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Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 6% YoY from $65.1B to $69.09B, $13.91B net income, down from $18.94B YoY, 186,779 employees, up from 150,028 YoY; stock drops 5%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 25, 2022 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2022.
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Alphabet reports Google ad sales of $54.5B in Q3, up from $53.1B YoY, missing estimates of $56.6B, and Google Search revenue of $39.5B, up from $37.9B YoY — Total Google ad sales miss expectations by more than $2 billion as Alphabet revenue grows at its slowest pace in more than two years
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Microsoft Q1: revenue up 11% YoY to $50.1B, net income down 14% YoY to $17.6B, Office Commercial revenue up 7% YoY, LinkedIn revenue up 17% YoY; stock drops 6%+ — REDMOND, Wash. — October 25, 2022 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended September 30 …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says GitHub has a $1B ARR and 90M+ active users, up from a reported $200M to $300M in ARR and 28M active users when Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 — As part of its earnings call, Microsoft today announced a number of new data points for GitHub, the massively popular code repository service … | Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Internal research: Twitter has been losing “heavy tweeters”, who tweet three to four times a week, since the pandemic began, masked by an overall growth in DAUs — “Is Twitter dying?” billionaire Elon Musk mused in April, five days before offering to buy the social media platform.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Spotify says Apple's behavior is “choking competition” after Apple rejected its proposed audiobook purchasing process three times for breaking App Store rules — The company called Apple practices “anticompetitive” and said it was “choking competition” in a blog post published …
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Meta says Apple's updated App Store rules requiring developers to use IAPs for sales of “boosts” in social media apps undercuts others in the digital economy — Just when I thought the relationship between Apple and Meta couldn't get more hostile, here we are.
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| Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters: |
Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 21% YoY to €3.04B, MAUs up 20% YoY to 456M vs. 448.6M est., and Premium subs up 13% YoY to 195M; stock drops 6%+ on ad growth miss — Audio streaming service Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) Tuesday surpassed Wall Street's estimates for revenue and subscriber gains … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to let users generate stock images using DALL-E 2 “in the coming months” and launches a Contributor Fund to reimburse creators — Will AI image generators kill the stock image industry? It's a question asked by many following the rise of text-to-image AI models in recent years.
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| Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: |
Australia's AG unveils plans for tougher online privacy laws after several major data breaches, including increasing fines from AU$2.22M to AU$50M or more — Australia plans to strengthen its online privacy laws following several major data breaches, attorney-general Mark Dreyfus said in a statement on Saturday.
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Google plans to stop supporting Chrome for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 in February 2023; StatCounter: Windows 7 was on 10.63% of Windows PCs in September 2022 — Even better, upgrade to Windows 10 at the very least — Google has joined the funeral procession for Windows 7 and 8.1 …
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Samsung rolls out Maintenance Mode, meant to keep a device's data locked away from technicians during repair, to select Galaxy devices with One UI 5 worldwide — Handing your phone off to be repaired can be a little anxiety-inducing, given that it contains your valuable info.| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at crypto and blockchains: bitcoin and the underlying tech, the uses and meaning, the crypto financial system, and trust, money, and community — - What If You Don't Like It? — Digital Cash — Part II — What Does It Mean? — A Store of Value — A Distributed Computer
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
China's path to advanced chip self-sufficiency is extremely complicated and relies upon re-creating many pieces of the foundry supply chain without outside help — Intel may not be the most obvious place to start when it comes to the China chip sanctions announced by the Biden administration three weeks ago …
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
LinkedIn is rolling out new profile verification features and will also begin alerting users if messages they have received from other users seem suspicious — Here's how Elon Musk calculated the number of bots on Twitter — Robot artist Ai-Da reset while speaking to UK politicians| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the increased use of celebrity deepfakes in ads, with or without their permission, raising legal and ethical questions for the marketing industry — Digital simulations of Elon Musk, Tom Cruise, Leo DiCaprio and others have shown up in ads, as the image-melding technology grows … | Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
CEO Daniel Ek says US Spotify subscribers can expect price hikes in 2023, after recent increases by Apple and YouTube; Premium has cost $9.99/month since 2011 — Audio streaming giant surpassed growth forecasts, increasing monthly active users by 20% to reach 456 million| Ofir Dor / Globes Online: |
Israel-based Vesttoo, an AI-powered risk transfer marketplace connecting insurers and investors, has raised an $80M Series C at a $1B post-money valuation — The company's emergence as a unicorn is surprising when taking into account the slowdown in fund raising and that it had a valuation of just $22 million last year.
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