Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, April 27th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, quick summation of alphabet and Microsoft earnings.

DJI is trying to prevent its drones from being used in the Ukraine War.

Google has released tools to make it easier to spin up your own YouTube.

Apple wants you to repair your iPhone yourself and a deep dive into why

autocorrect can't ducking get it right sometimes. Ducking, I said ducking, which

is the iPhone autocorrect version of that curse word.

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

Let's do some quick earnings hits to start off today.

Alphabet reported Q1 revenue rose 23% year over year to 68.01

billion dollars. Net income dropped however to 16.44 billion dollars down from

17.93 billion year over year.

Traffic acquisition costs also rose 23% over that same time period.

Google Cloud reported 5.82 billion in Q1 sales up from 4.05 billion year over year and above

estimates of 5.75 billion, but also had to report an operating loss of $931 million,

which was down from $974 million a year over year.

Alphabet also said that its Board of Directors

has authorized $70 billion in share repurchasees, a major step up from 2021's $50 billion

authorization and 2019's 25 billion dollar authorization. So all at all it's a

mixed bag, not terrible terrible but not as good as recent quarters have been

And Microsoft reported Q3 revenue of $49.4 billion up 18% year over year. Net income of

16.7 billion dollars up 8% year over year. Office revenue year, office revenue, up 12%

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