2024-02-02
$META | Meta CFO Susan Li: Co Will Discontinue Reporting Of Facebook Monthly And Daily Active Users - Revenue From China Based Advertisers Represented 10% Of Overall Revenue In 2023
Meta
Meta reports Q4 revenue up 25% YoY to $40.1B, net income up 201% YoY to $14B, and family daily active people up 8% YoY to 3.19B for December 2023
Meta Platforms (META Quick Quote META - Free Report) … Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal : Facebook Parent Meta Initiates Dividend as Growth Continues Jonathan Vanian / CNBC...
2023-11-22
Nvidia $NVDA said the word “AI” 159 times last night on its conference call (and that includes Q&A as well).
CNBC
Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 206% YoY to $18.12B, vs. $16.18B est., Data Center revenue up 279% YoY to $14.51B, and net income up 1,259% YoY to $9.2B
- Nvidia's results surpassed analysts' projections for revenue and income in the fiscal fourth quarter.
2023-09-29
(FT) - Linda Yaccarino is next week planning to meet the seven banks that helped bankroll Elon Musk's takeover of X, formerly known as Twitter, to lay out her plans to revive the struggling social media company, said people briefed on the matter. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: on October 5, Linda Yaccarino plans to meet with the seven banks that helped fund Elon Musk's takeover of X to lay out her plans to revive the company
Linda Yaccarino is next week planning to meet the seven banks that helped bankroll Elon Musk's takeover of X, formerly known as Twitter …
2023-08-24
“We view these results and guidance as a historical moment for the tech sector speaking the tidal wave of AI spending now on the horizon over the coming years. Software, digital media, Big Tech, and of course chips will be the major beneficiaries of this spending with Microsoft...
CNBC
Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 101% YoY to $13.51B, vs. $11.22B est., Data Center revenue up 171% YoY to $10.32B, and authorizes a $25B buyback
- Nvidia's performance was driven by its data center business, which includes the A100 and H100 AI chips that are needed to build and run artificial intelligence applications like ...
2023-08-21
Boosting work-from-home policy: * Atlassian * Airbnb * Twilio * Autodesk * Dropbox * Okta * Gitlab Pushing a “return to the office” initiative: * Meta * Amazon * IBM * Chipotle * BlackRock Mixed in office / remote work: * Zoom * Salesforce @business https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
As Big Tech companies compel employees to return to the office, Atlassian, Airbnb, Dropbox, Twilio, and others remain steadfast backers of remote work
2023-08-20
Boosting work-from-home policy: * Atlassian * Airbnb * Twilio * Autodesk * Dropbox * Okta * Gitlab Pushing a “return to the office” initiative: * Meta * Amazon * IBM * Chipotle * BlackRock Mixed in office / remote work: * Zoom * Salesforce @business https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
As Big Tech companies compel employees back to the office, some companies, like Atlassian, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Twilio, remain steadfast backers of remote work
- Some tech companies still see benefit of work-from-home policy — Move runs counter to effort to revive US office comeback
2023-08-18
Meta Platforms is preparing to launch software to help developers automatically generate programming code, a challenge to proprietary software from OpenAI, Google and others, according to two people with direct knowledge of the product. $META https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
The Information
Sources: Meta is preparing to release “Code Llama”, a free code-generating AI model based on Llama 2, as soon as next week
Meta Platforms is preparing to launch software to help developers automatically generate programming code, a challenge to proprietary software from OpenAI …
2023-08-10
“Yaccarino will announce the decision to bring back the client council this autumn on Thursday during her first live television interview since taking the CEO position several months ago, the company said.” [Yaccarino will be on CNBC at 10:15 a.m. ET] https://www.ft.com/...
