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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple Vision Pro review: marvelous display, great hand and eye tracking, and works seamlessly in the ecosystem, but pricey and video passthrough can be blurry — The Apple Vision Pro is the best consumer headset anyone's ever made — and that's the problem.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's visionOS doesn't let users rearrange icons or pin web apps to the home screen, which is particularly limiting given Netflix and YouTube don't offer apps — In addition to not letting you rearrange home screen icons, visionOS 1.0 also doesn't support the ability to pin web apps to the home screen.
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| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to $86B, net income up 52% to $20.7B, Google Cloud revenue up 26% to $9.2B, and headcount down 4%+; GOOG drops 5%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - January 30, 2024 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2023.
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| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $62B, net income up 33% YoY to $21.9B, Office Commercial revenue up 15% YoY, and LinkedIn revenue up 9% YoY — REDMOND, Wash. — January 30, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended December 31, 2023 …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft reports Q2 Intelligent Cloud revenue up 20% YoY to $25.88B, vs. $25.29B est., with Azure and other cloud services revenue up 30% YoY, vs. 27.7% est. — - Microsoft beat on the top and bottom lines as Azure cloud growth was stronger than expected.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
In a letter to employees, PayPal says it plans to lay off around 2,500 employees, or about 9% of its workforce, and will cut back on open roles — - CEO Alex Chriss has vowed to improve operating leverage — Latest round of cuts will affect about 9% of the workforce
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| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
Block begins layoffs under a previously disclosed plan to cut staff by up to 10%, by imposing an “absolute cap” of a 12,000 headcount, which was 13,000 in Q3'23 — The company plans to drastically reduce its headcount throughout 2024 through a series of layoffs and reorganizing measures.| Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
AMD reports Q4 revenue down 10% YoY to $6.2B, net income up 3,076% to $667M, Data Center revenue up 38% to $2.3B, Q1 revenue forecast below est.; AMD drops 5%+ — Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) forecast first-quarter revenue below market estimates on Tuesday …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says Apple Card now has 12M+ US users, over 1M are sharing their card via Apple Card Family, and users earned $1B+ in Daily Cash rewards in 2023 — Apple Card has over 12 million users in the United States, Apple said today. Apple Card holders earned more than $1 billion in Daily Cash rewards in 2023.
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| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
US indicts a Chicago man who allegedly led a SIM-swap gang; members stole millions of dollars and posed as other people in Apple, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon stores — Scheme allegedly targeted Apple, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile stores in 13 states. — The US may have uncovered the nation's largest … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Edge automatically imports open Chrome tabs after a Windows update, even with Edge's import tool disabled; users have reported the behavior for months — Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update.
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| Sheila Chiang / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q4 revenue down 3.8% YoY to ~$51B, vs. ~$52.1B est., and operating profit down 34.57% YoY to ~$2.1B, vs. ~$2.6B est. — - Samsung on Wednesday reported a 34.57% drop in operating profit in the fourth quarter from a year ago, in line with its guidance issued earlier this month.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
New York's AG sues Citibank over its alleged failure to defend customers from online scams, citing poor responses to potential fraud and not reimbursing victims — New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Citibank over its failure to defend customers against hacks and scams and refusing …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
A Microsoft engineer tells WA's AG he found ways to exploit DALL-E 3 to make explicit images, reported it, but was then told to take down a public post about it — A Microsoft AI engineering leader says he discovered vulnerabilities in OpenAI's DALL-E 3 image generator in early December allowing users … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Adobe says it has “no plans to further invest” in its XD web-design product, which it put in “maintenance mode” at the outset of its now-scrapped Figma deal — - “No plans to further invest” in XD program, company says — Future product design features will be through partnerships| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Universal Music Group plans to cease licensing content to TikTok after their agreement expires on January 31, saying they failed to reach new licensing terms — UMG said that its agreement with TikTok is set to expire on Jan. 31. “The companies have not agreed to terms for a new agreement …
More: TechCrunch, Financial Times, Universal Music Group N.V., and UMG
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Figure, which is building a humanoid robot, is in talks to raise as much as $500M in a round led by Microsoft and OpenAI at a $1.9B pre-money valuation — - Figure AI is building a humanoid robot to perform hard jobs — Microsoft weighs leading round that could raise $500 million
X: @markgurman and @ajs
| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
German police seize nearly 50K bitcoin, worth $2B+, from two suspects who allegedly acquired the crypto using profits from an illegal file-sharing platform — German prosecutors provisionally seized nearly 50,000 Bitcoin worth about $2.1 billion as part of an investigation into what they see as an illegal file-sharing platform.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A look at Intel's mistakes under CEO Brian Krzanich, and CEO Pat Gelsinger's attempt to turn Intel into a foundry for chip developers including via its UMC deal — There are time when being a semiconductor CEO is rather easy. Just consider Brian Krzanich: when he took over the Intel job in 2013, I wrote in The Intel Opportunity:| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches the ability for paying ChatGPT users to invoke GPTs directly in chats by typing “@” and selecting a GPT from a list — OpenAI is pushing adoption of GPTs, third-party apps powered by its AI models, by enabling ChatGPT users to invoke them in any chat.
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Arlo, which offers smart home devices, raises the price of its Arlo Secure service from $5/month to $8/month for a single camera, after a price hike in 2023 — In more “things are just getting expensive” news, the Arlo Secure subscription service is climbing. Again.Sponsor Posts
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