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Google updates Play Store policy in the US to let developers link to external app stores and payment options, following the Epic v. Google injunction (www.androidauthority.com)
2025-10-30 Google

Disney and YouTube settle their legal dispute over YouTube's hiring in May of former Disney executive Justin Connolly to be global head of media and sports (deadline.com)
2025-10-30 YouTube

Microsoft reports Q1 gaming revenue down 2% YoY to $5.51B, Xbox hardware revenue down 29%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 1% (variety.com)
2025-10-30 Microsoft Xbox

Microsoft's OpenAI investment resulted in a $3.1B hit to Q1 net income; Productivity and Business Processes revenue, with Office and LinkedIn, grew 17% to $33B (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-30 Microsoft LinkedIn

Microsoft reports Q1 Azure and other cloud services revenue up 40% YoY, vs. 38.4% est., and capital expenditures at $34.9B, vs. $30.34B est. (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-30 Microsoft

eBay reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $2.82B, vs. $2.73B est., GMV up 10% to $20.1B, and forecasts Q4 profit below estimates; EBAY drops 6%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-30 eBay 4Q

Sources: YouTube reorganizes its leadership team, with three product teams reporting to CEO Neal Mohan, and announces a “voluntary exit program” for US staff (sources.news)
2025-10-30 YouTube

Alphabet reports Google Cloud Q3 revenue of $15.15B vs. $14.74B est., and raises 2025 capex forecast to $91B-$93B, after projecting $85B in July (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-30 Google Alphabet

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q3 ad revenue rose 15% YoY to $10.26B, vs. $10.01B est., and Google's advertising revenue reached $74.18B, up from $65.85B a year ago (variety.com)
2025-10-30 Google YouTube Alphabet

Google starts rolling out the Gemini for Home voice assistant in early access in the US, on Nest devices set to English (9to5google.com)
2025-10-30 Google

Google Chrome Will Finally Default To Secure HTTPS Connections Starting in April (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-30 Google Chrome

YouTube Plans Automatic Upscaling for Low-Res Videos (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-30 YouTube

Microsoft CEO Nadella Says Gaming Needs Good Margins To Innovate, Compares Strategy To Office (games.slashdot.org)
2025-10-30 Microsoft

Microsoft fixes Media Creation Tool broken on some Windows PCs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-30 Microsoft

Microsoft 365 and Azure suffer outages; users report problems accessing sites and services, and the company says it is investigating (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-30 Microsoft

Permalink to OpenAI completes restructuring, strikes new deal with Microsoft (sdtimes.com)
2025-10-30 Microsoft

Microsoft: DNS outage impacts Azure and Microsoft 365 services (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-30 Microsoft

Amazon opens Project Rainier, an $11B AI data center on 1,200 acres in Indiana that trains and runs Anthropic's AI models using 500K+ Amazon Trainium 2 chips (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-30 Amazon AI

Microsoft fixes 0x800F081F errors causing Windows update failures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-30 Microsoft

Amazon's $100 Echo Dot Max and $220 Echo Studio review: the devices run Alexa+, which works well, and have good audio quality, but the Studio is underwhelming (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-30 Amazon

YouTube is using AI to upscale videos uploaded at between 240p and 720p to HD on TV screens, but users can opt out, and plans 4K upscaling “in the near future” (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-30 AI YouTube

Putin 'is more determined than ever' to continue Ukraine war and secure more territory to justify huge human and financial toll on Russia, US intel says (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2025-10-30 Russia Putin Intel Ukraine

Uber plans to launch its first robotaxi in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 2026, built on Lucid's Gravity SUV, after testing 100 cars in the coming months (apnews.com)
2025-10-29 Uber San Francisco

Internal memo: Amazon makes “significant role reductions” to its game division and will cut down on big budget titles, as it focuses on Luna and casual games (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-29 Amazon Budget

Amazon, UPS, Target, GM, and other major US companies are laying off tens of thousands of white collar workers, as executives hope AI can handle their workload (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-29 Amazon AI

IBM releases four open-source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models ranging from 350M to 1.5B parameters, designed to run on consumer hardware and even in web browsers (venturebeat.com)
2025-10-29 IBM AI

Some ad buyers say brands are increasingly spending on Reddit due to the site's prominence in AI-powered search results and its growing audience (www.adweek.com)
2025-10-29 AI Reddit

USC sues Google in Texas federal court, alleging that Google Earth, Maps, and Google Street View violate its patents for overlaying 2D images onto 3D models (www.reuters.com)
2025-10-29 Google Texas

YouTube will age-restrict more video game content showing “graphic violence” and stop creators from directing users to gambling sites involving digital goods (www.theverge.com)
2025-10-29 YouTube

Permalink to Microsoft announces public preview for planning capability that improves how Copilot in Visual Studio handles complex tasks (sdtimes.com)
2025-10-29 Microsoft Visual Studio

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