Meta reports 18% YoY ad revenue growth in Europe for Q3, down from ~40% in Q1 and 24% in Q2, lagging the US and Canada, after rolling out Less Personalized Ads (Isabella Ward/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-ad-sales-suffering-now-eur…
eMudhra says it will exit the SSL/TLS certificate business, 1% of its revenue, after its TLS certificates with private keys of just 3 to 8 bits were compromised (Abhirami G/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/i
Total geil, wie jetzt die ganzen Betrüger auffliegen. Hoster nehmen endlich mal 8 Jahre alte Joomla-, Wordpress- und Typo3-Seiten offline. Kunden rufen ihre Webseitenbauer an. "Ja, ne, ist zu alt, updaten zu aufwendig, müssen wir neu machen, Angebot kommt. Nächstes Mal Wartungsvertrag buchen". "Wir haben einen Wartungsvertrag bei Euch." "tut-tut-tut".
Teilweise wurden da 20-50 Euro im Monat für berechnet für Leistungen, die nie erbracht wurden.
RIVM update rioolwaarden en percentage positief Sars-Cov-2.
Met deze week afnemende rioolwaarden: zaten we vorige week op 380 (dat is door aanvulllende data 375 geworden), nu is dat gezakt tot net boven de 350.
Dit mede dankzij 10 nieuwe dagen in de data: 9 t/m 18 oktober. Vanaf 14-10 betreft dit overigens minder dan de helft van de meetstations.
#qp2t
Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to €4.97B, below €4.98B est., subscribers up 9% to 306M, MAUs up 11% to 788M, meeting est., and €672M operating income (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-…
Comcast reports Peacock Q3 revenue up 34% YoY to $1.82B, adjusted EBITDA of $261M, its second consecutive profitable quarter, and subscribers up 17% to 48M (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/comcasts…
Meta reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $64.6B, operating income down 37% to $12.99B on a $9.89B AG settlement charge, and family DAP up 3% to 3.64B for September (Meta)
https://investor.atmeta.com/investor-news/press-re…
OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads to 26 additional countries, taking the total to 83 countries, and says the platform's advertiser base is 100K , up from 20K in August (Alix Coutures/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o