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| Washington Post: |
Sources: Elon Musk has fired Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and head of legal policy Vijaya Gadde; one source says the deal is now closed — Musk's $44 billion deal to acquire the social media company closed on Thursday night. — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk became Twitter's owner late Thursday …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Sources: Elon Musk is now in charge of Twitter; CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal have left the company's San Francisco headquarters and will not be returning — - CNBC's David Faber reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now in charge of Twitter. — Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Elon Musk pens an open letter to calm Twitter advertisers, arguing his goal is not “to make more money” and the service “cannot become a free-for-all hellscape” — Mega-billionaire Elon Musk, nearing the finish line in his rocky takeover of Twitter …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: ahead of Elon Musk's takeover, advertisers on Twitter are concerned about looser content moderation and potential conflicts of interest for car ads — Marketers worry about the Tesla CEO's stance on content moderation, potential conflicts in auto advertising if the Twitter deal completes
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk asked Tesla engineers to meet with Twitter product leaders to review code, which Twitter can no longer change until the deal closes — Elon Musk asked engineers from Tesla Inc., the electric-car maker he runs, to meet with product leaders at Twitter Inc. … | Wall Street Journal: |
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| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
| Apple: |
Apple reports record Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to $90.1B, net income up 1% YoY to $20.7B, and annual revenue up 8% YoY to $394.3B — September quarter record for Revenue and EPS — Active installed base of devices reaches all-time high for all major product categories
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple Q4 revenue: iPhone up 9.67% YoY to $42.63B, iPad down 13.06% YoY to $7.17B, Other Products up 9.85% YoY to $9.65B, and Services up 4.98% YoY to $19.19B — - Apple reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations on revenue and earnings per share.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon reports Q3 advertising services revenue grew 25% YoY to $9.55B, vs. $9.48B est., and subscription services revenue grew 9% YoY to $8.9B — - Amazon reported third-quarter results on Thursday that missed analysts' estimates. — It also gave a disappointing sales forecast for the fourth quarter.
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| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $127.1B, net income down 9% YoY to $2.9B, and AWS revenue up 27% YoY to $20.5B; the stock drops 10%+ on weak Q4 guidance — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2022.
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| Sofia Pitt / CNBC: |
Meta's stock closes down 24.56% at $97.94, its lowest price since 2016, after Mark Zuckerberg reiterated his commitment to spending billions on the metaverse — - The parent company of Facebook reported its second straight quarterly decline. — Meta's Reality Labs division …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
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| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Twitter is testing a blockchain-agnostic feature for displaying NFTs through tweets in partnership with Dapper Labs, Magic Eden, Rarible, and Jump.trade — Social media platform Twitter today announced that it will let users buy, sell, and display NFTs directly through tweets in partnership with four marketplaces.| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Google Cloud announces the Blockchain Node Engine, a fully managed service to help developers build and manage blockchain-based products, starting with Ethereum — Google Cloud on Thursday unveiled Blockchain Node Engine - a fully managed service for Web3 developers that wants to build …
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Source: Snapchat now pays creators using its TikTok clone Spotlight millions per year collectively, down from millions per week in 2021 and $1M per day in 2020 — Snapchat has changed the way it pays creators through its Spotlight reward fund. Creators that use Snapchat's TikTok clone … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q3 revenue down 15% YoY to $15.34B, vs. $15.25B est., Datacenter and AI revenue down 27% YoY to $4.21B, and ~$10B in cost cutting over three years — - Intel plans up to $10 billion in cost reductions and efficiency improvements in the next three years.| Reuters: |
Pinterest reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $684.6M, vs. $666.7M est., global MAUs flat YoY at 445M, vs. 437.4M est., and a $65.2M net loss; the stock jumps 11%+ — Pinterest Inc (PINS.N) posted its slowest quarterly revenue growth in nearly two years and turned a loss, the latest social media platform …
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| Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
YouTube opens a verification program for licensed health care professionals, adding panels to videos that mark them as reliable sources of health information — They'll also be able to have videos added to health content shelves, which compile information on specific medical conditions.
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Source: Google and Amazon struck a deal in recent months that lets Amazon work with manufacturers like TCL, which also makes Android TVs and phones, and Xiaomi — Last week, the Competition Commission of India published a damning report, alleging that Google was preventing major TV manufacturers … | Harmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 12% YoY to 301M units in Q3 2022, the lowest Q3 level since 2014; Apple was the only top-five brand to grow YoY, up 2% — - The global smartphone market declined by 12% YoY even as it grew by 2% QoQ to reach 301 million units in Q3 2022.
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| The Wire: |
The Wire apologizes, saying technical evidence should have been independently verified and that “a member of our Meta investigation team” deceived the outlet — Last week, The Wire formally retracted its Meta stories after conducting an internal review of the technical source material used …
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| Yousef Saba / Reuters: |
Classera, a San Francisco-based edtech startup focused on the Middle East and Africa, raised a $40M Series A led by Sanabil, which is run by Saudi Arabia's PIF — Classera, an education technology company headquartered in San Francisco, said on Thursday it had raised $40 million from investors …
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