Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook the company is now Meta, to better encompass all of its products
We are at the beginning of the next chapter for the internet, and it's the next chapter for our company too. — In recent decades, technology has given people the power to connect and express ourselv...
The Facebook View app on iOS contains an image of a potential Meta smartwatch, with a front-facing camera notch, rounded screen, and a detachable wrist strap
- Device has front-facing camera, possibly for videoconferencing — Image of watch is found inside of Facebook View iPhone app
Apple misses with Q4 revenue of $83.4B, up 29% YoY, vs $84.85B est., iPhone revenue of $38.87B, up 47% YoY, services revenue of $18.3B, up 25.6%; stock down 3%+
New September quarter record with revenue up 29 percent — Services and Mac revenue reach new all-time highs
Video of Facebook Connect 2021, where VR updates, Project Cambria, and a new Meta brand name were announced
by the US government — and articulating a vision for the future that's about building, not banning. https://www.facebook.com/... Carole Cadwalladr / @carolecadwalla : 'So basically what you're saying ...
Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR spaces, Messenger VR calls, fitness VR, Quest for Business, including Work Accounts support on Quest 2, and more
Facebook's metaverse could be the successor to the modern internet … Devindra Hardawar / Engadget : Facebook says it doesn't want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it Lisa Brown Jaloza / Facebook T...
Facebook's metaverse is designed to solve several problems: an ageing userbase, dependence on Google and Apple, regulatory risk, and reputational damage
If his new strategy works — a big if — it could help address several of Facebook's biggest problems.
Andrew Bosworth says Facebook Reality Labs will become Reality Labs, Oculus brand will shift to Meta for hardware and Oculus Quest app starting in early 2022
Well the cat's (officially) out of the bag: Our company is now Meta to better reflect who we are and our ambitions to help build the metaverse.
Facebook's Meta renaming is a bet on the power of founder control, and is about a future that doesn't yet exist, but one that Zuckerberg believes needs to
The obvious analogy to Facebook's announcement that it is renaming itself Meta and re-organizing its financials to separate …
Interview with Mark Zuckerberg on rebranding the company to Meta to avoid the awkwardness of sharing the name of its main app, building the metaverse, and more
The company wants to move past the ‘confusion and awkwardness’ of sharing a name with its main app
Amazon misses with Q3 revenue of $110.8B, up 15% YoY, vs $111.6B est., net income of $3.2B, down from $6.3B YoY, AWS net sales of $16.1B, up 39%; stock down 4%+
SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2021.
Apple reports Q4 Mac revenue of $9.18B, up 1.6% YoY, and iPad revenue of $8.25B, up 21.4% YoY, and says supply chain issues cost the company ~$6B in the quarter
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Facebook announces Project Nazare, the codename for its first consumer AR glasses, and showed a demo video while acknowledging Nazare is still “a few years out”
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Facebook announces Presence Platform, with three SDKs to help create mixed reality experiences for the Oculus Quest VR headset
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Europol says it has detained 12 suspects that were orchestrating ransomware attacks that hit 1,800+ victims across 71 countries since 2019
Europol said it detained 12 suspects this week it believes were part of a professional criminal group that orchestrated a long string of ransomware attacks … Source: Europol .
Facebook teases Project Cambria, a high-end mixed reality headset coming next year with cameras that allow high-resolution passthrough
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Google and Jio debut $87 JioPhone Next with a 5.45-inch HD+ display and Qualcomm's quad-core QM-215 chipset, available November 4 in India
Google and Indian telecom network Jio Platforms said on Friday that their much-anticipated budget smartphone, JioPhone Next, will go on sale …
Microsoft acquires Two Hat, a content moderation provider that it has been working with for the past few years to improve Xbox communities
The deal will help Microsoft's consumer services push — Microsoft has acquired Two Hat, a content moderation provider that's helped keep harmful content off Xbox.
Google releases a Chrome update that fixes seven vulnerabilities, including two zero-days exploited in the wild
Google has released Chrome 95.0.4638.69 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities that attackers have actively exploited.
Apple MacBook Pro 14- and 16-inch review: incredible performance with very long battery life and beautiful displays but expensive with absurd RAM pricing
Apple's new pro laptops right the wrongs of the past half decade — Let's start simply: the new MacBook Pros with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips …
Worldwide smartphone shipments in Q3 declined 6.7% YoY; Samsung came in first with 69M units shipped and Apple in second with 50.4M units
The double-digit growth in the smartphone market in the early quarters of 2021 came to an end in the third quarter of 2021 (3Q21) as worldwide shipments declined 6.7% year over year.
