Apple reports record Q4 revenue up 8% YoY to $90.1B, net income up 1% YoY to $20.7B, and annual revenue up 8% YoY to $394.3B (Apple)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Apple has “paused ads related to gambling and a few other categories on App Store product pages” after criticism from developers and others  —  Apple has “paused ads related to gambling and a few other categories on App Store product pages” after developers and commentators criticized …

Barry Collins / Forbes:
Lansweeper study of 27M Windows PCs: Windows 11 was installed on over 3% of consumer PCs and 2.5% of business computers at the end of September, below Windows 7  —  Windows 11 has been installed on only 3% of consumer PCs in the year since its launch, according to figures from Lansweeper.

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Researchers find 75 apps on Google Play and 10 on Apple’s App Store that engaged in ad fraud, collectively had 13M installs, and have since been removed  —  Security researchers have discovered 75 applications on Google Play and another ten on Apple’s App Store engaged in ad fraud.

Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer:
Google blocklisted two Chrome “SearchBlox” extensions with 200K+ installs, after discovery of a backdoor that can be used to steal Roblox credentials and assets  —  Chrome browser extension ‘SearchBlox’ installed by more than 200,000 users has been discovered to contain a backdoor …

Amazon:
Amazon reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $127.1B, net income down 9% YoY to $2.9B, and AWS revenue up 27% YoY to $20.5B; stock is down 17%+ on weak Q4 guidance  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2022.

Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz:
EA reports Q2 revenue up 4% YoY to $1.9B, vs. $1.94B est., net income up 2% YoY to $299M, and net bookings down 5% YoY to $1.75B  —  The “most successful launch” in series history helps publisher finish Q2 with revenues up 4% but bookings slide 5%  —  Electronic Arts reported its earnings …