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WhatsApp, long considered a sanctuary from ads, is now showing promotions in its Updates tab. Meta's announcement brings status ads, channel promotions and paid subscriptions to the app. Private chats remain untouched, but the move marks a major shift from WhatsApp’s ad-free roots, aligning it more closely with Meta’s monetisation strategy
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Google, just drop the blog posts and a quick highlight video at this point – we know it all it seems. We’re still 20 days away from Google’s next hardware event, but I’m not sure there is much of a point in hosting one any more. What don’t we know? We just found out the … Continued Read the original post: Pixel Watch 4 Gets Unexpected Price Drop Read more ›
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The well-regraded 8BitDo Ultimate 2C controller is on sale for just $18 via Amazon. This is nearly 40 percent off and a record-low price. Typically, this controller doesn't go any lower than $25, so this is one heck of a deal. There's one major caveat. The deal only applies to the pink colorway, which may not be everyone's bag. It looks pretty good, though, as you can see below. The... Read more ›
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Microsoft has reached a $4 trillion market cap, becoming only the second company to achieve this milestone. Investors drove the stock up 4.62% following the company's fourth-quarter earnings report, which showed strong growth in cloud-computing services fueled by artificial intelligence demand. Microsoft's Azure cloud business generated $75 billion in annual revenue, representing a 34% increase from the previous fiscal year. Nvidia became the first company to reach the $4 trillion... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, will serve as the chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs. The move came months after Meta went on to poach AI talent from competitors Read more ›
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The company’s revenue grew 14 per cent year-over-year to $96.4 billion, largely fueled by strong Google Cloud sales. The cloud division proved to be a major driver of growth, with revenue increasing 32 per cent from the previous year to $13.62 billion Read more ›
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