Thursday: Facebook & Qualcomm, Musk & Apple, Exoskeleton Limit & Biden Warning

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Thursday: Facebook & Qualcomm, Musk & Apple, Exoskeleton Limit & Biden Warning

The quarterly reports of large companies continue with Facebook and Qualcomm. Since they come from different industries, the results come for different reasons, but both write significantly higher sales and profits – the most important messages in a brief overview.

Facebook benefited massively in the past quarter that More and more advertising spending is going on the Internet. Sales of the world’s largest online network jumped 56 percent year-on-year and the Profit was twice that like a year ago, because user numbers and advertising prices are increasing. However, data protection innovations could slow growth, which is why Facebook doubles its profits, but at the same time warns of headwinds.

Chip company Qualcomm can also be a excellent result present, but here the interest in fast 5G data transmission ensures rapid growth. In the past quarter, sales rose 65 percent year-on-year and profits more than doubled compared to 2020. In addition, the forecast is more positive than Facebook, because the ongoing 5G demand is boosting business at the chip company Qualcomm.

Ob Elon Musk is friends with Qualcomm, but the Tesla and SpaceX founder is well known not a real fan of Apple – for example in relation to his car plans and the poaching of Tesla employees. At the analyst conference for the publication of the latest quarterly results of the e-car group, Musk found some harsh words for the iPhone producer. According to Elon Musk, Apple is abusing its market power and using too much cobalt.

Exoskelette could also have come from Elon Musk’s lab, but they’re closed now everyday devices that are increasingly being used in industry – often to reduce stress on the lower back. The adaptation of one’s own movements to the machine Support works largely unconsciously. Nonetheless, one study found that too much mental activity can slow down the effects of an exoskeleton.

An exoskeleton is ineffective against The cyberattack, but these could according to US President Joe Biden to a real war “with exchanges of fire” against one of the “great powers”. The ability to carry out cyberattacks would grow exponentially, he said. Russia and China are particularly worried for the USA, because a cyber attack could lead to “real war”.

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  • 35 years ago today, one of the most spectacular cases in Germany’s criminal history culminated: the contract killer and imprisoned Werner Pinzner first shot a public prosecutor, then his wife and finally himself.


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