Month: April 2020
TikTok reaches 2 billion downloads
TikTok is seemingly thriving during the global pandemic, and today, analytics platform Sensor Tower reported that the social media platform has been downloaded more than 2 billion times globally. It was downloaded 315 million times this quarter alone in the App Store and Google Play combined. Notably, these app download…
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Facebook usage soars during coronavirus pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has, so far, been very good for Facebook’s metrics. It can’t say the same for its ad business.The company saw a surge in user growth, with an average of more than 1.73 billion daily active users (DAUs) in March, Facebook repo… Source
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Microsoft says COVID-19 had ‘minimal’ impact on its business
Microsoft seems to be faring the coronavirus pandemic just fine. In its Q3 2020 earnings report, Microsoft assured investors that COVID-19 had a “minimal net impact” on the company’s revenues. The numbers don’t lie: it’s reporting revenue of $35 bill… Source
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eBay Q1 reports sales of $2.374B, active buyers up to 174M in wake of COVID-19
After a quarter in which eBay, tussling with an activist investor, completed the sell-off of its ticketing business StubHub for $4 billion and saw appointed a new CEO after its previous one departed, while also weathering waves of surging demand and dodgy supply resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, today the…
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is Assassin’s Creed with vikings
Ubisoft has officially announced the next game in its long-running Assassin’s Creed series: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, which adds vikings to the world’s preeminent historical murder simulator. There are not a lot of details for Valhalla just yet — Ubisoft has only released an initial teaser image (created in a live…
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Tesla turns a profit and says it may hit 2020 delivery goals despite pandemic
Tesla turned a surprise profit in the first quarter of 2020 of $16 million despite factory shutdowns in China and the US, the company announced on Wednesday, and said it may still hit its goal of delivering 500,000 vehicles worldwide this year even in the face of the pandemic. There…
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