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Apple reports Q1 revenue of $123.9B, up 11% YoY, net income of $34.6B, up from $28.8B YoY, Services sales of $19.5B, up from $15.8B YoY, iPhone sales of $71.6B — Revenue up 11 percent to new all-time record — iPhone, Mac, Wearables, and Services revenue reach new all-time highs
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple reports Q1 Mac revenue of $10.85B, up 25% YoY, iPad revenue of $7.25B, down 14% YoY, and other products revenue, including Watch, of $14.70B, up 13% YoY — - Apple reported its largest single quarter in terms of revenue ever, with sales growing over 11% despite supply challenges and the lingering effects of the pandemic.
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
Apple's Q1 sales in Greater China rose 21% to $25.8B, Americas grew 11% to $51.5B, Europe grew 9% to $29.7B, while Japan fell 14% to $7.1B — iPhone maker's earnings top expectations as chip shortages and other constraints do less damage than feared — Apple posted record revenue of $123.9bn … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 15.4 beta adds Face ID use with a mask for iPhone 12 and newer, without needing Apple Watch authentication, by recognizing “unique features around the eye” — The iOS 15.4 beta that was introduced today added a new feature designed to allow Face ID to be used with a mask and without an Apple Watch for authentication.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3 betas add the long-delayed Universal Control, which lets users control nearby Macs and iPads with a single mouse or keyboard — The iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3 betas that Apple released today introduce support for Universal Control …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
FTC: US consumers lost $770M to social media scams in 2021, about 25% of all fraud losses for the year and up 18x from the $42M in losses reported in 2017 — A growing number of U.S. consumers are getting scammed on social media according to a new report by the Federal Trade Commission …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Center for Countering Digital Hate: Substack makes at least $2.5M/year via anti-vaccine posts; Substack defends hosting “writers with whom we strongly disagree” — Newsletter company Substack is making millions off anti-vaccine content, according to estimates| Daren Fonda / Barron's Online: |
Source: White House is readying an executive action to task federal agencies with regulating Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a matter of national security — The Biden administration is preparing to release an executive action that will task federal agencies with regulating digital assets …
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| Derrek Lee / Android Central: |
Meta rebrands Oculus Quest as Meta Quest, leading to criticism on social media; the rebrand was originally announced in October — “Meta Quest” is just so fetch. — What you need to know — Meta changes the social media accounts of its VR brand to Meta Quest.
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI says InstructGPT, its new GPT-3 version, is better at following instructions, producing less offensive language, less misinformation, and fewer mistakes — OpenAI has trained its flagship language model to follow instructions, making it spit out less unwanted text—but there's still a way to go.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The UK's CMA says Microsoft has agreed to changes for auto-renewing Xbox subscriptions, including pro-rata refunds, canceling inactive memberships, and more — Inactive Xbox subscriptions won't continue to be billed — Microsoft is making its Xbox subscriptions a little more flexible after a UK regulator raised concerns.
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| P R Sanjai / Bloomberg: |
Google to invest $700M in Bharti Airtel, India's second largest telecom operator, for a 1.28% stake; an additional $300M will go to multiyear agreements — Google will invest as much as $1 billion in India's second-largest mobile phone operator, as firms race to offer inexpensive data …
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| Reuters: |
The FCC revokes China Unicom's authorization to operate in the US, granted ~20 years ago, citing national security; Unicom can still offer data center services — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday voted to revoke the authorization for China Unicom's (0762.HK) U.S. unit to operate in the United States.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Meta says Messenger's e2ee chats and calls are now available to all users, and adds screenshot notifications, media saving, GIFs, and more to encrypted chats — You can flick a switch and turn on privacy-protecting encryption without losing features — Messenger added end-to-end encrypted …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
The US FCC approves “nutrition labels” forcing ISPs to show prices, speed, and more, plus network management practices like throttling, starting on November 15 — It's part of the Biden administration's plan to boost market competition — Understanding your broadband speeds …
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| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood Q4: revenue of $363M, up 14% YoY, 2021 revenue of $1.82B, up 89% YoY, net loss of $423M, MAUs up 48% YoY to 17.3M; stock down 10%+ on weak Q1 guidance — - Robinhood anticipates first-quarter revenue of less than $340 million, down 35% compared with 2021.
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Ascend, which automates insurance payments and offers a buy now, pay later service, raises a $30M Series A led by Index Ventures and $250M in debt — Four months after a seed round, Ascend is back with its first big boost to enable the company to expand its “buy now, pay later” …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Vesta, which provides mortgage loan origination software to automate and simplify the lending process, raises a $30M Series A led by a16z — If you've ever taken out a mortgage, you know how painful and tedious the process can be. — In an effort to make it simpler, faster and cheaper … | Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Censys, an IoT search engine aimed at helping organizations find poorly protected assets, raises a $35M Series B; hires former OneLogin CEO to be its new CEO — Censys, a search engine for Internet of Things devices, has secured $35 million in Series B funding and a new CEO.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Alphabet's Google Cloud division has formed a group to build business around blockchain applications and plans to hire a slew of blockchain experts — - Alphabet's Google Cloud division is forming a team to win blockchain business after making a concerted effort in retail and other industries.
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Microsoft and 35 US states led by Utah support Epic Games against Apple through amicus curiae briefs filed with the Ninth Circuit appeals court — [Update] The Biden Administration is also supporting Epic. [/Update] — Apple just reported record numbers.
| The Markup: |
Life360 will stop selling users' precise location data and sell aggregate data to two clients down from a dozen, after a report found it's a broker top source — The announcement comes after The Markup identified the family tracking app as one of the largest sources of raw data for the location data industry
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