Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple Now Has More Than Two Billion Active Devices Worldwide — There are more than two billion active iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other Apple devices worldwide, Apple said today in the earnings report covering the first fiscal quarter of 2023. — During the December quarter …
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai opened his company’s latest earnings announcement by boasting about “great momentum in Cloud, YouTube subscriptions, and our Pixel devices.” But read a little further, and the numbers show a company is struggling to grow: its revenue for the holiday quarter — the big one for many companies, especially
Read MoreJon Swartz / MarketWatch: Alphabet reports Google advertising revenue down 4% YoY from $61.2B to $59B, below analyst estimates of $60.4B, and Google Search revenue down 2% YoY to $42.6B — Alphabet Inc.’s stock initially slipped in extended trading Thursday after it missed slightly on revenue and earnings in a ho-hum quarterly result.
Read MoreAccidental revisions to a US Help Center page sparked confusion about the streamer’s next moves. But restrictions on account sharing are still coming soon.
Read MoreApple says that it now has a growing installed base of more than 2 billion active devices around the world, but revenues aren’t looking so hot.
Read MoreSenator Michael Bennet says that Apple and Google should kick TikTok out of their app stores because it collects data on Americans.
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple reported its Q1 2023 earnings this afternoon. During the holiday quarter, the company took in $117.2 billion of revenue, down 5 percent year over year, and earnings per share of $1.88. It was the first such YOY for Apple since before the covid pandemic. Most of
Read MoreWhen students struggle with a particular subject, Chegg has become one of the favorite resources to use, but not always for the right reasons. Whether you’re working with a tricky math problem or test question, Chegg’s 24/7 tutors are like having a personal genie in your pocket (except instead of granting three wishes, it answers
Read MoreKyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Portside, which makes software to help businesses manage aviation operations, raised a $50M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $70M — Business aviation operators are often challenged with crew and aircraft shortages as they look to scale and meet the growing post-pandemic demand for air travel.
Read MoreCredit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Data was found in Android’s open-source operating system project repository that suggests Android is adding a “DeviceAsWebcam” service. The feature would turn an Android phone into a USB webcam without the need for an app. This would be the first time Android supported using a phone as a UVC
Read MoreSamsung has just launched the Galaxy S23 Ultra, marking a new entry in the best and most powerful Samsung phones you can buy. The S23 Ultra represents the peak of the company’s ambitions, with more cutting-edge hardware than most will know what to do with. That said, the latest Ultra will still feel quite familiar
Read MoreOne of the coolest things any sound system can have is some kind of musical visualization. Thumping level meters that pump with the volume are a great example, and were particularly popular in the 1980s. Now, you can build a rainbow set with great response, thanks to this guide from [Invexlab World]. The build relies
Read MoreAmazon: Amazon reports Q4 revenue up 9% YoY to $149.2B, net income down 98% YoY to $278M, AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $21.4B, and number of employees down 4% to 1.54B — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2022. Fourth Quarter 2022
Read MoreAlphabet: Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $76B, net income down 34% YoY to $13.6B, Google Cloud revenue up 32% YoY to $7.3B; stock is down 4%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – February 2, 2023 – Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December
Read MoreAnnie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon reports Q4 advertising services revenue grew 19% YoY to $11.56B, vs. $11.38B est., and subscription services revenue grew 13% YoY to $9.19B — – Amazon reported fourth-quarter results on Thursday that beat analysts’ sales estimates. — The company said revenue in the first quarter will be $121 billion to $126
Read MoreJordan Novet / CNBC: Qualcomm reports Q1 revenue down 12% YoY to $9.46B, net income down 34% YoY to $2.24B, and Q2 2023 revenue forecast of $8.7B-$9.5B, vs. $9.55B est — – Qualcomm’s top line fell short for the quarter, with handset revenue declining 18%. — The company called for a sharper decline in the
Read MoreJennifer Elias / CNBC: Alphabet reports its “Other Bets” lost $1.6B in Q4, up 12% YoY from $1.45B, on $226M revenue, up 25% YoY from $181M — Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT — Alphabet reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results — Earnings per share (EPS) …
Read MoreTodd Spangler / Variety: YouTube’s ad revenue dropped 7.8% YoY to $7.96B in Q4, below expectations of $8.2B — Alphabet, parent company of Google and YouTube, turned in fourth-quarter 2022 earnings that missed analyst estimates, as YouTube’s ad revenue again notched a year-over-year decline.
Read MoreApple: Apple reports Q1 revenue down 5% YoY to $117.2B, net income down 13% YoY to $30B, its largest quarterly revenue decline since 2016; stock is down 4%+ — Installed base crosses 2 billion active devices and hits all-time high for all major product categories — Services set new all-time revenue record
Read MoreWhen students struggle with a particular subject, Chegg has become one of the favorite resources to use, but not always for the right reasons. Whether you’re working with a tricky math problem or test question, Chegg’s 24/7 tutors are like having a personal genie in your pocket (except instead of granting three wishes, it answers
Read MoreIf you’re one of those who figured Intel would abandon its Arc Alchemist line of GPUs post-launch, it hasn’t. It has apparently continued to work on its drivers to improve performance, as that was its Achilles heel at launch. Along those lines, one of the biggest drawbacks for its GPUs at launch was they were
Read MoreThe new animated menu makes Good Lock look way more polished than last year. Credit: Joe Hindy / Android Authority Samsung has added an “update all plugins” button to Good Lock. The feature allows users to install all available updates for the software. The update is available now from the Galaxy Store and APK Mirror.
Read MoreYou can buy the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra in purple, black, green, and cream colorways. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple’s iPhone 14 now has a new rival: the Samsung Galaxy 23. Announced during the company’s recent Unpacked event alongside a slate of new Galaxy Books, the S23 series is available for
Read MoreThe declining costs of single-board computers has made serious computing power available for even the most trivial of tasks. It’s easy enough to slap a Raspberry Pi onto almost anything for nearly the same cost as a powerful 32-bit microcontroller platform, but this takes some of the fun out of projects for a few of
Read MoreIf you’re one of those who figured Intel would abandon its Arc Alchemist line of GPUs post-launch, it hasn’t. It has apparently continued to work on its drivers to improve performance, as that was its Achilles heel at launch. Along those lines, one of the biggest drawbacks for its GPUs at launch was they were
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