‘Shark Tank’ Star Kevin O’Leary Says He’s Near Deal to Buy TikTok: ‘We’re...
“Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary on Monday said he’s nearing a deal to purchase TikTok’s U.S. business in a move that would save the popular app from being banned from the States. TikTok is set to be...
View ArticleUFC Chief Dana White Joins Meta’s Board of Directors
UFC CEO and president Dana White has been elected to join Meta’s board of directors, Mark Zuckerberg’s tech conglomerate announced on Monday. He will be joined by Exor CEO John Elkann and tech...
View ArticleAI Sets the Stage for Disabled People’s Success in Entertainment
Author William Gibson once said, “The future is already here but it’s not evenly distributed.” It resonates in particular today as consumers see artificial intelligence (AI) spread like wildfire...
View ArticleMeta to Remove Fact Checkers in Place of Community Notes, Citing Trump and X...
Meta on Tuesday said it was canceling its third-party fact checking program, signaling a major shift in how the parent company of Facebook and Instagram patrols content on its platforms. “We’re going...
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Entertainment Trends in 2025: Big Tech Steps Up, More Live Event Investment,...
The year 2025 could see a sweeping realignment of the entertainment space — in streaming, in live events, in the makeup of the companies themselves — with a potentially greater role for Big Tech...
View ArticleGetty Images and Shutterstock to Merge in $3.7 Billion Deal
Getty Images and Shutterstock will merge into one company valued at $3.7 billion in a deal that aims to take on competition from AI, the companies announced on Tuesday. The new premier visual content...
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Elon Musk Applauds Meta’s ‘Awesome’ Decision to Copy His Community Notes
One person who is a fan of Meta’s decision to copy X’s Community Notes feature? X owner Elon Musk. The world’s richest man, in an X post on Tuesday, applauded Meta’s plan to ditch its third-party fact...
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Meta Pivots Away From Protections, Guardrails as Trump 2.0 Looms | Analysis
A lot can change in four years. In January 2021, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg booted then-President Donald Trump off of his social network, as well as Instagram, with Zuckerberg saying “the risks” of...
View ArticleGoogle Donates $1 Million to Trump Inauguration, Joining Other Tech Giants
Google has donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund, making it the latest major tech company to chip in. Karen Bhatia, the company’s global head of government affairs and...
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8 AI Predictions for 2025: From an AI-Made Hollywood Blockbuster to...
The world of artificial intelligence had a remarkable 2024. Tech companies and venture capitalists poured billions of dollars into further developing the technology in a furious race to stay...
View ArticleSupreme Court Signals It May Uphold TikTok Ban Despite No Decision on Friday
The U.S. Supreme Court did not make a decision on whether TikTok’s looming ban from the States can be overturned on Friday, with the Supreme Court adjourning until Monday morning. But based on...
View ArticleTikTok Says It Will Shut Down in US if Ban Is Not Lifted
TikTok’s attorney’s on Friday reiterated the popular app will shut down, rather than make a last-minute deal to keep it active in the U.S., if the app’s looming ban is not overturned by the Supreme...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Compares Meta’s Fact-Checking to ‘1984’ as His Apps Prepare...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he decided to end Facebook and Instagram’s third-party fact-checking operation because it too closely resembled George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984.” Zuckerberg made...
View ArticleMeta Ditches DEI Programs to ‘Mitigate Bias for All’
Meta is making more significant changes, with the parent company of Facebook and Instagram on Friday saying it is ending a number of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. Moving forward,...
View ArticleAmazon Donates $10 Million for LA Fire Relief Efforts
Amazon is donating $10 million to Los Angeles wildfire relief efforts, the company revealed in a blog post on Monday. The funds, which come from Amazon Web Services, Ring, Whole Foods Market, and the...
View ArticleChinese Apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8 Jump to Top of App Store as TikTok Ban Looms
As TikTok moves closer to being kicked out of the U.S., two Chinese apps — Xiaohongshu and Lemon8, which shares parent company ByteDance with TikTok — have blitzed to the top of the Apple App Store....
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos to Attend Trump Inauguration
A who’s-who of tech bigwigs are headed to Washington, D.C., with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos set to join X and Tesla boss Elon Musk at Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday,...
View ArticleWhat to Know About RedNote and Why TikTok Users Are Flocking There
With the U.S. ban of TikTok inching closer, one of the new apps to emerge is Xiaohongshu – or RedNote – and it’s serving as a sort of refuge for users. Xiaohongshu leapt to the top of the Apple App...
View ArticleMeta Cuts 5% of Workforce to ‘Move Out Low-Performers,’ Zuckerberg Says
Another day, another round of big changes at Meta: The parent company of Facebook and Instagram is cutting roughly 5% of its workforce — or 3,620 employees — as it looks to “move out low-performers...
View ArticleSEC Sues Elon Musk Over X Purchase, Says He Acquired Shares at ‘Artificially...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Elon Musk on Tuesday, claiming he committed securities fraud by buying shares of Twitter at “artificially low prices.” Musk did this, the SEC alleges,...
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