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An NLRB judge finds Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated US labor law with his comments in 2022 suggesting workers would be “less empowered” if they voted in a union — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated federal labor law in comments he made to media outlets about unionization efforts at the company …
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies that the Change Healthcare hack impacted “maybe a third” of Americans and it’ll take “several months” to notify victims (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty testifies that the Change Healthcare hack impacted “maybe a third” of Americans and it’ll take “several months” to notify victims — Two months after hackers broke into Change Healthcare systems stealing and then encrypting company data …
Snapchat announces the ability to edit messages for up to five minutes after sending them, rolling out “soon” and available first for Snapchat+ subscribers (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Snapchat announces the ability to edit messages for up to five minutes after sending them, rolling out “soon” and available first for Snapchat+ subscribers — Snap is launching a slew of new features in Snapchat, including the ability to edit already sent messages allowing you to rectify a …
US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google’s payments constituted 17.5% of Apple’s operating income (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google’s payments constituted 17.5% of Apple’s operating income — The deal between the two tech giants is at the heart of the landmark case, in which antitrust enforcers allege Google …
Nvidia updates its ChatRTX chatbot, formerly “Chat with RTX”, to add support for voice queries and three AI models: Google’s Gemma, ChatGLM3, and OpenAI’s CLIP (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Nvidia updates its ChatRTX chatbot, formerly “Chat with RTX”, to add support for voice queries and three AI models: Google’s Gemma, ChatGLM3, and OpenAI’s CLIP — Nvidia is updating its experimental ChatRTX chatbot with more AI models for RTX GPU owners.
Unity names ex-Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO, president, and board member; ex-CEO John Riccitiello resigned in October 2023 after a pricing fiasco (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Unity names ex-Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO, president, and board member; ex-CEO John Riccitiello resigned in October 2023 after a pricing fiasco — Game engine maker Unity has appointed Matthew Bromberg, former COO of Zynga, as its new CEO, president and board member.
eBay reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $2.56B, vs. $2.53B est., GMV up 1% to $18.6B, net income down 23% to $439M, and forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters)
Yuvraj Malik / Reuters:
eBay reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $2.56B, vs. $2.53B est., GMV up 1% to $18.6B, net income down 23% to $439M, and forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates — Ecommerce firm eBay (EBAY.O) forecast second-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, as demand cools for product categories …
DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $2.51B, vs. $2.45B est., total orders up 21% YoY, and forecasts Q2 core profit below est.; DASH drops 9%+ after hours (Reuters)
Reuters:
DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $2.51B, vs. $2.45B est., total orders up 21% YoY, and forecasts Q2 core profit below est.; DASH drops 9%+ after hours — DoorDash (DASH.O) projected second-quarter core profit below expectations on Wednesday despite beating first-quarter revenue estimates …
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $9.39B, vs. $9.34B est., handset sales up 1% YoY to $6.18B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $9.39B, vs. $9.34B est., handset sales up 1% YoY to $6.18B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates — Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon responds to a question during a keynote conversation at CES 2024, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 10, 2024.
Airbnb launches Icons, a new category of experiences that lets users meet celebrities and stay in outlandish venues, like a replica of the house from Pixar’s Up (Orlando Mayorquín/New York Times)
Orlando Mayorquín / New York Times:
Airbnb launches Icons, a new category of experiences that lets users meet celebrities and stay in outlandish venues, like a replica of the house from Pixar’s Up — The company announced a new category of outlandish stays in partnership with brands and celebrities, building on the success of gimmicks like the Barbie Malibu DreamHouse.
