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Amazon release their second quarter of 2021 resaults
31.07.2021 16:45Amazon yesterday announced its results for the previous quarter and reported revenue of $ 113 billion. This is an increase of 27.2 percent compared to the same quarter last year and the third quarter in a row you have a revenue of over 100 billion dollars.
Amazon's profit landed at $ 7.7 billion for the quarter, which was slightly lower than the $ 7.8 billion analysts had predicted. They also stated that it thought it would pull in between 106 - 112 billion dollars in the next quarter, which was also lower than analysts had expected.
The company shares fell nearly seven percent after the report but recovered later.
Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney
31.07.2021 16:36The Wall Street Journal reports that actress Scarlett Johansson is now suing Disney over their release strategy for Black Widow, the latest Marvel movie starring Johansson.
Johansson believes that Disney's strategy to release Black Widow in both cinemas and Disney's streaming service Disney+ is a breach of contract against her contract with the company. According to the lawsuit, Black Widow would premiere only in cinemas according to Johansson's contract, something that did not happen.
Johansson receives a partial salary based on how much Black Widow draws in cinemas and believes that the amount was lower due to Disney releasing the film on Disney+ at the same time as the film premiered in cinemas. According to the Wall Street Journal, Johansson may have lost as much as $ 50 million in salary for Black Widow because the film did not only premiere in cinemas.
Rumor that Netflix is making a Pokémon series
27.07.2021 11:53Variety reports that Netflix is producing a TV series featuring real actors based on the popular Pokémon games.
The whole thing could be reminiscent of the film Detective Pikachu which was released in 2019, a film in which Ryan Reynolds and Justice Smith, among others, starred. Netflix already runs several animated Pokémon series today, such as Pokemon: Indigo League and Pokemon Journeys.
Given that Netflix stated earlier this month that it would start betting on games, there has already been speculation that Netflix may also have an exclusive Pokémon game linked to the upcoming TV series. When we can see a possible live-action series with Pokémon on Netflix, there is so far no information about.
Tesla sold 200.000 cars during Q2 2021
27.07.2021 11:50Yesterday, Tesla presented the results for the second quarter of the year and the company now looks to be doing better than ever before.
During the quarter, Tesla delivered 201,250 cars, which was an increase of 150 percent compared to the same period last year. It also meant that Tesla could include a profit of $ 1.1 billion for the quarter, something it had never done before in a quarter.
During the presentation of this year's quarterly report, Tesla announced that during the quarter it also built about 1,000 new charging stations for its SuperCharger network.
Facebook gaming now available on iOS
26.07.2021 11:54Late last week, Facebook launched its streaming game service, known as "cloud gaming", for iOS.
The service is already available on several other platforms but has been delayed for iOS due to Apple's requirement that all games for the service would have to be downloaded separately if Facebook wants to run the service as a traditional iOS app. Facebook opposed this and has instead released the service as a web app, something that Microsoft and Amazon have also done with their competing game streaming services.
Facebook's game manager Vivek Sharma tells The Verge to run the service as a web app on iOS:
- "We've come to the same conclusion as others: web apps are the only option for streaming cloud games on iOS at the moment. As many have pointed out, Apple's policy to 'allow' cloud games on the App Store does not allow for much at all. Apple's requirement for each cloud game to have its own page, go through review and appear in search listings defeats the purpose of cloud gaming. "
Those who are eager to run Facebook's game streaming service on iOS can now add this as a shortcut on the iOS home screen and then run the available games via the web.