Facebook reported its quarterly earnings and revenue topped expectations, as ad revenue grew 53 percent, according to CNBC News. Earnings Per Share (EPS): $1.41 per share vs. $1.31 per share, adjusted, expected by a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate Revenue: $8.81 ...
Read More »Zuckerberg explains that Facebook still focuses on short-form video content
On its Q4 earnings call, Facebook execs said that the company’s video future will be more in line with YouTube’s present, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Business Insider. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that while the introduction of mid-roll video ads ...
Read More »Tinder founder thinks Australia is a perfect testing ground
Australians take to product updates faster than other markets, Tinder chairman Sean Rad told Mashable in Sydney on Tuesday. And that’s why features like Tinder Social, which allows users to set up group dates, were piloted here first, Joinfo.com reports ...
Read More »Trump Signed Ball, Playboy Fetch Big Money At Auction
Goldin Auctions put the authenticated Trump signed baseball on the block and it got 27 bids — the final price was $2,082.50 when the metaphorical gavel sounded, TMZ reports. As we previously reported, Trump balls would routinely sell in the ...
Read More »Elon Musk wants to dig tunnels to save people from ‘traffic hell forever’
The Verge reports that Elon Musk decided to dig tunnels after being stuck in “soul-destroying” traffic. Musk has been tweeting about tunnels for a month now, and even said he’s going to build a tunnel boring machine and start digging. “Without ...
Read More »Ex.ua file-hosting site re-launched on fex.net domain
“We inform that Ex-files service was re-launched on the fex.net domain (File EXchange Network). It has been realized on the principally new technological platform. It would be more convenient for users,” Ex.ua said in a statement, according to Interfax-Ukraine. According ...
Read More »Samsung says Note 7 battery fires may delay new phone launch
Samsung said faulty batteries from two suppliers were to blame for a product failure that wiped $5.3 billion off its operating profit, Reuters reports. Samsung mobile chief Koh Dong-jin said procedures had been put in place to avoid a repeat ...
Read More »Ukrainian Currency Crisis: Central bank intervenes market to support hryvnia rate – Ukrainska Pravda
On Tuesday morning, the Ukrainian currency exchange rate has been 27,6-27,7 hryvnia per US dollar. Therefore, Central bank said it will sell up to $100 million on the interbank market to prevent the further decline, Joinfo.com reports with reference to ...
Read More »UK vinyl sales reach 25-year high
Last year people bought more than 3.2 million vinyls in Britain, marking a 53% rise compared to 2015 and the highest annual total since 1991. It is the ninth year in a row that there’s been a growth in vinyl ...
Read More »Ukraine: Official dollar exchange rate drops to UAH 27.25
The Central Bank of Ukraine set the following official exchange rates of the hryvnia against leading foreign currencies for January 13: $100 costs UAH 2,725.1629 (on January 12, it was UAH 2,711.3199); EUR 100 costs UAH 2,910.2015 (on January 12, ...
Read More »Saudi Arabia cut oil output to lowest in two years, predicts further decline
Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said output had fallen below 10 million barrels per day – more than it had promised as part of a global output cut deal between OPEC and non-OPEC producers, Reuters reports. Such levels were last seen ...
Read More »Facebook to show ads mid-video with publisher revenue split
The so-called “mid-roll” ad unit, which inserts an advertiser’s clip in the middle of a video instead of up front or at the end, will enter testing soon according to the report, with revenue resulting from the ad sales split ...
Read More »Volkswagen working on self-driving electric version of legendary hippie van
This time the VW puts an electric prototype, though it seems to take a long time at the Detroit Motor Show (NAIAS 2017) will come to the real market. VW’s reputation was damaged badly by the “Dieselgate”, so the company is ...
Read More »U.S. charges Volkswagen executive with fraud over emissions scandal
Oliver Schmidt, who was general manager in charge of VW’s environmental and engineering office in Michigan, will make an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Miami later on Monday, the Justice Department said, Reuters reports. He was charged with ...
Read More »Facebook acquires Danish eye tracking company
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the acquisition but declined to cite the terms of the deal, according to Venture Beat. Started in 2011 by four students from the IT University of Copenhagen, The Eye Tribe set out to make eye tracking ...
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