Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $9.28B, vs. $9.1B est., net income down 42% YoY to $1.7B, and forecasts Q3 revenue below estimates; QCOM drops 5%+  —  – Qualcomm reported second-quarter earnings on Wednesday that were in line with analyst expectations but saw sales from handset chips … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: TikTok announces Pulse Premiere, which lets select publishers, such as Condé Nast, BuzzFeed, and NBC, sell ads alongside their posts and keep 50% of the revenue  —  New product will let publishers sell ads alongside their posts and take home half the revenue Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google plans to change Chrome’s URL bar lock icon, introduced to signify HTTPS, to a “variant of the tune icon”, because “nearly all phishing sites use HTTPS”  —  Google announced today that the lock icon, long thought to be a sign of website security and trustworthiness … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Mozilla acquires NYC-based Fakespot, which offers shopping tools to help identify fake or unreliable reviews, and plans to add its features to Firefox over time  —  Mozilla announced today that it has acquired Fakespot, a startup that offers a website and browser extension that helps users identify fake or unreliable reviews. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google adds blue checkmarks to Gmail for senders from verified brands that adopted the company’s Brand Indicators for Message Identification email specification  —  After adding support for verified brand logos in 2021, Gmail is now going further by adding a blue checkmark to emails. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: TikTok announces Pulse Premiere, which lets select publishers, such as Condé Nast, BuzzFeed, and NBC, sell ads alongside their posts and keep 50% of the revenue  —  New product will let publishers sell ads alongside their posts and take home half the revenue Lees verder op Tech Meme

Luc Cohen / Reuters: Former OpenSea product manager Nathaniel Chastain is convicted of insider trading, making $50K+ after buying and selling NFTs he featured on OpenSea’s homepage  —  A former product manager at OpenSea, the world’s largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), was convicted on Wednesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue down 17% YoY to $9.27B, vs. $9.1B est., net income down 42% YoY to $1.7B, and forecasts a Q3 revenue of ~$8.5B, vs. $9.14B est.  —  – Qualcomm reported second-quarter earnings on Wednesday that were in line with analyst expectations but saw sales from handset chips … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Diana Li / Bloomberg: Airbnb announces Rooms, single rooms averaging $67 per night, and 50+ features and upgrades to improve price transparency, checkout, affordability, and more  —  Airbnb Inc. is revamping the home-rental platform in an effort to ease mounting tensions between guests and hosts ahead of what it expects to be a busy summer travel season. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: TSMC is in talks to spend between €7B and €10B to build a chip plant in Saxony, subsidized by Germany and in partnership with NXP, Bosch, and Infineon  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is in talks with partners to spend as much as €10 billion ($11 billion) … Lees verder op Tech Meme