Meta cuts the price of Quest Pro, its mixed and virtual reality headset meant for business users, from $1,500 to $1,000, and its 256GB Quest 2 from $500 to $430
Candy Crush shows little sign of disappearing after 10 years, with estimated earnings similar to the Star Trek or Superman franchises, sans the cultural impact
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times : Tweets: @hschhaya Tweets: Harshal S Chhaya / @hschhaya : @Techmeme @tim It was news to me how much money this game makes. This Decoder interview o...
Tim Sweeney says Apple told Epic that it will not consider reinstating Epic's developer account until all legal appeals have concluded, likely years from now
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney revealed the conversation in a series of tweets — Fortnite will not be returning to the iOS App Store any time soon … Source: Epic Games .
Profile of Invisible Universe, which is developing animated franchises using characters born on social media with the help of influencers like Serena Williams
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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 20%+
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Instagram's shift away from being a photo-sharing app fits within its broader continuous evolution, from photo filtering tool to network to Stories and beyond
IBM President Jim Whitehurst to step down less than two years after being elevated to the position and three years after IBM acquired his company Red Hat
IBM President Jim Whitehurst is stepping down from the No. 2 leadership position at the company less than three years after IBM acquired …
Microsoft says it will soon launch a dedicated device for game streaming and is working with TV manufacturers to expand Xbox Game Pass subscription to smart TVs
Microsoft on Thursday announced plans to expand its Xbox Game Pass subscription service to many more screens …
Tesla says deliveries of Model 3 and Y vehicles in North America will no longer be equipped with radar for Autopilot and instead rely on a camera-based system
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Roblox reports Q1 revenue grew 140% YoY to $387M, DAUs rose 79% YoY to 42.1M, and users spent 9.7B hours on the platform, up 98% YoY
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Amazon reports Q1 revenue of $108.5B, up 44% YoY, net income of $8.1B, up from $2.5B YoY, and says AWS has become a $54B annual sales run rate business
Amazon today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2021. • Operating cash flow increased 69% …
Microsoft says Teams is now at 145M DAUs, up from 75M DAUs YoY, and announces new Teams integrations with Dynamics 365, which saw quarterly revenue grow 45% YoY
Microsoft says revenue from LinkedIn's ads business, called LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, grew 60% YoY to more than $3B in the year ended March 31
- Microsoft said Tuesday that LinkedIn Marketing Solutions has brought in more than $3 billion in revenue in the past 12 months. Tweets: @megancgraham Tweets: Meg Graham / @megancg...
Apple updates Apple Card's privacy policy to share more anonymized data with Goldman Sachs, to help some users secure or expand credit, allows opt out via email
and recommended — the Apple Card largely for its privacy practices, Apple changing its data policy now feels like a bait and switch. “Aggregate and anonymized” still mean my life i...
Google's HR head, Eileen Naughton, to step down from her role amid rising employee anger over Google's handling of sexual harassment claims and staff protests
Google's head of human resources, Eileen Naughton, will step down later this year amid rising tensions between the company's top executives and rank and file employees.
Report: pizza-making robot startup Zume, which raised $375M from SoftBank Vision Fund in 2018, plans to lay off up to 400 staff, or about 80% of its employees
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Facebook says ~100 app developers might have had improper access to Groups member data even after the company announced restrictions to Groups API last year
At least 11 accessed data in the last two months — Facebook says that even after it locked down its Groups system last year …