicans — The party is under pressure to deliver on its past promises to restore open-Internet protections, but doing so — at least at first — may not be easy
Tweets: @tonyromm and @evan_greer
| Maziar Motamedi / Al Jazeera: |
Iran blocks Signal after Iranians flocked to the messaging service due to privacy concerns about WhatsApp — With Signal shut down, WhatsApp and Instagram remain the only two unblocked major social media platforms. — Tehran, Iran - Iran's government has moved to block Signal … | Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram updates its interface for Stories on desktop, adding a carousel that shows upcoming previews and what just played — See what stories are up next — Instagram is making its Stories feature more complete on the desktop. In a small interface refresh today … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
DriveNets, which provides software-based routing tools to service providers, raises $208M Series B at a $1B+ valuation — People and businesses are relying on the internet to get things done more than ever before, an opportunity but also an infrastructure headache for service providers …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
In today's iOS 14.4 update, Apple fixes three 0-days, tipped by an anonymous researcher, and acknowledges a report that they may have been exploited in the wild — Fixes come after Apple patched another set of three zero-days last November. — Apple has released today security updates …
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Booksy, a salon appointment app that also runs a marketplace for beauty products, raises $70M Series C led by Cat Rock, bringing its total raised to $119M — Beauty and wellness appointment booking apps have proliferated of the last few years, but it appears the race is still on as today one of the leaders …
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| Sarah Jaffe / Wired: |
Behind the rise of Game Workers Unite, one of the first video game workers unions aimed at remedying grueling working conditions across the industry — What began as a Facebook group, and then a chat on Discord, soon became a massive campaign to remedy grueling working conditions across the industry.
Tweets: @wired, @gadgetlab, and @sarahljaffe
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
New docs from Epic vs. Apple lawsuit reveal internal Apple discussions on fees to charge paid TV and streaming channels and how that may affect the App Store — In Apple and Epic's ongoing court battle over App Store fees, one of the key sticking points has been Apple's insistence on maintaining …
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| Anna Kramer / Protocol: |
Profile of Tracy Chou, diversity activist and founder of Block Party, which lets users filter out trolling and harassing Tweets so they can be reviewed later — When Tracy Chou decided to host a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” about online harassment over the summer, she knew it probably …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Pinecone, which is developing a vector database to help build machine learning apps faster, raises $10M seed led by Wing Venture Capital — Pinecone, a new startup from the folks who helped launch Amazon SageMaker, has built a vector database that generates data in a specialized format …
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