Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, October 26, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Facebook whistles past the ATT graveyard, but Zuckerberg wants to target de Utes.

Adobe adds support for NFTs.

Amazon is coming after clubhouse, joining the Quantum Computing Race, and lending Project Kuiper to Verizon. Computer

to Verizon and the big review of Apple's new chips

calls their performance downright absurd.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Today in the Facebook Saga, the company missed slightly on revenue in its earnings report last night, and also missed a bit on monthly active users,

but beat on earnings per share.

So a bit of a mixed bag earnings report,

but the company did avoid the earnings debacle that Snap seemed to experience.

Q3 ad revenue grew 33% year over year to 28.28 billion dollars, but Facebook nonetheless did warn of

continued headwinds in Q4 due to Apple's ATT changes in iOS, quoting ZD net.

Our outlook reflects the significant uncertainty we face in the fourth

quarter in light of continued headwinds from Apple's iOS 14 changes and macroeconomic

and COVID-related factors, CFO Dave Wenner said in a statement.

In addition, we expect non-ads revenue to be down year over year in the fourth quarter as we

lap the strong launch of Quest 2 during last year's holiday shopping season end quote.

The company's business has already suffered to an extent from Apple's iOS 14.5

update released in April blaming Apple's 14 changes, the social media giant gave

light fourth quarter guidance. The company also said it expects its

metaverse investments will reduce operating profits by 1010 billion for fiscal year 2021 as it begins breaking

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