Atari buys the Intellivision brand and the rights to 200+ Intellivision Entertainment games, and says the deal “ends the longest running console war in history”
For fans of old-school games, it's kind of like Coke acquiring Pepsi: Atari, which produced one of the first hit home game consoles …
Meta responds to concerns about Israel-Hamas war misinformation, saying the company formed an operations center, removed 795K+ posts, and more
I wouldn't call it censorship, it's always an algorithm which controls the content you see on IG and others. But since algorithms something like the secret recipe of Coke, nobody get it if someone pu...
Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence even after ex-executives pled guilty
think there shouldn't be a paying option anymore... Dave Weisberger / @daveweisberger1 : https://www.wsj.com/... It is tiresome to read SBF's half truths. 1/ His claims about Binance are ludicrous. Th...
Alphabet reports Q4 revenue rose 32% YoY to $75.3B and net income grew from $15.2B to $20.6B YoY; Cloud revenue rose from $3.8B to $5.5B YoY; stock rises 5%+
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times for Alphabet in 2021. Bloomberg : Alphabet Seeks More Investors in 20-for-1 Stock Split Leah Montebello / City A.M. : Google parent Alphabet beats r...
New book claims Elon Musk demanded to be made Apple CEO during Tesla buyout talks in 2016, before Tim Cook cursed and hung up; Musk says he never spoke to Cook
you’ MacDailyNews : Elon Musk denies demanding to become Apple CEO; says Apple's App Store fees are a ‘de facto global tax on the internet’ Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog : Apple's App Store Fees Cal...
Intel hires Justin Long, who played the “I'm a Mac” role in Apple's Mac vs PC ads, to pitch Intel-based PCs and tout touchscreens and convertible form factors
they did do at least two* ads that talked about Macs running Windows Vista, an indirect acknowledgement of the processor. I remember because they involved PC World *("The Suit" ran only for a day befo...
DOJ and 11 state AGs, all Republican, file a suit alleging that Google acted anticompetitively to preserve monopolies in search and search advertising
not because they're forced to or because they can't find alternatives. We will have a full statement this morning. Adam Kovacevich / @adamkovac : A few peanut-gallery thoughts on DOJ v Google as a vet...
With top 100 brands contributing only an estimated 6% of Facebook's revenue and Zuckerberg's voting control over the company, ad boycott's impact may be limited
Facebook held a cross-team meeting *within 24 hours* of just the boycott's announcement to discuss how to handle it. https://twitter.com/... Bob Pickard / @bobpickard : This ‘PR ploy’ conjecture about...