Reuters: EA reports Q2 net bookings up 4% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.78B est., revenue of $1.91B, up from $1.9B in Q2 2022, and raises its annual profit forecast — Electronic Arts (EA.O) on Wednesday beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly net bookings and profit and raised its annual earnings projection …
Read MoreManya Saini / Reuters: PayPal reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $7.4B, vs. $7.38B est., total payment volume up 13% YoY to $387.7B, vs. $377.9B, and forecasts FY 2023 profit above est. — PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O) raised its forecast for full-year adjusted profit above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday …
Read MoreCredit: MySmartPrice The president of OnePlus China has shared pictures taken with the OnePlus 12. The company announced the handset will feature a new Sony Lytia sensor. The Lytia sensor will be a better version of the camera used in the OnePlus Open. OnePlus is getting ready to launch its next flagship phone soon. As
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Disney is buying up Comcast’s stake in Hulu. The entertainment giant announced Wednesday that it “expects it will pay” $8.61 billion to acquire Comcast’s 33 percent stake, giving Disney full ownership of Hulu. But Disney might end up paying more than that. Both Disney and Comcast agreed to
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Read MoreThe Walt Disney Company: Disney plans to acquire the 33% stake in Hulu held by Comcast’s NBCUniversal, giving Disney full ownership; Disney expects to pay NBCU ~$8.61B by December 1 — The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) announced today that it will acquire the 33% stake in Hulu, LLC held by Comcast Corp.’s (NASDAQ …
Read MoreOh sure, Amazon can deliver any number of Logitech peripherals to your door in 48 hours, but where’s the fun in that? With open source hardware (OSHW) input devices like the Ploopy Adept Trackball, you not only get to say you built the thing yourself, but there’s also an opportunity to tune the gadget to
Read MoreKif Leswing / CNBC: Qualcomm Q4: adjusted revenue down 24% YoY to $8.67B, vs. $8.51B est., handset chip sales down 27% YoY to $5.46B, vs. $5.34B est., and a strong Q1 2024 forecast — – Qualcomm reported fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday that beat expectations for sales and earnings, despite big year-over-year declines …
Read MoreJessica Bursztynsky / Fast Company: DoorDash reports Q3 revenue up 27% YoY to $2.16B, vs. $2.09B est., total orders up 24% YoY to 543M, net loss of $75M, down from $296M in Q3 2022, DASH jumps 7%+ — DoorDash reported its “best quarter ever” since its IPO in a number of key categories on Wednesday,
Read MoreRohan Goswami / CNBC: Airbnb Q3: revenue up 18% YoY to $3.4B vs. $3.37B est., Nights and Experiences Booked up 14% YoY to 113.2M vs. 112.9M est., and a Q4 revenue forecast below est. — – Airbnb reported its third-quarter earnings results after the bell, beating consensus estimates on revenue but falling short …
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: Roku reports Q3 revenue up 20% YoY to $912M, vs. $853.2M est., net loss up 170% YoY to $330M, and forecasts a “similar” YoY ad growth for Q4; ROKU jumps 15%+ — Roku shares rose after the streaming-platform company beat Wall Street expectations for the third quarter of 2023 on the
Read MoreImage: Bethesda Softworks Bethesda is almost ready to officially add Nvidia’s graphics upscaling technology to Starfield, but it will look for help from the PC gaming community first with an opt-in beta test available via Steam. The company says the game’s next update will support DLSS with frame generation (which would mean DLSS 3, if
Read MoreIllustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Apple no longer offers its $4.99 per month Apple Music Voice Plan, as reported by MacMagazine. The Voice Plan, introduced in 2021, let you access the Apple Music library via Siri across your devices. But as of Wednesday, it’s no longer listed among the Apple Music plans that you
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: CRM platform HubSpot announces it’s acquiring the B2B data provider Clearbit, which has 400K+ users and was valued at $250M as of January 2019, per PitchBook — HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software maker and CRM platform, announced today it’s acquiring the B2B data provider Clearbit …
Read MoreFilipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple quietly discontinued Apple Music’s $4.99/month Voice Plan, which was introduced in 2021 and let users access the Apple Music catalog exclusively via Siri — Apple this week held a special event to announce new Macs, but what the company didn’t tell is that it has just quietly discontinued the …
Read MoreIllustration by Aaron Fernandez for The Verge Let’s face it — Black Friday is no longer reserved for the day following Thanksgiving. What was often considered the single busiest shopping day of the year has evolved into something more expansive post-pandemic, with numerous retailers kicking off their holiday promos as early as October. Despite the
Read MoreMeta is about to roll out ad-free subscriptions on Instagram and Facebook. But critics say privacy should not be turned into a luxury.
Read MoreCredit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority For the longest time, it seemed that the best smartphone games would waver between ad-ridden mobile titles, indie ports, or perhaps vintage classics, and a cloud-streaming future. But, Apple’s announcement that it was bringing AAA titles like Resident Evil Village and the next Assassin’s Creed to the iPhone 15
Read MoreRT Watson / The Block: Coinbase announces that eligible US retail customers can now access bitcoin and ether futures contracts through Coinbase Financial Markets — – Coinbase’s service offering crypto futures trading to eligible retail U.S. customers is now active and includes “nano” bitcoin contracts.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Binance plans to end its partnership with payments firm Advcash that let customers move funds held at sanctioned Russian banks to the crypto exchange — Binance plans to shut down a partnership with a payments firm that allowed customers to move funds held at sanctioned Russian banks …
Read MoreBack in the very early days of consumer digital photography, one of the first stars of the new medium came from Apple. The QuickTake 100 used a novel flat form factor and at its highest resolution could only shoot 640×480 images, but at the time it was a genuine object of desire. It came in
Read MoreCredit: Tech Deals The Windows 11 Home upgrade was free for most, but you’re missing out on the enhanced functionality of Windows 11 Pro. These extra features can be very handy if you’re a power or business user, and you don’t need to fork out the $199 retail price for the upgraded version right now.
Read MoreThe layoffs are happening in the wake of a market retraction, Splunk CEO Gary Steele said.
Read MoreWorldcoin: Worldcoin’s Tools for Humanity says its World App wallet has crossed 4M+ downloads, 100K+ DAUs, 1M+ MAUs, and 22M transactions since its launch in May 2023 — World App: Designed for simplicity and inclusivity … *Eligibility for Worldcoin (WLD) tokens is restricted based on geography, age, and other factors.
Read MoreThe 2023 Subaru Solterra. | Image: Subaru Subaru is hopping on the Tesla charging port bandwagon. The automaker has announced that it will adopt the North American Charging Standard (NACS) for “certain” electric vehicles starting in 2025. Subaru says it will also supply NACS charging adapters to customers who own or lease an EV with
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