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Appfigures data: 52% of Vision Pro-only apps are paid downloads, vs. 5% of apps in the wider App Store, with an average price of $5.67 — Apple's Vision Pro offers consumers a new way to interact with apps via spatial computing, but it also offers app developers a way to generate revenue without subscriptions.
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Amazon's Prime Video basic ad tier, which began on Jan. 29 in the US as a downgrade to subscribers, quietly cut Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos sound support — Amazon AMZN caused a furor recently when it announced that it was introducing advertisements right across its Prime Video streaming service.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta begins testing “today's topics” on Threads in the US, surfaced in the app on the Search page and in the For You feed, that can feature political content — After acknowledging last week that Meta's X competitor Threads would not actively recommend political content …
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| Eva Dou / Washington Post: |
How the US plans to use open radio access networks, or Open RAN, to unseat Huawei's lead in telecom tech, including committing $1.5B+ to bolster global adoption — The Biden administration has committed more than $1.5 billion to try to persuade the world to use a technology …
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Ukraine's GUR military intelligence unit says Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line, confirming media reports of Russia using Starlink — Adoption of satellite internet service by Moscow's troops ‘systemic’ — Russian forces are using Starlink terminals on the front line …
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Nvidia announces a $625 Nvidia RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU, with 1.5x to 3x more performance than the previous gen and 16GB of GDDR6 ECC memory, up from 12GB — NVIDIA RTX 2000 ADA announced: AD107 GPU, 16GB VRAM and no power connector required — NVIDIA formally introduces another low-profile workstation GPU with Ada architecture
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Analysts estimate that Microsoft Azure's revenue, thanks in part to its close relationship with OpenAI, is ~75% as big as AWS', up from ~50% five years ago — - Microsoft's cloud is growing significantly faster than Amazon Web Services of late, thanks in part to its cozy OpenAI relationship.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with the US DOJ's Jonathan Kanter on the Antitrust Division, its Google search monopolization and ad tech cases, media consolidation, the EU's DMA, and more — The assistant attorney general says “the resonance these issues have is something that I've never witnessed in my lifetime.”| Rachel Phua / Bloomberg: |
Temu bought six Super Bowl ad slots, likely for tens of millions of dollars, to boost US growth; its US observed sales fell 12.5% MoM in Dec. and 4.8% in Jan. — - Observed sales and users fell month-on-month in Dec. and Jan. — Chinese e-commerce app offers users $10 million in giveaways
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| Michelle F Davis / Bloomberg: |
ContextLogic agrees to sell the discount online retailer Wish for $173M to Singaporean company Qoo10; Wish had a $14B valuation when it when public in 2020 — The parent of discount online retailer Wish has agreed to sell its assets and liabilities for $173 million to Singaporean e-commerce company Qoo10.
More: The Information, Wish, and PYMNTS.com
| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
Court documents: HP calculates its Autonomy losses at $4B+, and says Autonomy's ex-CEO and CFO must pay; Autonomy founder Mike Lynch awaits a US criminal trial — - Mike Lynch and his CFO face $4 billion bill for Autonomy sale — Extradited tycoon currently awaiting criminal trial in the US
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Solana commits to build its second crypto-focused smartphone after reaching 100,000 preorders, or $45M in sales, in about a month, targeting a 2025 release — Solana Mobile's “chapter 2” smartphone could ship in early 2025. — Unmute — Register Now — Solana is committing … Sponsor Posts
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