Apple's Q4 sales in Greater China rose 83% to $14.56B, Americas up 20% to $36.82B, Europe grew 23% to $20.79B, and paid subscriptions grew to 745M, up 160M YoY
Tiernan Ray / ZDNet : Tweets: @asymco , @neilcybart , @neilcybart , and @asymco Tweets: Horace Dediu / @asymco : Apple is 5-6 quarters away from 1 billion paid subs. Could happen even sooner. Neil Cy...
Apple support document says 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro users can turn on “scale to fit below built-in camera” to avoid notch app compatibility issues
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Amazon estimates Q4 revenue will be $130B-$140B, below analysts' estimate of $141.6B, and expects to spend more on delivery operations, which could hurt profits
Matt Day / Bloomberg : Tweets: @thestalwart Tweets: Joe Weisenthal / @thestalwart : $AMZN talking about how labor costs, and other constraints are really going to take a bite. Some great stuff form @...
Global money laundering watchdog FATF releases guidelines that could force crypto companies to check customers' identities and report suspicious transactions
at best—suppressed. https://www.fatf-gafi.org/... Patrick Hansen / @paddi_hansen : 1/ There it is: the FATF has updated its guidance for #Crypto and #DeFi. It seems the FATF wants to impose its concep...
Huawei reports Q3 revenue fell 38% YoY to $21.2B, the fourth straight quarter of declining sales, and ~$2.3B net income, as US sanctions continue to bite
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US says it is working with Taiwan to secure chip supply chains; Biden has asked manufacturers to hand over company data, which has faced resistance from firms
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Amazon reports Q3 revenue of $8.09B for its “other” segment, which mostly covers its ads business, up 50% YoY, and $8.15B for subscription services, up 24% YoY
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Meme-based coin Shiba Inu rose about 160% this week, briefly surpassing dogecoin to become the eighth biggest cryptocurrency by market cap
South Korea-based online grocery startup Kurly says it plans to IPO in Korea in June at an estimated $5.9B valuation
Kate Park / TechCrunch :
Review of Raspberry Pi's new $15 Zero 2 W, featuring a 64-bit CPU, 512MB RAM, and WiFi 4: surprisingly powerful and ideal for emulation and automation projects
K.G Orphanides / Wired UK :
TikTok is testing a tipping feature to let select creators accept money outside of Live streams; creators with 100K+ followers can apply to try it
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Microsoft launches a campaign to help fill 250,000 cybersecurity jobs in the US by 2025, offering scholarships and free curriculum for community colleges
Zachary Basu / Axios : Source: The Official Microsoft Blog .
Google says it will roll out e2e encrypted phone calls on Google Fi over the coming weeks
Jon Porter / The Verge :
While Pixel 6 receives good reviews thanks to its Tensor SoC and other advances, hitting a 7M shipment goal requires carrier distribution, a weakness for Google
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal :
Zendesk announces plans to acquire Momentive, which owns SurveyMonkey, in an all-stock deal worth nearly $4B; Zendesk stock falls 16% after hours
Nebraska-based CompanyCam, which offers a photo documentation and communication app for contractors, raises a $30M Series B led by Insight Partners
Anomalo, which uses AI to find issues in data sets, raises a $33M Series A led by NVP, formally launches, and says it already has $1M+ in revenue
Ron Miller / TechCrunch : Tweets: @eshmu Tweets: @eshmu : Big news from @anomalo_hq today. Huge thanks to the team, our investors, and our amazing customers for making this possible. https://techcrun...
Sources: Bolt, which offers a one-click checkout service, is seeking to raise a $777M Series E at a pre-money valuation of between $10B and $11B
Dan Primack / Axios : Tweets: @danprimack Tweets: Dan Primack / @danprimack : One-click checkout company Bolt is raising new $$ at around an $11 billion valuation, shortly after raising at a $6 billi...
Swap, a São Paulo-based BaaS startup that helps clients manage their financial operations via its APIs, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch : Thanks: @bayareawriter
UnitedMasters, a music distribution app for independent musicians, raises a $50M Series C led by a16z at a $550M valuation
Twitter launches the Spaces Recording feature that was announced last month, to a limited number of Spaces hosts on iOS and all listeners on iOS and Android
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