Coinbase Reports 63% Drop in Revenue Amid Crypto Industry Slump

When the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase went public in April 2021, it was a triumphant moment for the nascent crypto industry. But the company has endured a grim 2022, grappling with…

Meta Reports First Revenue Decline and 36 Percent Profit Drop

SAN FRANCISCO — For years, Facebook’s sales grew without fail and kept on growing, defying the laws of gravity even as the company was battered by scandals over privacy and…

Sports & Entertainment Spotlight: No Sooner Does Kobalt Music Publishing Pull 700,000 Song-Catalog From Facebook and Instagram, but Meta Announces its Newly Adopted Ad Revenue Sharing Model for Musicians | Foster Garvey PC

Welcome back to the “Spotlight.” Rest assured that I have leveraged perhaps one of the greatest inventions in human history–central air-conditioning–to make it through last week’s heat wave in New…

WhatsApp Adds Commercial Services as Meta Seeks More Revenue

More than eight years after agreeing to buy one of the world’s largest messaging apps, the company formerly known as Facebook has decided to start making money from it. WhatsApp,…

Twitter Reports Revenue Growth as Elon Musk Prepares to Take Over

SAN FRANCISCO — Days before Elon Musk struck a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion, he said he did not “care about the economics” of the company. As the…

Amazon Revenue Slows, and Costs Rise

In the face of a pandemic that appears to be receding and the highest levels of inflation in four decades, Amazon on Thursday posted its slowest quarterly growth in years…

Google follows YouTube in cutting off ad revenue to Russian state media

“In response to the war in Ukraine, we are pausing Google monetization of Russian state-funded media across our platforms,” Google said in a statement to CNN Business on Sunday. “We’re…

Amazon Posts Record Revenue; Cost of Amazon Prime Is Rising

An improving economy and a persistent virus are beginning to weigh on Amazon’s retail business, even as its cloud computing business grew and an investment lifted profits. The company, whose…

Trump’s Estate Tax Giveaway To Rich Triggered 50% Drop In IRS Revenue: Report

As Republicans bellyache about Democrats not balancing the budget, a new report reveals that a significant Trump administration estate tax giveaway that specially served the ultra-wealthy sparked a 50% plunge…

How Revenue for Biden’s Social Policy Bill Depends on the I.R.S.

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s pledge to fully pay for his $1.85 trillion social policy and climate spending package depends in large part on having a beefed-up Internal Revenue Service crack…