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April 28, 2023, 7:50 AM

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Amazon:
Amazon reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $127.4B, a $3.2B net income, vs. a $3.8B net loss YoY, AWS revenue up 16% YoY to $21.4B, and staff down 10% YoY to 1.47M  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2023.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon reports Q1 ad revenue up 21% YoY to $9.5B, vs. $9.1B est., subscription revenue up 15% YoY to $9.7B, and North America segment sales up 11% YoY to $76.9B  —  - Amazon reported first-quarter sales on Thursday that beat analysts' estimates.  — The stock fell in extended trading …
Bloomberg:
The New York City MTA ends its Twitter service alerts, saying the platform is “no longer reliable” and that Twitter demanded $50K per month for API access  —  New York City's mass-transit system is ending its real-time service alerts on Twitter for subway, train and bus riders …
Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
Clubhouse plans to lay off 50%+ of its employees and “reset” the company, despite claiming to have “years of runway”; Clubhouse had ~100 staff in October 2022  —  Clubhouse, the pandemic-era social media sensation, is cutting more than half of its employees, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
A US federal judge orders South Africa-based bitcoin pool operator Mirror Trading's CEO to pay $3.4B after CFTC charged the company with a $1.7B fraud in 2022  —  A US judge has ordered a South African executive to pay more than $3.4 billion in restitution and fines for a fraud scheme involving Bitcoin …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Snap reports Q1 revenue down 7% to $989M, vs. $1.01B est., global DAUs up 15% YoY to 383M, vs. 384M est., and a $329M net loss, vs. $360M YoY; SNAP drops 15%+  —  - Snap came in light on revenue and ARPU in its first-quarter earnings report.  — The company said its “internal forecast” …
Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk:
Robinhood introduces Connect, which allows users to fund their Web3 wallets without having to leave a decentralized app or be in their Robinhood Crypto accounts  —  The feature, Robinhood Connect, is already available on several decentralized apps, with more to onboard in the coming months.
CNBC:
Coinbase offers a fiery response to the SEC's Wells notice from March 2023, saying enforcement action would present “major” risks to the SEC's regulatory model  —  - Crypto exchange Coinbase told the SEC that any enforcement action against the exchange would “fail on the merits” …
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
Filing: Triller agrees to pay Sony Music $4.5M+ to settle claims that Triller breached a contract covering its use of musicians' songs on the platform  —  TikTok rival Triller Inc has agreed to pay Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) more than $4.5 million to resolve claims that Triller breached …
Wayne Ma / The Information:
Sources detail how organizational dysfunction and a lack of ambition bogged down Apple's AI and ML efforts, including the work of the group responsible for Siri  —  Late last year, a trio of engineers who had just helped Apple modernize its search technology began working on the type …
Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 37% YoY to $290.2M vs. $290.8M est., a $38.1M net loss, and revenue guidance for Q2 and FY 2023 below estimates; NET drops 20%+  —  - Cloudflare issued muted guidance for the upcoming quarter and full-year that sent shares down as much as 25%
Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
A profile of Liu Xiaoping, a dog food seller on Pinduoduo who coaches Chinese merchants on using legal action to fight Pinduoduo's refund-without-return policy  —  A dog food seller known as “Lawsuit Bro” is leading the fight.  — A dog food seller on Pinduoduo has emerged as an unlikely hero …
Steve Dent / Engadget:
Sony reports 6.3M PS5 sales in Q4 2022, up from 2M in Q4 2021, taking FY 2022 to 19.1M and 38.4M since launch, and $29B revenue for FY 2022, up from $19.9B YoY  —  Now that it's solved its supply shortages, Sony is seeing a lot of pent-up demand for PlayStation 5 consoles.

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