Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Sony PlayStation 5 to go on pre-orders in India again
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue rose 21.4% YoY to ~$13.45B, net income grew 39.6% YoY to ~$702M, and smartphone shipments rose 4.4% to 44.1M (Reuters)
Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue rose 21.4% YoY to ~$13.45B, net income grew 39.6% YoY to ~$702M, and smartphone shipments rose 4.4% to 44.1M — Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp (1810.HK) on Tuesday reported a bigger-than-expected 21.4% rise in fourth-quarter revenue, as industry shipments …
Apple supplier Foxconn resumes normal operations in Shenzhen, China
Sony has acquired this video game developer
Alibaba increases its share buyback program from $15B to $25B, sending its Hong Kong-listed shares up by 11%+; Alibaba has so far purchased ~$9.2B in shares (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
Alibaba increases its share buyback program from $15B to $25B, sending its Hong Kong-listed shares up by 11%+; Alibaba has so far purchased ~$9.2B in shares — - Alibaba said on Tuesday it will increase the size of its share buyback program from $15 billion to $25 billion, effective for a two-year period through March 2024.
The Lapsus$ group releases ~37GB of alleged source code from Microsoft, covering Bing, Cortana, and other services; Microsoft says it is investigating (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
The Lapsus$ group releases ~37GB of alleged source code from Microsoft, covering Bing, Cortana, and other services; Microsoft says it is investigating — The Lapsus$ hacking group claims to have leaked the source code for Bing, Cortana, and other projects stolen from Microsoft's internal Azure DevOps server.
Monday, March 21, 2022
FTX launches crypto exchange services in Australia, including crypto derivatives and spot market offerings, operating out of a Sydney headquarters (Sebastian Sinclair/Blockworks)
FTX launches crypto exchange services in Australia, including crypto derivatives and spot market offerings, operating out of a Sydney headquarters — FTX is hoping to get ahead of the regulatory curve by appeasing policymakers and working “proactively” with regulators
As Amazon's ad revenue passes YouTube's and US pay TV subscriptions drop, ad budgets will shift further to targetable spots and other customer-acquisition tools (Benedict Evans)
As Amazon's ad revenue passes YouTube's and US pay TV subscriptions drop, ad budgets will shift further to targetable spots and other customer-acquisition tools — About five years ago, a revenue line buried in the back of Amazon's accounts started to get quite big.
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Media-measurement giant Nielsen says it has turned down a bid by a private equity consortium, after reports of a potential acquisition caused its stock to soar (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
Media-measurement giant Nielsen says it has turned down a bid by a private equity consortium, after reports of a potential acquisition caused its stock to soar — Nielsen Holdings PLC has turned down a bid by a private-equity consortium to buy the media-measurement giant …
Sources: Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy Anaplan for $10.7B or $66/share, after the maker of cloud-based business planning software closed at $50.59 on Friday (Miriam Gottfried/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy Anaplan for $10.7B or $66/share, after the maker of cloud-based business planning software closed at $50.59 on Friday — Anaplan shareholders are to receive $66 a share in cash — Private-equity firm Thoma Bravo LP has struck a deal to buy Anaplan Inc …
SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting with three local health centers (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)
Stefanno Sulaiman / Reuters : SpaceX launches Starlink in Indonesia to improve internet access in remote parts of the country, starting w...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa al...
