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Meta reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to $32.2B, net income down 55% YoY to $4.7B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 2.96B; stock jumps 20%+ after hours — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022.
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Meta reports $727M Reality Labs revenue in Q4, vs. $715.1M est., a $4.28B operating loss, vs. $4.36B est., a $13.72B loss in 2022, and expects a wider 2023 loss — - Meta's Reality Labs unit recorded a $4.28 billion loss in the fourth quarter, bringing its total operating loss for the year to $13.72 billion.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung debuts the $1,200+ Galaxy S23 Ultra, similar to the S22 Ultra but with a 200MP camera, more robust optical image stabilization, and better battery life — The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is an S22 Ultra with an extra layer of polish — figuratively speaking.
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| Chris Velazco / Washington Post: |
Samsung is working with Google and Qualcomm to produce XR products and experiences running an unannounced Android version for devices such as wearable displays — The company is working with Google and Qualcomm on new products and the ecosystem to nurture them
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils the 6.1" Galaxy S23 for $800+ and the 6.6" Galaxy S23+ for $1,000+, with a better selfie camera and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, shipping on February 17 — Samsung's S-series phones actually look like they belong together this year. The S23 and S23 Plus have adopted the floating camera design …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, a pilot plan with access in peak times, faster response times, and priority access to new features, in the US for $20 per month — Aiming to monetize what's become a viral phenomenon, OpenAI today launched a new pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT …
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Sources: Microsoft plans to update Bing with OpenAI's GPT-4, a faster and richer version of ChatGPT, in the coming weeks; OpenAI plans to launch a ChatGPT app — Microsoft's second-place search engine Bing is poised to incorporate a faster and richer version of ChatGPT, known as GPT-4 …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Netflix says password sharing rules for the US are not set yet and removes from its US help page rules saying users must connect to primary Wi-Fi every 31 days — Based on info sourced from Netflix's support pages, The Streamable reported on Tuesday details about its upcoming anti-password sharing efforts.
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Microsoft announces the general availability of Teams Premium for $10 a month per user, with AI-generated notes powered by OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in the coming months — As we face economic uncertainties and changes to work patterns, organizations are searching for ways to optimize IT investments … | Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
AMD announces its Ryzen 7000X3D pricing: 7950X3D for $699, 7900X3D for $599, both available on February 28, and 7800X3D for $449, available on April 6 — 3D V-Cache to the masses. — AMD announced three new Zen 4 Ryzen 7000X3D processors for its AM5 platform at CES 2023 …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Drug discount app GoodRx agrees to pay $1.5M to settle with the FTC, which said the company wrongfully gave intimate health info to Meta, Google, and others — The popular drug discount app deceptively shared details on users' illnesses and medicines with ad firms, regulators said in a legal complaint.
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: a US judge denies the FTC's bid for a preliminary injunction to block Meta's Within acquisition and gives the agency a week to decide whether to appeal — Meta Platforms Inc. won court approval to buy virtual reality startup Within Unlimited, defeating an effort to block the deal …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Decentralized social network app Damus debuts on the App Store with E2EE for DMs; Damus uses the Nostr protocol, to which Jack Dorsey donated ~14 BTC in 2022 — Another decentralized social networking application to challenge Twitter has hit the App Store.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Craft, whose data platform enables supply chain, procurement, and risk managers to monitor their supplier networks, raised a $32M Series B led by BAM Elevate — Enterprise supply chain intelligence startup Craft Co. said today it has closed on a $32 million Series B equity financing round led …
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Netlify, a cloud service for automating web development projects, acquires its competitor Gatsby, which had raised $46.8M to date, for an undisclosed price — Web development platform Netlify today announced that it has acquired its competitor Gatsby, the company behind the opensource GatsbyJS framework.
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Netflix adds spatial audio to its $20 per month Premium plan, available on 700+ of its most-watched titles; Standard and Basic plans will get limited support — Listen to this: Netflix is hoping audiophiles will upgrade to the $20-per-month Premium tier to gain access to the streamer's full collection … | Sahil Patel / The Information: |
Sources: Netflix told advertisers that sign-ups for its ad tier doubled in January 2023 over December 2022; Netflix predicted 1.75M ad tier subscribers in Q1 — Netflix is making progress in its plunge into advertising—slowly. — The streaming firm told advertisers in the past 10 days … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia is working on an OTA update to fix a Discord bug that slows the memory clocks by up to 200MHz on some of its GPUs, including the RTX 3080 and RTX 3060 Ti — Discord is slowing down graphics card memory clocks on some Nvidia GPUs. A recent Discord update has introduced a bug that slows … Sponsor Posts
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