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| Mark Zuckerberg / About Facebook: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook the company is now Meta, to better encompass all of its products — We are at the beginning of the next chapter for the internet, and it's the next chapter for our company too. — In recent decades, technology has given people the power to connect and express ourselves more naturally.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @wendys, @jack, @facebook, @viacristiano, @heatherkelly, @teddyschleifer, @aoc, @joshconstine, @levie, @mosseri, @kantrowitz, @pixelatedboat, @danpfeiffer, @yoda, @pwnallthethings, @ibogost, @karaswisher, @karaswisher, @karaswisher, @sethabramson, @scalzi, @kottke, @twittersafety, @keyon, @munster_gene, @samidh, @facebook, @michaelemann, @brandyljensen, @mikeisaac, @matthewstoller, @caroleradziwill, @the_law_boy, @pixelatedboat, @kamirieck, @masonpelt, @danprimack, @yappelbaum, @fbnewsroom, @beijingdou, @jeremy_childs, @gte, @dcseifert, @tomaxwell, @pierce, @stroughtonsmith, @hananc, @omarjimenez, @noahshachtman, @mengxilu, @aprilaser, @evanmcmurry, @gartenberg, @derektmead, @kevinbankston, @jonfavs, @carlquintanilla, @kellybourdet, @jgo4justice, @mikeisaac, @nmsonline, @film_girl, @vladsavov, @inthelittlewood, @jeffnolan, @bocxtop, @loomdart, @ricmac, @cmclymer, @mgsiegler, @parkermolloy, @xeni, @mahon_e, and @joannastern
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Interview with Mark Zuckerberg on rebranding the company to Meta to avoid the awkwardness of sharing the name of its main app, building the metaverse, and more — The company wants to move past the ‘confusion and awkwardness’ of sharing a name with its main app
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Stratechery, The Verge, Insider, Livemint, Slate, The Ghost Howls, Game Developer, SiliconANGLE, Appleosophy, Digital Trends, NBC News, and TNW
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| Andrew Bosworth: |
Andrew Bosworth says Facebook Reality Labs will become Reality Labs, Oculus brand will shift to Meta for hardware and Oculus Quest app starting in early 2022 — Well the cat's (officially) out of the bag: Our company is now Meta to better reflect who we are and our ambitions to help build the metaverse.
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Game Developer, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Verge, Observer, and FrontPageTech.com
Tweets: @palmerluckey, @devindra, @katienotopoulos, @epro, @samred, @gavindyoung, and @bcarlton727
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Facebook's Meta renaming is a bet on the power of founder control, and is about a future that doesn't yet exist, but one that Zuckerberg believes needs to — The obvious analogy to Facebook's announcement that it is renaming itself Meta and re-organizing its financials to separate …
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TechCrunch, Puck, Engadget, Livemint, The Information, Associated Press, The Information, Bloomberg, and CNBC
| YouTube: |
Video of Facebook Connect 2021, where VR updates, Project Cambria, and a new Meta brand name were announced — Tune in at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET on Thurs. Oct. 28 when Facebook holds its annual Facebook Connect. The company is expected to announce Oculus updates and o...
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VICE and t3.com
Facebook: Facebook Reality Labs. Tweets: @edludlow, @caseynewton, @manoushz, @kantrowitz, @janelytv, @willoremus, @willoremus, @caseynewton, @kantrowitz, @thedailyshow, @carolecadwalla, @donie, @sarafischer, @raoulgmi, @raoulgmi, @balajis, @balajis, @balajis, @jason_koebler, @tacolamp, @_ram_, @tobi, @kevinbankston, @benedictevans, @heatherkelly, @heatherkelly, @ashleyrgold, @harrymccracken, @teroterotero, @charliefink, @kettlecorn, @thedextriarchy, @rmac18, @johnbattelle, @davepell, @kurtwagner8, @shannonpareil, @caseynewton, @garettsloane, @tomwarren, @thedextriarchy, @mikeisaac, @tayhatmaker, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @donie, and @mikeisaac
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR spaces, Messenger VR calls, fitness VR, Quest for Business, including Work Accounts support on Quest 2, and more — this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. — Facebook has turned its social media battleship toward the metaverse …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
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| Apple: |
Apple misses with Q4 revenue of $83.4B, up 29% YoY, vs $84.85B est., iPhone revenue of $38.87B, up 47% YoY, services revenue of $18.3B, up 25.6%; stock down 5%+ — New September quarter record with revenue up 29 percent — Services and Mac revenue reach new all-time highs
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Tweets: @patrickmcgee_, @waltmossberg, @neilcybart, @rsgnl, @neilcybart, @patrickmcgee_, @markgurman, @neilcybart, @neilcybart, @austen, @htsfhickey, @neilcybart, @jsnell, @jsnell, and @starfire2258
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple reports Q4 Mac revenue of $9.18B, up 1.6% YoY, and iPad revenue of $8.25B, up 21.4% YoY, and says supply chain issues cost the company ~$6B in the quarter — - Apple revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations in its fiscal fourth quarter on Thursday, which Apple CEO Tim Cook attributed …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
The Facebook View app on iOS contains an image of a potential Meta smartwatch, which has a front-facing camera, rounded screen, and a detachable wrist strap — - Device has front-facing camera, possibly for videoconferencing — Image of watch is found inside of Facebook View iPhone app
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Tweets: @markgurman, @stevemoser, @stevemoser, and @tummymuncher
| About Amazon: |
Amazon misses with Q3 revenue of $110.8B, up 15% YoY, vs $111.6B est., net income of $3.2B, down from $6.3B YoY, AWS net sales of $16.1B, up 39%; stock down 4%+ — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2021.
