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How Baseball Card Mania Is Colliding With NFT Boom to Revive Topps and Change the Game for Dealers
Topps’ announcement this week that it plans to go public through a SPAC puts the company at the center of three emerging investment trends.
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Chris Cox Earned Cash and Stock Worth $69 Million After Rejoining Facebook Last Year
Cox is a key moral leader at Facebook and one of its top strategic executives, coordinating how the company’s various services work with one another.
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Facebook Will Use Part of Its Headquarters as a Public Covid Vaccination Site
Facebook will use part of its California headquarters as a Covid vaccination site and work with the state and nonprofits to aid mobile sites, it said Friday.
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Box Stock Plunges After Agreement to Take $500 Million Investment From KKR
Box said on Thursday that KKR is investing $500 million in company stock and that CEO Aaron Levie is giving up the position of chairman.
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New Hampshire Teen Saves Boy 800 Miles Away Using TikTok
A New Hampshire teen is being heralded as a hero after saving a 12-year-old who was trapped under an ATV over 800 miles away.
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NH Teen Helps Save W.Va. Boy After Seeing ATV Accident on TikTok
Like most 13-year-olds, Caden Cotnoir spends plenty of time on social media. On Sunday, his screen time took an unexpected turn.
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Verizon Recalls 2.5 Million Hotspot Devices Due to Fire Hazard
The recall comes at a time when more consumers have relied on hotspots to get by during stay-at-home orders resulting from the pandemic.
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Forget Doomscrolling! Use Social Media to Get Excited for the Weekend
With so many of us working from home, it can be hard to keep track of the days. Reminders help.
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Uber Announces $250 Million Stimulus to Bring Back Drivers
The company said that the incentives will help welcome back existing drivers and “ensure first-time drivers do well as they learn the ropes.”
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YouTube Is Social Media's Big Winner During the Pandemic
YouTube saw the most significant growth of any social media app among American users during the pandemic, according to the Pew Research Center.
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Not Too Early Or Too Late: Regulating Big Tech Requires a Delicate Balance, Says Indian CEO
The comments come as U.S. tech giants like Google and Facebook face increasing scrutiny from regulators back home as well as in Europe.
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Tim Cook Drops Some Hints on Apple's Car Plans, Shares What He Thinks of Elon Musk and Tesla
Apple has long been expected to get into the auto business with its own vehicle.
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Supreme Court Sides With Facebook in Robocall Case Centered on Grammar Dispute
The Supreme Court rules 9-0 for Facebook, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor authoring the opinion maintaining a narrow definition of automated dialers.
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Facebook's Acquisition of Giphy to Face In-Depth UK Competition Probe
Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority has referred Facebook’s acquisition of GIF database Giphy for an in-depth investigation.
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Biden Infrastructure Plan Seeks Hundreds of Billions to Beef Up America's Tech Prowess
Biden’s plan includes $100 billion to expand internet access to Americans without broadband.
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Facebook Removes Video Interview With Trump, Citing His Ban From the Platform
An email posted by Lara Trump said “content posted on Facebook and Instagram in the voice of President Trump is not currently allowed on our platform.”
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‘Y'all Wanna Hear a Story': The ‘Zola' Trailer is Finally Here
“Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this b**** here fell out?“ That was the opening tweet to what would become the Twitter saga of the last decade — sending the internet on a journey full of suspense, shock and sweet, sweet drama. The juicy thread got picked up for a movie and, brace yourselves, because the trailer…
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Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Need to Make These Changes to Fight Online Harassment, Nonprofit Says
Free expression advocacy group PEN America called on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media companies to address online abuse in a new report.
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Facebook Will Let Users Control More of What They See Rather Than Forcing Them to Rely on Algorithms
Facebook said it will introduce a feature that will make it easier for users to choose how content is presented to them in their News Feed.
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Spotify Jumps Into the Hot Live Audio Trend With Acquisition of Clubhouse Rival Betty Labs
The company said it’s acquiring Betty Labs, the creators of live audio social app Locker Room that’s focused on sports.