Facebook Reports Earnings After Announcing an Adjusted News Feed Strategy and Microsoft Moves Ahead with Strong Cloud Strategy
Facebook and Microsoft released earnings after the Closing Bell today. The two tech companies beat expectations for both revenue and earnings per share.
Microsoft saw growth across the board, including in their cloud sector. Intelligent Cloud revenue rose 15% to $7.8 billion.
For Facebook, the social media still had strong earnings despite changing their news feed algorithm. Despite wins on both revenue and EPS, shares fell after the bell.
Keenan Beasley is the co-founder of BLKBOX, a marketing and intelligence agency that works closely with Facebook. Beasley joins Cheddar to give his take on Facebook earnings. Beasley is impressed by the increase of active users and believes ad revenue will just continue to grow. Beasley expects Facebook to produce less ads, but each advertisement will be more valuable, more expensive to buy, and therefore create higher profits for Facebook.
Laurin Hahn, co-founder and CEO, and Torsten Keidel, CFO, both of German-based Sono Motors, joined Cheddar News to discuss the electric vehicle that the company is developing.
A representative of Baracoda Daily Healthtech demonstrates the Baracoda mirror technology, which gives the user feedback on how to brush their teeth, during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 5, 2023. (
British officials and space scientists said Tuesday they were disappointed but not deterred after the first attempt to launch satellites into orbit from the U.K. ended in failure.
German carmaker Volkswagen said it delivered 4.56 million vehicles in 2022. This is down 6.8% from the year before, as a "strained supply situation" led to a backlog of orders.
