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The streaming wars come down to 2: YouTube v. Netflix

For many years, Netflix executives bristled at the notion that the company really had a rival. Not Hollywood powerhouses like Disney, nor tech...

Trump administration asserted sweeping power in seeking to bypass TikTok ban

Attorney General Pam Bondi told tech companies that they could lawfully violate a statute barring American companies from supporting TikTok based on a...

Snap Inc acquires social calendar app Saturn to deepen Gen Z engagement

Snap Inc has acquired Saturn, a social calendar app used by high school students across the US, the company confirmed on Friday. While...

Authors Are Posting TikToks to Protest AI Use in Writing—and to Prove They Aren’t Doing It

Godschild, who penned the fantasy novel The Hunter and The Hunted, says she’s been writing since childhood and goes through a lengthy process—plotting...

Influencer marketing gains ground as global ad budgets tighten

Ashton Hall’s morning routine involves dunking his head in iced Saratoga Spring Water. For the company that sells the bottled water — Hall’s...

The US wants to break up Google and Meta: That could be hard

The last time the courts seriously weighed the wisdom of breaking up a giant technology company was a quarter-century ago, after Microsoft was...

US senator Warner says new Donald Trump TikTok extension may violate law

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said on Monday that President Donald Trump's decision to extend a deadline for China-based ByteDance...

Amazon bids to buy TikTok as deadline looms, US administration official says

Amazon.com has put in a last-minute bid to buy TikTok, a U.S. administration official said on Wednesday, just days ahead of an April...

World’s largest call centre uses AI to ‘neutralise accent’, making staff sound less Indian

Teleperformance SE, the largest call centre operator in the world, is deploying artificial intelligence across its centres in India to ‘soften’ the accents...

YouTube star MrBeast is raising money at a $5 billion valuation

YouTube star MrBeast is looking to raise a couple hundred million dollars to expand his business in a funding round that would value...

Is DeepSeek a national security threat? New research highlights ties with Chinese telecom raising data security concerns

The dense clouds over DeepSeek are not clearing anytime soon. After bans on government resources in Italy, France, the US Congress, and elsewhere,...

TikTok ban: TikTok hires ex-Trump administration lawyer ahead of Supreme Court appeal

TikTok and its Chinese owner ByteDance have turned to a veteran US Supreme Court lawyer as they prepare to ask the justices to...