Microsoft says GitHub has a $1B ARR and 90M+ active users, up from a reported $200M to $300M in ARR and 28M active users when Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:00 Rating: 5

Microsoft's cloud revenue grew 24% YoY to $25.7B, including $20.3B from Intelligent Cloud, up 20% YoY, driven by Azure and other cloud services, up 35% YoY (Taylor Soper/GeekWire) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:13 Rating: 5

Alphabet reports Google ad sales of $54.5B in Q3, up from $53.1B YoY, missing estimates of $56.6B, and Google Search revenue of $39.5B, up from $37.9B YoY (Jon Swartz/MarketWatch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:13 Rating: 5

Microsoft reports Q1 Windows OEM revenue down 15% YoY, devices revenue up 2% YoY, Xbox hardware revenue up 13%, and Xbox content and services revenue down 3% (Tom Warren/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:13 Rating: 5

Internal research: Twitter has been losing "heavy tweeters", who tweet more than three times a week, since the pandemic began, despite overall growth in DAUs (Sheila Dang/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:45 Rating: 5

China's path to chip self-sufficiency is extremely complicated and relies upon re-creating multiple supply chain components without outside help (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:42 Rating: 5

Samsung rolls out Maintenance Mode, meant to keep a device's data safe during repair, to select Galaxy devices with One UI 5 worldwide (Andrew Romero/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Australia's AG unveils plans for tougher online privacy laws after several major data breaches, including increasing fines from AU$2.22M to AU$50M or more (Daryna Antoniuk/The Record) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Cerebral, a telehealth startup focused on mental health, is cutting 20% of its staff, impacting "all divisions"; Cerebral was valued at $4.8B in December 2021 (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Apple's new App Store guidelines say that social networking apps that let users buy "boosts" for social media posts must use IAPs for these transactions (Juli Clover/MacRumors) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5