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Apple reports record Q3 revenue up 2% YoY to $83B, vs. $82.8B est., net income down 11% to $19.4B, iPhone revenue up 3% to $40.7B, Mac revenue down 10% to $7.4B — iPhone and Services drive June quarter record revenue — Active installed base of devices reaches all-time high for all major product categories| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple reports Services revenue grew 12% YoY to $19.6B in Q3 2022 and 860M paying subscribers globally across all its services, up from 825M in Q2 2022 — KEY POINTS — Analysts are expecting the company to give fourth-quarter guidance of $1.31 in earnings per share and nearly $90 billion in sales.
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| Reuters: |
Apple expects a faster sales growth in Q4, citing easing parts shortages and strong iPhone demand; Tim Cook says Apple is also “being more deliberate” in hiring — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Thursday said parts shortages are easing and that demand for iPhones is unceasing despite consumers tightening …
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Adam Mosseri says Instagram will roll back some recent changes after a week of mounting criticism, including temporarily reducing the number of recommendations — Say goodbye to the full-screen feed, and at least some of those recommendations — for now. Adam Mosseri explains why
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| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Instagram's Dual copies BeReal's front and back camera capture feature, but misses the point: people like BeReal because it's non-addictive by design — BeReal is all about friends and habits — not the algorithm — We know the drill: Snapchat adds the Stories feature, Instagram nabs it.
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel is winding down its Optane memory business, incurring a $559M inventory impairment; Optane is the sixth non-core business Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has sold — 3D XPoint at the last crossroad. — Intel's Q2 2022 earnings report today was uncharacteristically disappointing … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q2 revenue down 22% YoY to $15.32B, vs. $17.92B est., a $454M net loss, and Datacenter and AI Group revenue down 16% YoY to $4.6B; stock down 5%+ — - Intel slashed its full-year guidance and turned in worse-than expected quarterly results. — The company launched new chips …
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| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 7% YoY to $121.2B, $2B net loss vs. $7.8B net income in Q2 2021, and AWS revenue up 33% YoY; the stock jumps 10%+ after hours — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
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| @chrislyons: |
VeeFriends, Gary Vaynerchuk's NFT project that has amassed ~200K ETH in sales to provide online and in-person community events, raised a $50M seed led by a16z — gm! I'm very excited to announce that @a16z crypto is leading a $50M round in @veefriends. We look forward to helping the team fuel expansion plans for its creative, technical and experiential operations that support the growing Web3 community! https://a16zcrypto.com/...
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
The US House passes the Chips and Science Act, which includes $52B+ for US chipmakers and tax credits to encourage investment; Biden must now sign it into law — All that's left is Biden's signature — It might get cheaper and easier to buy popular tech products, like gaming consoles and graphics cards …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Snap launches a Sounds Creator Fund, awarding up to $100K per month to artists distributing songs on Snapchat via DistroKid, or $5K per song, starting in August — Snap has announced the Snapchat Sounds Creator Fund: Its first fund designed to support emerging and independent artists … | Pete Schroeder / Reuters: |
US banking regulators order Voyager Digital to cease and desist from making “false and misleading” claims that its customers' funds were insured by the FDIC — U.S. banking regulators have ordered crypto firm Voyager Digital to cease and desist from making “false and misleading” …
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In an email to Twitter Blue subscribers, Twitter says it's increasing the price of the service; in the US, the price will jump from $2.99 to $4.99 per month — Who would pay for Twitter? — People frequently express their amazement that Twitter is free, but for some people, it isn't …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Roku misses with Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $764M, vs. $805.2M est., 200M fewer streaming hours at 20.7B, and 1.8M active accounts added to 63.1M; stock down 25%+ — Roku fell well short of Wall Street financial forecasts for the second quarter — and the streaming platform saw the number of hours streamed by customers drop from Q1.
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| Taylor Locke / Fortune: |
Variant, an early stage crypto-focused fund, has raised $450M for a third fund focused on the “user-owned web”, after previously raising $22.5M and $110M — Each “crypto winter” is different from the last, but every winter—or what non-crypto people would call a bear market …
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| Bloomberg: |
An in-depth look at the issues facing Afterpay, Klarna, Affirm, and other BNPL players, such as economic uncertainty, competition, regulators, and consumer debt — For three days each week during the month of April in 2014, a seasoned product manager named Lulu Young, an engineering manager … | Maggie Miller / Politico: |
The US DOJ says it is investigating a data breach of the federal courts system that is separate from the Russia-backed SolarWinds hack revealed in late 2020 — The Justice Department is investigating a data breach of the U.S. federal courts system dating to early 2020, a top official testified on Capitol Hill Thursday.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Battle-royale game BGMI, with 16.5M MAUs in India, delisted from iOS and Android app stores after Indian government ban, two years after a ban of Krafton's PUBG — Google has pulled the popular battle royale game Battlegrounds Mobile India, more popularly known as BGMI …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolls out a new tool that lets creators select up to 60 seconds of any video they posted and turn it into Shorts content, available on Android and iOS — YouTube wants to quickly ramp up the number of short-form “Shorts” videos available on its platform in order to better compete with TikTok.| Bloomberg: |
As advertisers struggle with Reels, Meta tries to ease them into the format, including, sources say, by encouraging them to test their video ads on TikTok first — Reels — the short videos that Facebook and Instagram are pushing — are getting more popular, parent company Meta Platforms Inc. says.
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| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Hours before Sky Mavis told users it was hacked, CEO Trung Nguyen moved about $3M worth of Axie Infinity's main token AXS; Sky Mavis says it was to help users — This spring, Sky Mavis, the startup that makes the video game Axie Infinity, announced it had suffered a devastating hack.
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| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
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