Search Engine Land
X unveils Sensitivity Settings and Enhanced Blocklist to boost brand safety and control for advertisers, rolling out over the next few weeks in the Ads Manager
The new tools give marketers more say over ad placement. — X, formerly known as Twitter, has launched two new features …
“Yaccarino will announce the decision to bring back the client council this autumn on Thursday during her first live television interview since taking the CEO position several months ago, the company said.” [Yaccarino will be on CNBC at 10:15 a.m. ET] https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
X CEO Linda Yaccarino reinstates the company's “client council”, an invite-only group of marketing and ad executives whose members have not yet been decided
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times :
2023-07-15
(Reuters) - The chief executives of Intel Corp and Qualcomm Inc are planning to visit Washington next week to discuss China policy, according to two sources familiar with the matter. $INTC $QCOM https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Sources: the CEOs of Intel and Qualcomm are planning to meet US officials in DC next week to discuss China policy, export controls, market conditions, and more
2023-04-05
“Apple executives were hard at work developing ties to other countries to lessen reliance on the country, according to multiple people familiar with Apple's operations who spoke on the condition of anonymity...” @markgurman @business $AAPL https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources detail Apple's efforts to shift production from China, including wooing other countries and assembling “tiger teams” to solve supply chain weaknesses
In late March, when Tim Cook made his first public appearance in China since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic …
TOKYO — Facebook owner Meta intends to commercialize its proprietary generative artificial intelligence by December, Nikkei has learned, joining Google in finding practical applications for the tech. @NikkeiAsia $META https://asia.nikkei.com/...
Nikkei Asia
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says the company plans to begin commercializing its generative AI in 2023 and remains at the “very forefront” of the LLM field
Facebook parent expects tech to help clients better reach audiences, reduce costs — TOKYO — Facebook owner Meta intends …
2023-04-03
PARIS — People in the French capital have voted to ban electric-scooter rental services from its streets in a hotly debated referendum, a dark signal for an urban transportation market that the city helped pioneer. @WSJ https://www.wsj.com/...
TechCrunch
In a referendum, 89% of Parisians voted against keeping shared e-scooters in the city; Lime, Dott, and Tier will have to pull their fleets out by September 1
In a major blow to shared micromobility companies Lime, Dott and Tier, Paris has voted to ban rental e-scooters from their streets.
2023-01-02
“Meta will decide by the end of January whether to allow Trump back on the platform” @knowledge_vital @FT $META https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Experts weigh in on Meta's decision on whether to lift Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram bans; a source says the announcement will be made after January 7
360 posts clearly violate Facebook Community Standards — 116 posts amplified followers & sympathizers of QAnon — 239 posts contained election-related disinformation https://account...
2022-11-03
“Under the draft rules, short-term home rental companies will have to provide data on numbers using their services and how many nights they stay to national authorities, they said.” @Reuters $ABNB https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Sources: the EU plans light-touch rules for Airbnb and other rental companies, including providing data on usership, in a bid to unify laws across the bloc
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters : Tweets: @news_by_nick Tweets: Nicholas Brown / @news_by_nick : “Under the draft rules, short-term home rental companies will have to provide data on numbe...
2022-08-06
“Today, we're releasing a new AI research project called BlenderBot 3, a chatbot that can search the internet to talk about nearly any topic.” - Meta $META https://about.fb.com/...
The Verge
Meta AI built and released BlenderBot 3, letting users engage in general chitchat and ask BlenderBot questions to collect feedback on its capabilities
James Vincent / The Verge :
2022-07-16
(Bloomberg) - Meta Platforms Inc. will start letting more users create multiple profiles with their Facebook accounts, the company's latest attempt to encourage posting and sharing on its social network. (via @business) $META https://www.bloomberg.com/...
CNET
Meta says Facebook is testing a way for users to create up to five profiles linked to one account and that switching between profiles will require only two taps
Queenie Wong / CNET :
2022-07-15
(Bloomberg) - Meta Platforms Inc. will start letting more users create multiple profiles with their Facebook accounts, the company's latest attempt to encourage posting and sharing on its social network. (via @business) $META https://www.bloomberg.com/...
CNET
Meta says Facebook is testing a way for users to create up to five profiles linked to one account and that switching between profiles will require only two taps
Queenie Wong / CNET :