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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.
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| 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 … | 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.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft discontinues Microsoft-branded mice, keyboards, and webcams, to focus on its Surface brand for PC accessories; Microsoft's first mouse debuted in 1983 — Microsoft will no longer manufacture mice, keyboards, and webcams that are Microsoft-branded.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest announces a multi-year strategic ad partnership with Amazon, its first ads partner, to bring more brands and relevant products to the social network — Pinterest today announced a multiyear strategic ad partnership with Amazon aimed at bringing more brands and relevant products to its platform.
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| 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 …
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| BBC: |
Microsoft's Brad Smith says the UK CMA's move to block the Activision deal is “bad for Britain” and “is probably the darkest day in our four decades in Britain” — Microsoft's president has attacked the UK after it was blocked from buying US gaming firm Activision …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox plans to lay off 16% of its staff, or ~500 employees; CEO Drew Houston blames slowing growth and because “the AI era of computing has finally arrived” — Cloud storage giant Dropbox today joined the fray of tech companies announcing layoffs.
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| 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” … | Bloomberg: |
The New York City MTA ends its Twitter service alerts, saying the platform is “no longer reliable”; MTA: 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 …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q1 revenue down 36% YoY to $11.7B, vs. $11.04B est., its largest quarterly loss yet, and Data Center and AI revenue down 39% YoY to $3.7B — - Intel reported first-quarter results on Wednesday that showed a staggering 133% annual reduction in earnings per share.| 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” … | 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 …
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| IDC: |
Global smartphone shipments fell 14.6% YoY to 268.6M in Q1 2023, the seventh consecutive quarter of decline; Samsung fell 18.9%, Apple 2.3%, and Xiaomi 23.5% — NEEDHAM, Mass., April 27th, 2023 - Worldwide smartphone shipments declined 14.6% year over year to 268.6 million units in the first quarter of 2023 …
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Dyson Zone review: excellent noise cancelation, monitors air quality, and makes users look like Bane, but it's $949, heavy, and air filtering kills the battery — The Dyson Zone is not the most practical device, but then again, did you really expect that from air-purifying noise-canceling headphones?
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| Russell Brandom / Rest of World: |
Since Elon Musk's takeover, Twitter has received 971 government orders globally and has fully complied with 808, an 83% compliance rate, vs. ~50% before Musk — The company has not refused a single request since Musk took ownership, according to self-reported data
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| 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.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google TV rolls out its free built-in channels to all US users and adds offerings from Plex, Haystack News, and Tubi, for a total of 800+ free channels — After being announced earlier this month, Google TV is now widely rolling out its free, built-in streaming channels to all users alongside free channels from other providers.
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| 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%
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta shares are up 170% since bottoming out in November 2022, despite virtually no revenue growth, as investors focus on the company's dramatic cost cutting — - Revenue at Facebook's parent shrank for three straight quarters before increasing slightly in the latest period, but the stock is soaring.| Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Toronto-based Practice Better, which makes client management software for health and wellness professionals, raised $27M led by Five Elms Capital — Practice Better claims to have more than 10,000 customers in more than 70 countries. — Practice Better is the result of its founder …
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| Mickey Djuric / Canadian Press: |
Canada's Online Streaming Act passes final hurdle in Parliament; it requires streamers to support Canadian content and gives the CRTC regulatory power over them — OTTAWA - A federal bill that will force digital platforms like Netflix and YouTube to contribute financially to Canadian content is on the cusp of becoming law.
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| The Guardian: |
Interviews with 70+ sources describe how Facebook and Instagram have become major child trafficking platforms and how they slow down prosecutors' investigations — Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy and sell children for sex
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