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 Idris / The Messenger :...
The UK's CAT said that Apple won an appeal against the CMA's decision to investigate the company's dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming
By a decision dated 22 November 2022 entitled Mobile browsers and cloud gaming … PYMNTS.com : UK Antitrust Investigation of Apple Stopped After Appeal Win Jason Aycock / Seeking Alpha : Apple wins UK ...
A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court
Justice Department Appeals Parts of Judge's Ruling on Documents Seized at Trump's Mar-a-Lago David McCabe / New York Times : A federal court clears the way for a Texas social media law. Rebecca Kern /...
T-Mobile agrees to pay $350M to settle class action lawsuits over a 2021 cyberattack that impacted ~76.6M customers and pledges to invest $150M in data security
Item 8.01 - Other Events On July 22, 2022, T-Mobile US, Inc. (the “Company” … Slashdot : T-Mobile Announces $350M Settlement Over Data Breach - Plus $150M Security Upgrade Ians / Business Standard : T...
US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday
one with a deal, the other with a judge's help Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg : Trump's WeChat Curbs Halted by Judge on Free Speech Concerns David Shepardson / Reuters : Wall Street Journal : WeChat B...
Facebook says it plans to complete the rollout of its redesigned desktop website to all users over the “next few weeks”
This week we introduced the new Facebook.com. Nick Statt / The Verge : Facebook's redesigned desktop site with dark mode is now available everywhere Ravish Bhatia / Turnaround : WTF- A short comic str...
Twitter rolls out its “Hide Replies” feature to all users globally
here's how Stephanie Mlot / Geek.com : Twitter Rolls Out ‘Hide Replies’ Feature Globally Shereesa Moodley / Memeburn : Twitter's ‘hide replies’ feature now available in South Africa Andrew Hutchinson ...
Twitter shares draft of its new deepfakes policy for public input through Nov. 27, says it won't ban deepfakes but will label them and warn users before sharing
but won't remove them Paul Sawers / VentureBeat : Twitter proposes flagging deepfakes, but would only remove content that threatens harm Kate Cox / Ars Technica : Twitter wants your feedback on its pr...
Sources: CFIUS has launched a review of ByteDance's 2017 acquisition of Musical.ly, as TikTok didn't seek clearance from CFIUS during the acquisition
Margaret Sullivan was having fun. Washington Post : U.S. government investigating TikTok over national security concerns Hanna Kozlowska / Quartz : TikTok could be the next social platform plagued wit...
Apple announces an event on September 10 in Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park, where new iPhones are expected
its lowest price on Amazon ever Lynn La / CNET : iPhone XR vs. iPhone 8 Plus: Which iPhone should you buy? Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : Guessing the Meaning of Apple's iPhone 11 Event Teaser Jack Ma...