Google Cloud turns profitable for the first time on record, with a $191M operating income on $7.45B revenue in Q1 2023, vs. a $706M loss on $5.82B in Q1 2022
There are a few debates currently brewing within … TechRadar : Google Cloud has finally made a profit for the first time Simon Sharwood / The Register : Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years a...
As advertisers struggle with Reels, Meta tries to ease them into the format, including, sources say, by encouraging them to test their video ads on TikTok first
Bloomberg : Tweets: @sarahfrier , @robleathern , @zackkanter , @adamnash , @pt , @can , @can , @can , @pt , @can , @can , @iwriteok , @pt , @pt , @can , @iwriteok , @robleathern , @pt , @pt , @pt , @...
Elon Musk says he wants to improve Twitter by “making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans”
and at some point it should be studied with the perspective of some temporal distance - but the neediest, most ardent, and most passionate censorship crusaders are the tattletale-employees of media co...
Analysis of 50 public software companies finds that repatriating workloads from public cloud infrastructure could help them reduce their cloud spend by 50%
Andreessen Horowitz : Tweets: @zackkanter , @jasnonaz , @lizrice , @jaycuthrell , @zackkanter , @zackkanter , @stratelogical , @sandykory , @divinetechygirl , @teej_m , @matt_levine_1 , @martin_casad...
NYT says it will stop using third-party data to target ads in 2021, building a first-party data platform instead, starting with 45 proprietary audience segments
Sara Fischer / Axios : Tweets: @donie , @antoniogm , @zackkanter , @antoniogm , @pilhofer , @freedomofpress , @tealtan , @_ram_ , @jimpethokoukis , @auren , @girlsreallyrule , @nicdawes , @davidubert...
A growing number of astrophysicists are leaving academia to join data science teams at tech companies amid a surging demand for machine learning expertise
Space scientists are abandoning the heavens to help you decide what to wear and watch and listen to. Whether it's stars or Stitch Fix, it's all about machine learning. Tweets: @wired , @hshaban , @ar...
Snap stock slid 6%+ after analyst warned of negative reaction to update and Kylie Jenner tweeted suggesting she uses Snapchat less post-update
Should Snapchat Listen? Andrew Krok / CNET : Snapchat should have never made it this far Rhett Jones / Gizmodo : Stock Price Tumble Teaches Snapchat What Happens When You Disappoint Kylie Jenner Peter...
As residential neighborhoods near highways struggle with the traffic sent by navigation apps like Waze, Leonia, NJ is closing 60 of its streets to outsiders
LEONIA, N.J. — It is bumper to bumper as far as the eye can see, the kind of soul-sucking traffic jam that afflicts highways the way bad food afflicts rest stops. Tweets: @nytimes , @scholarlykitchn ,...
How Amazon is eliminating internal inefficiencies and avoiding technological stagnation by exposing its internal operations to external competition
Zack Kanter / TechCrunch : Tweets: @frontofstore , @markmuro1 , @damianburns , and @r0h1n Tweets: Philip Downer / @frontofstore : “Amazon's uncatchable... not sure we'll see a mass-market retailer co...
Sources: Wal-Mart is in talks to buy online retailer Jet.com; one source says Jet.com could be valued at up to $3B in private markets
Thursday, August 4, 2016 Mike Flacy / Digital Trends : Can a Jet.com acquisition help Walmart compete with Amazon? Teresa Novellino / Upstart Business Journal : Wal-Mart reportedly looking to acquire ...