A plunging profit as the social media powerhouse battles a turbulent economy and the rising phenomenon of TikTok. Meta had long delivered seemingly endless upward growth but after this income miss — and reporting earlier this year its first decline in global daily users — the company sounded a more modest tone. “This is a…
The leader in live videogame streaming has struggled for months to stem a wave of racist and homophobic harassment, which includes so-called “hate raids” against certain content creators. Stalkers have been known to enter chat rooms and flood the moderators or others with insults or offensive images. While the creators or mods can ban such…
Under the new rules, people who are not public figures can ask Twitter to take down pictures or video of them that they report were posted without permission. Twitter said this policy does not apply to “public figures or individuals when media and accompanying tweet text are shared in the public interest or add value…
Two men were arrested last week with 21 kilograms (46 pounds) of the drug in central Madhya Pradesh state and told officers they were using Amazon’s India platform to ship their goods elsewhere in the country. They admitted to shipping their crop by falsely marketing it as stevia leaves, a natural sweetener, according to a…
Multiple Tesla drivers tweeted that they were no longer able to start their cars with their phone apps and had to use keycards if they were lucky enough to be carrying theirs with them. Musk responded directly to a South Korean driver who reported receiving a message about a server error while attempting to connect…
five-year deal under which the world’s biggest internet search company will pay an undisclosed sum for content in Europe, The agreement, following 18 months of negotiations, is the first by a news agency under the 2019 European directive on so-called neighbouring rights, at the heart of multiple disputes between web giants and the media over…
Apple wanted the change — ordered to be implemented by a December 9 deadline — put on hold as it appeals a ruling in September by judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in the antitrust suit filed by Epic. Epic filed the lawsuit to break Apple’s grip on the App Store, accusing the iPhone maker of operating…
To represent a future beyond just its troubled social network. the new handle comes as the social media giant tries to fend off one its worst crises yet and pivot to its ambitions for the “metaverse” virtual reality version of the internet that the tech giant sees as the future. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp will…
underscoring the world’s reliance on platforms owned by the Silicon Valley giant, what does Facebook say happened what actually caused the outage? In an apologetic blog post, Santosh Janardhan, Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure, said that “configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centres caused issues that interrupted this…
CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, announced this on Wednesday at the Google for Africa event. According to him, the investment will include the landing of the subsea cable Equiano which will enable faster internet speeds and lower connectivity costs. It will also include low-interest loans to help small businesses and equity investments in African startups….
