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Alphabet Q1: revenue up 15% YoY to $80.5B, net income up 57% to $23.7B, Google Cloud revenue up 28% to $9.6B, and headcount down 5%; GOOG jumps 10%+ — Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024.
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Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a panel to advise US DHS on deploying AI safely within America's critical infrastructure — Panel will advise Department of Homeland Security on deploying artificial intelligence safely within America's critical infrastructure
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $61.9B, net income up 20% to $21.9B, Office Commercial revenue up 13%, LinkedIn revenue up 10% — Microsoft Cloud Strength Fuels Third Quarter Results REDMOND, Wash. — April 25, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31 …
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| Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: |
ByteDance says it has no plans to sell TikTok, responding to a report suggesting that it is considering scenarios for selling a majority stake in US TikTok — The company was responding to a report by The Information that it is considering scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok's U.S. business
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| Katie Robertson / New York Times: |
Former Twilio CEO and co-founder Jeff Lawson buys The Onion from G/O Media, via his new company Global Tetrahedron; Lawson had long wanted to buy the site — The satirical news website was bought by a new firm in Chicago that took inspiration for its name, Global Tetrahedron, from a book written by The Onion's staff.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q1 revenue up 21% YoY to $1.19B, vs. $1.12B est., DAUs up 10% YoY to 422M, a net loss of $305M, compared to $329M YoY; SNAP jumps 20%+ — WATCH NOW — Snap stock soars following beat on revenue, earnings and daily active users — Snap reported first-quarter results … | CoinDesk: |
Consensys sues the US SEC over what it calls the “unlawful seizure of authority” over ethereum, after receiving a Wells notice for its MetaMask wallet product — By offering their MetaMask wallet software, the SEC says Consensys is acting as an unregistered securities broker.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $12.72B, vs. $12.78B est., Data Center and AI up 5% to $3B, and Q2 revenue guidance below est.; INTC drops 10%+ — Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, holding an Intel chip, speaks during the 54th Annual Meeting of The Semafor 2024 World Economy Summit in Washington, DC, on April 17, 2024.| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
The EU Commission says Shein will have to comply with DSA rules for content handling, starting August 2024, as the retailer has more than 45M users in the EU — BRUSSELS — Chinese-founded fashion app Shein will face stringent rules on how it handles content on its platform starting in late August, the European Commission said Friday.
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| Chris Miller / Financial Times: |
The CHIPS Act has been surprisingly successful so far, giving the US greater scope to meet critical infrastructure needs in the event of a crisis in East Asia — More than halfway through its incentives spending, the US will have far greater scope to manage shocks
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| Financial Times: |
Thoma Bravo agrees to buy UK-based cyber security company Darktrace for $7.75 per share, a 20% premium on its April 25 closing price, valuing the company at $5B — Offer comes less than two years after private equity group held talks about buying cyber security company
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The NHTSA closes a 2021 investigation into Tesla's Autopilot and opens a new one to evaluate whether a December 2023 Autopilot recall fix is effective enough — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration closed a long-standing investigation into Tesla's Autopilot driver assistance system … | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
The FCC votes 3-2 to reinstate the US' net neutrality rules, expanding government oversight of ISPs and aiming to protect consumer access to the internet — Commissioners voted along party lines to revive the rules that declare broadband as a utility-like service that could be regulated like phones and water.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the US is urging Japan, South Korea, and the Netherlands to tighten export controls to China, including stopping engineers from servicing Chinese fabs — Washington urges Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands to tighten supply of tools and technologySponsor Posts
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