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Gizmodo, Yahoo Finance, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, and CNET
Tweets: @timbray, @somospostpc, @lamonicabuzz, @annierpalmer, and @danielnewmanuv
| Zachary Basu / Axios: |
Microsoft launches a campaign to help fill 250,000 cybersecurity jobs in the US by 2025, offering scholarships and free curriculum for community colleges — Microsoft announced Thursday that it's launching a national campaign to help fill 250,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. by 2025 …
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| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
While Pixel 6 receives good reviews thanks to its Tensor SoC and other advances, hitting a 7M shipment goal requires carrier distribution, a weakness for Google — Company heavily touts new in-house chip for Pixel 6, but better carrier distribution would help sales more| Reuters: |
Meme-based coin Shiba Inu rose about 160% this week, briefly surpassing dogecoin to become the eighth biggest cryptocurrency by market cap — Dogecoin, watch out! — Meme-based cryptocurrency Shiba Inu soared more than 45% over the last 24 hours, muscling its way into the top 10 largest digital tokens by market capitalization.
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Insider, CNN, CNN, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @elonmusk, @thestalwart, @cokedupoptions, and @nastyshib
| K.G Orphanides / Wired UK: |
Review of Raspberry Pi's new $15 Zero 2 W, featuring a 64-bit CPU, 512MB RAM, and WiFi 4: surprisingly powerful and ideal for emulation and automation projects — The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is powerful for a computer the size of a matchbox, but get a Pi 4 or Pi 400 if you want a better desktop experience
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Raspberry Pi. More:
Tom's Hardware, YouTube, and Jeff Geerling
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| Reuters: |
Zendesk announces plans to acquire Momentive, which owns SurveyMonkey, in an all-stock deal worth nearly $4B; Zendesk stock falls 16% after hours — Software services company Zendesk Inc said on Thursday it would buy Momentive Global Inc and its SurveyMonkey platform for nearly $4 billion in an all-stock deal.
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ZDNet, iTnews, Business Wire, Bloomberg, and SiliconANGLE
| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Global money laundering watchdog FATF releases guidelines that could force crypto companies to check customers' identities and report suspicious transactions — New guidelines could spur more crypto firms to check their customers' identities and report suspicious transactions to regulators
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Financial Action Task Force, Coin Center, Gizmodo, Financial Action Task Force, and Decrypt
Tweets: @millercwl, @jchervinsky, @ctolarsson, @elliptic, @dorian_infinite, @millercwl, @paddi_hansen, @neerajka, and @ctolarsson
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Google releases a Chrome update that fixes seven vulnerabilities, including two zero-days known to have been exploited in the wild — Google has released Chrome 95.0.4638.69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities that attackers have actively exploited.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google says it will roll out e2e encrypted phone calls on Google Fi over the coming weeks — But only for calls between two Android phones on Fi — In the coming weeks, Google is rolling out end-to-end encrypted phone calls on its Google Fi MVNO, the search giant announced today.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok is testing a tipping feature to let select creators accept money outside of Live streams; creators with 100K+ followers can apply to try it — TikTok is testing a new in-app tipping feature on its platform that would allow creators to accept money from fans outside of TikTok LIVE streams, where gifting is already supported.
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The Verge
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Swap, a São Paulo-based BaaS startup that helps clients manage their financial operations via its APIs, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global — Swap, a São Paulo-based BaaS startup, announced today it has raised $25 million in a Series A led by Tiger Global Management.Thanks:@bayareawriter
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