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Amazon reports Q2 revenue of $113.08B vs. $115.2B est., net sales grew 27% YoY, net income of $7.8B, and AWS net sales of $14.8B, up 37% YoY; stock down 5%+ — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) July 29, 2021—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2021.
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Amazon reports Q2 “other” category revenue, which mostly covers its ad business, of $7.9B, up 83% YoY, and subscription services revenue of $7.9B, up 28% YoY — Amazon saw second quarter net sales of $113 billion, up 27% but below expectations, dinging the shares in late trading.| Nick Statt / Protocol: |
A look at the fallout from the Activision Blizzard suit, as the company confirms it fired WoW lead for misconduct last year and hires “union-busting” law firm — An employee walkout, a tumbling stock price and damning new reports of misconduct. — Activision Blizzard is in crisis mode.| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
Robinhood closes down 8% on its first day of trading, after raising $2.1B in its IPO at a valuation of around $32B — - Stock trading app Robinhood fell more than 8% on its first day of trading on the Nasdaq. — Robinhood's opening price was $38 per share.
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google updates Play Store policies to ban apps offering “compensated sexual relationships”, likely impacting sugar daddy dating apps, beginning September 1 — Today, Google published a handful of changes to its Play policies, and nestled among precise legalese refinements …
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| Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Researchers detail a never-before-seen attack against Iran's train system and transport ministry from a new threat actor using a reusable wiper called Meteor — SentinelOne analysts were able to recreate the July 9 attack and identify the threat actor behind it.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, raises $205M Series C led by Vy Capital, with GV and others participating — In addition to SpaceX and Tesla, Neuralink is another Elon Musk company. Focused on building a brain machine interface, Neuralink today announced … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
A job listing shows that Google is considering making Stadia the backend of other “interactive streaming platforms” as a white-label option — After closing its in-house Stadia Games & Entertainment studios earlier this year, many have wondered what the future of Google's game streaming ambitions will look like.| Jing Yang / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Didi is considering going private to placate Chinese authorities and compensate investors for losses with money made during its IPO; Didi denies report — Ride-hailing giant has been contemplating delisting plan as crackdown widens and has obtained support from cybersecurity watchdog
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Motorola announces the Edge 20, 20 Pro, and 20 Lite for Europe, Latin America, and Asia, coming in August with prices starting from €349.99 — A trio of new Motorola phones was announced with the Edge 20 Pro, Edge 20 and Edge 20 Lite. The Pro model brings a flagship specs sheet …
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A look at Turkey's aggressive regulatory stance towards Google, like banning shopping search ads, which some attribute to Erdogan's authoritarian leadership — The antitrust backlash against Big Tech is playing out in places not known as regulatory hotbeds.
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Profile of Israeli surveillance startup Paragon, funded with $5-10M from US-based Battery, which sources say allows police to hack encrypted messaging apps — Paragon Solutions doesn't have a website. There's very little information at all about them online, even if the Tel Aviv-based …
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Source: NSO Group has temporarily blocked several government clients globally from using its technology as the company investigates their possible misuse — Israeli spyware company NSO Group has temporarily blocked several government clients around the world from using its technology …
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Profile of Sophie Zhang, a former Facebook data scientist who wrote an exit memo detailing Facebook's inadequate steps to address global election misinformation — Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it.
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| Kieran Leavitt / Toronto Star: |
Canada proposes the creation of a digital safety commissioner role to oversee violations of new harmful online content rules and issue penalties to platforms — The Liberal government has proposed a vast new system that would be tailored to ensure illegal content, such as child pornography and hate-speech … | Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes: |
Voiceflow, a Canada-based SaaS platform that lets companies launch their own voice and chat bots, raises $20M Series A led by Felicis Ventures — Canadian collaborative conversational AI tool Voiceflow announced today that it has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Felicis Ventures.| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Amazon Kindle devices with built-in 3G won't be able to download e-books via cellular connection in the US starting in December as carriers switch off 2G and 3G — Devices that can't connect to Wi-Fi will be out of luck — Amazon's Kindle e-readers with built-in 3G will begin to lose …
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| Jordan Fabian / Bloomberg: |
More than 90 CEOs, including Cook, Pichai, Jassy, and Zuckerberg, urge Congress to ensure citizenship for Dreamers, after a judge ruled against the program — - More than 90 executives seek legal status for Dreamers — They say allowing citizenship would give U.S. economic boost| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Twitter announces updates to Spaces which will let users tweet directly from the Space; iOS users will be able to search for live and upcoming Spaces — another update that makes the audio feature easier to share and discover. Now, users will be able to compose a new tweet directly from the Space …
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Pinterest misses on user growth in Q2, with 454M MAUs vs. 482M est., as revenue beats, with $613M, up 125%+ YoY, vs. $562.1M est.; stock down ~14% after hours — - The company declined to provide third-quarter guidance on monthly active user due to the unknown impact of Covid-19 variants.
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| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Profile of Bessemer Venture Partners, an early investor in Twilio and Shopify, as its competition with Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, and SoftBank ramps up — Bessemer Venture Partners is a thoughtful firm in a world of loose money. — 4 hr ago — In 2009, Ethan Kurzweil …
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| Danielle Kaye / Reuters: |
LinkedIn will let most staff opt for full-time remote work, reversing a policy from last October that would have required in-office work half of the time — LinkedIn will allow most employees to opt for full-time remote work as offices gradually reopen, Chief People Officer Teuila Hanson told Reuters.
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| Alexandra Marvar / The Verge: |
A look at the rise of high-earning teens on Depop, who are using the Etsy-owned clothing marketplace to make thousands per week, often battling the algorithm — Seventeen-year-old Chelsea Aves of Fremont, California, has had a Depop account since her sophomore year of high school.
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