Uber reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $9.9B, Gross Bookings up 22% YoY to $37.6B, a $1.9B net income, 150M MAUs, and first full-year operating profit of $1.1B
Ride-hailing app beats forecasts and boasts of ‘inflection point’ — Uber has reported its first full year of operating profits …
Google and Samsung merge their respective Nearby Share and Quick Share features under the Quick Share name, for a more unified cross-Android sharing experience
Apple has AirDrop, Android now has Quick Share. — At CES 2024 Tuesday, Google announced Quick Share, a collaboration …
Apple reports Q4 revenue down 1% YoY to $89.5B, vs. $89.3B est., net income up 11% to $23B, Americas sales up 1% to $40.1B, and Europe sales down 1% to $22.5B
iPhone revenue sets September quarter record Services revenue reaches new all-time high — Apple® today announced financial results …
Google plans to shut down Google Podcasts “later in 2024”, moving its streaming listeners to YouTube Music, which will support US podcasts and RSS feeds by 2024
Again the question - how can you possibly TRUST basing your usage on Google products? — It's gotten to the point where I simply don't try out new Google services, because I know ...
Google confirms the company does not offer repair options for cracked Pixel Watch screens; Google's hardware warranty policy does not cover accidental damage
If you crack the screen on the Pixel Watch, getting it officially repaired by Google isn't in the cards.
MGM was likely hacked by Scattered Spider, an English-speaking group that previously used help desk calls to get passwords and planned to hack the slot machines
Person claiming to represent cybercriminals explains techniques used to evade detection by casino resort company
Filing: Caesars confirms the casino operator was hacked via a social engineering attack on an outsourced IT support vendor; sources: Caesars paid a ~$15M ransom
CURRENT REPORT Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act … Thomas Barrabi / New York Post : Caesars Entertainment paid about $15M to hackers who stole customer...
Sources: Caesars Entertainment paid tens of millions of dollars to hackers who breached the company's systems in recent weeks and threatened to release the data
- Hackers stole data, extorted company, people familiar said — Caesars breach came in weeks before MGM announced cyberattack
Apple hikes the prices of the iPhone 15 lineup in China, Japan, India, and other markets, keeps prices flat in the US, and cuts prices in the UK by £50 to £100
- Apple hiked the prices of its latest iPhones in some of its key markets including China, Japan and India, even as it kept them the same in the U.S.
Substack now lets users follow an individual writer without having to subscribe to their newsletter, a further expansion into social networking after Notes
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $32B, net income up 16% YoY to $7.79B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.07B for June 2023; META jumps 10%+
but most of the new users came from outside the US and Canada Karissa Bell / Engadget : Meta had its best quarter since 2021 despite losing more money on the metaverse Abubakar Idr...
Meta's Reality Labs reports a $3.7B operating loss in Q2, vs. $3.5B est., and expects losses to “increase meaningfully” due to VR/AR and ecosystem investments
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC :
Intel plans to stop making its Next Unit of Compute (NUC) products, primarily known for small form factor PCs, ceding the market to its ecosystem partners
Intel's belt-tightening continues as it hands off small-form-factor PC development to Lian Li, Cooler Master, and others.
The EU approves Broadcom's $61B VMware deal, provided Broadcom adheres to its access and interoperability commitments; UK and US approval is still pending
U.S. chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) secured EU antitrust approval on Wednesday for its $61 billion proposed acquisition of cloud computing firm VMware …
Twitter reinstates the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck, and appears to have restored legacy API access, letting some third-party apps work again
Twitter lets users switch back to the previous version of TweetDeck, and appears to have restored legacy API access allowing some third-party apps to work again
Overnight, users across Twitter began reporting that the older, and much better, version of TweetDeck has returned along …
The National Music Publishers Association: in February 2023, Spotify had 44.4M US subscribers, Apple Music had 32.6M, Amazon Music had 29.3M, YouTube had 8.5M
Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide : Bluesky: @mranthropology.bsky.social and @alexwilhelm.bsky.social . Twitter: @c0up See also Mediagazer Bluesky: Rich Stroffolino / @mra...
Twitter claims advanced notice about rate limiting would have helped bad actors evade detection and says rate limiting had a “minimal” effect on advertising
The company claims bad actors could otherwise have changed their strategies. — Twitter has been even more of a mess …
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone says the company is profitable as a private firm and plans a future IPO; Lanzone joined after Yahoo's September 2021 spinout from Verizon
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times :
Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features
Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the US. The app will be called Threads …