Google’s YouTube is folding its effort to create original programming and focusing on the millions of creators who populate the video platform with content. Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl said Tuesday that the video platform would invest in live shopping programming, its Black Voices Fund and YouTube Shorts, its TikTok competitor. Its head of YouTube […]
VIDEOS OF Gen Z-ers and millennials—and their cats—may saturate TikTok, but spend enough time scrolling around the social media app and you’ll find yourself led to more surprising realms. Take the travel feeds, which offer a stream of fresh footage shot just about anywhere in the world. Type #travel in the search box and you […]
Elon Musk said Tesla Inc. TSLA 1.75% is accepting payment for some merchandise with dogecoin, a return for the electric-vehicle maker to acceptance of digital currencies for some payments. The Tesla chief executive said in an early Friday tweet, “Tesla merch buyable with Dogecoin.” The company’s website showed some items, including one labeled a “Giga […]
B3G (Before 3G): During this time, cellphones were primarily used for talking and texting. Sure, you could load a website but you could also snowshoe from New York to Alaska in the same amount of time. CBE (Cellular Broadband Era): Once the heavens opened and the cell towers ushered in 3G, we got it all: […]
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas to four social-media companies as part of its investigation into the riot and its causes. The committee issued subpoenas to Google parent company Alphabet Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Reddit Inc. and Twitter Inc. after receiving what the committee called […]
Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT 1.77% board of directors on Thursday said it would review the company’s sexual harassment and gender discrimination policies and unveil a summary of the results of past investigations into how the company handled allegations against company executives, including co-founder Bill Gates. The software company’s board is taking this action, Microsoft said, in […]
The founder of Second Life, one of the earliest digital-reality worlds, is returning for a second stint to take on big tech. Philip Rosedale in 2003 launched the online game where players using avatars can hang out, socialize with other players and make purchases. Second Life is a forerunner of the virtual worlds that big […]
Unlike in previous years, when most Chinese tech funding went to internet startups in e-commerce, the bulk of the money in the past year headed into areas that hew more closely to Communist Party priorities, such as semiconductors, biotechnology and information technology. Venture-capital investors put $129 billion into more than 5,300 startups in China in […]
Apple Inc. AAPL 0.51% may not have triggered the current buzz about the metaverse, but the company is reaping the benefit. Excitement about how the iPhone maker could gain from a broad embrace of digital alternate realities has been a central facet of the rise in its share price in recent months, according to investors […]
THE RISE OF streaming has ushered in an era of overlong films and series that should have been movies. But M. Night Shyamalan—who gained notoriety for blockbusters like 1999’s “The Sixth Sense” and 2002’s “Signs”—is currently writing the shortest film script of his career. He’s also producing something of a modern-day unicorn: a half-hour TV […]
