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Former Tips Music CEO Hari Nair joins AI content protection startup ContentLens as strategic advisorContentLens has appointed Hari Nair as a pro bono strategic advisor. Nair previously led Tips Music and held roles at Sony Music India and ...
I started packing up at 4:58 PM every day after my boss denied my raise; he owns my hours, not a minute moreA viral TikTok video captured an employee leaving precisely at 4:58 PM after being denied a raise, resonating with millions of workers feel...
Apple expands child safety tools as social media bans growApple is enhancing tools for parents to safeguard children online. New features will allow parents to manage app usage, content access, and...
From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media accessNations worldwide are enacting strict rules for social media access by children. Australia has banned platforms for those under 16. Britain...
US gamers getting older as industry reports growthAmerican video game players are aging, with the average now 37. The industry is seeing a comeback, reaching pre-pandemic activity levels. T...
China bets on AI to promote President Xi Jinping's thinkingThe project, known as "Xinhua Yudian," meaning Xinhua lexicon, is "an intelligent agent for learning, researching, and disseminating Xi Ji...
Born and died on same date: Kerala man killed in Sharjah after TikTok dispute turns into fatal attackAn Indian expat's tragic death in Sharjah, allegedly after a TikTok dispute, is marked by a haunting coincidence: his death date, May 31, w...
Pinterest deepens Amazon partnership with $4 billion cloud dealPinterest is investing heavily in its future with Amazon Web Services. The social media company will spend four billion dollars on cloud se...
US stocks: Pinterest deepens Amazon partnership with $4 billion cloud dealAmazon.com's cloud computing unit will provide Pinterest its custom chip processors, including Graviton and Trainium, to help scale its AI ...
Meta lashes Australia's bid to make tech giants pay for newsTech giant Meta on Thursday attacked Australia's "grossly unfair" bid to make social media companies pay for news, saying it is vehemently ...
Court rules EU must drop strict curbs on Facebook MarketplaceThe appeal before the EU's General Court in Luxembourg regarded the platforms' designation under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), one of seve...
TikTok billionaire overtakes Mukesh Ambani as Asia’s second-richest personZhang’s net worth climbed to $92.8 billion, cementing his position as China’s richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index...
Malaysia Bans Under-16s From Social Media: New Age Verification Rules EnforcedMalaysia has begun enforcing new rules. Children under 16 are now banned from social media accounts. Platforms must implement age verificat...
Social media companies pay $27 million to settle Kentucky school district's lawsuit over social media harms, records showMeta settled the case brought by Breathitt County School District on May 21, a few weeks before a planned June trial, following earlier set...
Double Tap Films takes 21 Hindi microdramas global with TikTok partnershipDouble Tap Films, a Pratilipi studio, is distributing 21 Indian microdrama shows on TikTok in the US, Canada, Brazil, and Japan. This marks...
Google, Meta, TikTok hit by EU consumer complaints about handling of financial scamsThe move highlights growing pressure worldwide on Big Tech to do more to address the negative impacts of social media, particularly for chi...
Google, Meta, TikTok hit by EU consumer complaints about handling of financial scamsBig Tech firms Google, Meta, and TikTok face complaints in Europe. Consumer groups allege these platforms fail to stop financial scams. Use...
Malaysia orders TikTok to explain 'grossly offensive' fake content targeting kingMalaysia has ordered TikTok to explain its slow response to offensive content targeting the royal family. The platform failed to promptly r...
‘Patriotic Kenny’ Dies: US Navy veteran to social media star, all you need to know about the 84-year-old influencerSocial media star and U.S. Navy veteran Kenny Jary, known as "Patriotic Kenny," has died at 84 after a battle with stage 4 lung cancer. He ...
‘Patriotic Kenny’ dies at 84: How did TikTok star and US Navy veteran with over 4 million social media followers die? Check cause of deathPatriotic Kenny, a U.S. Navy veteran and TikTok star, has died. He was known for his uplifting messages and support for fellow veterans. Th...