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Daily roundup no. 7 👉 (link)

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📱 Top Apps Worldwide for April 2020 by Downloads

#Zoom was the most downloaded non-game app worldwide for April 2020 with close to 131 million installs, a 60x growth from April 2019.
The countries with the most installs of the app during this period were India 🇮🇳 at 18.2% of its total downloads and the United States 🇺🇸 at 14.3%.

#TikTok was the second most installed non-game app worldwide last month with more than 107 million installs, a 2.5x increase from April 2019. The countries with the largest number of TikTok installs were India 🇮🇳 at approximately 22%, followed by the U.S. 🇺🇸 at 9.4%. #Facebook, #WhatsApp, and #Instagram rounded out the top five most installed non-game apps worldwide for the month.

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Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 6


👉 #France is using #AI to check whether people are wearing masks on public transport (link)


👉 #Facebook's Oversight Board, who will focus on challenging content issues, such as hate speech and harassment, announces its first 20 members out of a total of 40 (link)


👉 Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, and more Viacom channels coming to #YouTubeTV (link)


👉 #Zoom acquires #Keybase to get end-to-end encryption expertise (link)


👉 Liberty’s Virgin Media and Telefonica’s O2 to merge in the UK in $39B deal (link)


👉 #Square Q1: revenue of $1.38B, up 44% YoY; net loss of $106M, up $68M YoY (link)
👉 #Square reports $528M in Q1 revenues from its Cash App, with $306M coming from #Bitcoin transactions, exceeding the app's fiat revenue of $222M for the first time (link)


👉 #PayPal Q1: misses estimates with revenue of $4.62B, up 13% YoY; net income of $84M, down from $667M YoY (link)


👉 #Shopify Q1: revenue of $470M, up 47% YoY; gross merchandise volume of $17.4B, up 46% YoY (link)


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

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Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 5


👉 #Apple will host a virtual #WWDC this year — starts on 22 June (link)


👉 #Twitter tests a warning message that tells users to rethink offensive replies (link)
👉 #Twitter rolls out changes to threaded conversations following tests in its prototype app, #twttr (link)

👉 #Airbnb cuts 1,900 jobs, around 25% of its global workforce (link)


👉 #Bitcoin is set for ‘Halving’ this month (link)


👉 Leaked videos show #Lenovo’s first gaming #smartphone (link)

👉 #Android 11’s public beta to launch with 3 June via live stream (link)
👉 #Google’s #Stadia controller will finally work wirelessly with computers starting this week (link)


👉 #Microsoft launches #SurfaceBook 3 (link) and #SurfaceHeadphones 2 (link)
👉 #Microsoft offers $100,000 to hack its custom Linux OS (link)


👉 #Uber lays off 14% of its workforce in COVID-19-related cost-cutting (link)


👉 #Pinterest Q1: revenue of $272M, vs. $270M est., up 35% YoY; user base grew to 367M MAUs, up 26% YoY (link)


👉 #EA Q4: revenues of $1.39B, beating expectations of $1.19B, up 12% YoY (link)


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

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📈 TikTok’s US Adult Users Double Year-Over-Year
Here are Age & Income Breakdowns

#TikTok has already made its way into the heart of teens, with more than 1 in 10 (13%) declaring it their favourite #SocialMedia platform, behind only #Snapchat & #Instagram.

But what about adults? As it turns out, the number of unique US adults visitors to the app has more than doubled in a year, per data provided by Comscore. In March 2020, more than 28.8 million US adults (ages 18+) used the video-sharing app. This is compared to roughly 14.2 million who used the app in March 2019.

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Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 4


👉 #Amazon VP resigns after nearly six years, criticising the company on his blog for firing protesting workers (link)


👉 #Microsoft says there's been a 75% YoY jump in time spent in #Windows 10, and Windows 10X (link)


👉 #GoogleMeet shows up in #Gmail inboxes — a little too late (link)


👉 #India’s Glance tops 100 million daily active users in 21 months (link)


👉 #Amazon is launching Crucible: a free-to-play multiplayer game on May 20th (link)



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🤯 Jeff Bezos’ staggering Wealth
one pixel at a time

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Created by Matt Korostoff.

