Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: The FCC fines a multi-national robocaller, which placed 5B+ calls pretending to sell auto warranties to collect people’s personal information, a record $300M  —  The FCC’s robocaller penalties are growing as the agency tracks down and terminates their operations — this time resulting in a record $300 million forfeiture. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Brave Search updates its image and video search to use Brave’s own index rather than Bing’s or Google’s; some advanced search capabilities are still absent  —  Brave, best known for its privacy-focused web browser, is adding image and video search to Brave Search that now relies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Fung / CNN: Sensor Tower: Threads’ DAUs fell to 8M on July 31, down 82% from launch; the daily average time spent fell from 19 minutes per day at launch to 2.9 on August 1  —  Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival, is struggling to retain users roughly a month after its highly publicized launch … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amazon: Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $134.4B, a $6.7B net income, vs. a $2B net loss YoY, AWS revenue up 12% YoY to $22.1B; AMZN jumps 6%+  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2023.  – Net sales increased 11% … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon Q2: ad revenue up 22% YoY to $10.68B, vs. $10.4B est., subscription revenue up 14% YoY to $9.89B, and North America segment sales up 11% YoY to $82.5B  —  – Amazon beat on the top and bottom lines for the second quarter.  —  Amazon said second-quarter revenue climbed 11% … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Priyamvada C / Reuters: Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $2.48B vs. $2.42B est., $650M net income, gross bookings up 13% YoY to $19.1B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates  —  Airbnb (ABNB.O) forecast revenue for the current quarter above market estimates on Thursday, as the vacation rental firm is set … Lees verder op Tech Meme