Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
Over 50 ex-Google employees, fired in connection with a sit-in protest against Google’s business ties to Israel, file an NLRB complaint for unlawful retaliation — A software engineer who was fired from Google in connection to internal protests at the company’s offices says the company retaliated …
Twitch rolls out its TikTok-like discovery feed, launching as a tab within the Twitch iOS and Android apps showing live streams and clips (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Twitch rolls out its TikTok-like discovery feed, launching as a tab within the Twitch iOS and Android apps showing live streams and clips — Twitch is officially rolling out its new TikTok-like discovery feed to all users this week, the company announced on Tuesday.
AMD projects its MI300 lineup to generate ~$4B in revenue in 2024, up $500M from an earlier forecast, but short of expectations; AMD drops 6%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)
Ian King / Bloomberg:
AMD projects its MI300 lineup to generate ~$4B in revenue in 2024, up $500M from an earlier forecast, but short of expectations; AMD drops 6%+ after hours — – Sluggish gaming chip demand also has weighed on sales — Investors waiting for new AI processors to fuel more growth
Sam’s Club has deployed its exit tech, which uses computer vision to check members’ purchases against their receipts, at 120+ locations, or 20% of its stores (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Sam’s Club has deployed its exit tech, which uses computer vision to check members’ purchases against their receipts, at 120+ locations, or 20% of its stores — Amazon may be scaling back its AI-powered Just Walk Out checkout-free tech in its stores in favor of smart shopping carts …
An APK review suggests the Rabbit R1 runs Android and its entire user interface is powered by a single Android app (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
An APK review suggests the Rabbit R1 runs Android and its entire user interface is powered by a single Android app — The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is certainly powered by an Android app under the hood. — • — TL;DR — The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered …
IBM wins a court decision overturning $1.6B in damages it was ordered to pay BMC in 2022 for swapping in its own software while servicing a mutual client, AT&T (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:
IBM wins a court decision overturning $1.6B in damages it was ordered to pay BMC in 2022 for swapping in its own software while servicing a mutual client, AT&T — – Appeals court says IBM won BMC’s client ‘fair and square’ — Judgment in 2022 was one of the largest-ever of its kind
Coinbase adds support for the Bitcoin Lightning Network via payments startup Lightspark, letting customers transfer bitcoin faster and at a lower cost (Derek Andersen/Cointelegraph)
Derek Andersen / Cointelegraph:
Coinbase adds support for the Bitcoin Lightning Network via payments startup Lightspark, letting customers transfer bitcoin faster and at a lower cost — The integration brings instantaneous transfers on the layer-2 Lightning Network to the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchange. — Total views
Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $740M, vs. $700.3M est., MAUs up 12% YoY to 518M, and Q2 revenue forecast above est.; PINS jumps 15%+ after hours (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg)
Aisha Counts / Bloomberg:
Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $740M, vs. $700.3M est., MAUs up 12% YoY to 518M, and Q2 revenue forecast above est.; PINS jumps 15%+ after hours — – Shares soar after company beats on sales and user growth — Gen-Z is flocking to the site for shopping over scrolling
Amazon Q1: revenue up 13% YoY to $143.3B, net income of $10.4B, vs. $3.2B YoY, operating income of $15.3B, vs. $4.8B YoY, subscription revenue up 11% to $10.7B (Amazon)
Amazon:
Amazon Q1: revenue up 13% YoY to $143.3B, net income of $10.4B, vs. $3.2B YoY, operating income of $15.3B, vs. $4.8B YoY, subscription revenue up 11% to $10.7B — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2024.
Amazon reports Q1 AWS revenue up 17% YoY to $25.04B, vs. $24.49B est., and AWS operating income of $9.42B, vs. $7.52B est., up from $5.12B YoY (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Amazon reports Q1 AWS revenue up 17% YoY to $25.04B, vs. $24.49B est., and AWS operating income of $9.42B, vs. $7.52B est., up from $5.12B YoY — Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks during the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on June 22, 2023.