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| Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance: |
Netflix reports losing 200K net subscribers in Q1, vs. an estimated 2.5M net additions, and $7.87B revenue, vs. $7.95B est.; Netflix stock drops 25%+ — Netflix (NFLX) reported an unexpected decline in first-quarter net subscribers as the company navigated an exit from Russia and an increasingly saturated North American market.
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Reed Hastings says Netflix plans to offer cheaper, ad-supported plans and will examine what those plans will look like “over the next year or two” — Co-CEO Reed Hastings revealed the move on an earnings call after the streaming giant disclosed it lost 200,000 subscribers during its most recent quarter.
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Tweets: @brotifa, @alexweprin, @film_girl, @gayguycandleco, @daveleeft, @centristmadness, @wbm312, and @film_girl
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix estimates that its users are sharing passwords with 100M+ non-paying households globally, including 30M+ in the US and Canada, in violation of its rules — There's a whole lot of password-sharing going on across Netflix's customer base — and the streaming giant is eager to pocket …
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| Lauren Hirsch / New York Times: |
Sources: Elon Musk is evaluating various debt packages, including preferred debt and a loan against his shares of Tesla, to secure financing for his Twitter bid — The world's richest man is trying to shore up debt financing, including potentially taking out a loan against his shares of Tesla, so he can buy Twitter for $43 billion.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Google and Meta restrict the accounts of Hong Kong's sole chief executive candidate, John Lee, citing US sanctions from 2020 on Lee for crushing protests — Google and Meta Platforms Inc. moved on Wednesday to curtail the social media presence of Hong Kong's sole chief executive candidate … | New York Times: |
A timeline of warnings from investors over the past decade about a tech startup bubble that never burst; instead of a collapse, things got bubblier — The venture capitalists are sounding the alarm. At posh conferences, they buzz about falling valuations for start-ups.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Coinbase launches its NFT marketplace in beta, after announcing the service in October 2021, with support for Ethereum-based NFTs and ETH payments — Quick Take Coinbase NFT has gone live in beta form. It currently supports Ethereum-based NFTs and payments in ETH.
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Tweets: @coinbase_nft, @flowergirlsnft, @sneakyninjanfts, @popeyesnfts, @chrismaddern, @electiondaymad1, and @punk6529
| Maddie Stone / Project Zero: |
Google's Project Zero: 58 in-the-wild 0-days were detected and shared in 2021, more than double the previous record, as the industry improves at finding 0-days — A Year in Review of 0-days Used In-the-Wild in 2021 — This is our third annual year in review of 0-days exploited in-the-wild [2020, 2019].
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Analysis: half of Apple's top 200 suppliers have facilities in and around Shanghai, where China's COVID-19 lockdowns are disrupting activity — slong COVID lockdown in Shanghai is creating chaos for Apple suppliers based in and around the city. (Source photos by Getty Images and Reuters) …
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| Canalys: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 11% in Q1 2022; Samsung grew its market share from 22% to 24%, Apple gained from 15% to 18%, and Xiaomi dipped from 14% to 13% — Worldwide smartphone shipments fell 11% amid unfavorable economic conditions and sluggish seasonal demand in the first quarter of 2022.
| Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: |
Okta's probe into the January Lapsus$ breach of a third-party vendor concludes that it lasted only 25 consecutive minutes and impacted just two active customers — Okta said Tuesday that a forensic investigation that it commissioned found that the hacker group Lapsus$ accessed …
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Okta Inc., Silicon Republic, Engadget, Infosecurity, The Hacker News, GovInfoSecurity, Mobile ID World, Dow Jones Newswires, SecurityWeek, and ZDNet
Tweets: @malwarejake, @aidaakl, @arekfurt, @cipherstorm, @landryst, and @campuscodi
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Robinhood revives its UK expansion plans and agrees to acquire crypto app Ziglu, one of the few crypto companies to secure Financial Conduct Authority approval — - Robinhood has agreed to buy Ziglu, a London-based fintech app that lets users trade bitcoin and several other cryptocurrencies.
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Tweets: @robinhoodapp, @markhippo, @ryan_browne_, @ryan_browne_, and @robinhoodcomms
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Brave browser introduces De-AMP, a feature which bypasses Google-hosted AMP pages and takes users straight to the original website — Yet another nail in the AMP coffin — Brave announced a new feature for its browser on Tuesday: De-AMP, which automatically jumps past any page rendered …
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Tweets: @brave, @andreapernici, and @blowdart
| Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: |
Just Eat Takeaway says it is exploring a partial or full sale of Grubhub, less than one year after buying it for $7.3B — Just Eat Takeaway.com NV said it's considering a partial or full sale of its Grubhub unit less than a year after buying it for $7.3 billion, in a reversal that highlights …
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PYMNTS.com, The Irish Times, Coinspeaker, Just Eat Takeaway, Reuters, CNBC, Sky News, and The Guardian
Tweets: @sarthakgh and @shiraovide
| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
Microsoft's Chris Novak, currently head of Xbox R&D, is leaving after nearly 20 years; Novak has previously worked on Xbox Game Pass and Live — From Xbox design director, to architect, to leading Xbox research and design — If you've subscribed to Game Pass or obsessed over Xbox achievements …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: WhatsApp is struggling to sign up local partners in Brazil for its business payments service and is still awaiting central bank approval — Plan to allow users to send payments to companies via messaging app runs into clashes with partners — Meta's long-awaited plan to allow users …
Tweets: @bryanhimself, @mattnavarra, and @muradahmed
| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
FactSet survey of Q1 ad revenue: Google is expected to rise 23% YoY to $55.1B, Meta is expected to rise 8% YoY to ~$27.5B, and Twitter to grow 25% YoY to $1.1B — Google's search business expected to stay resilient while social platforms grapple with challenges
Tweets: @megancgraham, @hoofnagle, @enriqueabeyta, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, and @csooran
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