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As you may have heard, Elon Musk has bought Twitter. Of course, that won’t happen instantaneously, and probably will have to be looked at by regulators. If the deal goes through, Twitter will become a privately held company. Not long after that was announced, some people noticed that their follower count had dropped - or that it increased. TechCrunch reported
Bloomberg reported that Twitch (which is owned by Amazon) is reportedly weighing changes to how it pays top talent, according to people familiar with the planning. It appears Twitch is doing this to boost its profits - while at the same time, alienating some of its biggest stars. The updates under consideration would offer incentives for streamers to run more
Apple announced that Self Service Repair is now available, providing repair manuals and genuine Apple parts and tools through the Apple Self Service Repair Store. Self Service Repair is available in the US and will expand to additional countries - beginning in Europe - later this year. The new online store offers more than 200 individual parts and tools, enabling
Google has launched a Data Safety feature for apps that are on the Google Play store. This was announced on Google’s The Keyword blog in a post titled: “Get more information about your apps in Google Play”. It was written by Vice President, Product, Android Security and Privacy Suzanne Frey.
If you have spent any time on Twitter today, you may have noticed that Elon Musk has bought the platform. This news was posted in a press release titled: “Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter”. From the press release: Twitter Inc., today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity wholly owned by Elon
Twitter is prohibiting ads that provide misleading information about climate change. This was posted in Twitter's blog titled: “Accelerating our climate commitments on Earth Day”, which was written by Director of Sustainability, Seán Boyle, and Global Sustainability Manager, Casey Junod. This month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published a new and alarming report, underscoring the urgency of the climate
CNN+, the streaming service you probably never heard of, is going to shut down at the end of April 2022. I'm not certain what content it provided, but that doesn't matter anymore. CNN reported that CNN+, the streaming service that was hyped one of the most significant developments in the history of CNN, will shut down on April 30, just
Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, tweeted about new features. “We’ve added new ways to tag and improve ranking: Product Tags, Enhanced Tags, Ranking for originality. Creators are so important to the future of Instagram, and we want to make sure that they are successful and get all the credit they deserve.” TechCrunch reported that shortly after that announcement, a spokesperson
Brave announced that they are rolling out a new feature called De-AMP, which allows brave users to bypass Google-hosted AMP pages, and instead visit the content’s publisher directly. Brave states that AMP harms users’ privacy, security, and internet experience, and just as bad, AMP helps Google further monopolize and control the direction of the Web. Brave will protect users from
Netflix reported a loss of 200,000 subscribers during the first quarter - its first decline in paid users in more than a decade - and warned of deepening trouble ahead, CNBC reported. According to CNBC, Netflix’s shares cratered more than 25% in extended hours after the report on more than full day’s worth of trading volume. Fellow streaming Roku, Spotify,
TorrentFreak reported that sites like The Pirate Bay,1337x, and Fmovies no longer appear when searched on DuckDuckGo’s search engine. According to TorrentFreak, several YouTube ripping services have disappeared, and the homepage of the open-source software YouTube-mp3 is “unfindable”. Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo, posted a thread of tweets in response to not only the TorrentFreak article, but other websites
Following Elon Musk’s offer to buy Twitter and make it a private company, Twitter’s Board of Directors enacted what has been referred to as a “poison pill”. It is my understanding that this decision is something the Board is allowed to do. Axios reported that the “poison pill” is a corporate term that gives, in this case, Twitter’s existing shareholders
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