Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft plans to end support for the Windows Mail, Calendar, and People apps on December 31, after moving users to the new Outlook app in recent months — Microsoft is planning to no longer support the Windows Mail, Calendar, and People apps later this year.
Waymo opens robotaxi rides to anyone in LA within an 80-square-mile area running from downtown LA to Santa Monica and says ~300K users had been on the waitlist (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes)
Alan Ohnsman / Forbes:
Waymo opens robotaxi rides to anyone in LA within an 80-square-mile area running from downtown LA to Santa Monica and says ~300K users had been on the waitlist — The Alphabet company said about 300,000 people in the second-largest U.S. city have been waiting to use its robotic ridehail service …
Zurich-based LocalStack, which helps developers emulate and test cloud apps locally, raised a $25M Series A led by Notable Capital (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Zurich-based LocalStack, which helps developers emulate and test cloud apps locally, raised a $25M Series A led by Notable Capital — Knowing how your cloud application will behave in production usually requires significant development and testing in the environment in which it will be deployed …
New York-based ScaleOps, which offers cloud spend management tools, raised a $58M Series B led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $80M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
New York-based ScaleOps, which offers cloud spend management tools, raised a $58M Series B led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $80M — Thanks to AI, the appetite for cloud services is growing. Cloud expenditures more than doubled between 2019 and 2023, and are expected …
Writer, which makes enterprise generative AI tools, raised a $200M Series C led by Premji, Radical Ventures, and Iconiq at a $1.9B valuation, for $326M raised (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Writer, which makes enterprise generative AI tools, raised a $200M Series C led by Premji, Radical Ventures, and Iconiq at a $1.9B valuation, for $326M raised — Writer has raised $200 million at a $1.9 billion valuation to expand its generative AI platform.
Netflix says its ad tier has 70M users globally, up from 40M in May 2024 and 22M in January 2024, and 50%+ of sign-ups are for ad plans in supported countries (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Netflix says its ad tier has 70M users globally, up from 40M in May 2024 and 22M in January 2024, and 50%+ of sign-ups are for ad plans in supported countries — Netflix, a company that once dismissed the concept of allowing commercials around its popular streaming content, now can’t seem to get enough of them.
Sea reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $4.3B and a $153.3M net income, above estimates and up from a $144M loss in Q3 2023; SE rises 5%+ pre-market (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sea reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $4.3B and a $153.3M net income, above estimates and up from a $144M loss in Q3 2023; SE rises 5%+ pre-market — Shares of Sea rose about 7% in pre-market US trading after net income for the company as a whole topped estimates at $153.3 million.
Meta plans to ask Facebook and Instagram users in Europe if they want to get “less personalized ads” and cuts subscription prices by 40%, a concession to the EU (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Meta plans to ask Facebook and Instagram users in Europe if they want to get “less personalized ads” and cuts subscription prices by 40%, a concession to the EU — Facebook and Instagram owner faces pressure in Europe to ask users before using their data to target ads or train artificial intelligence
Nvidia launches its Nvidia app for Windows, designed to overhaul and replace the GeForce Experience app, after a beta earlier in 2024 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia launches its Nvidia app for Windows, designed to overhaul and replace the GeForce Experience app, after a beta earlier in 2024 — Nvidia is officially launching its Nvidia app on PC today, designed to overhaul and replace the GeForce Experience app.
Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $2.2B, above $2.12B est., GMV up 24% YoY to $69.7B, projects Q4 revenue growth above est.; SHOP jumps 13%+ pre-market (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Shopify reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $2.2B, above $2.12B est., GMV up 24% YoY to $69.7B, projects Q4 revenue growth above est.; SHOP jumps 13%+ pre-market — Revenue for the period rose about 26% to $2.16 billion, the company said in a statement Tuesday, beating the $2.12 billion average estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
