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Amazon reports Q4 revenue up 9% YoY to $137.4B, net income up 98% to $14.3B, AWS revenue up 40% to $17.8B, and FY 2021 revenue up 22% to $469.8B; stock up 15%+ — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) February 3, 2022—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon will raise Prime's US prices by $20 to $139 per year and by $2 to $14.99 per month, on February 18 for new members and March 25 for current members — Amazon is upping the price of Prime, increasing the annual fee of its membership from $119/year to $139/year.
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon breaks out advertising services revenue for the first time, reports $9.7B for Q4, up 32% YoY, $31.2B for FY 2021; subscription services grew 15% to $8.1B — - Amazon shares rallied in extended trading Thursday after the company posted a big earnings beat for the fourth quarter …
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Meta closes down 26%, erasing ~$250B from its market cap, the biggest single-day loss in market value for a US company, after weak Q4 results and Q1 guidance — Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is set to shed about $200 billion in market value, in what would be one of the biggest …
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| Andrew Thurman / CoinDesk: |
Wormhole's parent restores $322M worth of ETH stolen by a hacker on Wednesday, and the bridge's operations are back up after the attack vector had been patched — Wormhole's parent company has stepped in to prevent chaos across the Solana DeFi landscape. — After one of the most devastating exploits …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Activision Blizzard reports Q4 revenue of $2.16B, down 10% YoY, net bookings of $2.49B, down 18% YoY, 371M MAUs, down from 397M a year ago — Activision Blizzard's net bookings of $2.49 billion in the fourth quarter ended December 31 short of expectations on Wall Street … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
The US Senate Judiciary Committee approves the Open App Markets Act, which would allow app sideloading and let developers use their own in-app payment systems — The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee today approved the bipartisan Open App Markets Act, an antitrust bill that would allow …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Snap reports its first quarterly net profit, with Q4 revenue of $1.3B, up 42% YoY, and net income of $23M; FY 2021 revenue grew 64% to $4.1B; stock is up 55%+ — - Snap reported earnings for the fourth quarter Thursday that beat analyst estimates on earnings, revenue and user growth.
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Audio: Daniel Ek says Spotify needs exclusives for leverage to land deals with Amazon, Google, and others, and he finds many things Rogan says “very offensive” — He says Spotify is a platform, not a publisher — Spotify CEO Daniel Ek addressed employees about the Joe Rogan controversy …
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| James Rubin / CoinDesk: |
A bipartisan group of US representatives reintroduces the Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act, which would exempt paying taxes on realized crypto gains under $200 — The legislation by a bipartisan group of House representatives would exempt realized crypto gains under $200.
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| Nina Bambysheva / Forbes: |
Trust Machines, which aims to build DeFi apps, DAOs, and NFTs on Stacks, formerly Blockstack, raises $150M from Breyer Capital, GoldenTree, Hivemind, and others — It's summer 2017. Muneeb Ali, a PhD candidate in computer science at Princeton, is finishing his thesis …
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Pinterest reports Q4 revenue of $847M, up 20% YoY, 431M global MAUs, down 6% YoY, and FY 2021 revenue of $2.6B, up 52% YoY; stock is up 20%+ — Pinterest's monthly average users dropped 6%, year over year, to 431 million, below consensus for 448 million. The decline was largest in the U.S., where users declined 12% to 86 million.
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| Ephrat Livni / New York Times: |
Coinbase partners with TurboTax to let users directly deposit state and federal tax refunds into their accounts and automatically buy cryptocurrency — The software company has teamed up with Coinbase to allow users the option to convert their state and federal tax refunds into cryptocurrency.
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Source: Tiger Global has raised over $11B for its latest venture capital fund as of January and expects to close the fund at $12B in March — Tiger Global Management, the New York-based hedge fund that made more private tech investments than any other firm last year, raised more than $11 billion …
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| Corbin Davenport / XDA Developers: |
Google releases Flutter 2.10 with stable support for developing Windows apps; macOS and Linux support remains in beta — Google has been working on Flutter for a few years now, with the goal to create the cross-platform software framework of developers' dreams.
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
White House forms the Cyber Safety Review Board, loosely modeled on NTSB, to investigate major national cybersecurity failures, starting with the Log4j bug — The new panel is loosely modeled on the National Transportation Safety Board and will look into the recently discovered Log4j internet bug
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Israeli surveillance company QuaDream used the zero-click ForcedEntry exploit to break into iPhones in 2021; ForcedEntry was also used by NSO Group — A flaw in Apple's software exploited by Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group to break into iPhones in 2021 was simultaneously abused …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla shuts down Firefox Reality, its web browser launched in 2018 for Oculus and other AR/VR headsets, and directs users to Igalia's upcoming browser Wolvic — A top VR web browser is closing down. Today, Mozilla announced it's shutting down its Firefox Reality browser …
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