Are Ray-Ban Meta glasses really a hit?
At this week’s Connect conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced new Ray-Ban Meta Display glasses with the “Meta Neural Band” (that you wear on your wrist), wraparound Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses, ...
Grok has 64 million monthly users while ChatGPT has 700 million weekly users
Daddy, it seems, is very much not home . CEO Elon Musk spent the majority of his time at xAI this summer rather than at , where he recently claimed to have shifted his focus, The New York Times report...
Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension highlights Nexstar and Sinclair’s vast control over US airwaves
On Wednesday evening, ABC announced its shocking decision to yank Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show off the air. An ABC spokesperson on Wednesday said that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would be “preempted ...
Watch: Meta virtual reality conference bloopers
unveiled a host of seemingly innovative products and features at its annual virtual reality conference, Meta Connect, but what stood out were all the mess-ups. Tech product events usually aren’t perfe...
By some measures, TikTok has grown bigger than Facebook or Instagram in the US
There’s more at stake with potential control of TikTok’s US operations than national security and geopolitical harmony . The fate of some of America’s biggest social media companies, like , , , and ,...
Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz consortium to control US TikTok entity
is indeed part of an upcoming deal for a US spin-off of TikTok, The Wall Street Journal reports , as a member of a consortium that also includes Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz. The US and China a...
Oracle jumps on report it’s involved in TikTok deal
is up nearly 5% this morning on a CBS report that it’s one of “multiple companies” involved in a deal to operate TikTok in the US. Oracle has long been considered a likely contender. Whichever US enti...
Snap and Meta fall as Trump hints at TikTok deal, Bessent says framework for an agreement has been reached
fell more than 1% premarket while dropped about 0.5% after President Donald Trump hinted on his social media platform, Truth Social, that a TikTok deal was reached during the European trade meetings....
Netflix taps Amazon to sell streaming ads in new partnership
is making it easier for advertisers to get in front of its growing ad tier audience. The streamer announced a deal with Amazon Ads that will let brands buy Netflix ad space directly through demand-si...
Meta keeps trying to make Facebook seem cool to kids
has a youth problem that it keeps trying to fix using old stuff. This time it’s trying to bring back “pokes” — a feature from yesteryear the social media company had buried that allows users to digit...
“KPop Demon Hunters” just became Netflix’s most watched film
Korean-inspired hits just keep on coming, as “KPop Demon Hunters” has become the streamer’s most watched film of all time , racking up 236 million views since its June 20 release. In just over two mon...
The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” is about to hit 5 billion streams on Spotify
They said it couldn’t be done. They said, maybe, it shouldn’t be done. But it’s about to happen: we (Spotify’s 675 million monthly active users ) are about to send The Weeknd’s 2019 earworm “Blinding ...
Could YouTube really be the answer to the Oscars viewership problem?
MrBeast shouting his way through a 30-second opening monologue; a reaction video on the reaction to his introduction; legends of the silver screen making their way onstage to be presented with a statu...
Roblox climbs on massive play count record despite child safety lawsuits
Shares of are up in Monday morning trading following a weekend that reportedly saw more than 45 million concurrent players on the platform. Simultaneous special events in massively popular Roblox gam...
Netflix could lose big budget content creators over its theater-skipping policy
With only a few months to go before the eagerly anticipated final season of “Stranger Things” is released, has run bike-first into a speed bump with its creators. Over the last few days, rumors have ...
Roblox sinks as child safety lawsuits pile up that accuse it of knowingly enabling child exploitation
is down more than 7% in premarket trading on Friday as lawsuits involving the safety of its underage users pile up. The Louisiana attorney general on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the gaming compan...
Streaming dominates TV ad dollars for the second year in a row, but eyeballs are getting cheaper
Ads are still relatively new to streaming , but the business is already dominant in terms of dollars spent. Streaming scooped up about 43% of advertisers’ television spending at the industry’s “upfron...
Warner Bros. Discovery surges as HBO Max inks new Asia streaming deal
shares jumped almost 8% in Wednesday’s trading, leading S&P 500 gains, after the media giant unveiled a new streaming partnership in Southeast Asia. Starting in Q4 of this year, HBO Max will join forc...
How much money do Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Pinterest, and Snapchat make from you?
We’ve all been on the internet long enough to know that when the product is free, you are the product. Some people are understandably very angry about Big Tech hoarding our data to prey on our conscio...
Pinterest drops after earnings miss
dropped after falling short of analysts’ expectations for adjusted earnings per share, reporting $0.33 versus the FactSet consensus estimate of $0.35. The social media company beat on revenue, posting...