Meta reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $42.3B, vs. $41.4B est., net income up 35% to $16.6B, family daily active people up 6% to 3.43B on average for March 2025
and why simply isolating Chinese advertising spend was misguided... X: Roman Helmet Guy / @romanhelmetguy : Zuckerberg explaining how Meta is creating personalized AI friends to supplement your real o...
Meta plans to deprecate the Facebook News tab in the US and Australia in early April 2024 and stop signing deals for traditional news content in those countries
it was begun for hookups, parties, and puppies but readers and publishers added news in their own posts. News came to depend on Facebook for links and audience — that's why publishers put links there...
Report on Apple's eight-year self-driving car struggle as 20 people from the project cite “constantly shifting goals”, a “revolving door of leaders”, and more
and nearly a jogger Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac : Apple car won't need a steering wheel Ariel Zilber / New York Post : Apple's self-driving cars ‘smacked into curbs, veered out of lanes’: report MacDailyNe...
Leaked audio from 80+ internal TikTok meetings: ByteDance staff in China repeatedly accessed data about US TikTok users between September 2021 and January 2022
exactly the type of behavior that inspired Trump to threaten to ban the app” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... @ebakerwhite Kyle Plotkin / @kjplotkin : This is unsurprising and there should be outrage...
A look at Andy Jassy's first year as Amazon CEO, as he seeks to reverse some of Jeff Bezos' aggressive pandemic investments, close physical stores, and more
Amid one of the worst stretches for financial performance in Amazon's history, the new CEO is working to cut back the excesses … Tweets: @shiraovide , @paulpage , @danamattioli , @conorsen , @danamatt...
Researchers: Elon Musk, who vowed to defeat Twitter's “spam bots or die trying”, has long benefited from “fanbots” boosting Tesla shares and deriding critics
official surveillance video of the states themselves—Facebook and YouTube would take them down as “misinformation.” You can see right away what they're terrified of—not misinformation but rather infor...
Sources: Meta is considering reducing the money it gives news outlets and focusing on news content as short videos on Facebook rather than as links to articles
which executives originally thought could help improve relationships with media orgs—as the company's priorities shift. Story w/ @jtoonkel https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Mark Di Stefano / @markdi...
France's data regulator, the CNIL, fines Google €150M and Meta €60M for failing to let French users easily reject cookie trackers
says France, Waving $240M Fines CNIL : Cookies: FACEBOOK IRELAND LIMITED fined 60 million euros Ravie Lakshmanan / The Hacker News : France Fines Google, Facebook €210 Million Over Privacy Violating T...
Sources: FTC staff recommended suing Amazon over alleged Ring privacy violations earlier this year and began settlement talks; Lina Khan suspended the effort
Josh Sisco / The Information : Tweets: @joshua_sisco , @markdistef , @theinformation , and @amir Tweets: Josh Sisco / @joshua_sisco : NEW: Amazon has more than antitrust problems at the FTC. It also ...
Memo: Tim Cook tells Apple employees they can work remotely for up to four weeks per year and sets a February 1 return to office goal
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