Sept 25 (Reuters) - A group of three investors, including Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab and private-equity firm Silver Lake, will take a roughly 50% stake in TikTok U.S., a source familiar with the ...
TikTok is now majority-owned by a group of U.S.-backed investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX. The app's former owner, Chinese company ByteDance, retains a ...
UpScrolled is a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text, and it aims to remain ‘impartial’ to political agendas. UpScrolled is a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text, and it aims to ...
More Americans are rethinking where they want to live. Some are heading to Southeast Asia, drawn in part by what they're seeing on TikTok and YouTube. But those videos don't tell the whole story. More ...
Section 1. Extension. (a) The enforcement delay specified in section 2(a) of Executive Order 14166 of January 20, 2025 (Application of Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled ...
The new Pew report also found that two-thirds of teens said they had used an A.I. chatbot. By Catherine Pearson Most American teenagers use YouTube and TikTok daily, according to a report released ...
You don’t need to be a tech mogul to watch “The Audacity,” the new AMC drama that tells the story of a Silicon Valley guru who must navigate his way around a consumer data scandal. But if you want to ...
PDD Holdings Inc beat analysts' estimates for first-quarter revenue on Friday as more price conscious customers turned to its discount e-commerce platforms including Pinduoduo.
Digital music company Believe, which scouts out singers and helps them to launch online, on Monday announced plans for a Paris stock market listing aiming to raise around 500 million euros ($608 million) to finance its expansion.
Big tech companies accounting for more than 5% of a telecoms provider's peak average internet traffic should help fund the rollout of 5G and broadband across Europe, according to a draft proposal by the telecoms industry.
Real estate investor BGO has more than doubled its equity stake in Bulk Infrastructure to help fund a 1 billion euro ($1.09 billion) expansion of the Norwegian firm's renewables-powered data centre operations, executives from both firms told Reuters.
The world's largest cosmetic group L’Oreal is expected to report brisk fourth-quarter sales on Wednesday after pandemic-weary consumers emerged from lockdowns to splash out on beauty products.
An edited screenshot of an article by Irish online news website Galway Beo has circulated online to appear as if the site reported an office block in Galway was to be repurposed as a centre for “900 male migrants”.
A constitutional challenge against Australia’s social media ban on children younger than 16 has been filed in the nation’s highest court, two weeks before the world-first law is set to take effect.
Snap is rolling out new personalization and customization features for its subscription-based social media platform Snapchat+, aiming to boost retention among its paying user base in an intensely competitive market.
Russia warned on Wednesday it would begin imposing advertising bans on large foreign technology companies that do not have official representation in the country by March, as Moscow advances efforts to exert greater control over the internet.
Police in Moscow on Thursday detained several allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, including his spokeswoman, for making calls online to join unauthorised street protests to demand his release.
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook
"Naatu Naatu", the standout song in the Indian period film RRR, has won a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice Award, garnered hundreds of millions of views on YouTube and spawned a TikTok challenge.
Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc is expected to report its slowest quarterly ad revenue growth in a decade on Wednesday, as businesses pull back on ad spending against the backdrop of soaring inflation worldwide and the war in Ukraine.
A U.S. judge rejected bids by Hyundai and Kia to dismiss litigation by several hundred insurers seeking to recoup more than $1 billion they claim to owe drivers whose vehicles were stolen or damaged in a social media-inspired theft spree.
Karl Bushby, a British ex-paratrooper who set out in 1998 to walk around the world, is on the final stretch of his 27-year-long trek home, and trying to cope with social media pressure in a world that has changed profoundly.
Facebook owner Meta Platforms must face trial in a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit seeking its break-up over claims that it bought Instagram and WhatsApp to crush emerging competition in social media, a judge in Washington ruled on Wednesday.
Martin Scorsese, in Berlin to receive a lifetime achievement award from the city's film festival weeks before his latest movie, "Killers of the Flower Moon," will be competing at the Oscars with 10 nominations, is already planning his next project.
Singapore has ordered five social media platforms to block users in the city-state from accessing 95 accounts mostly linked to exiled Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui, the government said on Friday.
A video of two dark gray fire “tornados” last year in Wyoming is being misrepresented online as showing a scene from the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles County in 2025.
A crowd-funded short film spoofing the year's most Oscar-nominated movie is set to screen in Mexican cinemas, as local backlash against French crime musical "Emilia Perez" pits an amateur comedy against the cinema establishment.