August 8, 20230CommentsVerizon will shut down BlueJeans, a business-focused video conferencing app it acquired in 2020, on August 31, 2023, due to “the changing market landscape” (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)
August 8, 20230CommentsThe US Federal Reserve launches a program for overseeing banks’ crypto activity and clarifies its pre-approval process for engaging with stablecoins (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
August 8, 20230CommentsIntel fixes a flaw found by a Google researcher, affecting Skylake, Tiger Lake, and Ice Lake chips, that could let attackers steal passwords and other secrets (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
August 8, 20230CommentsNetflix launches a game controller app on the App Store to let users play Netflix games on their TV; the app description says the feature is “coming soon” (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
August 8, 20230CommentsYouTube will stop showing users recommended videos in some places, including the homepage, when watch history is turned off entirely (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
August 8, 20230CommentsOpenAI launches web crawling GPTBot, sparking blocking effort by website owners and creators
August 8, 20230CommentsTwilio reports Q2 revenue up 10% YoY to $1.04B vs. $986M est., active customer accounts up 11% YoY to 304K+, and raises FY 2023 profit outlook; TWLO jumps 9%+ (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
August 8, 20230CommentsToast reports Q2 revenue up 45% YoY to $978M, vs. $943M est., and a positive free cash flow for the first time since its IPO, with $39M; TOST jumps 12%+ (Emily Bary/MarketWatch)
August 8, 20230CommentsLyft reports Q2 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.02B, a net loss of $114.3M, and active riders up 8.2% YoY to 21.49M, its highest levels since the pandemic (Preetika Rana/Wall Street Journal)