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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Social media apps have long been accused of being harmful to children. Now those claims will come before a jury for the first time in a trial kicking off Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom. A key ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Helsinki-based video game developer Supercell is seeking to attract new groups of players with its first product launch in more than five years, Chief Executive Ilkka Paananen said, as mobile games face increasing competition from other entertainment for people's free time.
Snap shares plummeted nearly 21.5% in early trading on Wednesday as a weak quarter and mounting competition underscored the company's struggle to keep pace with AI-driven peers.
EU industry chief Thierry Breton will meet Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on June 23 and demand that he act immediately to tackle content targeting children, as Meta's voluntary child protection code seemed not to be working.
Colombia's leftist former guerrilla Gustavo Petro and construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez were technically tied ahead of a second round of presidential elections, a poll showed on Wednesday.
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Recent jury verdicts in California and New Mexico involving Meta Platforms and Alphabet's Google are sharpening scrutiny of social media companies as plaintiffs advance legal theories aimed at holding platforms liable for harm to children. Here's a look at how the cases could be an early test of how courts may handle similar claims going forward.
Elon Musk's hosting of Alice Weidel, leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, for a discussion on his X platform on Thursday was watched by the European Commission to check for any spreading of misinformation before next month's German election.
Donald Trump will be judged in his historic New York criminal trial by 12 jurors selected last week after a painstaking search for people who could be fair and impartial to the Republican former U.S. president in Manhattan, the Democratic stronghold where he made his name as a real estate tycoon decades ago.
Dozens of U.S. states are suing Meta Platforms and its Instagram unit, accusing them of fueling a youth mental health crisis by making their social media platforms addictive.
Bottled water, vaccine development, short video platform TikTok and electric vehicle technology propelled the big earners on China's rich list this year, as embattled property moguls and others facing regulatory scrutiny slipped down the rankings.
A 26-year-old Ukrainian soldier who died in November on the frontline against Russia has been falsely claimed online to be a teenage orphan drafted for military service.
The U.S.-China tech war is all but certain to heat up no matter whether Republican Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris wins the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election, with the Democrat likely to come out with targeted new rules and Trump a blunter approach.
Indonesia is readying tough new rules that will allow it to fine and criminally charge internet and social media platforms, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, potentially slowing online firms' rapid growth in a $70 billion market.
U.S. President Donald Trump faces one of the toughest challenges of his second term when he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea on Thursday, where the world's two largest economies will seek to avert an escalation of their trade war.
Investors are charmed by the Facebook parent's dividend payout and strong results. Anita Ramaswamy says they should pay more attention to whether Meta's products are safe for children.
U.S streaming giant Netflix Inc is making preparations to open an office in Vietnam after years of negotiations with authorities and completing a risk assessment, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.
French authorities are examining whether a foreign interference campaign aimed at a hard-left party ahead of March's municipal elections was carried out at least in part by an obscure Israeli firm called BlackCore, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
Chinese stocks and the yuan tentatively rose on Tuesday, with investors relieved that U.S. President Donald Trump did not announce hefty trade tariffs at his inauguration but unwilling to bet this meant improved U.S.-Sino relations.
ByteDance's Douyin and Alibaba-owned Ele.me said on Friday they have agreed on a collaboration that will see the food delivery app establish a presence on Douyin, as the Chinese short video app builds its ecosystem.
Facebook (FB.O), Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google and other tech giants will have to pledge to do more to curb the monetisation of false information through advertisement placements, according to a European Commission document seen by Reuters.