Trump Reinstated To Facebook And Instagram

Topline Former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were restored Wednesday afternoon following a two-year suspension, effectively ending his post-January 6 bans from the most popu...

Digital Advertising Biz Faces New, Old Challenges In 2023

Businessman using mobile smartphone and icon network connection data with growth graph customer, … [+] digital marketing, banking and payment online, analysis and planning of business. getty The...

Microsoft Is Aggressively Investing In Healthcare AI

Earlier this month, healthcare artificial intelligence (AI) company Paige announced a new partnership with renowned technology giant, Microsoft. Paige describes itself as a company at the forefront of...

Crypto Lender Genesis Files for Bankruptcy. It Could Be Far Worse for Bitcoin.

The lending businesses of Genesis have filed for bankruptcy, making the institutional digital asset powerhouse the latest casualty in a yearlong crash in cryptocurrencies. Genesis Holdco and two subsi...

This Former Facebook Investor Sells Bitcoin After Holding 8 Years

Peter Thiel’s Founder Fund, which invests in “revolutionary technologies that reshape the world” has reportedly sold most of its Bitcoin assets by March 2022 as the slump in the market continued last ...

In The Aftermath Of Riots, Brazil Faces The Challenge Of Countering Online Radicalization

TOPSHOT – Soldiers dismantle the camp set up by supporters of Brazil’s far-right ex-president Jair … [+] Bolsonaro in front of the Army headquarters in Brasilia, on January 9, 2023, ...

Why Misinformation Is Here To Stay

Facts, fiction, fantasy, fake news, falsehoods. How do you define all these in the digital age? getty There is an important development that is shaping and will continue to shape the media landscape i...

Peter Thiel Revealed as an Investor in FTX. Even the Best Get Burned.

Peter Thiel has made some fantastic bets in his career, from PayPal to Facebook to Palantir FTX cannot be counted as one of them. Thiel, one of Silicon Valley’s most high-profile investors, was reveal...

Early Facebook investor and Proof CEO Kevin Rose signs with Hollywood’s UTA: Exclusive

Hollywood’s United Talent Agency has nabbed another top-flight web3 client in Kevin Rose, The Block learned exclusively.Kevin Rose, who was an early-stage investor in both Facebook and Twitter, also i...

Facebook Down, Spotify Up, TikTok Stable, CapCut Keeps Growing

Most-downloaded apps globally in 2022, according to Apptopia. Apptopia If you want to know what’s happening in the world, one important metric is what apps people are downloading. For 2022, Facebook d...

The Dow Handily Beat the Nasdaq in 2022. Here’s What History Says Happens Next.

Y2K is back in a big way in the fashion world, but history isn’t just repeating itself on the runway. The stock market appears to be nostalgic for the early 2000s, as it is once again turning its back...

Damian Chazelle’s Brilliant ‘Babylon’ Should Be Required Viewing for Lina Khan

FTC Chair Lina Khan is hopelessly disconnected from reality. Conversely the movie industry is reality. It’s a constant reminder through producers, directors and actors of how incredibly difficult it i...

Apple Hindering Crypto Gaming, says  Facebook Former Gaming Director 

Apple has around 1.2 billion Iphone users globally.  Facebook has a 2.9 billion active users base.   Facebook’s former director of gaming at Facebook(Meta) blamed Apple Inc for its hindrance in the cr...

Former Facebook exec urges Apple to stop limiting crypto gaming

Owen O’Donoghue, a former director of gaming at Facebook, accuses Apple Inc of hindering the growth of the crypto gaming industry. O’Donoghue, who spent more than ten years working for Facebook’s game...

Facebook’s ex-gaming chief says Apple holding back crypto gaming, for now

Crypto gaming is struggling to gain traction, and at least one person believes the world’s biggest company is partially to blame or at the very least isn’t helping.  Owen O’Donoghue, who spent m...

On the Matter of TikTok, Republicans Are Perilously ‘Here to Help’

“I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Ronald Reagan famously referred to the previous words as the most terrifying ones in the English language. What’s sad in the here and now is that Republ...

A Supreme Court case could kill Facebook and other socials — allowing blockchain to replace them

The internet — arguably the greatest invention in human history — has gone awry. We can all feel it. It is harder than ever to tell if we are engaging with friends or foes (or bots), we know we are be...

Real Calamity Far Outpaces Virtual Reality At Struggling Social Media Pioneer Meta Networks

Fetishizing a company is easy to do when you consider Zuckerberg made himself and early shareholders … [+]s fabulously rich through a series of brilliant maneuvers during the growth phase of Fac...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Plans Run Into a Big Roadblock

When Mark Zuckerberg set his company on the path to the metaverse he must have known that there was no turning back.  Changing his company’s name from Facebook (a brand name that was recognized ...

Meta Layoffs – Facebook Continues To Cut Costs By Cutting Headcount

| Getty Images Key Takeaways Advertising income has begun to slow as fears of a 2023 recession mount. As it creates the metaverse, Meta continues to lose large amounts of money, some $9.4 billion in t...

After Taking On Facebook, This Startup is Setting its Sights on the World

(Bloomberg) — A Vietnamese internet startup that’s successfully defended its home market of 100 million people against global giants like Facebook is now going into attack mode. Most Read from B...

Facebook Parent Meta Dips Toe Back Into Policy Circles to Boost Metaverse

Meta hopes for an eventual “interconnectability” between the different global jurisdictions that will be wrestling with rules for the metaverse economy, said Edward Bowles, the company’s head of finte...

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on advertising turnaround and Google, Facebook

Reed Hastings, co-founder, chairman, and co-chief executive officer of Netflix, arrives for the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S. July 6, 2021. Brian Losness ...

Mega-Companies Messed Up America’s Job Market. They’re Doing it Again.

Part of what has made America’s job market so tight is that big, publicly traded companies hired like crazy after the pandemic struck. Now that many are slamming into reverse, it seems like there is a...

Meta (Facebook) Added To Extremist List by Russian Justice Ministry

Meta’s attempt to petition a Moscow court to overturn the prohibition was unsuccessful. In the UK, Meta is being investigated for allegedly collecting user data. The Russian government has delivered a...

Spotlight on layoffs: Cuts at Amazon, Cisco, Roku, Meta, Twitter, Intel and more

From HP, Amazon, Roku and Beyond Meat to Meta and Twitter, big names across a number of sectors have announced major layoffs in October and November. Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +1.45% GOOG, +1.53% is consid...

The Myth of the Tech God Is Crumbling

Tech is full of smart people who build, run and invest in successful companies that have produced a tremendous amount of innovation. But the industry’s recent spate of failures and reversals has made ...

Meta Shareholders Should Be Relieved Mark Zuckerberg Isn’t Living In a Facebook Past

In the broadly owned but mostly unread The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith properly focuses on stationary versus ascendant economies. What’s stationary is an investor repellant simply because in commerc...

A Rundown Of All The Tech Layoffs—And What That Means for Tech Investors

AFP via Getty Images Key takeaways In recent months, dozens of companies have laid off a substantial number of employees to cut costs Since November 1, big names like Stripe, Twitter, Salesforce and M...

TikTok, Twitter, And The Future Of Social Media

TOPSHOT – This video grab taken from a video posted on the Twitter account of billionaire Tesla … [+] chief Elon Musk on October 26, 2022 shows himself carrying a sink as he enters the Twi...

‘I’m Especially Sorry’ Apologizes Mark Zuckerberg

It took some time but Mark Zuckerberg seems, for the first time, to want to water down the wine of his metaverse-oriented strategy.  The CEO of Meta Platforms  (META) – Get Free Report, formerly...