Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 449

🛰 #ElonMusk announces $500/month #Starlink Premium, claiming 150Mbps-500Mbps download speeds, up from 50Mbps-250Mbps, and doubling upload speeds to 20Mbps-40Mbps 🔗


🇨🇳 The #FBI warns athletes attending the 2022 Winter #Olympics and Paralympics in #China to take burner phones and says the official MY2022 app poses a security risk 🔗


📉 #Facebook lost daily users for the first time ever last quarter 🔗


🧠 Two members of #Google’s Ethical #AI group leave to join #TimnitGebru’s nonprofit 🔗


💲 #Meta beats with Q4 revenue of $33.67B vs. $33.4B est., up 20% YoY, 2.91B MAUs, up 4% YoY, but misses with EPS of $3.67 vs. $3.84 est.; stock down 20%+ 🔗


💲 #Spotify reports Q4 revenue of $3.04B, up 24% YoY , MAUs of 406M, up 18% YoY, and Ad-Supported revenue of $445M, a record 15% of total revenue 🔗


💲 #Sony reports Q3 gaming revenue fell 8% YoY to ~$7.09B, operating profit rose 12.1% YoY to ~$810M; Sony shipped 3.9M PS5 consoles, bringing the total to 17.3M 🔗


💲 #Qualcomm beats with Q1 revenue of $10.7B vs $10.42B est., up 30% YoY, net income of $3.7B, up 47% YoY, and chip segment revenue of $8.8B, up 35% YoY 🔗


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