What is Threads? Is Twitter in danger?
LONDON (Reuters) – Meta, the company behind social media giants Facebook and Instagram, has launched its new microblogging platform Threads. WHAT IS THREADS? The new app bears a striking resemblance…
Do social media kill? What the YouTuber tragedy in Rome teaches us
YouTuber Rome: It could have been just one of the many episodes of The Black Mirror, and instead, unfortunately, it is reality. The incident that took place in Rome on 14…
Meta’s Threads is a serious threat to Musk-owned Twitter, analysts say
By Aditya Soni (Reuters) – Meta’s Threads could quickly become a major threat to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, thanks to its easy access to billions of Instagram users, a similar interface…
Meta to launch Twitter-like app Threads
By Akanksha Khushi and Jahnavi Nidumolu (Reuters) – Meta Platforms plans to launch a microblogging app, Threads, days after Twitter executive chair Elon Musk announced a temporary cap on how…
Canada forces big tech to pay publishers, Meta blacks out news
Meta has announced that it will block access to links containing news articles on Facebook and Instagram in Canada. The decision comes in response to the passing of the Online News Act,…
Graduated and hired by SpaceX at 14, the story of enfant prodige Kairan Quazi
Even before graduating from university, he found a job with one of the best-known companies in the world. There would be nothing special about a story repeated daily for hundreds…
Brands focus on stories in refining China livestreaming to boost profits
By Casey Hall SHANGHAI (Reuters) – When tech giant Apple joined China’s livestreaming frenzy, a major driving force of the e-commerce boom in the world’s second biggest economy, it launched…
Meta launches Quest+ subscription for VR headsets
By Jaspreet Singh (Reuters) – Meta Platforms on Monday launched Meta Quest+, a subscription-based service for its virtual reality (VR) headsets to shape a nascent but high-investment market. Chief Executive…
Microsoft says early June service outages were cyberattacks
By Gokul Pisharody (Reuters) – Microsoft said on Friday that the outages that affected certain services of the company through some of the earlier days of this month were the…
Fewer people trust traditional media, more turn to TikTok for news
By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of people globally who initially access news through a website or app has dropped by 10 points since 2018, and younger…