Daily Archives: October 28, 2021

Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: Apple’s Q4 sales in Greater China rose 83% to $14.56B, Americas up 20% to $36.82B, Europe grew 23% to $20.79B, and paid subscriptions grew to 745M, up 160M YoY  —  Apple mentioned continued uncertainty in the macro environment but did not offer a forecast.  —  Apple […]

Jamie Feltham / UploadVR: Facebook announces Project Nazare, the codename for its first consumer AR glasses, and showed a demo video while acknowledging Nazare is still “a few years out”  —  Alongside the reveal of the new Project Cambria VR headset, Meta (formerly Facebook) just gave a codename to its […]

Reuters: Zendesk announces agreement to acquire Momentive, which owns SurveyMonkey, in an all-stock deal worth nearly $4B; Zendesk stock down 14%+  —  Software services company Zendesk Inc said on Thursday it would buy Momentive Global Inc and its SurveyMonkey platform for nearly $4 billion in an all-stock deal.

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Swap, a São Paulo-based BaaS startup that helps clients manage their financial operations via its APIs, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global  —  Swap, a São Paulo-based BaaS startup, announced today it has raised $25 million in a Series A led by […]

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Facebook’s View iOS app contains an image of a potential Facebook smartwatch, which has a front-facing camera, rounded screen, and a detachable wrist strap  —  – Device has front-facing camera, possibly for videoconferencing  — Image of watch is found inside of Facebook View iPhone app

Enlarge (credit: FG Trade / Getty Images) Despite the wide availability of vaccines, the most recent surge in COVID-19 cases left several US states struggling to provide adequate health care to their citizens. The situation reinforces the potential value of drugs like molnupiravir, which reduce the need for hospitalization among […]

Enlarge / A Starlink satellite dish. (credit: SpaceX) The Federal Communications Commission this week urged a court to back the FCC’s approval of SpaceX Starlink satellite launches against a lawsuit filed by Viasat and Dish. With oral arguments scheduled for December 3, final briefs were filed on Tuesday by the […]

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook. (credit: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images) In its quarterly call with investors today, Apple revealed that its revenue grew in all of its businesses and product categories, but the numbers weren’t enough to impress investors who were expecting even bigger gains. The company’s […]

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter launches the Spaces Recording feature that was announced last month, to a limited number of Spaces hosts on iOS and all listeners on iOS and Android  —  Twitter announced last month it would soon introduce an option that allows hosts to record their live audio […]

Adi Robertson / The Verge: Facebook teases Project Cambria, a high-end mixed reality headset coming next year with cameras that allow high-resolution passthrough  —  We’ll learn more next year  —  Facebook is planning a high-end virtual and augmented reality headset codenamed “Project Cambria.”