Several Apple services are facing outage, including iCloud Backup, iCloud Drive, iCloud Notes, Photos, Calendar, Mail, Keychain, and Bookmarks (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Several Apple services are facing outage, including iCloud Backup, iCloud Drive, iCloud Notes, Photos, Calendar, Mail, Keychain, and Bookmarks  —  Several of Apple's services are experiencing an outage at the current time, with Apple noting service interrupts for iCloud Backup, iCloud Drive …

Andy Jassy will become CEO at the most politically perilous moment in Amazon's history; it remains to be seen if he will try to make inroads with lawmakers (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
Andy Jassy will become CEO at the most politically perilous moment in Amazon's history; it remains to be seen if he will try to make inroads with lawmakers  —  Jeff Bezos is stepping aside as CEO of Amazon at the most politically perilous moment in the history of the company he founded.

Realme X7 Pro, Realme X7 Launching in India Today: How to Watch Live

Realme X7 Pro and Realme X7 will launch in India today at 12:30pm IST. The company will live stream the event on YouTube. Realme X7 series originally debuted in China in September 2020 and the two... https://ift.tt/3cFexxW

Sources: Apple and Hyundai-Kia close to a car manufacturing deal; first "Apple Cars" will be "designed to operate without a driver and focused on the last mile" (CNBC)

CNBC:
Sources: Apple and Hyundai-Kia close to a car manufacturing deal; first “Apple Cars” will be “designed to operate without a driver and focused on the last mile”  —  - Apple is close to finalizing a deal with Hyundai-Kia to manufacture an Apple-branded autonomous electric vehicle …

Amazon has started deploying AI-powered Netradyne cameras, which are always on and automatically upload footage, in its US delivery vehicles to monitor drivers (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon has started deploying AI-powered Netradyne cameras, which are always on and automatically upload footage, in its US delivery vehicles to monitor drivers  —  - Amazon has begun rolling out AI-enabled cameras from Netradyne in vehicles at a handful of contracted delivery partners across the U.S., CNBC has learned.

PayPal reports Q4 revenue of $6.12B, up 23% YoY, total payments volume of $277B, up 36% YoY, and 16M new active accounts, up 72% YoY; stock up 5%+ (Katie Canales/Business Insider)

Katie Canales / Business Insider:
PayPal reports Q4 revenue of $6.12B, up 23% YoY, total payments volume of $277B, up 36% YoY, and 16M new active accounts, up 72% YoY; stock up 5%+  —  - PayPal reported its strongest quarterly growth in total payment volume in Q4 with $277 billion.  — That's a 39% increase from Q4 2019 …

Report: Amazon plans to install AI-powered Netradyne cameras, which are always on and automatically upload footage, in its delivery vehicles to monitor drivers (Nick Statt/The Verge)

Nick Statt / The Verge:
Report: Amazon plans to install AI-powered Netradyne cameras, which are always on and automatically upload footage, in its delivery vehicles to monitor drivers  —  To ostensibly improve safety conditions but also monitor drivers  —  Amazon plans to install high-tech video cameras …

Shares of ON24, a maker of webinar and virtual event software, jumped nearly 54% in its debut Wednesday after raising $428M+ in its IPO (Sohini Podder/Reuters)

Sohini Podder / Reuters:
Shares of ON24, a maker of webinar and virtual event software, jumped nearly 54% in its debut Wednesday after raising $428M+ in its IPO  —  (Reuters) - Shares of Goldman Sachs-backed ON24 Inc jumped nearly 54% in their market debut on Wednesday, giving the webinar-marketing platform a market value of over $3.42 billion.

EA hikes annual sales outlook as lockdown boost for videogames continues

Electronic Arts Inc on raised its annual sales outlook, betting on strong sales of its sports titles including "FIFA 21" and "Madden NFL 21" as more people turn to videogames to keep themselves entertained during COVID-19 lockdowns. https://ift.tt/39GiNvi

Match tops sales estimates as Tinder, Hinge keep sparks flying

Match Group Inc beat Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter revenue as demand for its dating apps Tinder, Hinge and Pairs jumped in regions where COVID-19 cases have declined. https://ift.tt/39INIaA

GameStop, other Reddit-favored stocks plunge as trading frenzy fizzles

GameStop Corp shares more than halved in value and silver prices retreated as the Reddit-driven trading frenzy that roiled stock and commodity markets appeared to fizzle, at least for now. https://ift.tt/2YBJlHO

Google Parent Alphabet Rides Retail Advertising to Post Record Sales

Google parent Alphabet topped quarterly sales expectations for its advertising and Cloud businesses, helped in part by the pandemic, and said it will resume big spending on hiring and facility... https://ift.tt/3pL7w2i

How ClickPost Is Looking to Automate the Logistics Sector in India

With startup culture thriving in India and the need for 'going local' becoming increasingly popular, we take a look at all the hottest tech startups grabbing headlines in the country. Gadgets 360... https://ift.tt/3rgYYk9

Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship SN9 Prototype Rocket Explodes After Test Launch

SpaceX Starship rocket prototype exploded during a landing attempt minutes after a high-altitude experimental launch from Boca Chica, Texas, US, in a repeat of an accident that destroyed a previous... https://ift.tt/39GuaTT

Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to Take Over

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said he would stand aside later this year as chief executive of the company he built from a startup into one of the world's most valuable firms. https://ift.tt/3cIPJVM