#JeffBezos #Amazon

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Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 3


👉 #Intel is in talks to acquire #Moovit for ~$1B (link)


👉 #Uber to require masks or face coverings for drivers and passengers in certain markets (link)


👉 Security lapse at #India’s #Jio exposed #coronavirus symptom checker results (link)


👉 #Amazon, #Flipkart, #Ola and #Uber begin to resume their services in #India (link)


👉 #UberEats exits seven markets (link)


👉 The 13-inch #MacBook Pro gets #Apple’s much-improved keyboard (link)


👉 Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network launches chatbot on #WhatsApp to debunk thousands of #coronavirus-related hoaxes (link)



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Code: github.com/cyrildiagne/ar-cutpaste

#AR #Photoshop

All Credit: Cyril Diagne.
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📰 Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 2


👉 In Q1, #iPad app downloads saw first YoY growth in four years, surpassing 1.1B worldwide; consumer spending in iPad apps crosses $2B (link)


👉 #Coronavirus causes worst #smartphone market contraction in history — global shipments down 13% (link)


👉 #Fortnite is hosting a Diplo concert in its new party mode (link)


👉 #Tesla's lost $14B in value after #ElonMusk tweeted its shares were overpriced (link)


👉 #JeffBezos is being called to testify before Congress over ‘misleading’ statements from #Amazon (link)



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📊 iPad App Downloads See First Positive Quarterly Growth in Four Years

Driven by a surge in use and adoption of the device during the #COVID19 pandemic, quarterly first-time downloads of apps for #Apple’s #iPad surpassed 1.1 billion worldwide in Q1 2020, marking the first year-over-year growth in this metric since the Q4 2013 and a 40% increase from Q1 2019.

At the same time, quarterly global consumer spending in iPad apps saw its largest YoY increase since Q4 2014 at 16%, while crossing the $2 billion threshold for the first quarter ever.

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📰 Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 1


👉 #Intel unveils 10th-gen desktop CPUs, including 5.3GHz flagship (link)


👉 #Zoom admits it doesn't have 300M DAUs, quietly correcting the claim in its original blog post to 300M “daily Zoom meeting participants (link)


👉 #Telegram postpones the launch of its TON blockchain for a second time, pushing the go-live date to April 2021, and offers to return $1.2B to investors (link)


👉 Andreessen Horowitz raises $515M for its second fund dedicated to #cryptocurrency and #blockchain investments and holdings (link)


👉 #Apple Q2: $58.3B revenue, up 1% YoY; $44.9B from products, $13.35B from services; net income of $11.25B (link)


👉 #Amazon Q1: $75.5B revenue, up 26% YoY; net income of $2.5B, down from $3.6B in Q1 2019; $10.2B from AWS revenue, up from $7.7B YoY (link)


👉 #Twitter Q1: sales up 3% YoY to $808M; net loss of $8M due to COVID-19; mDAUs hit a record 166M, up 24% YoY (link)


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

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📱 TikTok is the 3rd Favourite Social Platform Among US Teens

When it comes to which #SocialMedia platforms resonate most with US teens, the battle between #Snapchat and #Instagram continues. But the latest report on #teens from Piper Sandler shows that a new player – #TikTok – has made its way onto the scene and is quickly becoming a favourite with teens.

Snapchat has remained the favourite among teens since 2016. However, Instagram, which is currently the favourite social platform for almost one-third (31%) of the 5,200 US teens surveyed.

#Facebook #Twitter

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💸 85 Years of US Advertising

Newspapers' ad dollars are shrinking consistantly since 2005-2006, and online advertising is the main substitute.

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📱 Our Digital Behaviours are Changing

Due to #COVID19 lockdowns:
- TV Streaming Services: 57%
- Social Media: 47%
- Messenger Services: 46%

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