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Apple reports Q3 revenue down 1.4% YoY to $81.8B, declining for a third quarter in a row and missing estimates of $88.8B, and net income up 2.3% YoY to $19.9B — Services revenue reaches new all-time high Installed base of active devices sets all-time record
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| Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple Q3 revenue: iPhone down 2.4% YoY to $39.7B, Mac down 7.3% YoY to $6.8B, iPad down 19.8% to $5.8B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories up 2.5% to $8.3B — Sales of iPhones missed analyst estimates, although executives pointed to continued strength in emerging markets
More: MacRumors and PhoneArena
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Apple Q3: revenue grew 7.9% YoY to $15.8B in China, with iPhone up “double digits” and a quarterly Services record, but fell 5.6% YoY to $35.4B in the Americas — Apple (AAPL.O) on Thursday reported sales and profit that beat Wall Street expectations despite a decline in iPhone sales … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $134.4B, a $6.7B net income, vs. a $2B net loss in Q2 2022, AWS segment sales up 12% YoY to $22.1B; AMZN jumps 9%+ — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2023.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon Q2: ad revenue up 22% YoY to $10.68B, vs. $10.4B est., subscription revenue up 14% YoY to $9.89B, and North America segment sales up 11% YoY to $82.5B — - Amazon's report showed a return to double-digit revenue growth. — The company posted its biggest earnings beat since its report for the fourth-quarter of 2020.
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Google expands its privacy tools, including to alert users when their personal info appears in Search and to remove consensual explicit images from Search — The company will soon blur explicit imagery in results by default too. — Google has announced several updates to Search aimed …
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
Sensor Tower: Threads' DAUs fell to 8M on July 31, down 82% from launch; the daily average time spent fell from 19 minutes per day at launch to 2.9 on August 1 — Threads, Meta's Twitter rival, is struggling to retain users roughly a month after its highly publicized launch …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Brave Search updates its image and video search to use Brave's own index rather than Bing's or Google's; some advanced search capabilities are still absent — Brave, best known for its privacy-focused web browser, is adding image and video search to Brave Search that now relies …
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
IBM, HuggingFace, and NASA release an open-source geospatial foundation model to support new climate and Earth science AIs that can track deforestation and more — The open-source model will serve as the basis for future forest, crop and climate change-monitoring AI.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
The FCC fines a multi-national robocaller, which placed 5B+ calls pretending to sell auto warranties to collect people's personal information, a record $300M — The FCC's robocaller penalties are growing as the agency tracks down and terminates their operations — this time resulting in a record $300 million forfeiture.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Nintendo Q1: revenue up 50% YoY to ~$3.2B and net profit up 52% YoY to ~$1.3B, driven by The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the new Zelda, and Switch sales up 13.9% — - Nintendo reported revenue for the June quarter of 461.34 billion yen ($3.2 billion), rising 50% year-on-year.
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LinkedIn: Martin Harbech and Javon Frazier
Forums: r/gaming, r/entertainment, r/Games, r/boxoffice, and r/NintendoSwitch
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Patreon temporarily disables Payoneer payments after some creators were unable to access their earnings and some banks flagged subscriber payments as fraudulent — Two simultaneous issues with payments on Patreon are causing problems for both creators and fans.
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| Nupur Anand / Reuters: |
Block reports Q2 revenue up 26% YoY to $5.53B, Square gross profit up 18% YoY to $888M, Cash App gross profit up 37% YoY to $968M; SQ drops 5%+ — Block Inc (SQ.N) reported a rise in second-quarter revenue on Thursday as payment volumes at the fintech giant led by Jack Dorsey held up against a tough economic backdrop.
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| TechCrunch: |
India restricts importing laptops, tablets, PCs, and servers, effective immediately; analysts say the move appears aimed at boosting local tech manufacturing — India restricted import of laptops, tablets, other personal computers and servers with immediate effect on Thursday …
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Forums: r/IndianGaming and r/economy
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Atlassian reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $939.1M, vs. $914.6M est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above expectations; TEAM jumps 22%+ — - Atlassian said that starting in the 2025 fiscal year, following a push to move customers to the cloud, margins will approach historical levels.| Reuters: |
Cloudflare reports Q2 revenue up 32% YoY to $308.5M, vs. $305.6M est., forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates, and raises its FY 2023 forecasts; NET jumps 5%+ — Software firm Cloudflare (NET.N) raised its annual revenue and profit forecasts after delivering better-than-expected results …
| Bloomberg: |
Coinbase reports Q2 revenue down 12% YoY to $707.9M, vs. $631.2M est., net loss down 91% YoY to $97M, and transaction revenue down 50% YoY to $327.1M — - Trading revenue was less than that from other sources — Interest income down after USDC stablecoin circulation fell
More: Blockworks, Coinbase, The Block, Decrypt, The Information, SiliconANGLE, CoinJournal, Ethereum World News, TechCrunch, Axios, and Cointelegraph
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
AMD announces the Radeon Pro W7600 for $599, $50 cheaper than its predecessor, and the W7500 for $429, both based on its new Navi 33 GPU, available later in Q3 — As AMD continues to launch their full graphics product stacks based on their latest RDNA 3 architecture GPUs …
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| Bloomberg: |
Hong Kong grants its first crypto licenses to HashKey Exchange and OSL, legalizing retail trading of tokens as city officials seek to foster a global crypto hub — - Hong Kong is seeking to develop a digital-asset center — City's pivot has received a guarded welcome from firms| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
CoreWeave, which offers Nvidia GPUs in the cloud, raised $2.3B in debt, collateralized by Nvidia chips; CoreWeave has raised $421M in equity so far in 2023 — Specialized cloud provider CoreWeave has raised $2.3 billion in a debt facility led by Magnetar Capital and Blackstone (BX.N) …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches a feature to protect users from unwanted DM images and videos: users may send just one text-only message to someone who doesn't follow them — Instagram is launching a new feature that is designed to better protect users from unwanted images and videos in DMs, the company announced on Thursday.
More: The Verge, Neowin, Engadget, Android Headlines, and Social Media Today. Twitter: @aladyinkuwait
| Shubham Kalia / Reuters: |
Agence France-Presse sues X in Paris for refusing to discuss potential content distribution payments under a 2019 law; Elon Musk calls the lawsuit “bizarre” — said on Wednesday it filed a lawsuit in Paris against Elon Musk's X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter … | Priyamvada C / Reuters: |
Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $2.48B, vs. $2.42B est., $650M net income, gross bookings up 13% YoY to $19.1B, and projects Q3 revenue above estimates — Airbnb (ABNB.O) forecast revenue for the current quarter above market estimates on Thursday, as the vacation rental firm is set … Sponsor Posts
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