Kif Leswing / CNBC: IBM reports Q2 revenue flat YoY at $15.48B vs. $15.58B est., net income up 13% YoY to $1.6B, and software revenue up 7% YoY to $6.6B — – IBM reported better-than-expected earnings on Wednesday, expanding its gross margin. — Revenue missed consensus estimates. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Lisa Richwine / Reuters: Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 2.7% YoY to $8.2B, vs. $8.3B est., $1.5B net income, up from $1.4B YoY, and 5.9M net new subscribers, vs. 1.9M est. — Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) handily beat Wall Street earnings forecasts on Wednesday as a password-sharing crackdown and an ad-suported option helped bring … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Emmy Lucas / Forbes: Karat Financial, which offers financial services like banking and credit cards to creators, raised a $70M Series B, split as $40M in equity and $30M in debt — The creator economy is booming: Goldman Sachs estimates its total addressable market to be $250 billion today. Lees verder op Tech Meme
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority: Google launches Nearby Share for Windows, letting users transfer files between PCs and Android devices close to each other, after a beta started in March 2023 — Anyone can download Nearby Share for Windows now, but your future laptop might come with it pre-installed. — • — TL;DR Lees verder op Tech Meme
Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: Miami-based Cosmic Wire, which offers tools for blockchain infrastructure and metaverse creation, raised a $30M seed led by the Solana Foundation and Polygon — The startup offers metaverse creation tools and a list of general blockchain infrastructure solutions. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Researchers say hate speech and misinformation on Twitter are up; CEO Linda Yaccarino says that’s “incorrect” and touts improvements, like ad placement controls — Since Musk’s takeover, a number of researchers see a rise in hate speech, violent content Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sahil Patel / The Information: Sources: Netflix told advertisers in the past two weeks that its ad-supported tier has ~1.5M US subscribers; Hulu’s 15-year-old ad tier has ~30M US subscribers — Around 1.5 million people in the U.S. have signed up to pay for Netflix’s tier of service that carries ads … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple built Ajax, a framework for building LLMs, created a chatbot app that some engineers call “Apple GPT”, and is planning an AI announcement in 2024 — – Company builds large language models and internal chatbot — Executives haven’t decided how to release tools to consumers Lees verder op Tech Meme
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Meta launches a standalone WhatsApp app for Wear OS 3, letting smartwatch users start chats, reply to messages, and take calls without their connected phone — WhatsApp has finally launched its standalone app for smartwatches running Google’s Wear OS, after much anticipation and months-long beta testing. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Chris Welch / The Verge: Beats Studio Pro review: headphones with a good transparency mode, lossless USB-C audio, and native iOS and Android support, but a subpar build quality for $350 — They look like a lazy refresh from the outside, but the noise-canceling Studio Pros include a ton of new features like transparency mode and lossless USB-C audio. Lees verder op Tech Meme